[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dr. Alphonso Jackson, Second Baptist Church of Richmond 
Heights, Miami, Florida, offered the following prayer:
  Hast thou not known? Has thou not heard, that the everlasting God, 
the Lord, the Creator of the Earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? 
There is no searching of His understanding. He giveth power to the 
faint; and to them that have no might, He increases their strength. 
Even the youth shall faint and be weary. The young men shall utterly 
fall. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They 
shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. 
They shall walk and not faint.
  Dear Heavenly Father, I thank Thee for this day.
  I thank You for the privilege to stand in this hallowed place and 
invoke Thy presence. I pray now that You would bless these men and 
women that serve in the House of Representatives. Please grant them 
with a double portion of wisdom and understanding as they seek Your 
will in the affairs of this great Nation.
  I pray that they accomplish what Moses instructed the leaders to do 
in Deuteronomy 1:16: ``Hear the disputes between the people, and judge 
them fairly.'' I ask these blessings in the name of my Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ.
  Amen.

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