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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Sep 25 2018
Elle

WPB, FL, United States

A comforting song - just lost my husband. Sometimes I need to refocus.

Sep 25 2018
Will

Dallas, Texas, United States

The instrumental of this song came on after sharing the Gospel and the truth about life with an abortion-minded couple. Unchanging God, change their hearts and minds. And, if You don't, help me trust Thy faithfulness beyond my fallen, finite understanding.

Sep 24 2018
Praise

Cambridge, United Kingdom

So many things on my mind. A strange woman is currently attempting to destroy my marriage by turning my husband's heart against me. This song reminds me of the faithfulness of God, affirming again that come what may, I win. No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper. Faithful is He, and He will do it.

Sep 21 2018
Denise-Marie

San Francisco, CA, United States

Oh but by the Grace of God yet I stand. I am asked to sing on a church program this Sunday, September 23, 2017. This testimonial song "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" melded into my heart without question or thought. Certainly morning by morning new mercies I see.

Sep 15 2018
Amenyeku Eric

Accra, Dansoma, Ghana

This is a song that wells up hope and assurance. It produces total peace even in the face of adversity. Yes, great is the faithfulness of the Lord.

Sep 15 2018
Brenda Tapia

Davidson, North Carolina, United States

Listening to videos of my cousin's sermons and lectures, words from this song are spoken by her often . . ."morning by morning, new mercies I see". to hear, what she and God might be saying, I googled the words. As we a wait the predicted arrival of hurricane Florence, a Blessing no matter what it brings, these words have been going through my mind, over and over. So I say, Increase my Faith, strengthen my Faith, thank you for the Faith I have, Lord, in Jesus' name.

Sep 14 2018
Esther Uche

Cotonou, Abia State, Nigeria

My soul is always gladdened whenever I sing this song. He made each season and heavenly bodies just to favour and work for me. What a great God we serve who is so mindful of us. Great is His faithfulness. They are new every morning. God be praised always and forever.

Sep 9 2018
Jacintha Iheagwara

Bowie, Maryland, United States

This is my song of appreciation to God each day He makes me to see and also whenever devil the deceiver wants to interfere in the goodness of God unto me I sing this song to put the devil under my feet.

Sep 5 2018
Debra

San Angelo, Texas, United States

He woke me up this morning singing over this hymn. It too is one of my favorites. I trust HIS FAITHFULNESS!!!!

Aug 28 2018
Joseph Mbonu

Onitsha, Anambara, Nigeria

I am going through tough times in life, the Lord gave me this song in a dream recently, it more than strengthened me. What a song, what an 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
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11.10.11.10. with chorus.
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