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From an e-mail sent about last night and today:

This event actually happened in the Kansas House in Topeka on January 23, 1996. At the time, Joe Wright was the pastor of Central Christian Church in Wichita and was House guest chaplain that day.
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new House session, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

Heavenly Father,

We come before You today to ask Your Forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance.

We know Your Word says, ‘’Woe to those who call evil good,’’ but that’s exactly what we have done.

We have lost our Spiritual equilibrium and inverted our 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 multiculturalism;

We have endorsed perversion 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 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 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; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of this state and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state of Kansas. Grant them your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your Will.

I ask in in the name of your Son, The Living Savior, Jesus Christ.

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 was pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church has received international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on “The Rest of the Story” on the radio and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

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.

Absolutely beautiful.

I have saved this story, and will be forwarding it to many.

Thank you, Joe.

~ joanie

Pray for your soul and don’t blame the rest on yourself cause you tried your best.

Thanks for that post,Joe. It’s a keeper for me.

I love that prayer!

Last week, I sent an email out to about 50 friends (including our pastor who is a devout/Bible preaching Christian) and asked them to pray for this type of preaching from the pulpits again. I don’t think we’ll see revival until people see their need to repent, and those who warm the pews on Sunday mornings looking for another cozy sermon on “relationships” start hearing again about what God sees as sin and the consequences of sin, in this life and the next! Our culture has become so filthy and dirty that people don’t even know what sin is (oh, they know deep down in their hearts, but it is so covered over and approved of by the outside pop culture that they can make themselves forget.)

God is gracious and merciful but only when we are truly repentant, and I don’t think the church as a whole has been, other than a pretty small part of it. (as mentioned above 29% of so called evangelicals voting for this man - they cannot see the truth because they are living Satan’s lies every day!)

Pray for revival, and pray for pastors to start preaching the hard truths again, BOLDLY, along with God’s mercy and grace, and pray for people’s hearts to be softened so they will hear and repent, and not just get more stubborn and rebellious! Maybe God will use the hard economic times that are in store for us to soften people’s hearts.

Thank you for this. I am still crying, no words can express the shock I’m in. I’ll keep reading this over and over. I know in my heart GOD does everything for a reason. We have to stand on that.....