“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.
“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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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!
“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!
I went to sleep with this song on my heart. I feel the Holy Spirit brought it to me to praise my Lord.
Apr72020
Yvonne Jackson
Philadelphia, PA, United States
This song was in my spirit this morning. For Great is God Faithfulness!!
Apr52020
Dawn Mullings
Westmoreland, Jamaica
God's mercy is deep and wide and is extends to all generation.
I woke with this song in my heart this morning and I am saying thanks to the Holy Spirit for reminding me just how great his faithfulness is to me.
Apr22020
Emmanuel Gold
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
To God alone be all the glory
Mar222020
Peter Usang
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
Great song, filled with power and expression of thanksgiving.
God's faithfulness is everlasting even to the generation to come.
God is great and greatly to be praise. I love the Lord for my God has been my strength, source and help all through my journey in life.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide..... Hallelujah we have a father that truly cares.
Mar92020
Laura Lee Reid
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, O what a foretaste of His Glory divine and all because of His great faithfulness.
In every detail the works of God are a wonder to me. He has seen me through the highs and the lows. He is a true Father and watches over us Whom He loves because of Jesus. Amen. Thank you for this blessed song that I have known for many decades now. Amen.
Mar42020
Angela Fortner Drakos
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
I love this song. It always lifts my spirits. Jesus is always faithful
Feb202020
Ladu Martin
Juba, Central Equatoria, South Sudan
indeed our GOD is greater than our problem cos I have seen his mercies pouring down beath the earth real this song have moved me to see the strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow we thank GOD
Feb182020
A.A.Alade-Williams
Lagos, Nigeria
God is being faithful to me when I remember today early to pray the song touch my health and I started singing again to my great father.
Feb152020
Olukemi Oke
Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
I am so elated in my spirit. Every step GOD has proven HIS faithfulness in my life and family. This hymn is an expression of my gratitude to Jehovah El-Shaddai. Praise the Lord!
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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I went to sleep with this song on my heart. I feel the Holy Spirit brought it to me to praise my Lord.
Philadelphia, PA, United States
This song was in my spirit this morning. For Great is God Faithfulness!!
Westmoreland, Jamaica
God's mercy is deep and wide and is extends to all generation.
I woke with this song in my heart this morning and I am saying thanks to the Holy Spirit for reminding me just how great his faithfulness is to me.
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
To God alone be all the glory
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
Great song, filled with power and expression of thanksgiving.
God's faithfulness is everlasting even to the generation to come.
God is great and greatly to be praise. I love the Lord for my God has been my strength, source and help all through my journey in life.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide..... Hallelujah we have a father that truly cares.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, O what a foretaste of His Glory divine and all because of His great faithfulness.
In every detail the works of God are a wonder to me. He has seen me through the highs and the lows. He is a true Father and watches over us Whom He loves because of Jesus. Amen. Thank you for this blessed song that I have known for many decades now. Amen.
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
I love this song. It always lifts my spirits. Jesus is always faithful
Juba, Central Equatoria, South Sudan
indeed our GOD is greater than our problem cos I have seen his mercies pouring down beath the earth real this song have moved me to see the strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow we thank GOD
Lagos, Nigeria
God is being faithful to me when I remember today early to pray the song touch my health and I started singing again to my great father.
Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
I am so elated in my spirit. Every step GOD has proven HIS faithfulness in my life and family. This hymn is an expression of my gratitude to Jehovah El-Shaddai. Praise the Lord!