Give us this day our daily bread, Fresh blessings now

Verse 1
Give us this day our daily bread,
Fresh blessings now on me bestow:
Thy help I every moment need
To pardon, and embrace my foe,
My faith’s sincerity to prove,
And emulate thy dying love.

Verse 2
Whom yesterday I coud forgive,
I cannot, Lord, forgive to day,
Unless I from thyself receive
The constant power to watch and pray,
The grace which nature can controul
And form thy image in my soul.

Verse 3
My nature’s weakness I confess,
Relapsing into angry pride,
Unless Thou still my faith increase,
Still in my loving heart reside,
Take full possession of thine own,
And make it thy eternal throne.

Verse 4
Come then, my loving heart’s desire
And fill the consecrated place,
One with thy co-eternal Sire,
One with thy Spirit of holiness,
And seal my soul thy blest abode,
A temple of the Triune GOD!

Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Samuel Wesley, R.C.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number 1977/583/12, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 4). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), pages 315-16.
Publishing: Public Domain