Every one who thee believes
And at thy bidding prays,
Soon, or later, Lord, receives
The fulness of thy grace:
Praying on while life remains,
Glad he lays his body down,
Gasps his final prayer, and gains
A never-fading crown.
Every one who Thee believes
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Every one that asketh, receiveth.”—[Matt.] vii. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 197.
Publishing: Public Domain