[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12959]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Tommy Nelson, Pastor, Denton Bible Church, Denton, 
Texas, offered the following prayer:
  Our Father, You have made us as You have made all things. You have 
established the nations and their boundaries, You have ordained their 
leaders, their authority and the absolutes by which they rule. To You, 
who are the foundation of justice, of love and equality, we ask Your 
sovereign mercy.
  Grant these men and women, whom You have vested, the wisdom to 
perceive Your pleasure, the skill to implement it, the courage to stand 
by the right, and the consistency and the integrity of life to merit 
the trust of this Nation, who has looked unto them. Encourage them and 
surround their families and marriages with Your blessing and help and 
truth.
  Have mercies on this Nation through them, to walk in Thy way and know 
Thy peace.
  In Thy Holy and Merciful Name we pray. Amen.

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