[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S18835]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Here is a promise to give us hope today: ``If my people, who are 
called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face * 
* * then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal 
their land.''--II Chronicles 7:14.
  Thank You, Lord, for answering our prayers for a meeting between the 
President, the majority leader, and the Speaker of the House to deal 
with the issues of balancing the budget. Now we pray reverently for 
these men as they meet today. Lord, we need Your healing. Fill these 
men with Your spirit. Grant them the humility to be open to Your 
guidance for a solution. Invade their minds with an acute awareness of 
their accountability to You to break the present deadlock, move toward 
creative compromises, and achieve an agreement. We claim Jesus' 
diagnosis and prognosis for seemingly impossible impasses like this: 
``With man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.''--
Luke 18:27. We really believe that. We cast aside our pride, and throw 
our negative cautious doubt to the wind. Today is a day to expect great 
things from You, and the greatness You will inspire in our leaders. 
Thank You that it shall be so. Amen.

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