If you are not sure what to pray for our country, here is a good start.
by Total-Deliverance ~ June 16th, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized.This prayer was offered by Rev. Joe Wright at the opening
of the Kansas legislative session in January 1996. This was
a very controversial prayer.
Here is the Snopes.com report on it:
…… it’s a good prayer!!!
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
‘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
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
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.
today; cleanse us from every sin and set us
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
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 you don’t stand for something, you will fall for
everything.’
