[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20936]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Lord be with us. Let us pray.
  O Lord our governor, gracious Father, Your glory shines throughout 
the world. We give You thanks today for this Nation, which You have 
bountifully blessed in order to be a demonstration of freedom, 
opportunity, righteousness, truth, and justice for Liberia and the 
nations of the world.
  We commend this Nation to Your merciful care, the lives of citizens 
and aliens, so that they may be guided by Your providence.
  Give the men and women of this honorable Senate the wisdom, the 
courage, and strength to know Your will and to do it. Help them always 
to remember that they are called to serve their people through laws 
they make during this legislative session. Make them to be pure lovers 
of truth, freedom, justice, and righteousness.
  Gracious God, in a time of competing global challenges when faith in 
You is questioned and threatened, empower the Senators as they seek 
Your wisdom, vision, and direction so that in all their works begun 
they will always know that Righteousness exalts a Nation.--Proverbs 
29:2. Bless the Senators of this great Chamber. Grant them dynamic 
vision for leadership in this Nation and the world. In Your great mercy 
sustain them with Your grace for their daily deliberations.
  O Lord, I offer this prayer on behalf of the Senators through Jesus 
Christ. Amen.

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