Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer

About this video

“Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer” is the kind of hymn I love: it doesn’t ask God for an easier life. It asks for the strength to face the hard road. There’s something tremendously powerful in that idea. No promise of endless green pastures or still waters. The road may be steep, rugged, bright, dreary, stormy, or peaceful—but the prayer remains the same: Father, give us the strength to keep going, to live courageously, and to grow in faith and worship along the way. The hymn dates back to the nineteenth-century work of Love Maria Willis, and its central message still hits hard today. This version keeps that strong old foundation while bringing the prayer forward with a renewed ending: **“Father, hear the prayer we offer / Give us strength along the way.”**