[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H975]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Joe Voss, Valley Center Assembly of God, Valley Center, 
KS, offered the following prayer:
  Lord, we pause at the beginning of this session to humbly bow our 
hearts before You. We acknowledge Your lordship and Your majesty and 
our utter dependence upon You.
  From the beginning of creation, You have moved the hearts of kings 
like a river. So move the hearts of this House, and the great Nation 
they represent. Lord, move our hearts to submit under Your hand and to 
seek Your wisdom from above. Give us that wisdom that You declared is 
first, pure, and peaceable and gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy 
and good faith, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
  Lord, forgive us for the times we have walked outside of this wisdom. 
Be merciful to us as a nation and forgive us our sins, both against You 
and one another.
  Help us to be a light to the world, to do justly, to love mercy, and 
to walk humbly with our God.
  We ask this in the precious name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus 
Christ. Amen.

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