This minister has guts!!
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> 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:
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> "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness
> and to seek your direction and guidance.
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> We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that
> is exactly what we have done.
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> We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
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> We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
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> We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
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> We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
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> We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
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> We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building
> self esteem.
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> We have abused power and called it politics.
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> We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
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> We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called
> it freedom of expression.
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> We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and
> called it enlightenment.
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> Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from
>every
> sin and set us free.
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> Amen!"
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> 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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> 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.
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> How many people in your address book will not receive this
> prayer....do you have the guts to pass it on?
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