[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6586-6587]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Larry Kendrick, Archer's Chapel United Methodist Church, 
Brownsville, Tennessee, offered the following prayer:
  Father God, we place before Your throne of grace this day the United 
States of America and its government.
  Father, in Your Word, we are told that You reprove leaders for our 
sakes so that we may live a quiet and a peaceable life in godliness and 
honesty.
  O God, as You anointed leaders and called prophets of old, lead us to 
recognize our true representatives and authentic leaders, men and women 
who

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love Your people, who walk with and among them, who feel their pain and 
share their joys, who dream their dreams and strive to help them 
achieve their common goal.
  In Your spirit, empower us to serve Your people, to bring praise and 
glory to Your name.
  We believe today that the hearts of these leaders are in Your hands, 
and their decisions will be divinely directed of the Lord.
  Amen.

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