[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13578]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Our Father in Heaven, we thank You for the freedom we enjoy. Thank 
You for freedom of the press, speech, religion, assembly, and petition. 
Thank You also for a government of the people, by the people, and for 
the people.
  Lord, today, bless the Senate and our Nation. Deliver us from 
internal and external forces that seek to destroy our liberty. Give the 
Senators strength and wisdom. Help them to remember Your promise to 
keep them from temptation and to deliver them from evil. Remind them 
that they face no test that You cannot help them pass. Let this Nation 
be a tool for the fulfillment of Your purposes on Earth. Lord, let Your 
kingdom come, let your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
  We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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