[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 21 (Thursday, February 2, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1969]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  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.
  God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, God of our fathers, we are 
grateful for this Old Testament promise giving us the formula for the 
healing of a nation. In the light of this promise, thank Thee for the 
National Prayer Breakfast this morning which brought together 
leadership from every State and more than 150 nations in recognition of 
the indispensability of prayer.
  Grant us to see, O God, that the way to national health--socially, 
culturally, and economically--is the way of prayer. Give us, who 
profess to be Your people, the grace to humble ourselves, to pray, to 
seek Your face, and to turn from the secularism which obliterates all 
sense of God and faith and spiritual reality.
  Governor of the nations, lead us in the way that will bring healing 
to our land.
  We pray in the name of the Lord of History. Amen.
  

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