This is the joy my soul desires,
The joy my Saviour’s love inspires,
Which brings the power that sets me free,
Power to renounce whate’er is me;
Power to sell all, and purchase thee.
This is the joy my soul desires
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The joy of the Lord is your strength.”—[Nehemiah] viii. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 225.
Publishing: Public Domain