[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 153 (Thursday, September 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H8178]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Pastor Rosalinda Rivera, New Life Outreach Church, Richmond, 
Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, we come before You this day with grateful hearts for this 
wonderful Nation we live in. For our Senators, our Congressmen and -
women, our President, for their families, bless them as they 
sacrificially lead us as a Nation.
  We lift up those today that are imprisoned by a lifestyle of 
addiction, trapped in the trenches of hopelessness. Your Word says that 
if we are in a pit, You will lift us up and put our feet on a rock.
  So we cry out on behalf of our husbands, our wives, our sisters, our 
brothers, for the young people of America that are trapped by the pit 
of opioid addiction and sex trafficking.
  You are the God of hope and healing. So, in Your name, I declare the 
chains of addiction are broken. I declare freedom in the hearts of 
every person fighting addiction. Through You, our God, we have the 
victory.
  Thank You for always being faithful. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

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