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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Dec 13 2019
Felix

Ota, Ogun, Nigeria

God is so faithful, my wife just gave birth to a bouncing baby boy... now a father... I'm blessed.

Dec 3 2019
Korede

Lagos, Nigeria

I woke up singing this song when I think of how God has led me in the past and his faithfulness to me

Dec 2 2019
Lyonga Iya

Douala, Littoral, Cameroon

He is faithful indeed. Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer n to guide, strength for today n bright hope for tomorrow, this line of the song move my spirit to worship God more each time I sing. He is a loving God, a faithful God he is.

Dec 2 2019
Liliane Nascimento

São Paulo, Brazil

As I was writing down this Bible verse: “[... ] We faced conflict from every direction, with battles on the outside and fear on the inside. But God, who encourages those who are discouraged, encouraged us... ”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭7:5-6‬ ‭NLT‬‬, on my devotional notebook, these words came to mind: “Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow”.

I’ve just realized how this Bible passage and this powerful hymn fit together.

Nov 29 2019
Tammy Riggenbach

Lancaster, OH

I have sung the song Great Is Thou Faithfulness in church many times but honestly never memorized the words. As I found myself struggling to adapt to a home remodeling mishap that forced us to live elsewhere for many weeks I woke up in the middle of the night with this song echoing in my mind. It seemed to play itself through out the day and in fact, kept popping in my head whenever I started to feel overwhelmed or discouraged. I looked up the words on my cell phone my oriole times, only to feel amazed how much truth and comfort was in the verses of the song. This song was truly a gift given to me during a time of distress. It is amazing how God hath provided!

Nov 27 2019
Francine C

Ocho Rios, Saint Ann, Jamaica

It is 10:43pm and this song came up in spirit for the latter part of the evening. Then I got some not so fulfilling news. And my mom asked if I prayed about the situation. I did. This song is the message that God was providing. This song touches my very soul from a child to now age 30. I've fallen so short and yet God's compassions they fail not. Praise Yahweh. Great is thy faithfulness. 🙌🏽

Nov 23 2019
Beatrice

Gorton, Manchester, United Kingdom

I love this glorious songs because it revive me anytime I sing it.

Great is thy faithfulness song

Nov 23 2019
Emmanuel Msimbe

Kharkiv, Ukraine

“Great is Thy Faithfullnes”

I remember one sunday morning waking up with no money even for tansport going to church, yet I prepared myself, going down to the metro singing this song, I got there checking my metro card if had enough to take me to the church and found nothing in it, but for no reason my heart overflowed with joy as I was singing this song.. I went down the street to the nearest ATM machine to check if I had something in my card and found nothing in it.. As I was on my way back to the hostel I met a friend of mine, she called me from a distant so I went to greet her.. and she just handed me over with some cash.

“All I have needed thy hand hath provided”

Nov 22 2019
C Maria

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I cannot get through this song without crying. Even in church when I have led praise and worship. When I recall EVERYTHING the Most High God has done for me, it overwhelms me. The chiefest of sinners, HE still answers my prayers and rescues me. I could write a book of testimonies, very few would believe them. I left looking for the Most High in the darkness and barely escaped with my sanity. My God is FAITHFUL and TRUE!

Nov 16 2019
Oneil Segun

Dallas, Texas, United States

"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." All seasons, your mercy oh Lord I have enjoyed. Awesome God.

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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