The Posture for a Politically
Correct Prayer
When Pastor 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 was a stirring prayer, passionately calling our country to
repentance and righteousness. The response was immediate. In six short weeks
more than 5,000 phone calls were logged, with only 47 of those calls
responding negatively. Paul Harvey aired Pastor Joe wright's prayer on the
radio and received a larger response to the program than nay other program
Paul Harvey has ever aired. International requests for copies of the prayer
from, India, Africa, Korea and other countries are still pouring in.
The prayer was prayed as follows:
"Heavenly Father, we come beofre 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 e have done. We have lost our spiritual
equilibrium and inverted our own values. We confess that:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism;
We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism;
We have endorsed perversion at home and in public office and called it an
alternative lifestyle;
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;
We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation;
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare;
We havekilled our unborn and called it choice;
We have hated those in favor of abortion, wieldedsigns at them in anger
and called it justifiable;
We have neglected to dicipline 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 haveridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it
enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see it there be some
wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless
the
men and women who have been sent by the people to govern us. Grant them
Your
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.
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Reguardless of what faith, color, race and argurer, perhaps any of us can
garner
respect for ALL. I only read, one time I gave an http:// and moved on to
more
important things for the children in this country that dont seem to have
enough
adults that really care about the classroom.
In the last of October, I had a brain scan. when I returned to the Drs
office the next
time he smiled a smill I have never seen from a person and said "Mary, I
want you
to know, "You have a very good brain." Now I am telling all others that
they cant
talk to me until they have had their scan ran and it has to come to my
level or
above. I am a 71 1/2 year-young and very involved in many subjects in our
everyday lives. I dont demonstrate, scream, accuse, be impolite to anyone
but an
in the process of placing a gag order on a man that for some reason has to
blast
me at every chance he gets. I feel he is attempting to get me to react. I
sure will
but not in the way he wants, in front of others. We belong to some of the
same
groups and too many of my friends are upset over his actions. However they
do
stay silent and dont respond, GOOD. I have been behind the Iron Curtain 3
times.
all three to Yugoslavia, first time 1958-9, then 12 years ago. How many of
you
have been to a country such as this? My values, I am sure are different
because
of what I have witnessed. NO, I Never want to see it in this country.
Perhaps some
will understand that we are all RICH, even our poorest residents in this
country.
Why does everything have to be a fight between us? Keep it up & we sure
wont
be able to look ourselves in a mirror, there wont be one. Goodnight
Mary P.
