[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 77 (Wednesday, June 12, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Kent Williams, Sunnybrook Christian Church, Stillwater, 
Oklahoma, offered the following prayer:
  Sovereign God, I thank You for this great country, for President Bush 
and for these Members of Congress who are dedicated public servants 
divinely appointed by You. Lord, build a spiritual wall of protection 
around all of our leaders, our armed forces, and our citizens. 
``Contend with those who contend with us.'' You are faithful from 
everlasting to everlasting.
  We seek Your guidance and wisdom as we strive to discern and 
accomplish Your plan and purpose. We commit ourselves to upholding Your 
absolute law, standards and precepts. Give us strength and courage, 
both in policy and personal example, to be people of character and 
integrity, and may ``In God We Trust'' be expressed in our lives, not 
just stamped on our coins. Continue to work in us and through us, that 
we would be people with pure hearts and clean hands.
  As Abraham Lincoln anticipated, ``that this Nation under God shall 
have a new birth of freedom,'' may we acknowledge that freedom comes 
from great sacrifice, just as spiritual freedom and new birth come from 
the blood of Your Son shed at Calvary. In His Name we pray. Amen.

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