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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一月 16 2021
Nekpen

Enfield, London, United Kingdom

This hymn reminded me and keeps reminding me of God’s GREAT faithfulness to us all. My brother was admitted to hospital this year with Pneumonia after battling COVID-19. He is back at home now. To God be all the glory🙏🏾. Thank you Almighty God for your mercies. 🙏🏾

一月 13 2021
Charlene E

Punta Gorda, FL, United States

God is faithful. So much is happening in our family and friends .. several deaths , unhealthy life styles . Hateful Relationships. So much and this song comes to me everything I’m struggling . Yes God is faithful and this song reminds me of it ! God is faithful . I exalt you my God !

一月 7 2021
Lori

Camano Island, Washington, United States

Seeing an awful lot of troubling things on the news. I am feeling so blessed today that my parents took me to church every Sunday where I learned the hymns and still remember the words. I turned off the TV feeling troubled, and this song came to my mind. I remembered the first couple of verses, and then came here to look up the rest. Feeling at peace now.

十二月 29 2020
Ron

Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada

I have spent December reading a chapter a day in 1 Peter. I will have read through this Epistle 6 times by the end of the month. This song came to my mind this morning and it powerfully speaks to the main theme of this book. 1 Peter is a case study in Hope. This hymn is a hymn that declarers God's never ending Hope. "Strength for today bright Hope for tomorrow" The blessings are indeed mine and I praise God for that!

十二月 28 2020
Floyd Davis

Kent, Washington, United States

I asked the Lord to meet me in my quiet place this morning. I needed a touch from Him. This song came on as I got ready to set in my quiet place. The phrase that comes to my mind every morning for the last few years has been that "God's mercy in new every morning." Not matter what I am going through or how I am feeling He is new every morning. "Morning by morning new mercy I see".

十二月 28 2020
Brittany

Boston, MA, United States

Just suffered the devastating loss of a pregnancy and in the midst of our deep pain and grief I know GREAT is thy faithfulness. I am comforted by the love and faithfulness of our living God.

十二月 26 2020
Robin Grubitz

Santa Fe, NM, United States

This hymn came to mind as my husband, Scott, is in the hospital fighting cancer and secondary illnesses. The faithfulness of God brings so much comfort and supernatural peace. Praying for everyone who is suffering or troubled today. God is so good, in sickness and in health.

十二月 22 2020
Kelly King

Brookland, AR, United States

This has been playing in my head all day so I looked it up and shared it! God is good, all the time! 🙏🏼

十二月 20 2020
Waleghwa

Nairobi, Kenya

All I have needed thy hand hath provided.

十二月 12 2020
Abiola Modupeoluwa Lawal

Lusaka, Zambia

I have always loved the hymn. It has been coming to mind for days now. May we all be drawn into the mercy of GOD like never before. GOD bless and keep you. Shalom!

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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