Faith is the source of prayer,
And measures our success,
And prayer is faith’s interpreter,
And doth its source increase:
By faithful prayer we gain
Whatever God can give,
And more than earth and heaven contain
In Jesus we receive.
Faith is the source of prayer
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall receive.’—[Matt. 21,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 343.
Publishing: Public Domain