Great Is Thy Faithfulness

I'd recently had a fellow sister in the Lord share with me that her family picks a hymn a month to memorize. What a fantastic idea! Why didn't I think of that with my children!

I decided I'd 'piggy back' on her idea and task myself with memorizing along with them! My first foray into finding the song (besides in a hymn book :-) was online, this by Chris Rice. Unfortunately, it won't play on my computer right now, hopefully the link will work here.

So while the one above wouldn't play, I went searching again...persistent creature that I am, and came across these offerings from Sermon Audio, complete with lyrics:

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.

Refrain:

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,

Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide;

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,

Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

With a little history (from Hymntime) thrown in too!

Words: Thom­as O. Chis­holm, 1923. Ac­cord­ing to Chis­holm, there were no spe­cial cir­cum­stanc­es which caused its writ­ing—just his ex­per­i­ence and Bi­ble truth. The hymn first ap­peared in Songs of Sal­va­tion and Serv­ice, 1923, com­piled by Will­iam Run­yan. It is the un­of­fi­cial school hymn of Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, with which Run­yan was as­so­ci­at­ed for a num­ber of years.

Music: Faith­ful­ness (Run­yan), William M. Run­yan, 1923 (MIDI, NWC, PDF). Run­yan wrote the mu­sic spe­ci­fic­al­ly for these words: This par­ti­cu­lar po­em held such an ap­peal that I prayed most ear­nest­ly that my tune might car­ry its mes­sage in a wor­thy way, and the sub­se­quent his­to­ry of its use in­di­cates that God an­swered prayer.