Reverend Jonathan Falwell
Thomas Road Baptist Church
Lynchburg, VA
Sponsor: Rep. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, (R-VA)
Date of Prayer: 07/29/2009
Opening Prayer Given by the Guest Chaplain:
Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for our great nation. We thank you for what you have done to make this nation a lighthouse to the world and a beacon of hope to people everywhere.
We know, as our forefathers knew and as the Scriptures tell us, that righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. And so, today we ask your forgiveness for the sins that we as a people, and we as a nation, have committed.
Today we seek your wisdom and guidance in all that takes place in this room. We ask you to be a lamp unto our feet and light unto our path. We ask you to protect the men and women who serve here. We ask you to lead them as they lead us. And, above all, we ask you to bless this great land that we call home.
In your precious name we pray. Amen.
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