[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 128 (Wednesday, September 14, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  In a moment of silence, let us thank God for the memory of former 
Senator Jack R. Miller, of Iowa, who served two terms in the Senate, as 
his family mourns his death which occurred August 29. And let us 
remember them in prayer.
  And then let us pray silently for the rapid, total recovery of Gerald 
Hackett, Jr., from a serious illness.
  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, 
and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will 
I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their 
land.--II Chronicles 7:14.
  Baruch Hashem. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
  God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, this evening at sunset begins Yom 
Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the most solemn of Jewish holy days 
devoted to prayer, fasting, and repentance. We thank Thee for its 
reminder that forgiveness and cleansing from sin require the shedding 
of blood and the repentance of the people of God. We who are followers 
of Yeshua, grateful for the Jewishness of our faith, praise God for 
this High Holy Day. May Thy blessing rest upon Your people, Israel, and 
may we who follow Yeshua, with them take seriously blood atonement and 
repentance.
  Give us ears to hear and hearts to respond to the glorious promise of 
God in II Chronicles 7:14: If my people, which are called by my name, 
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from 
their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their 
sin, and will heal their land.
  To the glory of God we pray. Amen.

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