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  From:  123four   9/11/2002 12:20 am  
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This letter came to me on the internet today! 
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Paul Harvey aired this prayer given at the opening session of the Kansas State Senate. 
It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the next session of the Kansas State Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard: 

"Hevenly 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 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 coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it "ambition". 
We have poluted 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 and to openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen! 

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The response was immediate. A number of Kansas legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more that 5,000 phone calls with only 47 negative responses. 

The Church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and 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". 

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Anyone who wants to copy this letter is free to do so. 



 
  
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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/11/2002 7:36 am  
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Hi 123four,

 

That really is an amazing prayer.

 

It goes so show that there is nothing including Legislators that are a match to one person and prayer!

 

God Bless you,

David



David A. Brown
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   From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/11/2002 8:23 am  
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Here is another great Prayer event!

Source http://www.grantjeffrey.com/intfra.htm

Epistle of Marcus Aurelius to the Roman Senate, in Which He Testifies that the Christians Were the Cause of His Victory. 

The Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Germanicus, Parthicus, Sarmaticus, to the People of Rome, and to the sacred Senate greeting: I explained to you my grand design, and what advantages I gained on the confines of Germany, with much labour and suffering, in consequence of the circumstance that I was surrounded by the enemy; I myself being shut up in Carnuntum by seventy-four cohorts, nine miles off. And the enemy being at hand, the scouts pointed out to us, and our general Pompeianus showed us that there was close on us a mass of a mixed multitude of 977, 000 men, which indeed we saw; and I was shut up by this vast host, having with me only a battalion composed of the first, tenth, double and marine legions. Having then examined my own position, and my host, with respect to the vast mass of barbarians and of the enemy, I quickly betook myself to prayer to the gods of my country. But being disregarded by them, I summoned those who among us go by the name of Christians. And having made inquiry, I discovered a great number and vast host of them, and raged against them, which was by no means becoming; for afterwards I learned their power. 

Wherefore they began the battle, not by preparing weapons, nor arms, nor bugles; for such preparation is hateful to them, on account of the God they bear about in their conscience. Therefore it is probable that those whom we suppose to be atheists, have God as their ruling power entrenched in their conscience. For having cast themselves on the ground, they prayed not only for me, but also for the whole army as it stood, that they might be delivered from the present thirst and famine. For during five days we had got no water, because there was none; for we were in the heart of Germany, and in the enemy's territory. And simultaneously with their casting themselves on the ground, and praying to God (a God of whom I am ignorant), water poured from heaven, upon us most refreshingly cool, but upon the enemies of Rome a withering hail. 

And immediately we recognised the presence of God following on the prayer-a God unconquerable and indestructible. Founding upon this, then, let us pardon such as are Christians, lest they pray for and obtain such a weapon against ourselves. And I counsel that no such person be accused on the ground of his being a Christian. But if any one be found laying to the charge of a Christian that he is a Christian, I desire that it be made manifest that he who is accused as a Christian, and acknowledges that he is one, is accused of nothing else than only this, that he is a Christian; but that he who arraigns him be burned alive. And I further desire, that he who is entrusted with the government of the province shall not compel the Christian, who confesses and certifies such a matter, to retract; neither shall he commit him. And I desire that these things be confirmed by a decree of the Senate. And I command this my edict to be published in the Forum of Trajan, in order that it may be read. The prefect Vitrasius Pollio will see that it be transmitted to all the provinces round about, and that no one who wishes to make use of or to possess it be hindered from obtaining a copy from the document I now publish.



David A. Brown
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