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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Aug 10 2026
Joanna

Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom

What a wonderful hymn to sing in the morning! Packed full with enduring scriptural truth it truly does one good to proclaim it.

I thank you Father for your steadfast love and faithfulness. You are so beautiful in all your ways. Thank for new mercies today, oh how we need them! You are truly good! Words cannot express how wonderful you are.

I love you, my Lord and my saviour.

Jun 30 2026
Sierra

St. George’s, Grenada

Great is Your faithfulness Lord, truly. You are faithful to the end. You have never disappointed me. I love You Lord

Jun 15 2026
Olanrewaju Ipinmoroti

Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria

As I was meditating on the scriptures during my devotion this morning, this song kept coming to my mind.

The three stanzas captured the essence of what God taught me this morning.

Indeed God's steadfast love never ceases, His faithfulness is new every morning.

I have been refreshed by this hymn today.

To God be the glory

Jun 13 2026
Jim Smith

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

This is certainly one of the most famous hymns of all time. These “old” hymns are based on the scriptures. I believe they have more content than most contemporary

Hymns.

Lamentations 2:22-23 "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

I appreciate the fact that His mercies never come to an end. And on top of that, they are new each day. In our morning time with the Lord, we can tap into this life of faith with its comfort. Great is your

faithfulness unto us who believe!

Jun 10 2026
Doreen

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

This is the song that came to my heart this morning as I came into His Presence. I remember singing this as a child in the church that I grew up in . I am so grateful for the truths of this hymn. Thank You Lord God that Your mercies are indeed new every morning. ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

Mai 25 2026
Nondumiso Mamba

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

This song reminds me of my late mother she used to sing it every morning when we had morning prayers in our living room and Im so grateful for all her teachings .

Mai 24 2026
Chris

Nobel, ON, Canada

God /Jesus is in all things at all times , always faithful . Thank you LORD

Mai 21 2026
Anonymous

This song really touches my heart and I love it sooo much. I can listen to it a thousand times because, it speaks alot about what God is doing in my life.

Mai 12 2026
Promise

West Midlands, United Kingdom

Thank you, Lord, for Your enduring faithfulness. I bless Your holy name because You have continually been faithful to me and my family. You have protected me from every danger and every plan meant to destroy my life, and You have faithfully guided my steps.

As I go out today, let Your faithfulness be evident in every area of my life. Grant me favor in the sight of men and women. Rescue me from every hidden trap set by my enemies, and lift me above every scheme designed against me. Prepare a table before me in their presence, and let Your glory put them to shame.

Lord, forgive me for every act of selfishness and every moment of disobedience to Your word. I confess my sins and ask for Your mercy in every way I have fallen short or brought dishonor to Your name. Cleanse me completely and purify me from all unrighteousness.

Thank You for all You have done, for what You are doing now, and for the blessings You have prepared for the future.

Thank You, blessed Redeemer.

Apr 21 2026
Maria L

Fremont, CA, United States

Thank You, Father, for Your peace that never ends. Your presence cheers me on and guides me through. Oh, what a blessing! You're my strength for today and my bright hope for tomorrow. Because morning by morning, new mercies I see. Great is Your faithfulness! I trust in You alone. You are my rock, my refuge, and my song. I rest in Your unchanging love today and always🙏😀

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
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