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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Mar 16 2015
Steve Miller

Detroit, MI, United States

George Beverly Shea in "How Sweet the Sound":

At Moody Bible Institute I met the composer of this song, Mr. William Runyan. A tall, delightful gentleman in his 70's, Mr. Runyan taught piano and voice in the fine music department there.

We became good friends; it was an honor for me to spend time with Mr. Runyan and learn from him, for he was well-versed in hymnology. I was so pleased when he would call me at the radio department and say, "When you have an opportunity, come over. I'd like to play for you a new song I'm working on." He had great talent for writing inspiring music. This man's enthusiasm was incredible. He was always victorious and happy in the Lord.

Thomas Chisholm was born in a log cabin in Kentucky and wrote more than 1200 poems. In 1923, he sent the words of this hymn to Mr. Runyan. Upon reading these words, Mr. Runyan knew he had received a precious message that could touch lives around the world. He prayed that God would help him compose music that was uplifting and joyous. God answered that prayer. This hymn of praise has become a great favorite with congregations everywhere.

Cliff Barrows and I had an opportunity to meet Thomas Chisholm, at a senior care center. We found him seated on a park bench and talked with him for a little while. What a dear soul! He could have been thinking about his divinely-inspired words as he sat there under the trees: "Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine with 10,000 beside!"

"O God my Father," Your love has never failed me. Through each season of my life, You have been present. Thank You for Your faithfulness.

Mar 14 2015
Phumelele

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

The song blesses me all the time. He is a faithful God indeed at all times.

Mar 13 2015
Elmer E. Wilson, Jr.

Florissant, Missouri, United States

I was reminded of this classic hymn recently and it stirred my heart!!!!

Mar 13 2015
Ruth

St Louis, MO, United States

Truly He is faithful!

Mar 13 2015
Bette Day

Orlando, FL, United States

If you have ever read any books written by Karen Kingsbury, you will know that this is a song that is referred to many times in her writings. She is an awesome author of Christian fiction. Follow the Baxter family through the many trials and tribulations that every person faces during their lifetime. No matter what happens, they pray and sing together and listen for the still small voice of God speaking to them. I highly recommend these books as a way to know that God is with us no matter what we are going through or where we are. Surely "He is Faithful."

Mar 11 2015
Susan

Beaverton, OR, United States

This is my favorite hymn of all time. It makes me cry whenever I hear it. I was a single parent and over and over again in my life I saw God's faithfulness. He is faithful even when we are not. SOMEDAY I am going to adapt this to a quilt or counted cross-stitch pattern!

Mar 6 2015
Sammy Mwatha

Mombasa, Coast, Kenya

What a faithful God, who never for a single moment abandons us!

Mar 1 2015
Iyiola Dayo John olufemi

Lagos, Nigeria

I love this song so much. It makes me to look back in retrospect and think of all the goodness of God, His keeping hand, salvation of my soul, His protection and provisions everyday. He is faithful and great is the Lord. I Love Him.

Feb 27 2015
Nelly

Thank You Lord Jesus, for bringing this song in my heart to pray for Your children all over the world..Even in nights without sleep..You encourage me to see Your greatlness, even in this mail....ALL OVER THE WORLD YOUR SPIRIT IS MOVING..I bless Your name....NEW MERCIES I SEE.

Feb 21 2015
Lidell

Brooklyn, NY, United States

With this song as the scripture says God's faithfulness is renewed every day. All we have to do is go to Him and confess our sins. God loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so, and I see it everyday of my life.

Don't worry about the future Hod has a plan for you.

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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