[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12544]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God, our shield, gird us with Your strength, while the heavens 
declare Your glory and the skies show Your handiwork. Sustain our 
lawmakers with Your loving kindness so that they shall not be moved by 
life's vicissitudes.
  Lord, give them clean hands, pure hearts, and truthful lips so that 
their lives glorify You. Deliver them from anxiety about anything as 
they pray about everything, with thanksgiving, so that Your peace that 
transcends human reasoning will guard their hearts and minds.
  Do for our Senators more than they can ask or imagine, according to 
Your power working in and through them.
  We pray in Your righteous Name. Amen.

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