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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May 10 2012
Georgina

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Haven't heard this hymn for years and have been reminded of it today by an old friend at a time when I feel far from God and very alone. Believe it is Him reminding me He is there even though I have strayed far from Him. The Lord is truly great.

May 9 2012
Steven

Grand Rapids, MI, United States

Somehow among the darkness of the internet I find you brothers and sisters in Christ on here. I love you people and I look to see you some day. Praise Jesus Christ.

May 4 2012
Poppy

Manchester, United Kingdom

What a glorious hymn. God is truly faithful. He gives us 'Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow'. Praise His name.

May 2 2012
Lillian Haastrup

Toledo, Ohio, United States

This song "Great is thy faithfulness" is my anthem, just like a national anthem.

2 Timothy 2:13 says "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself. "God is a friend that does not fail. He remains the same from everlasting to everlasting, He is the Lord. Thank You Lord for Your faithfulness.

Apr 26 2012
Alysin Ali

Harare, Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe

It draws me closer to God and makes me realize that there is no one faithful except for HIM. The world lets you down over and over again but God will never forsake us.

Apr 18 2012
Zokhai

Yangon, Myanmar

Dear Respected Sir,

we need Gospel Hymnal for the Christian training college in Myanmar.Therefore, we would be glad if you could forward for us by email. Thanks

In Christ,

Bro Khai

Apr 5 2012
Karla Holck

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

I gave my summer job to a needy coworker yesterday. Last night I got a call from my sister saying a friend of hers had a summer job she wanted to offer me. All I have needed His hand has provided. Great is His faithfulness to me!

Apr 5 2012
Sue Bascom Jeter

Kansas City, KS, United States

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have not been able to attend church for a number of years. I do listen to church often on television, but have been missing the "old" hymns I used to sing as a child. Thank you so much for being available! You have more than ministered to my spirit, for even though our Lord walks with me, I miss being part of a congregation.

Apr 3 2012
Betty Bonn

Dunlap, Illinois, United States

I again use this hymn to praise the Lord! This morning I received an apology email from my son and I immediately sent full, free forgiveness back to him. He is restored to me this Holy Week! What a witness of the Resurrection! Praise the name of the Living God Who Answers Prayer forever!

Mar 29 2012
Barnabas

Ghana

I have but little experience in this life but the little I know is that I can testify with Jeremiah that it is His mercies that we are not consumed.

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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