Author: George H Smyttan 1822-70
Forty days and forty nights
you were fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted and yet undefiled.
2. Burning heat throughout the day,
bitter cold when light had fled;
prowling beasts around your way,
stones your pillow, earth your bed.
3. Shall not we your trials share,
learn your discipline and will;
and with you by fast and prayer
wrestle with the powers of hell?
4. So if Satan, pressing hard,
soul and body would destroy:
Christ who conquered, be our guard;
give to us the victor’s joy.
5. Saviour, may we hear your voice-
keep us constant at your side;
so with you we shall rejoice,
raised, perfected, glorified.
Scriptures: Psalms 95:7, John 16:33, Colossians 3:1, Hebrews 7:26, Hebrews 2:18, Ephesians 6:12, Mark 1:12-13, Romans 8:30, 1 Peter 4:13, Hebrews 4:15, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-13, Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 10:10, Job 1:6-12, Job 2:1-7, Psalms 121:7, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 17:21, Mark 9:29, Acts 13:1-3, Acts 14:23, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:15, Hebrews 4:7
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