A Prayer for us Today
Thought you might enjoy this interesting Prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate some years ago.
I have found several versions of this prayer on the internet. The exact quote isn’t as important as how it relates to our life today.
It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open a session of the Kansas Senate Congress in about 1996, everyone was expecting the usual generalities; But this is what they heard:
Here is that Kansas Senate Prayer, with Restored Names/Title:
Except for words in the brackets, Joe Wright spoke these words when he prayed at the Kansas Senate opening ceremony on January 23, 1996. SOURCE
“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 [pleasant],” but that’s exactly what we’ve 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 [latter day mighty ones] 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 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 fore-fathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us O [YaHuWaH our ELoHiYM] 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, [YaHuWShu’A HaMaShiYaCx.]
[Amaen].”
Below is a video that differs from the above quote as it adds more insight and vigor. I think you will enjoy it.
Remember the words of Moroni to us? He saw us in OUR DAY as did Nephi, Joseph Smith and other great Prophets. What did they see? What would they say to us? Let’s review the amazing words of Moroni below.
Moroni’s Words to Us
35 Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not. But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing.
36 And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your hearts; and there are none save a few only who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts.
37 For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.
38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world?
39 Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?
40 Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?
41 Behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you; and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you, for he will not suffer their cries any longer. Mormon 8:35-41
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley, 1st Counselor to President Ezra Taft Benson, proclaimed that the Book of Mormon “is as current as the morning newspaper”, in its descriptions of the problems of today’s society. The Power of the Book of Mormon, Ensign June 1988
The American Prophet Moroni testified that “Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing.” Mormon 8:35
Using these two quotations as a guide, author Rod Meldrum explores some of the Book of Mormon prophecies that pertain to our day and compare them directly with news headlines from the mainstream media of the USA.
To understand the signs of our day, we must read the Book of Mormon!
The Book of Mormon Prophets warned a very specific nation about the consequences of being wicked, upon God’s Promised Land. In Rod Meldrum”s latest DVD, he clearly demonstrates how the Book of Mormon is as “Current as the Daily News.”
In his 2-hour presentation Rod discusses the 4 Sacred Covenants that George Washington invoked at St. Paul’s Cathedral during his inauguration – the same sacred ground the New York Twin Towers collapsed on during 911. Take a trip through current news headlines and see why America’s promised blessings are now being revoked, leaving her in grave peril and judgment from God. With this warning will the people living in our nation, foretold by ancient prophets in the Book of Mormon, still serve Jesus Christ, the God of this sacred covenant land?
The Book of Mormon Current as the Daily News! Trailer HERE!
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