| I was going through our files the other day, kind of refreshing myself with what research we have done, when I came across this prayer given by a Kansas minister named Joe Wright. Rev. Right was asked to give the opening prayer for a session of the Kansas Senate. During the prayer several of the Senators left the room in protest to the words of the minister's prayer. Shortly after the news of this prayer broke onto the national, scene phone calls and letters of encouragement began pouring in. As I read the prayer over again, it brought to mind the feel and mood of the country after the attack on Set. 11. Everyone was so willing to stand in a congregation and proclaim as the fathers of old that we "have no king but Jesus." Yet, as time passed and the memory of those events faded into just that, a memory, we have become more and more willing to let down our walls of faith and put our "King" back in the shadows of political correctness. It is time that we ask forgiveness for those sins we have committed and pray the mercies of Jesus Christ flood our souls and fill our minds. "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to ask Your direction and guidance. We know Your word says, ‘Woe to those that call evil good' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed 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 alternative lifestyle. 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 political. We have coveted our neighbors possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of statement. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and let us 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 direct us to the center of you Will, and we ask it in the Name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen." Let this prayer be ever in our hearts, and let us never forget the truth in the words and wisdom of this wonderful prayer. Let us recite it, know it, and believe the message that it teaches. |
| REVISITING "THE PRAYER" by Clint Nobles |
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