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How faithful and trustworthy too,
My Father God, art Thou;
The universe and all therein
Thy faithfulness avow.
My Father God, art Thou;
The universe and all therein
Thy faithfulness avow.
How stedfast is Thy faithfulness!
For this I worship Thee;
It is established in the heav’n,
And ever stands for me.
For this I worship Thee;
It is established in the heav’n,
And ever stands for me.
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No turning shadow could there be,
Nor any change with Thee;
As Thou hast been, and now Thou art,
Forever Thou wilt be.
Nor any change with Thee;
As Thou hast been, and now Thou art,
Forever Thou wilt be.
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Thy word, as certain as Thyself,
Can never pass away;
Though heav’n and earth shall disappear,
Thy word abides for aye.
Can never pass away;
Though heav’n and earth shall disappear,
Thy word abides for aye.
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Thy gifts without repentance are,
Thy calling is the same;
Thy grace forever lasting is,
Thy mercy as Thy name.
Thy calling is the same;
Thy grace forever lasting is,
Thy mercy as Thy name.
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Thy word with Thine own faithfulness
A surety is to me;
By it, with Thy salvation true,
I have the certainty.
A surety is to me;
By it, with Thy salvation true,
I have the certainty.
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If, due to self, I trust Thee not,
Yet Thou art faithful still;
Thou never canst deny Thyself,
Thy word Thou shalt fulfill.
Yet Thou art faithful still;
Thou never canst deny Thyself,
Thy word Thou shalt fulfill.
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As Thou art faithful to perform
Thy promise and Thy call;
So, feeding on Thy faithfulness,
I take Thyself withal.
Thy promise and Thy call;
So, feeding on Thy faithfulness,
I take Thyself withal.
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The rainbow round about Thy throne
Thy faithfulness declares;
This attribute forevermore
The holy city bears.
Thy faithfulness declares;
This attribute forevermore
The holy city bears.
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Mansfield, Ohio, United States
It’s only by looking back over my life that I see how faithful the Lord has been to me through all the years. Even when my faith has wavered, He has been faithful. He has to be faithful to His Son. How faithful and trustworthy He has proved Himself. I am still learning to trust Him. The more I know Him the more I know His faithfulness. I’m learning to trust Him for everything.
Sauyo, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A hymn that beautifully exalts the faithfulness of our Father God. With each verse, it resounds the unwavering nature of His promises, providing a comforting and sure foundation for trust and worship.
Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Samuel Augustus Ward was born December 28, 1847, Newark, New Jersey. He died September 28, 1903, Newark, New Jersey and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery Newark, New Jersey.
Samuel was the son of Samuel Cutler Ward and nephew of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic, ” a famous American Civil War song after she and her husband visited the Union Army camp near the Potomac River. Upon hearing the soldiers singing the song “John Brown’s Body, ” she was inspired to write it the next day.
“I woke in the gray of the morning, and as I lay waiting for dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to entwine themselves in my mind, and I said to myself, ‘I must get up and write these verses, lest I fall asleep and forget them! ” So I sprang up out of bed and in the dimness found an old stump of a pen which I remembered using the day before. I scrolled these verses almost without looking at the paper’”(Julia W. Howe).
Samuel Ward studied music under Jan Pychowski in New York City, and founded a music store in Newark, New Jersey. He became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church, New York, and in 1880, succeeding Henry Cutler; a brass plaque in his memory was placed on the parish house there in 1934. Ward also founded Newark’s Orpheus club in 1889.
In the secular world, he is best remembered for his tune “Materna, ” used for the anthem America the beautiful.
Sydney, NSW, Australia
This hymn was written from the vantage point of the heavenlies, concerning the Father God's faithfulness. Every verse of this hymn emphasizes the Lord's unchanging faithfulness not in a mundane, pedestrian sense, but much rather in the riches of who He is in this attribute of His Godhead. This hymn is not monochromic, but rather in regards to the "rainbow round about His throne", which in principle matches the foundations of the New Jerusalem as the holy city, the Lord's faithfulness is resplendent and overflowing with a rich expression of who He is and the solid representation of who He is to us in His faithfulness to make us that holy city, the New Jerusalem.