[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 15, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5775]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's opening prayer will be offered by 
Pastor Andrew Brunson of Chapel Hill, NC.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Before I pray, I want to thank the Senate. I am standing here today 
because so many of you fought for me, and I am deeply grateful, in a 
time of many divides, to those who were unified in fighting for my 
release. Thank you.
  Let us pray.
  Our Heavenly Father, may Your Holy Name be honored. May Your Name be 
held in high regard in this Senate.
  We give thanks to You, for You are good, and Your steadfast love 
endures forever. You have watched over this Nation through various 
times of peace, prosperity, turmoil, and war. May we continue to look 
to You and be a people who seek Your face. Draw us near, and may we 
draw near to You. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Reveal 
to us our sins, and forgive us. Reveal to us also Your love, and enable 
each of us to love You with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
  Today, I pray that You grant to the Senators of the United States the 
spirit of wisdom, the fear of the Lord, and the courage to act by the 
counsel of the Lord in all matters great and small. May they have Your 
perspective on all things. May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done 
here in our Nation as it is in Heaven in and through these Senators. 
Bless their families and their health. Give them Your peace.
  O God, fill this place with Your presence, and unite us as one nation 
under Your leadership, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
  I pray in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

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