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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Jun 28 2013
Mary E Mccray

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

This song has been a part of my life for many years and will always be forever. It has blessed me so much, and I love HIM so much. He is all that I will ever need. And I just love HIS people everywhere. My GOD, JESUS,THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ME, WE ARE ONE!!!. Praise HIM for HIS great FAITHFULNESS. OH FATHER I PRAISE THEE EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE. And Father I love you back with the love that You have given me, and I love You because You first loved me. "GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS"...

Jun 25 2013
Calvin Collom

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Beautiful. I bumped into this site by chance!!!!!!!!!!!

Jun 18 2013
Renuka Jeya Raj

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Thank you for this site. I was doing my morning devotions on Lamentations 3 and the Holy Spirit led me to remember some of the words of this hymn. Your site gave me not only the words but the music as well. God bless you!

I will be back..

Jun 3 2013
Patrick Adjei-ampofo

London, United Kingdom

I love this hymn. God has been good to me all my life.

Jun 3 2013
Oji Okorie

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Of a truth there is no shadow with GOD because HE alone is the source of the light that produces the shadow. Indeed LORD You are GREAT and FAITHFUL. Thank You Father for You DO NOT CHANGE.

May 30 2013
Ojo

Lekki, Lagos. Centre Of Excellence, Nigeria

"There is no shadow of turning with thee...." His words are yea and Amen, infallible. I was just going through Genesis, and I saw His faithfulness to Abraham. Genesis 17:4

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

May 20 2013
Selikebarry

Sittingbourne, Kent, United Kingdom

Wonderful song. My family are learning how to sing the song by heart. Great way to start the day. Indeed our God is real and faithful God help us to be more like You.

May 20 2013
Confex

Lilongwe, Malawi

"As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be." Oh, what a comfort!

May 19 2013
Frank

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

God's faithfulness is such that nothing can overshadow it. We may sometimes go through the fire, and sometimes through the flood, but His promise of being with us to the end of the age keeps us going. For me, the way He has turned my life around is marvelous in my eyes, thus my prayer is that He will keep me faithful to Himself till I see Him face to face.

May 16 2013
Ricky Ondang

Manado, North Celebes, Indonesia

Terima kasih Tuhan karena Engkau berkenan menerima diriku yang kotor dan sangat tidak layak ini. Ampuni dosa-dosaku, buat aku indah di hadapanMu. Aku akan berusaha untuk selalu menyenangkanMu...Amin

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)
D Major
3/4
11.10.11.10. with chorus.
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