The prayer delivered January 23, 1996 by
the Rev. Joe Wright
to the Kansas senate House:
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've 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 moral pluralism.
We have worshipped other gods and called it
multi-culturalism.
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 esteem.
We have abused power and called it political
savvy.
We have coveted our neighbors' 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
fore-fathers 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 Kansas, and who
have been ordained by you, to govern this great
state. 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.
What do you think about this prayer? Isn't some of the issues raised here creeping into Nigeria? We need this kind of pastors.