Prayer to Kansas State Leaders
When minister 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 instead was a stirring prayer, passionately calling our country to repentance and righteousness. The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, the Central Christian Church had 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 the prayer from India, Africa and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired the 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!!
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe on those who call evil good”, but that’s 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 worshiped 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 children and called it a 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; 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. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
What awesome insight!!! With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called a Christian nation that fears the Lord! Please send this prayer to as many of your Christian friends as you can. Let us all help to get the Lord back into our lives and most importantly into the lives of our children. Amen.
I was invited by the Indiana House of Representatives to open their legislative session on April 6, 1999, with prayer. The substance of the prayer I offered could be offered for virtually any political leader. It might even be a prayer we could slightly alter and offer for our church leaders:
Father, we pause at the beginning of this legislative session
so that our legislators may renew their covenant with You.
Your Word contains many models for leaders to follow.
Lord, I pray that, like Noah, they will have the courage
to stand for what is right,
regardless of the opinion polls.
I pray that, like Moses, they will be lawgivers
who understand that the basis of all law should be love--
love for You and love for our neighbors.
I pray that, like Queen Esther, they will use their political influence
to protect the people they represent.
I pray that, like Daniel, they will be more willing to face a den of lions
than to ever hinder a single human being
from offering a prayer to You.
I pray that, like the Apostle Paul, they will have the good sense
to recognize when they are following the wrong path.
And I pray that, like Paul, they will be willing to change
and follow the better path.
I pray that, like Your Son Jesus, they will always be humble, unselfish,
willing to sacrifice their own desires
for the good of Your children.
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
When minister 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 instead was a stirring prayer, passionately calling our country to repentance and righteousness. The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, the Central Christian Church had 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 the prayer from India, Africa and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired the 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!!
THE PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe on those who call evil good”, but that’s 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 worshiped 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 children and called it a 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; 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. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
What awesome insight!!! With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called a Christian nation that fears the Lord! Please send this prayer to as many of your Christian friends as you can. Let us all help to get the Lord back into our lives and most importantly into the lives of our children. Amen.
A Prayer for Our Political Leaders
(by Pastor Stan A. Lindsay)
I was invited by the Indiana House of Representatives to open their legislative session on April 6, 1999, with prayer. The substance of the prayer I offered could be offered for virtually any political leader. It might even be a prayer we could slightly alter and offer for our church leaders:
Father, we pause at the beginning of this legislative session
so that our legislators may renew their covenant with You.
Your Word contains many models for leaders to follow.
Lord, I pray that, like Noah, they will have the courage
to stand for what is right,
regardless of the opinion polls.
I pray that, like Moses, they will be lawgivers
who understand that the basis of all law should be love--
love for You and love for our neighbors.
I pray that, like Queen Esther, they will use their political influence
to protect the people they represent.
I pray that, like Daniel, they will be more willing to face a den of lions
than to ever hinder a single human being
from offering a prayer to You.
I pray that, like the Apostle Paul, they will have the good sense
to recognize when they are following the wrong path.
And I pray that, like Paul, they will be willing to change
and follow the better path.
I pray that, like Your Son Jesus, they will always be humble, unselfish,
willing to sacrifice their own desires
for the good of Your children.
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
