A Prayer

O Lord, our Father, hear us now, While on our bended knees we bow; Look down, O Lord, in tender love, Prepare us all to meet above.

O Lord, our Father, hear us pray, Watch over us from day to day; Hear us in our humble prayer, O keep us safely in Thy care.

O help us, Lord, to pray aright, And keep us holy in Thy sight; Protect us with Thy mighty arm And keep us from temptation’s harm.

Bless and make us pure within, Wash us, cleanse us free from sin; Protect us with Thy mighty hand, Prepare us for the promised land.

O Lord, come down in mighty power, Revive us all this very hour; O lift us from this pit of mire, And fill our souls with heavenly fire.

Come with love’s refreshing showers, And kindle these cold hearts of ours; O guide us in the narrow path, Lord save us from Thy coming wrath.

And when we leave this world of strife O give us all eternal life; Arm us, Lord, with wings of love, To leave this world and fly above.

Into Thy care, O Lord, we leave, In peace, O Lord, our souls receive; We ask it all, O Lord, we may, Through Him Who taught us all to say:

Our Father, Who art in heaven, we pray, Hallowed be Thy name this day; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, In earth and up in heaven as one.

Give us this day our daily bread, ’Tis from Thy bounties all are fed; Our trespasses, O Lord, forgive, As we our trespassers forgive.

Dear Lord, with tempters leave us not, Deliver us from evil’s plot; Thy name shall have the glory then, Forever and for aye. Amen.