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Thought you might enjoy this prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate.
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, 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.
WHAT MUST A PRAYER DO?
A prayer must reach in and bring out all of you. A prayer that is afraid of yesterday is useless. A prayer must be a "no-holds-barred" contact with the Almighty.
During World War II a young soldier who had learned fast was burning up the air with blasphemy. Indeed, he was ad-libbing several originals on his own. Suddenly behind him he heard a stream of obscenities that made his pale -by comparison. Turning, he was surprised to find it was his chaplain. The chaplain continued with a few more oaths and then said, "You don't like to hear your chaplain talk like that, do you?" "No, I don't!" the young soldier exclaimed. "Well, neither do I like to hear it from you, son," was the reply.
"0 wad some power the gifte gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!" Prayer does this, you know; it makes us stand back and look at our lives in a new way. Men who pray are different from men who don't.
You are like the company you keep, and if that company is God, it has to make a difference. God cares. You have to believe this if you pray. You to believe that as you reach up, He reaches down, that meets you halfway and more.
You have to believe the cross requires, "Thy will be done." Of one woman it was said, "She made magnificent bouquets of God's refusals. ... She turned her disappointments into flowers of love and obedience, and then offered them back to God." Attitude makes or breaks a prayer.
When John Ruskin would take a new student for art, before he ever had him draw a line or paint a scene, he would give him an opal and have him study its coloring from every possible angle till he knew it by heart.
At one school for modern art the student is shut up in a room containing nothing but paintings of this style. In this isolation with and concentration on these paintings, the student learns more about the method than through a dozen lectures.
"As ... [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23: 7.
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And what followed were the best years in their lives.
They gave themselves to something bigger than themselves and you can’t do that and not start having some of the best days in your life.
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