A Powerful Prayer

 

Publisher’s Note…

Friday, October 24, 2003 was the opening day of Phyllis Schlafly's 32nd Eagle Council Convention held at the Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel in Clayton, MO. That evening’s featured speaker was non other than Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore who gave an incredible presentation regarding the 10 Commandments. Mrs. Schlafly, the President and Founder of Eagle Forum, introduced Chief Justice Moore, giving what I consider to be one of the most important speeches of our time on judicial tyranny (see related article in this issue of the MetroVoice).

Prior to Mrs. Schlafly’s introduction, Eunie Smith (Mrs. Albert Lee Smith, Jr.) gave the invocation reading from Deuteronomy 6:5-9 and offered a powerful prayer which stirred the hearts and minds of all who were in attendance.  Mrs. Smith is the President of the Alabama Chapter of Eagle Forum and the Vice President of the National Eagle Forum. The following is the prayer which Mrs. Smith offered to the Lord.

 

              “Our Lord and our God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, we desire to love Thee with all our heart and soul and strength, yet we cannot do it in our own strength.  Thank You, Lord, that You gave us the Ten Commandments to convict us of our sin.

            Thank You that You sent your Son to bridge the gap between Your Holiness and our sinful nature if we will but receive Him.  Thank You that You sent the Holy Spirit to empower us to keep Your commandments.  May we walk continually in Thy Spirit – knowing and doing Thy will.  Forgive us when we fail Thee.
Father, in this nation that was founded with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, You see us struggling now just to acknowledge Thee in public. 
            America offends Thee in so many ways that we can only rely on Thy great mercy to forgive our sin and on Thy sovereignty to heal our land.  We pray that You would show us how to be instruments of that healing as we seek to influence those institutions that You established, the family, the church and the state – that each may bring honor and glory to Thee alone.   
“Father, I thank Thee for every individual in this room. We are all called to occupy where we are, to be the salt and light to this generation.  We rely on Thy guidance.

 

            “Lord, I thank Thee for those leaders whom You have raised up for these days – to stand in the gap.

            “We praise Thee for Phyllis Schlafly.  Great is Thy faithfulness to her and her faithfulness to Thee and to us.

            “We praise Thee for Chief Justice Roy Moore – this good servant of Thine whose commitment to Thee constrains him not to compromise the truth but to speak it tirelessly.  We thank Thee, Father, that His words are not falling on deaf ears, that You are moving people across this land to stand with him.

            “Lord, we thank Thee for Kayla Moore, who exemplifies the vital calling of full time homemaking, for just as Your Word tells us to post Your commandments in the gates, it tells us to praise virtuous wives in the gates.  We pray Thy blessings on the Moore family and on Phyllis.

“Lord, we pray that the Ten Commandments would not just be posted in homes, and churches, and public places, but that they would be burned into hearts and bring revival in our land – leading to another reformation! 

            “Now bless the events of this evening and the food of which we are about to partake for it is in Jesus name that we pray.

Amen.”