[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14284-14285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Glen Berteau, The House Modesto, Modesto, California, 
offered the following prayer:
  I thank God for the men and women of this House and their commitment, 
concern, and call to help America to be a great nation. I bless them 
and their families with health, wisdom, and supernatural peace.
  George Washington said: ``It is impossible to rightly govern the 
world without God and the Bible.''
  We need a visitation from Heaven. We need Your word to answer our 
questions. We need Your love to resolve our differences, and we need 
Your understanding to embrace our purpose.
  Thank you, Lord, for sending us what mankind needed, a savior, Jesus 
Christ,

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who paid the ultimate price for freedom on the cross.
  Thank you, Lord, for the men and women in the United States military 
who have paid the ultimate price, who gave their lives for our freedom.
  We repent of our pride, embrace humility, and call the Creator of 
creation to bless America.
  In Jesus' name, amen.

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