When minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting 
the usual generalities. Instead this is what he said:

 

"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 confess that.

. . . We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your
Word and called it
Pluralism.

. . . 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 their
self-esteem

. . . 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 statement

. . . 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.

Guide and bless these men and women who have been
sent to direct us.
To the center of Your will and to openly ask these
things in the name
of Your son and Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord.
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 & Korea.

Commentator "Paul Harvey" aired this prayer on his
radio program, "The Rest of the Story" 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 "