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CHRISTIAN SENSE
BY TOM SMIKOSKI
A
publication devoted to making sense out of the twenty-first
century.
PRAYER
By: JOE WRIGHT
OPENING PRAYER-KANSAS STATE SENATE
...Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer
given in KANSAS at the opening session of their Senate.
It seems prayer still upsets some people.
...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 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 speech,
...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 to
openly ask these things 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 6 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
his radio program, "The Rest of the Story ", 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. "
------- God Bless gutsy Joe Wright.!!
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