Holy Ghost, I trust in Thee

Holy Ghost, I trust in Thee
The needful grace t’ impart,
Thou my mouth and wisdom be,
The Teacher of my heart:
Help me in the trying hour
To speak those given words of thine,
Fill’d with faith, and love, and power,
And eloquence divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.’—[Luke 12,] v. 12.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 136.
Publishing: Public Domain