Author: Thomas Ken (1637-1711)
Part 1
Awake, my soul, and with the sun
your daily stage of duty run;
shake off dull sleep and joyful rise
to make your morning sacrifice.
2. Redeem your mis-spent time that’s past
and live this day as if your last;
improve your talent with due care,
for God’s great day yourself prepare.
3. Let all your speaking be sincere,
your conscience as the noonday clear;
think how all-seeing God surveys
your secret thoughts and all your ways.
PART 2
4. Give praise to God, who safely kept
and well refreshed me while I slept:
grant, Lord, that when from death I wake
I may of endless life partake.
5. To you my vows I here renew:
disperse my sins as morning dew;
guard my first springs of thought and will
and with yourself my spirit fill.
6. Direct, control, suggest this day
all I desire or do or say;
that all my powers with all their might
for your sole glory may unite.
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7. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow
in heaven above and earth below;
one God, three Persons, we adore —
to him be praise for evermore!
Scriptures: Psalms 88:13, Psalms 17:15, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Daniel 12:2, Hebrews 13:15, Ephesians 5:16, Job 23:10, Psalms 50:14, Psalms 5:1-3, Psalms 50:1, Genesis 16:13, Exodus 2:25, James 1:17, Deuteronomy 4:35, Psalms 89:52, Psalms 113:2, 1 Timothy 6:17, Job 31:4, Psalms 61:5, Psalms 61:8, Psalms 73:24, Psalms 74:16-17, Psalms 108:1, Psalms 139:1-3, Proverbs 5:21, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Matthew 25:14-29, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Philippians 1:10, Colossians 3:17, 1 Timothy 1:19, 1 Timothy 3:9, 2 Timothy 1:3, Hebrews 4:13, 1 Peter 3:15-16, 1 Peter 4:11, 2 Peter 3:10-12, Jude 6
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