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 "title": "Power of Prayer",
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    "text": "In themselves as weak as worms,",
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    "text": "How can poor believers stand.",
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    "text": "When temptations, foes, and storms,",
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    "text": "Weak, indeed, they feel they are,",
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    "text": "But they know the throne of grace;",
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    "text": "And the God who answers pray’r",
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    "text": "Though the Lord awhile delay,",
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    "text": "Succour they at length obtain;",
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    "text": "Wrestling pray’r can wonders do,",
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    "text": "Bring relief in deepest straits;",
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    "text": "Pray’r can force a passage through",
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    "text": "Hezekiah on his knees",
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    "text": "Proud Assyria’s host subdued;",
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    "text": "And, when smitten with disease,",
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    "text": "Had his life by pray’r renew’d.",
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    "text": "Peter, though confined and chain’d,",
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    "text": "Pray’r prevail’d and brought him out",
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    "text": "When Elijah pray’d it rain’d,",
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    "text": "We can likewise witness bear,",
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    "text": "That the Lord is still the same;",
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    "text": "Though we fear’d he would not hear,",
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    "text": "Suddenly deliv’rance came.",
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    "text": "For the wonders he has wrought,",
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    "text": "Let us now our praises give;",
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    "text": "And, by sweet experience taught,",
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    "text": "Call upon him while we live.",
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