A Prayer for Malaysia

“Heavenly Father,

We come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your directions and guidance for our beloved nation.

We know Your Word says, “Woe to those who call evil good’, but that’s exactly what we have 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 endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle;
We have compromise our believe and called it tolerance;
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;
We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation;
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 esteem;
We have abused power and called it political savvy;
We have coveted our neighbors’ 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.
Above all, we have remain silent in our prayers for our nation;

Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Guide and bless these men and women who are in authority who are voted in by we, Malaysian, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great nation.

Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will.

May peace and truth prevail in this nation.

I ask it in the name of your son, the Living Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.”


Adapted from Pastor Joe Wright , Senior Pastor at Central Christian Of Wichita, Kansas, “Prayer of Repentance” that shook the nation when he prayed it before the Kansas State House on January 23, 1996.