We must in our requests succeed

We must in our requests succeed,
When Jesus teaches us to plead,
We must receive our granted prayer
Who in his words our wants declare:
Himself did the petition pen,
His Spirit seconds it in men,
And still the everlasting Son
To God presents it as his own.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘After this manner pray ye.’—[Matt. 6,] v. 9.” 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 177.
Publishing: Public Domain