His word, the sign of Jesus’ will

His word, the sign of Jesus’ will,
Performs the thing it signifies,
The power omnipotent to heal
His efficacious word applies:
Say to me, Lord, Thy soul is heal’d,
And heal’d it shall this moment be,
And with thy sinless Spirit fill’d,
I live a sacrifice to Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth.’—[John 4,] v. 53." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 363.
Publishing: Public Domain