[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 30, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H3981-H3982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  O Lord, our God, blessed is the one who trusts in You, whose 
confidence is in You. We ask Your blessing then on the people of 
Ukraine, who hold fast to the hope of Your deliverance.
  Grant the Ukrainian spirit of resilience and righteousness success as 
that of David over Goliath. May their faithfulness be the weapon that 
confounds the reach of the enemy. May their trust in You assure their 
survival.

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  God, be a sign to the world that You are the refuge of the faithful, 
that their accusers are discredited by their own acts of disgrace.
  Intervene in the ongoing hostilities and speak into the peace talks. 
Put Your divine thumb on the scales that portend a zero-sum game and 
counterbalance the wickedness of power with the power of virtue and the 
value of human life.
  Defeat division with reconciliation, enmity with mutual concord that 
all would know of Your protection and would yield to Your purpose.
  You have allowed the world to witness these recent troubles, many and 
bitter. We pray we may soon give testimony to how You restore life 
again to those whose confidence is in You; that You alone bring accord 
out of discord to those who trust in You, and hope from despair to 
those who believe in Your salvation.
  It is in Your sovereign name we pray.
  Amen.

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