Great is Thy faithfulness

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"Great is Thy faithfulness," O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
 
"Great is Thy faithfulness!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!"
  Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—
    "Great is Thy faithfulness," Lord, unto me!
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Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
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Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
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五月 18 2011
Yemisi Akinrinola

Lagos, Nigeria

I love this song... God is indeed faithful!

五月 16 2011
Ntombi Xulu

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Hey all you lovely people responding to this song! I thought I was the only one who is strengthened by this song every day and every hour. It must be so pleasing in God's ears to hear so many people acknowledging His faithfulness. Powerful song indeed!

五月 15 2011
Helen Antigo

Leyte, Philippines

Morning by morning new mercies I see. God is great!!! I really like this song.

五月 11 2011
Heather Hope

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Just reading Lamentations 3 from which this song is based. Great is God's faithfulness! Apart from His love & HOPE, there is none.

五月 10 2011
Denise

United States

As I have been trying to make sense of the challenges in my life and the days that lie ahead I was reminded of this hymn today. I was reading Psalm 101:8: Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land... Yes morning by morning God gives me the strength to do this if I ask for it. His faithfulness is without end. Believing God is who He says He is along with all of you!

五月 6 2011
Helena

Kampala, Uganda

I am a single mother who is to be married at the end of this year. When I think about my wedding I imagine this song playing in the background. Always. Truly God Is faithful and a God of second chances. I am grateful. Very grateful.

四月 29 2011
Ntando I. Gxuluwe

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

This just touched my heart this morning. My family and are going thru so much. Charles Stanley preached on God's faithfulness-Lam 3:22. This song came to my mind; taking me back to my seminary days. God is faithful. JUST Believe!!!

四月 21 2011
Alice

Tarboro, North Carolina, United States

Lord, I have been through so much lately. I just want to lose my mind. This song came to my mind and now, each day, I can at least face the dawn of each new day! Great is my faithfulness. Amen!!

四月 19 2011
Josefina

New York, United States

I am having so many financial problems. I got up this morning and began to cry out to the Lord. The Holy Spirit dropped this song in my heart. I know God wants me to know that He has not forgotten me and he will be faithful throughout and will ultimately deliver me.

四月 13 2011
Nelson I Believe David

Orgun Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria

If a man knows the love of God in his life, this song should always be in his heart, because great is Thy faithfulness, is the song that come to my spirit this morning to sing. Thank You, Jesus for great is Thy faithfulness.

Although we are unfaithful, God is faithful. Lamentations 3:23b says, "Great is Your faithfulness." The chorus of a well-known hymn on God's faithfulness (Hymns, #19) says, "'Great is Thy faithfulness!' 'Great is Thy faithfulness!' / Morning by morning new mercies I see; / All I have needed Thy hand has provided—/ 'Great is Thy faithfulness,' Lord, unto me!" We may understand what the Bible says and what this hymn says about God's faithfulness either in a natural way or in a spiritual way. When you sing this hymn, how do you understand the word faithfulness? If you understand God's faithfulness in a natural way, you may think that He is faithful primarily in the matter of material provisions or physical blessings. When some say that God is faithful, they mean that He is faithful to take care of their material needs. However, in 1 Corinthians 1:9 Paul says, "God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." God is faithful in this matter, but He may not be faithful to provide you a large house or a well-paying job. I would not deny the fact that God is faithful in caring for our welfare. My point is that God's faithfulness is not according to our natural understanding.

Consider the sufferings of the apostle Paul. He was called, commissioned, burdened, and sent by God, but wherever he went he had troubles. For example, as soon as he began to preach Christ, he began to suffer persecution. He even had to escape from Damascus by being lowered down the wall in a basket. Does this mean that God was not faithful to Paul? No, it means that God's faithfulness is not according to our natural understanding.

When we believed in the Lord Jesus, we might have expected to have peace and blessing. But instead we might have had many troubles and might have lost our security, our health, or our possessions. When some Christians experience such things, they may question God's faithfulness and ask why He did not prevent hardships from happening to them.

We need to realize that in allowing us to have troubles, God is faithful in His purpose to turn us from idols and bring us back to Himself. Our peace, safety, health, and possessions may become idols to us, and God is faithful to take these things away so that we may drink of Him as the fountain of living waters. If our house or our possessions become idols to us, we drink of them and not of God. God's faithfulness is a matter of dealing with these idols and causing us to drink of Him.

God is faithful in leading us into His economy, and His economy is for us to drink Christ, to eat Christ, to enjoy Christ, to absorb Christ, and to assimilate Christ that God may have His increase with us to fulfill His economy. This is God's faithfulness.

Instead of drinking of God as the fountain of living waters, Israel drank of their idols. Therefore, God used the Babylonians to deal with these idols and also to destroy Jerusalem and even the temple, which had become an idol to them. We need to see that we are not better than Israel. Anything can become an idol to us. But God is faithful in fulfilling His economy. In His faithfulness He deals with our idols that we may drink of Him. We all need to drink of God as the fountain of living waters, receiving Christ into us and assimilating Him, so that He may increase for the fulfillment of God's economy to have His expression through His counterpart.

Whereas God is faithful, we are neither faithful nor chaste but go to many other husbands. After failing God, we may receive some mercy and grace and therefore repent and weep, saying, "How pitiful I am! For a long time I have not loved the Lord very much, and I have not attended the meetings." While we are repenting and weeping, God is rejoicing. However, if we repent and weep too much, even our repentance may become an idol. We may testify in a meeting, saying that we have thoroughly repented to God. But this may be a matter of self-boasting and be a self-made idol. Therefore, after repenting, we should begin to drink of the living waters, praising God, giving thanks to Him for everything, and enjoying Him. This is what God wants. God is not interested in anything other than our enjoyment of Christ.

Jeremiah's speaking in Lamentations 3:22-26 is another pattern of prophesying: "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord." Jeremiah told us that it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. This is not foretelling but blessing, well-speaking. He told us that the mercies, the compassions, of the Lord are new every morning. We need to learn to prophesy in this way. Jeremiah told the Lord, "Great is thy faithfulness." There is a well-known hymn based upon this verse (Hymns, #19). Jeremiah also said that the Lord was his portion. It is marvelous that there was a prophet in the Old Testament who knew that the Lord was his portion. When we tell others that the Lord is our portion, we are speaking the Lord to them.

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Worship of the Father
His Faithfulness
Thomas Obediah Chisholm (1866-1960)
William Marion Runyan (1870-1957)
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