[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 46 (Monday, March 13, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S3823]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Senate Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Almighty God, Lord of our lives and Sovereign of our beloved Nation, 
as we begin this new day filled with awesome responsibilities and soul-
sized issues, we are irresistibly drawn into Your presence by the 
magnetism of Your love and by our need for Your guidance. We come to 
You at Your invitation. Our longing to know Your will is motivated by 
Your prevenient and greater desire to guide and inspire us. In the 
quiet of intimate communion with You, the tightly wound springs of 
pressure and stress are released and a profound inner peace invades our 
minds. We hear again the impelling cadences of the drumbeat of Your 
Spirit calling up to press on in the battle for truth, righteousness, 
and justice. Our minds snap to full attention, and our hearts salute 
You as sovereign Lord. You have given us minds capable of receiving 
Your mind, imaginations able to envision Your plan and purpose, and 
wills ready to do Your will. Anoint our minds with the liberating 
assurance that whatever You give us the vision to conceive, and the 
power to believe, we can completely trust You to help us achieve. Lord, 
fill our minds with Your spirit. Go before us to show us the way, 
behind us to press us forward, beside us to give us courage, above us 
to protect us, and within us to give us supernatural wisdom and 
discernment. Continue to bless our President and his Cabinet, the House 
of Representatives, and the men and women of the Senate as together 
they serve You as partners in solving the problems which confront us 
and grasp the full potential of Your destiny for our great Nation.
  In Your all-powerful name, amen.

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