Religion

Mark 5:41: Jesus, I wait the Spirit's power

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

Jesus, I wait the Spirit's power
Which ever doth from Thee proceed,
Which did the breathless maid restore.
To raise my spirit from the dead:
I look continually to prove
The hidden life of holy love.

O bid my dead, dead soul arise.
In real holiness renew'd,
O give me back my paradise.
The image and the life of God,
My life, my resurrection be.
And manifest Thyself in me.

By one almighty word begin
Our life of faith and holiness:
And while we daily die to sin,
Thyself, by swift or slow degrees.
Diftuse through all Thy members here,
And then our heavenly Head appear.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:41: Jesus, I wait the Spirit's power.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4738/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:41: Jesus, I wait the Spirit's power.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4738/.

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