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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Nov 30 2012
Tunde Ebidero

Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria

The hymn best describe the God I have come to know over the years, it tells of the daily meal that keeps my family and I (His mercies).

Nov 30 2012
Sophia

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

This has been our favourite family hymn. The Lord has proved Himself faithful to us in diverse ways. He has been the Jehovah Jireh on several occasions. The words of the hymn speak volumes for the Christian. It depicts the faithfulness of Our Living God. It is the hymn for me and my family.

Nov 28 2012
Ivy Arueya Oghenebroyen

Lagos, Delta State/ Ughelli South, Nigeria

Indeed! Great is Thy Faithfulness in my life. As I woke up this morning I was just singing it to myself I had to come to the net to download the lyrics.

Thank You Jesus. Thank You Lord.

HAPPY NEW 2013.

Nov 21 2012
Isaac

Kumasi, Ghana

I love this song so much. I believe God is faithful and He will do what He said He will do. He granted me scholarship to study my Masters, ever since I returned last 5 months, I have been searching everywhere for a PhD or job. By His grace I just had a interview for PhD position and I am believing God for a positive response. I know the faithful God who has brought me to this far will complete what He has started, Amen. Great is Thy faithfulness to me, O God.

Nov 20 2012
Betty Jane Bonn

Dunlap, Illinois, United States

On February 2, 2012, I requested prayer on this website for our son (50 years old) to get a job after 3 1/2 years without a job. He is a Christian and an excellent computer programmer, but downsizing and a thing called "unemployment discrimination" worked against him. During that time he lost his condo and all contents; he became homeless and lived in his car. On July 24, 2012, he started a new job and was able to move into a motel. he immediately instituted a program of debt reduction and declared a year of austerity. In November (?) he moved into a new condo. I thank the Lord that He saw us through this heart wrenching time. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto us! All praise to our Heavenly Father forever!

Nov 19 2012
SAJobe

Gaborone, Botswana

This is one of my all time favourite. Over this last weekend we witness His faithfulness, as we saw one of God fearing man in our church get married. At 35, he has been disappointed but he kept his faith in God and God remained faithful as He blessed him with a God fearing wife.

My God is faithful, even when I move out of His sight He remains faithful. In life when God seems distant, guess who moved? He said He will never leave or forsake us, and He is faithful.

Nov 16 2012
Tom Buck, Vacaville California

I love the worship songs I sing in church but I learned who God is singing hymns like this when I was a kid. I Love this one.

Nov 15 2012
Paul Gor

Nairobi, Kenya

This song reminds me of the Great wonders God has done to me this year. Morning after morning I only see God's faithfulness. Thank you LORD.

Nov 12 2012
Jared Omwoyo

Nairobi, Kenya

This is the song that blesses my soul so much. There is none who can read God's mind.

Nov 8 2012
Ruth Bosire

Eldoret, Uasin Gishu, Kenya

I really love this song and indeed God is faithful and am always blessed whenever I listen to this music.

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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