Power of Prayer

I

In themselves as weak as worms,
How can poor believers stand.
When temptations, foes, and storms,
Press them close on every hand?

II

Weak, indeed, they feel they are,
But they know the throne of grace;
And the God who answers pray’r
Helps them when they seek his face.

III

Though the Lord awhile delay,
Succour they at length obtain;
He who taught their hearts to pray
Will not let them cry in vain.

IV

Wrestling pray’r can wonders do,
Bring relief in deepest straits;
Pray’r can force a passage through
Iron bars and brazen gates.

V

Hezekiah on his knees
Proud Assyria’s host subdued;
And, when smitten with disease,
Had his life by pray’r renew’d.

VI

Peter, though confined and chain’d,
Pray’r prevail’d and brought him out
When Elijah pray’d it rain’d,
After three long years of drought.

VII

We can likewise witness bear,
That the Lord is still the same;
Though we fear’d he would not hear,
Suddenly deliv’rance came.

VIII

For the wonders he has wrought,
Let us now our praises give;
And, by sweet experience taught,
Call upon him while we live.