Text: | Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright |
Author: | James Montgomery |
Tune: | SOUTHAMPTON |
1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright
with rev'rence and with fear;
though dust and ashes in your sight,
we may, we must draw near.
2 O God of grace we come to you
with broken, contrite hearts;
give what your eye delights to view,
truth in the inward parts.
3 Give deep humility; the sense
of godly sorrow give;
a strong desiring confidence
to hear your voice and live;
4 give faith in your great sacrifice
that does for sin atone,
to cast our hopes, to fix our eyes
on Christ, and Christ alone;
5 give patience as we watch and weep,
though mercy long delay;
give courage our faint souls to keep,
and trust you though you slay;
6 give these, and then your will be done;
thus strengthened with all might,
we, through your Spirit and your Son,
shall pray, and pray aright.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Lord, teach us how to pray aright |
Title: | Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright |
Author: | James Montgomery (1818, alt.) |
Meter: | C.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Prayer; Confession of Sin; Humility(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOUTHAMPTON |
Meter: | C.M. |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | John Chetham's Psalmody (1718) |
Notes: | 14 F in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns |