[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9301]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dr. Phil Hoskins, Higher Ground Baptist Church, Kingsport, 
Tennessee, offered the following prayer:
  Heavenly Father, we thank You for the gifts of life and freedom. 
Thank You for the blessing of citizenship in the United States of 
America.
  Today, I pray for our President and Members of the House and Senate. 
Lord, grant wisdom to our governing officials as they lead us during 
these challenging times throughout the world. Many have forgotten You 
and many also have forsaken You, but today we turn to You and 
acknowledge that You and You alone are the source of our strength and 
security.
  Have mercy upon us, I pray. Now I claim the promise in Your word, as 
written in the second book of Chronicles, chapter 7, verse 14: ``If My 
people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and 
seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from 
heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.''
  In Jesus' name, amen.

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