Text: | Father, hear the prayer we offer |
Author: | Love Maria Willis, 1824-1908 |
Tune: | GOTT WILL'S MACHEN |
Composer: | Johann Ludwig Steiner, 1688-1761 |
1 Father, hear the prayer we offer—
not for ease our prayer shall be,
but for strength that we may ever
live our lives courageously.
2 Not for ever in green pastures
do we ask our way to be;
but the steep and rugged pathway
may we tread rejoicingly.
3 Not for ever by still waters
would we idly rest and stay;
but would smite the living fountains
from the rocks along our way.
4 Be our strength in hours of weakness,
in our wanderings be our guide;
through endeavour, failure, danger,
Father, be there at our side.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Father, hear the prayer we offer |
Author: | Love Maria Willis, 1824-1908 |
Meter: | 87 87 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Topic: | God Through the Years: His Guidance |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GOTT WILL'S MACHEN |
Composer: | Johann Ludwig Steiner, 1688-1761 |
Meter: | 87 87 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Harm.: Compilers of English Hymnal, 1906 |