[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 63 (Friday, April 12, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2321]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Robert Suhr, Christ Church, Mequon, Wisconsin, offered the 
following prayer:
  Holy God, mighty Lord, and gracious Father, You are the sovereign God 
who is the author of all time. You hold all history in Your righteous 
and merciful hands. Nations rise and fall by Your will, for Your 
purposes, and by Your grace.
  So in this time and on this day, we humbly call upon You to exercise 
Your will, to show Your compassion, and to loose Your spirit upon the 
Members of this sacred body, those near to You and those far from You, 
that this would not be an ordinary day but an extraordinary day.
  Open hearts to hear Your guidance and help their ears to hear the 
voices of Your will speaking. Let the Members of this House today 
govern with compassion, understanding, and a determination to 
accomplish that which is good and pleasing in Your sight and that which 
is good for the people of this Nation.
  Holy spirit, we entrust ourselves to You that at the end of this day 
we may rest in peace and this great Nation will remain a light that 
shatters the darkness, a city that brightly shines on a hill, and that 
all nations may see Your handiwork and the work of this body today.
  All this we ask relying on Your grace, and we ask through the power 
of Jesus' holy and precious name.
  Amen.

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