[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 12061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Dr. Shane Alexander, Northcrest Church of Christ, Mexia, Texas, 
offered the following prayer:
  Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the Earth. When we 
consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, who are we that You 
are mindful of us? What is this country that it might know Your 
blessings?
  Yet You have blessed this land and this government for the people and 
by the people.
  For these Representatives who exercise the people's will, may they be 
also representatives of Your will. May they speak their consciences and 
convictions and stand up for what they and their constituents believe.
  But give them courage also to speak truth to power and to seek 
justice for the victims of violence, oppression, and poverty.
  Please bless the proceedings of this legislative body today, that 
through them Your will might be exercised here on Earth as it is in 
Heaven.
  May Your unfailing love be with us, Lord, now and forevermore.
  Amen.

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