LORD, teach us how to pray aright, With reverence and with fear; Though dust...

LORD, teach us how to pray aright, With reverence and with fear; Though dust and ashes in thy sight, We may, we must draw near.

We perish if we cease from prayer, O grant us power to pray! And when to meet thee we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way.

Give deep humility; the sense Of godly sorrow give; A strong desiring confidence To hear thy voice and live;

Faith in the only sacrifice That can for sin atone; To build our hopes, to fix our eyes, On Christ, on Christ alone;

Patience to watch, and wait, and weep, Though mercy long delay; Courage, our fainting souls to keep, And trust thee though thou slay.

Give these, and then thy will be done; Thus strengthened with all might, We through thy Spirit and thy Son, Shall pray, and pray aright.