[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Rod MacIlvaine, Grace Community Church, Bartlesville, 
Oklahoma, offered the following prayer:
  Father, I thank You for the heroic leadership that this House of 
Representatives has exemplified in the past week during this present 
crisis. I thank You for their late nights. I thank You for their 
efforts to seek compromise. And I thank You for the creative solutions 
they have proposed.
  Yet, Lord, at present, there is no solution. So today, Father, we 
confess our desperate need for You. We joyfully concur that You are the 
source of wisdom, and all strength resides with You. You are the author 
of unity even when parties are in conflict. So we ask that You would 
grant supernatural breakthrough.
  Where there is no way forward, we pray that You would forge a way. 
When negotiations break down, please grant fresh ideas for debate.
  We ask this, Lord, for Your glory and for the good of the American 
people.
  We pray this in Jesus' name.
  Amen.

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