Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock delivers opening prayer at 70th annual National Prayer Breakfast
Senator Reverend Warnock: “Oh gracious God, we are grateful for the covenant we have with you and with one another. The covenant inscribed in scripture of one blood God has made all nations to dwell upon the face of the earth, that we might seek after God and yet God is not far from any one of us.”
Senator Reverend Warnock: “Teach us oh, gracious God, how to love one another. Reminding us that justice is what love looks like in public”
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Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) delivered the opening prayer at the 70th annual National Prayer Breakfast. Senator Reverend Warnock serves as the Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church — the former pulpit of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — in Atlanta, Georgia.
READ Senator Reverend Warnock’s full remarks here
May we bow our heads to our hearts.
“And I saw a great multitude of men and women, boys and girls diverse in their humanity, hailing from the four corners of the earth. They looked into each other’s eyes and they were not afraid. I said to the one standing there, sir, what is this? And the answer came: this is the kingdom of God imbued with love and justice. So I asked, where is this? The answer came, it exists already in the hearts of those who have the courage to believe and fight. And so I asked, when is this? The angel said ‘when we learn the simple art of loving each other as sisters and brothers.’”
Oh gracious God, we are grateful for the covenant we have with you and with one another. The covenant inscribed in scripture of one blood God has made all nations to dwell upon the face of the earth, that we might seek after God and yet God is not far from any one of us.
The Covenant codified in our charter documents captured in the phrase ‘E Pluribus Unum’— ‘out of many one,’ secured in the struggle and the blood of those who had the courage to confront tyranny from without and injustice from within.
Teach us oh, gracious God, how to love one another. Reminding us that justice is what love looks like in public. Bless now our President and our Vice President, give them your peace that surpasses human understanding. Bless their families and through them and us may all the families of the earth be blessed. We ask this in the name of the God who loves us into freedom and frees us into loving. Amen.
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