Prayer of National Repentance

          In my Sunday Morning Sermon this week I shared a prayer which was originally written by Bob Russell in 1995 who shared it at the Kentucky Governor's Prayer Breakfast.  In January of 1996, Pastor Joe Wright adapted the same prayer when he was asked to be the guest chaplain at the Kansas State House.  Later the same year its was used as an invocation in the Colorado House of Represntatives.  Eventually Paul Harvey got hold of the prayer and read it on his program.  Here is what he prayed from Bob Russell's Website www.bobrussell.org:

O God, we know that your Word says, “Woe to those who call evil good,” 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 worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism and New Age spirituality.
We have committed adultery and called it an affair.
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 frugality.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn children 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 failed to execute justice speedily, as your Word commands, and called it due process.
We have failed to love our neighbor who has a different color of skin and called it maintaining racial purity.
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 made the Lord’s Day the biggest shopping and entertainment day of the week and called it free enterprise.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our parents 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 of every sin and set us free. Though our sins be as scarlet, may they become white as snow. Though they be as crimson, may they be as wool.

As appropriate as it was in 1995, it is even more today.  In a time when the Supreme Court, (or as Huckabee recently dubbed them, "The Extreme Court") reverses the will of the people of California on the Defense of Marriage Act, effectively allowing one homosexual judge to reverse the will of the majority of the people of California and in the process also declares DOMA unconstitutional.  This Act of Congress was passed by both houses and signed into law by Bill Clinton! Yes, in a time when atheists unveil a 1500 pound granite bench for the sole purpose of protesting the nearby placement of the ten commandments monument, we need national repentance more than ever.   Blessings