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Awesome Public Prayer

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the
Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but
this is what they heard:

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness
and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says,
'Woe to those who call evil good' but that is exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We
confess that:

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism;

We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism;

We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle;

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare;

We have killed our unborn and called it choice;

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable;

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it
building self-esteem;

We have abused power and called it politics;

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition;

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called
it freedom of expression;

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and
called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today. Cleanse us from
every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who
have been sent to direct us to the center of Your will, and we ask it
in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen."

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out
during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, Central Christian
Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone
calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is
now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from
India, Africa and Korea.

Commentator Paul harvey aired this prayer on "The Rest of the
Story" on the radio and received a larger response to this program
than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this
prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our
desire so that we again can be called ONE NATION UNDER GOD!

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