We have continued to let our values slip away.  We stopped mentioning God, stopped teaching the Bible, stopped valuing life, stopped expected people to have personal responsibility.  And as our values have eroded, as we have slipped farther away from God as a nation, so too have our freedoms faded away.  We have replaced Jesus Christ with a government and a President, and not surprisingly lost our way.

We need this prayer today.  Not for Kansas, not in a local church, but throughout our nation.  Contrary to our President’s past comments, we are a Christian nation.  Now more than ever, we need to remember that.  Many of us who want to take our country back and kick the government out of our lives feel helpless against the march of greater government and massive debt… we feel helpless that our representatives don’t listen to us… we feel helpless that our nation is lost.

Our nation has lost its way, but it is not lost.  We are not helpless.  We must have hope, not in a phony politician, but in the one true God.  And as that hope strengthens us, we must keep working, keep writing, keep calling, stay active and make our voices heard.  This is our nation, and through the grace of God we can take it back.

The Prayer:

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 moral pluralism.

We have worshiped 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 neighbors’ 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 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