Author Topic: This Pastor has guts!! (Read 801 times)

Barbaro · « **on:** October 16, 2007, 12:04:36 PM »

This Pastor has guts!! Thought you might enjoy this
interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of
their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. Please
read.

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 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 and 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. 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."

If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. "If you
don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."

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Author Topic: This Pastor has guts!! (Read 801 times)

Barbaro

This Pastor has guts!!