Trusting in the strength divine
I vow to serve the Lord,
Christ shall be by me and mine
Acknowledg’d and ador’d:
Jesus, to my house and me
Now let thy salvation come,
Now prepare our hearts to be
Thine everlasting home.
Trusting in the strength divine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”—[Joshua] xxiv. 15. 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 131.
Publishing: Public Domain