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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Nov 23 2015
Rev Larry Miller

Westerville, OH, United States

Vs. 3 really reached me this morning. Dark clouds of injustice crowd in, but for tomorrow there is bright hope!

Nov 23 2015
Ijeoma

Lagos, Nigeria

Had a dream... This song was sung in the dream... Lord great in deed is thy faithfulness morning by morning.. Am so grateful...

Nov 20 2015
Marilyn Lequin

Cagayan De Oro City, Misamis Oriental, Philippines

Truly great is Thy fathtfulness to those who put their trust in the Lord. May His name be glorified forever.

Nov 20 2015
Robyn

Sydney, NSW, Australia

"Great is His faithfulness" Lord unto me.

I give thanks for all the blessings that have bee bestowed on me. The words of this hymn are very special for me especially over the last 2 months. I was glad to find the words once again on the Internet.

Nov 19 2015
David

Lagos, Nigeria

Soothes my pain, calms all of my fears... Anything, Every time.

Nov 19 2015
Verlena Seals

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

My pastor started teaching a series on the subject of Faithfulness in Bible class on last night, November 18, 2015.

As I was in my prayer time this morning, the hymn Great is thy Faithfulness came into my spirit.

I started to sing it and before I knew it .....I was caught up in worshipping my God. Bless His name. Hallalujah.

Prior to the singing, I was reading Lamentations 3:21-23. God is so good and so faithful.

Nov 18 2015
Robin

Brookville, OH, United States

Praising God for His faithfulness in all things!

Nov 18 2015
Keith Fuqua

Livonia, Michigan, United States

Can you all feel it. There is a great awakening going on in the world with God's people.The King is coming.

Oh Lord our God how majestic is Thy name in all the earth.

Nov 18 2015
JMask

Alabama, United States

God is Faithful!

Nov 18 2015
Deun Weekes

United Kingdom

As I laid here this morning, I remember speaking to my niece yesterday who was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and when I asked her how is it going, and she replied, "there WERE two lumps but they couldn't find any," I couldn't do anything but lift my hands to Heaven and hug her because God answered prayers. This morning this song came to my mind in the midst of laying here listening to The Message of The Cross on SBN and I couldn't remember the second verse onwards so I googled it and I praise God that His Holy Spirit had His way. This I believe is the Lord reminding me of His Compassion, Blessings, Faithfulness for He's not a man that He should lie nor the son of man that He should repent. Praise God, Hallelujah. I don't know who out there is reading this right now but know God can change your situation, He's already taken care of it through The Cross of Jesus Christ and Him Crucified, just believe, Be encouraged.

The blessing of the Lord , it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Proverbs 10:22 KJV

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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