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I Believe God Answers Prayer

I believe God answers prayer, I am sure God answers prayer

Author: Bessie Porter Head
Tune: [I believe God answers prayer]
Published in 6 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

I believe God answers prayer;
I am sure God answers prayer;
I have proved God answers prayer:
Glory to His Name.


Source: Hymns of Consecration and Faith #336

Author: Bessie Porter Head

[Elizabeth Ann Porter Head] Head, Elizabeth Ann (`Bessie'; née Porter) b. Belfast: 1850 d. Wimbledon, Surrey: 28 June 1936 She was the youngest daughter of Tobias Porter, manager of John Alexander's flour mill in Belfast. Of her early life nothing is known; but in 1894 she became secretary of the YWCA in Swansea. She then served with the South Africa General Mission from 1897-1907, mostly in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg, helping to found several branches of the YWCA. With the chairman of the Mission and a fellow missionary she toured North America in 1906-7; her intended return to South Africa in November 1907 was cancelled in favour of marriage, on 17 December, to the chairman, Albert Alfred Head (1844-192… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I believe God answers prayer, I am sure God answers prayer
Title: I Believe God Answers Prayer
Author: Bessie Porter Head
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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CSSM Choruses (No. 1) #68

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Full Redemption Songs No. 3 #77

Good News Hymns #42

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Hymns of Consecration and Faith #336

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Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 #249

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Redemption Songs #923

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