O Lord, throughout these forty days you prayed and kept the fast;

Inspire repentance for our sin, and free us from our past.

You strove with Satan and you won; Your faithfulness endured;

Lend us your nerve, your skill and trust in God's eternal Word.

Though parched and hungry, yet you prayed and fixed your mind above;

So teach us to deny ourselves since we have known God's love

Be with us through this season, Lord, and all our earthly days,

that when the final Easter dawns, we join in heaven's praise.