[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5554]
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:
  Sovereign God, we pray to You again on behalf of the Ukrainian 
people. They continue to call to You, O Lord, in their distress. They 
call to You, our God. Hear their voices.
  Relieve them of the hardship of their oppression.
  Free them from the abuse of their captors.
  Loose them from the chains of their enemy and give them the freedom 
of their own sovereignty and the blessing of peace in their homeland.
  Then gracious God, allow us, we who are observers to this travesty, 
to be inspired by the faith of the Ukrainians in the face of their 
adversity. Open our eyes to the spiritual warfare being waged which has 
called forth their unshakable faith in You. They are living proof of 
the victory they have already won in You.
  For they are hard-pressed on every side, but not crushed. They are 
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck 
down, but not destroyed.
  Almighty God, may we receive their testimony of Your saving grace. 
Then may we be found as steadfast in the living of our days.
  In Your merciful name we pray.
  Amen.

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