[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4362]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dennis Culbreth, First Baptist Church, Jasper, Alabama, 
offered the following prayer:
  Our Heavenly Father, I want to thank You so much for the privilege we 
have to pray to You today. You are the Creator of all. It is through 
You that we can have hope and we can have grace.
  Father, You have blessed our country as no other country has been 
blessed. I pray, Lord, that You will never let this body forget Your 
goodness and Your mercy to us all. Guide these legislators in such a 
way that Your will is promoted throughout the world.
  Continue to use our country as a beacon on the hill. It is because of 
Your mercy our country is a light of hope shining in a lost and a dark 
world.
  Dear Lord, please let us never take this freedom for granted. As 
these representatives gather from across the Nation, we ask for Your 
guidance and for Your wisdom as these men and women seek to make 
decisions that affect the lives of every American here at home and 
across the world.
  And this I pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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