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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Timothy Akinola Akinwande

Lagos, Nigeria

This song always bless my soul at all time. Great is thy faithfulness O Lord.


Amber Farrell

My favorite hymn of all time. 10/10


Patrick Owusu-Banahene

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I Thank the Lord for his mercies upon my family. May his name continually be praised.


Stefan Misaras

London, United Kingdom

We praise You Lord for Your faithfulness toward us. Hallelujah, God is faithful in fulfilling His economy, and He is faithful toward us, even though we are not faithful. Lord, we trust in You and we feed on Your faithfulness in Your economy. Even though we may not understand why things are happening, even though we may not agree with the suffering, troubles, and trials, we know that You are faithful. Thank You Lord for being faithful to bring us all the way into full salvation and into eternal glory with Christ, even by means of the sufferings, trials, and tribulations. Amen, Lord, have Your way in us according to Your faithfulness so that we may be rid of all our idols for You to be our only possession and enjoyment, so that we may truly drink of You as our only fountain of living waters!

I really enjoyed this hymn, and here's some more overflowing of this enjoyment aGodman. com/blog/God-is-faithful-purpose-turn-us-from-idols-himself-drink-enjoy-him/ .


Yvonne McGhee

Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Thank you Father, you have proved to me time after time just how faithful You are. I can truly say, “all I have needed Your hand has provided”, there is no-one like You, Lord. I love You in return.


Rosemary

Thank you dear Lord Jesus for renewing your mercies and faithfulness every morning even before you wake me up.

I appreciate you and love you Lord.


Reuben

Jalingo, Taraba, Nigeria

Faithful is our God, I thank Him for his Mercy upon my life. Great is thy faithfulness.


Ibidunni Adetoro

Lagos, Nigeria

Thank you Jesus, Great is thy faithfulness oh my God


Joy Aghedo

Benin, Edo, Nigeria

God his faithful and his mercy endured for ever


Vivian Ekohojo Pam

Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

Hallowed be Thy name oh God Almighty. May Thy kingdom come and may Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.

Hallelujah! For out of the mouths of babies and sucklings hath Thou Oh Lord ordained praise. I always recall my childhood whenever I sing this hymn, it was one of our favourite hymns in primary and secondary schools Nigeria-wide. May I continue to sing this hymn unto God Almighty forevermore, in Jesus Christ’s mighty, perfect, precious and victorious name AMEN.

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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