Fed, and strengthened by the word

Verse 1
Fed, and strengthen’d by the word
Our faith receives increase,
Stirs us up to seek the Lord,
To pray and never cease;
Prayer and faith the fight maintain,
By no discouragements repel’d,
Till the victory we gain,
To full redemption seal’d.

Verse 2
Wherefore should I doubt his power,
When Christ the word hath said?
Can he not to life restore
A soul tho’ doubly dead?
Is the thing impossible?
The thing impossible shall be,
Christ with all his love shall dwell,
With all his heaven in me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Fear not, believe only, and she shall be made whole.'—[Luke 8,] v. 50.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 175.
Publishing: Public Domain