A PRAYER FOR NATIONAL REPENTANCE

A PRAYER FOR NATIONAL REPENTANCE

When Joe Wright, the pastor of Central Christian Church of Wichita was invited to open the Kansas Senate session with prayer, everyone expected the usual politically-correct generalities.  What they heard instead was a stirring prayer, passionately calling our country to repentance and righteousness.  The response was immediate.  During his prayer, a number of legislators walked out in protest.

Over the following six-week period, Central Christian Church logged more than 5,000 feedback calls with only 47 registering a negative response.  The church has since received international requests for copies of the prayer from India, Korea and several African nations.

The late media commentator, Paul Harvey, aired the prayer on his radio program entitled “The Rest of the Story” and received a larger response than on any previous broadcast.

Pastor Wright’s prayer in its entirety:

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’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, 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.  I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ.  

Amen.

As a people and as a nation, let us make a hasty return to our foundation of spiritual values.  And as believers, let us never neglect our pivotal part.

II Chronicles 7:14

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!