[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 19, 2003)]
[House]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Willie Davis, Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Las Vegas, 
Nevada, offered the following prayer:
  God, whose aggression is born of love and whose aim is peace, God of 
revelation and inspiration, from Your Holy Word come instructions about 
the necessity of vision and statements of encouragement for the 
entertainment of vision. Help us, O God.
  Our world needs a new vision of sovereignty. We need negotiations 
more than confrontation, cooperation more than conflict, peace rather 
than war. Help us, Lord.
  Our world needs a new vision of freedom. We need no political 
hostages; free them, Lord. We need no slaves of prejudice; free them 
Lord. No bond servants of poverty; free them, Lord. No captives of 
hunger; free them, Lord. No servants of sin; free them, Lord.
  Our world needs a new vision of Your redemption. Save us, Lord. 
Enable us to call on Your name in repentance, to open our hearts to You 
in commitment, and to bow our knees to You in obedience.
  Our prayer is offered in the Name of the One who gives clear 
visibility and spiritual reality. Amen.

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