When Minister Joe Wright was
asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, 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.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired
the prayer on the radio and received a larger response to this program than any
other program he has ever aired. Minister Joe's prayer is reprinted herein.
Heavenly Father, we come
before you today to ask Your forgiveness and 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 perverted our values. We confess that.
We have ridiculed the absolute
truth of Your Word and called it pluralism.
We have worshiped other gods
and called it multiculturalism.
We have endorsed perversion
and called it an alternative lifestyle.
We have exploited the poor and
called it lottery.
We have neglected the needy
and called it self-preservation.
We have rewarded laziness and
called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn
children 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 political savvy.
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, O 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 serve] this great state. Grant them the
wisdom to rule, and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will.
I ask it in
the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Joe Wright
