I rise with great privilege to celebrate National Bible Week. As stated, it has been 76 years since President Franklin Roosevelt declared this National Bible Week. I thank Congressman Lamborn for recognizing the importance of honoring God's Word here tonight. Just 16 short years ago, I learned the most valuable lesson of my life. I realized I had to change my priorities. Part of that change was to put God first. A big part of that commitment was the reading and studying of His Word through prayer and meditation. It is easy to say, but difficult to do. I had come to a point in my life where I made a covenant with God on my knees, which reminds me of God's instruction to Joshua 1:8, ``This book of laws shall not depart from your lips, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then, you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have true success.'' I learned to gradually believe all the wonderful promises God made through His Word, and he credited to me His righteousness, just as He did our spiritual father Abraham in Genesis 15:6, ``I learned it was not my will be done, but His will be done.'' I learned what Jesus Christ had done for me and the entire world and how he leads me in all my endeavors and has called me to places I never imagined I would go. One of those is right here.…
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