[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, March 2, 2006

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Stephen A. Owenby, Senior Pastor, Stewartsville Baptist 
Church, Laurinburg, North Carolina, offered the following prayer:
  Our sovereign Lord, we praise You for the freedom to enter Your 
heavenly throne room. We deserve not Your favor nor are we worthy of 
Your grace. All we can ask is, ``Forgive us our transgressions, grant 
us salvation and guide us in the way of righteousness.''
  We have prayed, ``God bless America.'' You have. ``Some trust in 
chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord 
our God.'' May we not depend upon our own ingenuity, but in You alone.
  I offer thanks for these men and women You have lifted up to serve 
their fellow countrymen. In James chapter 1, you tell us, ``If any lack 
wisdom, let him ask.'' So we ask, Please grant to these servants the 
wisdom necessary to carry out Your will for our Nation. We ask this in 
Jesus' name and for His sake. Amen.

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