[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 72 (Friday, April 28, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2091]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Pastor Greg Shipe, First Baptist Church, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 
offered the following prayer:
  O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the Earth.
  We confess that Your word is proven and You are a shield to all those 
who trust in You.
  We thank You for the freedoms, the blessings, and the 
responsibilities You have bestowed on this land.
  Father, we humbly bow before You, asking You to guide this House as 
they debate, vote, and interact with one another and their 
constituents, and that they would do so in a manner pleasing to You. We 
pray that You would grant them wisdom, a wisdom not derived from 
fallible man, but rather from You and Your infallible word.
  We pray for families in our Nation and the needs of vulnerable 
children. We believe, Father, that righteousness exalts a nation, and 
so we pray for justice and truth to prevail that You might be glorified 
in this Nation.
  We ask this in the name of Jesus.
  Amen.

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