A Blunt Prayer Among Those Given To Moral Relativism

You've heard what Moral Relativism is, right? Our Nation has been headed south in more than one way due to this. Is your truth yours and mine mine? It there more than one for different situations? WRONG! Do you ever pray that God will show you His way? Today, I am thankful for Bob Russell who penned a very blunt prayer that really does need to circulate until we as a people take heed and change. It hits us Westerners right between the eyes. The Bible says, “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” (2 Ch. 7:14, nkjv). Perhaps you’ve seen a version of this blunt, straight to the point prayer already? 

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 5:20 kjv

We are living during a time of inverted values where light is called darkness and darkness is called light. 

Pastor Joe Wright's Invocation to the Topeka Kansas State Legislature: 

They invited Pastor Joe Wright of Wichita Central Christian Church to deliver the invocation and he told God on 'em. Now God knows what they've been up to.

And no sooner has their guest chaplain concluded his prayer and three Democrats on the state legislature are on their feet at microphones protesting, "He can't talk like that about us!"

Representative Delbert Gross called the invocation "gross," "derisive," "sanctimonious," and "overbearing." Quote:

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.' And that's exactly what we've done. We've lost our spiritual equilibrium. We've inverted our values. We confess that we've ridiculed the absolute Truth of Your Word in the name of moral pluralism. We've worshiped other gods and called it 'multiculturalism.'

We've endorsed perversion and called it 'alternative lifestyle.' We've exploited the poor and called it a 'lottery.' We've neglected the needy and called it 'self-preservation.' We've rewarded laziness and called it 'welfare.' Father, in the name of 'choice,' we have killed our unborn, and then in the name of 'right to life,' we've killed abortionists. We've neglected to discipline our children and called it 'building esteem.' We have abused power and called it 'political savvy.' We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it 'taxes.' We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it 'freedom of expression.' We've ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it 'enlightenment.'

Search us, O God, know our hearts today, try us and show us any wickedness in us. And then 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 Kansas and who have been ordained by You to govern this great state. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

We’ve all heard about this ugly stuff ..so much so.. that it’s now easy to turn it all off and refocus on something pleasant, "nice," or pleasurable. When we hear certain words related to these subjects we switch to OFF, but it's time to wake up, speak up--not give up. Boys, girls, men, women, straight people, gay people – it’s time for us in America to turn away from these sins. God hates all sins because they destroy people. It’s time to call evil “EVIL.” Wrong is wrong—it will never be right.. not for you, not for anyone! Anger is a gift. —Zack de la Rocha (anger at the sin) Happiness? Since when is God interested in your personal happiness? He is far more interested in your full submission. Not on your knees, but on your belly, submission. Whatever happened to contrition, to brokenness, confession, U- turns, holiness and virtue? —Anon Jesus zealously preached, “…unless you repent you will all likewise perish” (Lk. 13:3). Currently there are 1.6 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. We don’t need to wait until the next election to make our voices heard (on high, or down here on earth). Approximately 6 million women in the U.S. become pregnant every year. About half of those pregnancies are unintended. Either the woman or her partner did not use contraception or the contraceptive method failed. Eighty percent of women having abortions are single. Eighty two percent of the women having abortions are unmarried or separated. Almost half of American women (43 percent) will have an abortion sometime in their lifetime. Each year more than one million U.S. teenagers become pregnant — one in nine women aged 15-19 and one in five who are sexually active.1 Lord, because of the cross please convict, and cleanse us from sin.. one by one, set us free. That is our earnest plea! 1 Sources: Planned Parenthood, National Center for Health Statistics. The above prayer didn’t come from Billy Graham or from Paul Harvey as some have said. It was written by Bob Russell and a version of it was prayed out loud by Minister Joe Wright from Central Christian Church in Wichita when he was asked to open the Kansas House of Representatives in a word of prayer on January ’96 (see http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/prayernation.asp).