[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 9944]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Maury Davis, Pastor, Cornerstone Church, Madison, 
Tennessee, offered the following prayer:
  Dear Heavenly Father, I come to You in the matchless Name of Jesus 
Christ on behalf of our United States House of Representatives.
  The men and the women who serve in this House have been entrusted 
with a divine and eternal responsibility to make decisions directing 
the greatest Nation that has ever been developed on the face of the 
Earth. This Nation, born by men and women of faith, needs Your help in 
this generation. I pray that You will speak to every heart in this room 
about Your love for them, as well as Your hopes and desires for 
greatness in each individual.
  I pray in this House that there will be godly wisdom and spiritual 
insight into the circumstances that seem to be just happenstance. I 
pray for the people in this room that they will live their lives in 
such a way that the youth of this Nation can model themselves after 
them, that the laws they pass will help to perpetuate our national 
Christian heritage, and that their lives will leave a legacy of good, 
not of evil.
  I pray for their families that, as they serve our country, their 
children will not be left out or left behind. I pray that You will use 
this body for Your glory and for the glory of the kingdom of God.
  In Jesus' name, Amen.

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