‘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 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. Amen!’
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, ‘The Rest
of the Story,’ 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.’
