"SENATE’S OPENING PRAYER BY JOE WRIGHT"
By Dr. Hoyt W. Allen, Jr.
Commentator PAUL
HARVEY aired the
following 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 !
When minister Joe
Wright of the
Central Christian
Church in Wichita
was asked to open
the new session of
the Kansas Senate on
February 10, 1996,
everyone was
expecting the usual
politically-correct
generalities, but
what they heard
instead was a
stirring prayer,
passionately calling
our country to
repentance and
righteousness.
The response was
immediate. A number
of legislators
walked out during
the prayer in
protest and others
were on their feet
at the microphones
protesting as soon
as the Amen was
stated. Within
twenty-four hours
the church received
over 1600 phone
calls and only 24 of
them were negative.
In six short weeks,
the Central
Christian Church had
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 the prayer from
India, Africa,
Korea, and several
other foreign
countries.
THE PRAYER:
Heavenly Father, we
come before you
today to ask Your
forgiveness and to
seek Your direction
and guidance. We
know Your Word says,
"Woe on those who
call evil good," but
that's exactly what
we have done. We
have lost our
spiritual
equilibrium and
reversed our values
. We confess that:
1) We have ridiculed
the absolute truth
of Your Word and
called it
pluralism.
2) We have
worshipped other
gods and called it
multi-culturalism.
3) We have endorsed
perversion and
called it an
alternative
lifestyle.
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4) We have exploited
the poor and called
it the lottery.
5) We have neglected
the needy and called
it
self-preservation.
6) We have rewarded
laziness and called
it welfare.
7) We have killed
our unborn children
and called it a
choice.
8) We have shot
abortionists and
called it
justifiable.
9) We have neglected
to discipline our
children and called
it
building
self-esteem.
10) We have abused
power and called it
political savvy.
11) We have coveted
our neighbor's
possessions and
called it
ambition.
12) We have polluted
the air with
profanity and
pornography and
called it freedom of
expression.
13) We have
ridiculed the
time-honored values
of our forefathers
and called it
enlightenment.
Search us, O God,
and know our hearts
today; cleanse us
from every sin and
set us free. (See
Ps. 139:23,24; 51:2)
Guide and bless
these men and women
who have been sent
here by the people
of Kansas and who
have been ordained
by You to govern
this great state and
to direct us to the
center of Your will.
I ask it in the name
of Your Son, the
living Savior, Jesus
Christ. Amen.
Our nation was
founded upon
Christian principles
which caused us to
progress until those
who opposed
Christianity were
allowed to begin
inserting teaching
opposed to the
blessed teaching of
Christ. Should we
re-consider our
present day position
and possibly do some
“back-tracking”? If
you think so,
possibly your
statesman should
hear from you.
However, if we wait
for another to sound
the alarm - we may
see it all end in
disaster. Maybe you
are one who God is
calling to serve in
a public office so
that anti-God
decisions may be
reversed. Please do
as your God-given
conscience gives you
direction to do. The
U.S.A. is counting
on God’s children
who have “backbone”
to follow the
Spirit’s leading.
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