Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#338

338. Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright

1. Lord, teach us how to pray aright,
With rev'rence and with fear;
Tho' dust and ashes in your sight,
We may, we must draw near.
We perish if we cease from pray'r;
Oh! grant us pow'r to pray;
And when to meet you we prepare,
Lord, meet us by the way.

2. Burdened with guilt, convinced of sin,
In weakness, want, and woe,
Fightings without, and fears within,
Lord, where else shall we go?
God of all grace, we bring to you
A broken, contrite heart;
Give what your eye delights to view;
Truth in the inward part.

3. Give deep humility; the sense
Of godly sorrow give,
A strong, desiring confidence
To hear your voice and live,
Faith in the only Sacrifice
That can for sin atone,
To cast our hopes, to fix our eyes
On Christ, on Christ alone:

4. Patience to watch, and wait, and weep,
Tho' mercy long delay,
Courage, our fainting souls to keep,
And trust you, tho' you slay.
Give these, and then your will be done;
Thus strengthened with all might,
We, thru' your Spirit and your Son,
Shall pray, and pray aright.

Text Information

• First Line: Lord, teach us how to pray aright
• Title: Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright
• Author: James Montgomery (1819)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  1 John 5:14-15
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 26; Persecuted Church
• Notes: Text by Moravian poet-editor James Montgomery, from Thomas Cotterill’s Selection of Psalms and Hymns, 8th ed. (1819), rev. in Original Hymns (1853), alt.

Tune Information

• Name: FIRST MODE MELODY
• Composer: Thomas Tallis (ca. 1567)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
• Incipit: 11171 322
• Key: e minor or modal
• Notes: FIRST MODE MELODY by English composer Thomas Tallis, from The Whole Psalter Translated into English Metre (ca. 1567).