[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 128 (Thursday, October 3, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H6985]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Robert G. Hobson, Sun City, Arizona, offered the 
following prayer:
  Our Father, as we pause in Your presence, we acknowledge You as our 
God. We are grateful for every Member of this United States House of 
Representatives.
  We pray for every Representative as they seek to determine Your will 
and direction for this great Nation. Our Father, we commit each one to 
You in anticipation that You will be pleased to demonstrate Your will 
in and through each person and in every decision reached.
  To this end, our Father, we entrust to You every person in this great 
body in anticipation of Your blessing and wisdom. May each be keenly 
aware that with regard to Your wisdom, it is not a matter of one's 
ability or inability but, rather, their availability to You and to this 
great Nation that righteousness and justice will be achieved. We thank 
You, our Father, in advance for all that You are going to accomplish in 
and through each Representative during their deliberations today.
  In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

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