Hymn: Great is Thy faithfulness

“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!

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.

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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Mar 22 2018

Eunice

Enugu, Nigeria

Truly and sincerely all my needs He continues to supply. For our good He will not supply our wants or greed. I am very comfortable in His arms. I love You Lord.

Erowo

Nigeria

One of my favourite hymns. It always leaves me smiling with an extremely strong appreciation of His faithfulness to mine but most of all to me. I have such a looooong catalogue of His faithfulness that I am convinced I am His most favourite child cause the love and attention I enjoy from Him is priceless. He is sooooo faithful

Rob

Woodstock, Georgia, United States

I awoke this morning with these words in my mind. A hymn from my childhood to remind me of God's faithfulness. Looking for work, frightened and discouraged, but these words and your comments remind me of who He is, and forever will be. Thank you, Lord and thank you my brothers and sisters!

Mar 20 2018

Simi

Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria

I'm in awe of God's faithfulness. I woke up this morning feeling scared and terrified but I am reminded of God's mercy that is new every morning and this song came to my mind. My heart is lifted and I feel so calm.. Hallelujah

Mar 16 2018

Mimi

Accra, Ghana

God has been faithful to me after 6 years of TTC and getting the good news. This is the song on my heart.

Mar 14 2018

Orogbangba Ayokolade

Lagos State, Lagos, Nigeria

I grew up listening to this song 🎶. The lyrics are inspirational, am singing in today for my quiet time.

Mar 12 2018

Kevin King

Kaduna, Nigeria

Amazing Grace!

I'm constantly awakened to God's ever unfailing love and mercy. Just today, I woke up like every other day to the awesomeness of His Grace and to this beautiful hymn evergreen. Besides singing it everyday, this hymn was my theme song during my Wedding some years ago. The writer somewhat captured all my thoughts about God's faithfulness in very few words.

Without a doubt, God's faithfulness and only a fool will deny the results of mercy and grace.

To His faithfulness evergreen,

Cheers my Brothers and Sisters.

PS: Thanks for making this blog free to everyone around the world, and to those musicians who took the time to organize the sound, THANK YOU!

Mar 8 2018

Austin

Bozeman, Montana, United States

I sing this weekly with my small group here in town. Such a great song.

Mar 6 2018

Sydney

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

I thought of this song this morning. Decided to look up the lyrics to sing it during my quiet time. Discovering this blog, I am brought to tears to see postings from people all over the world. To know the hymn I have heard from childhood, is also loved by others from many nations, gives me hope. My brothers and sisters in Christ span the oceans!

Mar 3 2018

Paula Clagg

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

This song was brought to my mind as I have been working on a 5 minute message for a small group of children. As God is faithful to us we need to be faithful to him and treat others with kindness. If we think of kind words all the time kind words will come out of our mouths. We will be more like Jesus. If we are not faithful then just like toothpaste being impossible to get back in a tube, we say unkind words. If we say unkind words they have already hurt someone and we can't take them back. Toothpaste will not go back in but we can brush our teethe with it and clean them up. We can also apologize and say we are sorry. God forgives us and may our friends see to forgive us also as we try hard not to use unkind words again. God is faithful and will provide the kind words for us.

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.

Life-study of Jeremiah, chapter 4 (LSM)

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.

The Present Advance of the Lord's Recovery, chapter 4 (LSM)

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