Hungering and thirsting for God

825 L. M.
Evermore give us this bread.

FATHER, supply my every need;
   Sustain the life thyself hast given;
   O grant the never-failing bread,—
   The manna that comes down from heaven;

2 The gracious fruits of righteousness,
   Thy blessings’ unexhansted store,
   In me abundantly increase,
   Nor ever let me hunger more.

3 Let me no more, in deep complaint,
   My leanness, O my leanness I cry:
   Alone consumed with pining want,
   Of all my Father’s children I.

4 The painful thirst, the fond desire,
   Thy joyous presence shall remove;
   But my full soul shall still require
   A whole eternity of love.
                         Charles Wesley
                         Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)