[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14394]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal Lord God, who alone spreads out the heavens and rules the 
raging of the seas, make haste and touch our Nation with Your healing 
hands. Use our lawmakers to provide the checks and balances that will 
unite this land.
  Lord, give them the wisdom to inquire of You, seeking to be Your 
instruments in the unfolding of Your loving providence. Confound the 
enemies of freedom until justice rolls down like waters and 
righteousness like a mighty stream.
  Lord, do for this land we love immeasurably, abundantly, above all 
that we can ask or imagine, as Your will is done on Earth, even as it 
is done in Heaven.
  O God, You are our helper and deliverer. Continue to be our shelter 
in the time of storm.
  We pray in Your strong Name. Amen.

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