O, Lord, breathe your life in each
word that I speak;
Help me in each sentence your
honour to seek.
Refrain me when words that will
do no one good
Would come to my lips; help me
speak what I should.
And when opportunity
comes on my way
To witness for you, guide, O
Lord, what I say.
O give me the courage to
speak as I ought--
To lift up your name and the
things you have taught;
That none have occasion my
speech to condemn,
That through my words Christ would be
shining to them.
