A PASTOR WITH COURAGE

Submitted by: Mary Fatzinger

A PASTOR WITH COURAGE

 

There might be hope yet!

 

A Pastor with COURAGE! I thought you might enjoy this 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:

 

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask 

Your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.

We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those

Who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done

 

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

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 Politics.

 

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, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.      

 

Amen!

 

 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.

 

 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."

 

 Please pass this prayer on to your friends.

 

"If you don't stand forsomething, You will fall for anything."     

 

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 entire world.