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 will be.

Great is Thy faithfulness.

Great is Thy faithfulness.

Morning by morning new mercies I see.

and broadly defined.

So I'm thrilled to see hymns, for example, like Great is Thy Faithfulness, which I actually asked about early on in the process.

I said, you could have Great is Thy Faithfulness in there because that's a great one that we should have.

And it's a beautiful hymn.

It's not a gospel hymn per se.

Well, it is in a way because it does have that chorus thing you know uh it's a verse and then it's the chorus is 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 it's

a fabulous hymn you know

Okay.

It's Great is Thy Faithfulness.

Great is Thy Faithfulness.

That's such a good one.

Okay.

That at Rolling Thunder, we really do believe that God's mercies are fresh and new and available every single morning.

And we get that truth from that great Bible verse in Lamentations 3.22. Great is thy faithfulness is a song that we all, many of us probably anyway, remember it from...

From our youth maybe, we don't sing it as much in the church I go to anymore, but Great is Thy Faithfulness is a song that just was written out of the heart of that very verse.

And every single day when I get up, I just recognize that God's mercies are available to me and that His faithfulness never quits.

It never ends.

You know, even the disciples after Jesus' ascension that ministered all over the known world They gave their life for the cause of Christ, yet they feared not.

Martin Luther in his hymn, A Mighty Fortress, alludes to the fact it's not what somebody can do to your body, it's what the enemy can do to steal your soul that you must remember.

Fear not in this transient life.

Today we heard a reading from the book of Psalms.

I just wanted to know if anybody else was going to be here or not.

I'm happy to be here.

One of my favorite hymns, which is really for the transfiguration, "'Tis good, Lord, to be here.

Thy glory fills this place." We are here in his presence and in his glory because this is the real hospital we need for ourselves and our lives and our spirit to be in this place.

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She's right to the left of me, and my father's favorite song was, uh, Great Is Thy Faithfulness.

And I shit you not, this is exactly what took place.

I wanna say there was an organist.

Interesting that that would be the most sung.

Number 46 is Great is Thy Faithfulness.

And number 62 is It Is Well With My Soul.

I mentioned hymnory.org.