While the power of faith I prove

Verse 1
While the power of faith I prove,
I still abide in Thee,
While thy words, O Lord, I love,
Thy words abide in me:
Strongly on my mind impress,
That thence they never may depart;
Grave the truth of righteousness
Forever on my heart.

Verse 2
Fruit of faith and charity,
The prevalence of prayer,
Prayer, which all obtains from Thee,
Abundant fruit shall bear:
Prayer its principle maintains,
The faith by which our spirit lives,
All thy promises it gains,
And all thy life receives.

Verse 3
Praying on for faith’s increase,
In every grace we grow,
Reach the finish’d holiness,
And to perfection go;
One with Thee by faith and love,
We ask, and have whate’er we will,
Till we from the vale remove,
And find thee on the hill.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.’—[John 15,] v. 7." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 22.
Publishing: Public Domain