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Cool Email
Below you will find some emails I have received over the years. Usually I will delete forwards, but I like these enough to save and post them here. Some are funny, some are not, I hope you like them too.
Kansas Opening Session –
Thought you might enjoy
this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate.
It seems prayer still upsets some people.
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 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 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 alternative lifestyle;
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 neglected to discipline our children and called it
building self-esteem;
We have abused power and called it politics;
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, to open ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen"
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. Funny how simple it is for people to
trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.
Funny how we
believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
Funny
how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think,
say, or do anything the Bible says.
Funny how someone can say "I believe
in God" but still follow Satan (who also believes in God).
Funny how you
can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but
when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about
sharing.
Funny how the lewd,
crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public
discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school and workplace. FUNNY, ISN'T
IT?
Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an
invisible Christian the rest of the week. Are you laughing?
Funny how
when you go to forward this message, many on your list are not receiving it
because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for
sending it to them.
Funny how I can be more worried about what other
people think of me more than what God thinks of me. Are you
thinking?
Spread the Word and give thanks to the Lord for He is good! For
THIS is the day that the Lord has made!
