Billy Graham’s Prayer For Our Nation
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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!’
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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.’
One Response to “Billy Graham’s Prayer For Our Nation”
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Anonymous Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pmThis is a common mistake. This prayer was not given by Billie Graham. See:.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/billygraham-prayer.htm
All due respect to Rev. Graham, it was given by my pastor, Joe Wright, at the Kansas Legislature in 1996. See:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/kansasprayer.htm
Please correct this entry. This has been going on for 13 years and it’s way past time to give credit where credit is due.
BTW, we are going on a cruise to Alaska July 24-31 with a group from our church, including Pastor Joe Wright. He will be pleased to see that his prayer is still making the rounds. It’s a keeper.
