[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S13481]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Reverend Richard Laue, pastor of Calvary Bible Church, Burbank, 
CA, offered the following prayer.
  Our Sovereign God, we bow our heads, we open our hearts that our 
lives as well as our lips might give You praise. We worship You, we 
love You, we honor You for the abundant blessings and immeasurable 
grace that You have poured out upon us as a nation. We thank You today 
for the Senate of these United States of America. We pray that You 
might open the windows of Heaven and pour out upon these our 
governmental leaders that You have chosen, wisdom and knowledge that 
they might lead us in the direction You have established.
  May every soul from coast to coast and border to border be subject to 
the governing authorities that rule over us, because we know there is 
no authority, except what You have established. Remind us, Lord, that 
those who ever resist the authority resist the ordinance of the 
Almighty God, and those who resist will bring judgment upon themselves. 
We have learned from experience that rulers are not a terror to good 
works and obedient living, but to evil in the world. Remind us 
frequently that rebellion and anarchy bring judgment.
  Remind the citizenry and the leadership of this Nation that when we 
``sow the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind.'' Burn into our thinking 
and our decisionmaking that text of Scripture, ``Be not deceived for 
God is not mocked for whatsoever a man (or a nation) soweth, that shall 
he also reap''--Galatians 6:7.
  Help us to encourage the weak, lift up the fallen, and heal the 
wounds in our Nation. We pray that the blessing and the benediction of 
Almighty God might rest upon the Senate of these United States of 
America. To God be the glory. Amen.


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