[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4451]
[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 God, we praise You for the privilege of prayer. We confess 
that we often neglect this opportunity to find power in Your presence. 
Guide our lawmakers with Your wisdom, liberating them from doubts and 
uncertainties, as they remember that their times are in Your hands. May 
they seek directions from You as they strive to honor Your Name. Lord, 
undergird them with Your enabling might and help them to remember that 
without You their striving would be losing. Give them a steady faith, a 
firm hope, and a fervent charity so that they will stay within the 
circle of Your will.
  We pray in Your mighty Name. Amen.

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