[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12002-12003]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dr. Paul Powell, First Baptist Church, Tyler, Texas, offered 
the following prayer:
  Our Father in Heaven, we bow our heads and our hearts before You 
today to recognize You as the maker of Heaven and Earth, and the author 
of our liberty. We thank You for the freedom we enjoy today.
  Grant that these we have chosen to lead us may have the courage and 
the conviction to preserve that which is good from the past and to lead 
us wisely into the future. And may they ever be worthy of the trust we 
and You have placed in them.

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  We believe that righteousness exalts a nation, and so may justice and 
mercy and truth prevail throughout the land. Cause us always to look to 
You, to bow before You, and to humbly follow You is my prayer in Jesus' 
name. Amen.

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