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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Jan 5 2013
Marsha

London, United Kingdom

Today this song has been in my head, me and my partner have been trying for a baby for 4yrs now but have had no joy even with IVF. For the past two days I have been really down and alone, even suicide has cross my mind. I had to get the words for this song and I can't stop singing it, this song has given me strength to carry on. I'm going to print the words and sing it every day until I overcome. Great is Thy faithfulness and I thank You Lord for being so faithful towards me. I give You thanks and praise for what You have done and for what You are about to do.

Dec 31 2012
Breadoflife

New York, United States

Happy new year to all. Great is God's faithfulness in the lives of us all in the 2013 year. May we all, as human beings, grow in our love, respect and appreciation for one another across our small earth.

Dec 31 2012
Dan Abe

Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

In joy and sorrow you have still remain a faithful God. Just lost a younger one. Looking through it all He is faithful and true!

Dec 30 2012
Elayne Ogbeta

Salford, United Kingdom

Today is my birthday and I can truly say like the Psalmist, "I have been young and now I'm old and I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread." Great indeed is His faithfulness! I've learnt over the many years of my life that God's timing is perfect. When you wait for Him, even in the midst of uncertainty, He will always turn up. He is not in the failing, nor forsaking business!

Be blessed and rejoice because God is on our side!!!!

Dec 29 2012
Ndinda

Washington DC, United States

This song says everything I can't express in words. The Lord has provided more than I could possibly ask or even imagine. Lord You are truly faithful.

Dec 29 2012
Twearnier

As I look back over the year, I can truly God has been faithful. It can be so easy to look at the things around me that I don't have and complain. But, when I really take time to think, I see how His hand has been at work....thank You, Lord for taking care of me. :)

Dec 28 2012
Christianah Benjamin

Brooklyn, NY, United States

Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father!

All that I have needed Thy hand hath provided.

Thank You, Everlasting Father.

Dec 28 2012
Lilian

Nairobi, Kenya

I love this song. Indeed great is Thy faithfulness, mercy and love.

Dec 27 2012
Debbie Taguiam

Philippines

Truly God's faithfulness is in us this year 2012. I pray that we also will be faithful to God this coming year 2013. To God be the glory!

Dec 11 2012
Vanessa Pamaran

Manila, Philippines

Minutes after my dad died in the emergency room, I was just sitting in the corner. I was amazed to hear a very familiar song which was often sung by my dad and me. The hospital usually don't play hymnal songs and so I was a bit amazed. That moment I just thought that God was at my side comforting me and I knew that very moment that my dad is going to be in heaven pretty soon.

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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