[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8237]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Today's opening prayer will be offered by 
Steve Berger, pastor of Grace Chapel in Leiper's Fork, TN.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray together.
  Almighty God, King of Creation and Ruler of the Universe, we thank 
You for Your undeniably sovereign, merciful, and benevolent hand in the 
forming, leading, and blessing of these United States.
  Father, thank You for revealing Your will and Your ways to this 
Nation and its leaders through Your sacred, Holy Word.
  We pray, therefore, that we would be united in doing what is good in 
Your sight, and what You require of us, to do justly, to love mercy, 
and to walk humbly with our God.
  Father, may our leaders and our Nation also walk in the faith of 
Abraham, the integrity of Moses, the wisdom of Solomon, the courage of 
the Prophets, and the self-sacrificing love and compassion of Jesus.
  O God, when we fail to walk in Your ways, and sin against You and one 
another, may we be quick to humble ourselves and pray, to seek Your 
face, to turn from our wicked ways, that You might hear from Heaven, 
forgive our sin, and heal our land.
  Remember mercy, O God, and revive us in Your ways, that this Nation 
might be blessed for generations to come.
  We ask all these things through the Name of Jesus and by the power of 
the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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