Whate’er I ask, I surely know,
And stedfastly believe,
Thou wilt the thing desir’d bestow,
Or else a better give;
To thee I therefore, Lord, submit
My every fond request,
And own, adoring at thy feet,
Thy will is always best.
Whate’er I ask, I surely know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him.”—[I. Sam.] i. 27. 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 149.
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