Prayer IS the answer

A  Pastor with 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.. 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 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 everything.' 

Think about this: If you forward this 
prayer to everyone on your 
e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be 
heard by the world.