[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15029]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Seretta McKnight, Union Baptist Church, Hempstead, New York, 
offered the following prayer:
  Good morning, Lord God. I acknowledge that You are God alone, large 
and in charge, and I thank You for being a loving, a forgiving, and a 
just God.
  As I stand in these hallowed halls of this House, this chapel of 
democracy, I ask You to give all those who have the responsibility to 
represent, provide, and protect we, the people, the courage, 
conscience, and heart to do the right thing by choosing the principled 
position over political posturing.
  Lord God, allow these to enact the laws that will help and heal, not 
hurt and harm, we, the people. Give this august body the courage to 
decrease the divide between the haves and the have-nots, the conscience 
to consider all of our children as precious, and the heart to lead with 
love so that this House turns from a house of pain to one of purpose, 
of promise, and of productivity for we, the people.
  Lord God, please bless Speaker Boehner; Leader Pelosi; my 
Congresswoman, Mrs. McCarthy; and all those who have the challenge to 
lead for such a time as this.
  Lastly, Lord, before I ask You to continue to bless America, bless 
our President Barack Obama and all those who are in service to this 
great Nation. Teach us how to bless You, Lord, so that You, God, may 
continue to bless America.
  It is in the name that is above every name that I offer up this 
petition to the Throne of Grace. I am speaking of my personal Lord and 
Savior; Jesus Christ is the name in which I pray.
  And we all say together, amen.

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