[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 56 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2933]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Kenneth G. Wilde, Senior Pastor, Capital Christian Center, 
Meridian, Idaho, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray together. Lord God of heaven, You are a great and awesome 
God, You who keep Your covenant and always observe Your commandments. 
We come to You on this National Day of Prayer in deep humility and with 
a broken and contrite heart. We turn to You as a people who have sinned 
and ask forgiveness for those times when our Nation has been unfaithful 
to You. We recognize our inability to act righteously outside of Your 
divine enablement. Give us now a national resolve to seek You with all 
of our heart, to love Your commandments, and to follow hard after You. 
Once again, ignite our Nation with hope as we pursue Your purposes for 
which we have been established. May righteousness be our byword. May 
peace be in our homes, our streets, and our cities. Lord, restore unto 
us the joy of our salvation.
  Lord, You have placed in this room great leaders to whom You desire 
to pour out wisdom and direction. In this difficult and challenging 
place of leading this Nation, give them divine guidance and keep them 
from the evil one. Inspire them with a heart for our Nation. Sanctify 
them with Your truth, for Your word is truth. May they know Your love 
and see Your glory. May they all understand, as Esther did, that just 
very possibly they have been brought to the Kingdom for such a time as 
this.
  Now, as Daniel prayed, we also pray. Oh, Lord, hear. Oh, Lord, 
forgive. Oh, Lord, listen and act. Do not delay for your own sake, my 
God, for Your city and Your people who are called by Your Name. We 
humbly offer these things to you in Your precious name. Amen.

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