[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 21, 2002)]
[House]
[Pages H2665-H2666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Pastor Ken Wilde, Capital Christian Center, Meridian, Idaho, offered 
the following prayer:
  Dear Heavenly Father:
  Today we rise with humility and thankfulness before our Creator and 
ask for divine assistance from Heaven. We are of all people grateful 
for the bountiful blessings that You have bestowed upon our great land. 
As this body of legislators now begins its day of deliberations, we ask 
that You send to them a supernatural ability to discern heaven-sent 
solutions; that there would come such divine breakthroughs in areas of 
legislative logjams that we all would say with one voice, the Lord God 
Almighty, He has helped us.
  We pray that You would extend Your hand of health, strength, 
endurance, and grace to each Representative and their family members. 
As these men and women help steward our Nation we ask, as Jesus Christ 
asked, Your kingdom come, Your will be done in their earthly endeavors 
today. Give us all now a vision and a hope and a faith to lead this 
Nation into the divine destiny that You have ordained that America

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achieve. May we be pleasing in Your sight and may there come a voice of 
unity that erupts from this corporate body saying as Nehemiah of the 
Bible said: The God of Heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore, we 
His servants will arise and build. Thank You for Your continued favor, 
aid and grace in this challenging hour. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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