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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.
I ask in in the name of your Son, The Living Savior, Jesus Christ
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, and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this 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.
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.
If possible, please PASS this prayer on to your friends. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for
everything."
Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets them up for failure in the
real world.
RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.
RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something
BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president
with car phone, until you earn both.
RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger
flipping they called it Opportunity.
RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from
paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before
you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in
your own room.
RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have
abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This
doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are
interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
You may have heard in the news that a couple of Post Offices in TX have been
forced to take down small posters that say"IN GOD WE TRUST".The law they say
they are violating is something silly about electioneering posters. (is God
running for office?)
Anyway, I heard proposed on a radio station show, that we all write "IN GOD
WE TRUST" on the back of all our mail. After all, that is our national
motto,
and on all the money we use to buy those stamps. I think it is a wonderful
idea. We must take back our nation from all the people that think that
anything that offends them
should be removed. If you like this idea, please pass it on, and DO IT.
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had
only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.
He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young
woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so
brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?" "You don't
owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness." He said..... "Then
I thank you from my heart."
As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong
also. He had been ready to give up and quit.
Year's later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to
the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly ! was called in for the
consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.
Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in
to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to
save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case. After a long struggle, the battle was won.
Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote
something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would
take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of
the bill. She read these words..... "Paid in full with one glass of milk"
Signed Dr. Howard Kelly. Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that
Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands."
Now you have two choices. You can send this page on and spread a positive message or ignore it and
pretend it never touched your heart.
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