[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 112 (Friday, July 26, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S8943]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.--Matthew 5:8.
  Holy God, just as the fluid in our physical eyes keeps our eyes 
cleansed, so may Your Holy spirit cleanse, dilate, and focus the vision 
of the spiritual eyes of our hearts. As we begin this day, we open our 
hearts to be filled with Your Holy spirit. We desire to be pure in 
heart so that we may see You more clearly and love You more dearly. We 
know that mixed motives prevent us from seeing You. We long for our 
hearts to be free of the admixtures of pride, selfishness, 
manipulation, lust for power, jealousy, envy, negative criticism, and 
resentment. We reaffirm our desire to be single minded for You, God--to 
put You first in our life and and make an unreserved commitment that 
enables us to rivet our attention upon You.
  Today, we accept the gifts of Your Holy spirit and live 
supernaturally. We will gratefully be a channel for the flow of the 
fruit of Your spirit--love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, 
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We pray that we will see 
more clearly Your presence in the world, in circumstances, in people, 
and in the new person You are creating in us. We want to start this day 
with pure hearts so that we may behold more of the wonder of Your grace 
and goodness. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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