Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation - fiction?
"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!"
What will await you now?
What will you be doing once you have returned
unto your mother's house and childhood land?
You have left the mission field,
but I know you have not left His hand.
Can you tell me about your journeys, about your lessons learnt?
Those answered prayers, and also what still concerns you
The ways and works of God that you understand,
and what the Holy Spirit has yet planned for you?
I hope to be waiting for you
and watching for you to appear,
so that I can rejoice and celebrate with you,
comfort you and wipe away every tear you had shed.
Over here, I eagerly anticipate
and wait to hear and see
whatever God has planned for you.