What I say unto you, I say unto all, watch. Mark 13:37. But, awake first to righteousness, 1 Corinthians 15:34.
Even believers are still tempted with heaviness and drowsiness in prayer: but it is their great cross and burden.
O Lord Jesus, grant that mine eyes being continually fixed upon thee and upon myself, I may always have grace not only to believe myself clean and justified in thee, but also to keep up my zeal and watchfulness.
O thou who all things canst control,
Chase the dead slumbers from my soul!
With joy and fear, with love and awe
Give me to keep thy perfect law.
O may one beam of thy blest light
Pierce through, dispel the shades of night;
Touch my cold breast with heavenly fire,
With holy conquering zeal inspire.
With out-stretched hands and streaming eyes,
Oft I begin to grasp the prize;
I groan, I strive, I watch, I pray;
But ah! how soon it dies away!
The deadly slumbers soon I feel
Afresh upon my spirit steal;
Rise, Lord! stir up thy quickening power,
And wake me, that I sleep no more.