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The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Lord, let our humble prayer arise and find acceptance in Thine eyes; we crave a blessing from Thy hand, the world’s temptations to withstand. Though brought our very best to Thee, unprofitable servants we: how oft, O Lord! we faint and fail, when trial hours our hearts assail. Grant, Lord, to us, Thy people, power and victory in temptation’s hour, resisting every form of ill, Satan, the world, and selfish will: And with pure hearts and minds to be more earnest worshippers of Thee, closer, yet closer, day by day, following in Thy accepted way. Only through Thee, our Strength, our Life, we conquer in temptation’s strife; Thy might, Thy power to us afford; reign in our hearts, through Christ the Lord! Only through Thee, our Strength, our Life, we conquer in temptation’s strife; Thy might, Thy power to us afford; reign in our hearts, through Christ the Lord!

1 Lord, let our humble prayer arise
and find acceptance in Thine eyes;
we crave a blessing from Thy hand,
the world’s temptations to withstand.
2 Though brought our very best to Thee,
unprofitable servants we:
how oft, O Lord! we faint and fail,
when trial hours our hearts assail.
3 Grant, Lord, to us, Thy people, power
and victory in temptation’s hour,
resisting every form of ill,
Satan, the world, and selfish will:
4 And with pure hearts and minds to be
more earnest worshippers of Thee,
closer, yet closer, day by day,
following in Thy accepted way.
5 Only through Thee, our Strength, our Life,
we conquer in temptation’s strife;
Thy might, Thy power to us afford;
reign in our hearts, through Christ the Lord!
6 Only through Thee, our Strength, our Life,
we conquer in temptation’s strife;
Thy might, Thy power to us afford;
reign in our hearts, through Christ the Lord!

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys
Tune Hereford
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876);
desc. Richard Pryor III (b. 1998)

The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.

Lord, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.