[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16341]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Omnipotent God, all-powerful Lord, all authority comes from You. You 
raise up leaders and entrust them with spiritual, intellectual, and 
physical power. All You require is humility to acknowledge You as the 
source of all that they have, and they are accountable to You for how 
they have used Your entrusted power. You delight to bless those who 
delight in giving You the glory. Forgive us when we assume that power 
comes from titles and positions. Most of all, forgive our dependence 
on, and satisfaction with, our own limited human powers. You offer us 
supernatural power to think beyond our understanding and lead 
courageously beyond our abilities. May this be a day when we 
deliberately ask for Your power and live expectantly for Your divinely 
inspired strategies and solutions. When we give up the idea that we are 
the source of our power, You amaze us with what You are able to do 
through us. So free us from bartering power, struggling for power, and 
manipulating with power.
  Spirit of the living God, anoint the men and women of this Senate 
with Your power so this Nation will know that it is being led by people 
who trust You, who share party power to accomplish Your plans, point 
away from themselves to You, and attempt great things for You because 
they have received great power from You. Amen.

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