Ah, how can I my heart prepare
To seek my Lord aright?
Jesus, the way, thyself declare
In pure unerring light,
Giver of true repentance, break
This stubborn heart of stone,
Then shall I leave my sins, and seek,
And find thee all my own.
Ah! how can I my heart prepare
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hast prepared thine heart to seek God.”—[II. Chron.] xix. 3. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 213.
Publishing: Public Domain