Let Your favor, O Lord, be upon us and direct the work that lies before us this week.
We pray that as we immerse ourselves in the tasks of this day and the duties of our office, that nothing we do would veer from Your divine design. Rather that everything we do would be found pleasing, not in our eyes, but in Yours.
Enable us, then, to stand firm. While issues and arguments will pull us to the left and to the right, may our feet remain fixed on the path You lay before us.
With this prayer, we give ourselves to the work You would have us do. Focus our efforts and our energies on work that strives to accomplishYour purpose and not our personal gain. Strengthen our convictions and compassions that they would champion Your cause alone and not the fleeting desires of our hearts.
Lord, let not our work this day be in vain, but may all that we do bring glory to You.
In the hope of Your sovereign name, we pray. Amen.
God knows our heart better than we ever can. He is the only one who can separate the true from the false; he alone can purify the motives of the heart. But he does not come uninvited. If chambers of our heart have never experienced the healing touch, perhaps it is because we have not welcomed the divine scrutiny.
—Richard J. Foster
The Interfaith Staff Prayer Room is open for congressional staff to use for personal prayer and meditation. For questions – email StaffPrayerRoom@mail.house.gov