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.
Burdened with guilt, convinced of sin, In weakness, want and woe, Fightings without, and fear within; Lord, whither shall we go?
God of all grace, we come to Thee With broken, contrite hearts; Give what Thine eye delights to see: Truth in the inward parts.
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 cast our hopes, to fix our eyes, On Christ, on Christ alone.
Give these, and then Thy will be done; Thus strengthened with Thy might, We by Thy Spirit and Thy Son Shall pray, and pray aright.
James Montgomery, 1771-1854