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Jack Graham - New Morning Mercies

December 28, 2025 | 27:29

Jack Graham - New Morning Mercies
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - New Morning Mercies | December 28, 2025
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • God is faithful.
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  • And the title of this message is “new morning mercies” from
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  • Lamentations, chapter 3. yes, lamentations if you can find it
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  • In your bible. it's next to a big book called jeremiah. it
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  • Was probably, most likely written by the prophet
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  • Jeremiah. and in just a moment we're going to look at one of
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  • The most famed passages in all of the bible, and it is a
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  • Scripture to live by every single day, every hour, every
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  • Minute.
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  • The prophet jeremiah, a great man, god raised him up to
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  • Preach to the nation of israel in the midst of their
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  • Rebellion. and they didn't listen to god's word, and so
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  • God judged israel and sent them into captivity... 70 years of
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  • Captivity and ... and with the babylonians. the nation itself
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  • Was dying. it was devastated. all hope seemed to be gone. and
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  • So jeremiah gives us a lamentation. the book of
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  • Lamentation is not for the weak of heart or the faint of heart.
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  • It's filled with tears and crying and grief and mourning
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  • And, yes, lamentation.
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  • But right in the middle of this desert of a book, really
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  • Depressing in so many ways, there is an oasis, and the
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  • Promises of god spring forward. verse 21 of lamentations 3:
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  • 21) but this i call to mind, and therefore i have hope: 22)
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  • The steadfast love of the lord never ceases; his mercies never
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  • Come to an end; 23) they are new every morning; great is
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  • Your faithfulness. 24) “the lord is my portion,” says my
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  • Soul, “therefore i will hope in him.” 25) the lord is good to
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  • Those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
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  • The big question in this lamentation from jeremiah; it
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  • Really speaks of the grief that everyone experiences in this
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  • World is "how". it's a hebrew word that shows up multiple
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  • Times [???] qavah which means how? how? we see it in chapter
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  • 2, verse 1... how? so "how is this happening?" is the
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  • Question. often, we... we ask a "why" question. "why is this
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  • Happening?" but jeremiah says "how is this happening?" and
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  • There's a difference, isn't there? how could this happen?
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  • How did we get here? how am i ever going to get through this
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  • Situation in my life? how will i ever make it?"
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  • As a pastor now for over five decades, i've heard the how
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  • Question along with the why question numerous times. "how
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  • Did we get here in the icu of this hospital?" "how did my
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  • Marriage fall apart?" "how am i so sick?" and at funerals, "how
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  • Is it possible that my loved one is gone?" "how is it
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  • Possible that my husband... my wife is gone?" how? jeremiah,
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  • As a result of the how question is very depressed because it
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  • Appears to be a... a hopeless situation. and he is crying. he
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  • Said, "my... my eyes are flooded with tears like a
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  • River." he's lamenting. that's a word that we don't use much
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  • In our vocabulary today... lamenting, or even this word
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  • Lamentation.
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  • But have you considered the role of lamentation... of
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  • Lamenting in your own walk with god? in your own prayer life?
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  • We think of our walk with god... our times of prayer as
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  • Being praise, yes; and petition, but a part of our
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  • Prayer life is pouring out our pain before the lord. god wants
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  • Us to be so honest with him and open with him that when we
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  • Hurt... when we're crying, that we bring our tears to him, that
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  • We bring our troubles to him. our pain, our anguish, our
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  • Distress.
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  • And when we come with lamentation before the lord,
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  • Pouring out our pain as jeremiah, the great prophet is
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  • Doing, this is... this includes our anger and... and our
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  • Depression and our despondency and our grief. and when we do
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  • This, we find a caring and compassionate god, a faithful
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  • Father who cares deeply for us and whose strength and
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  • Everlasting arms hold us up. lamenting... it's not just
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  • Whining or venting; it's the sincere desire of a believer to
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  • Turn to the trustworthiness of god, to lean on him.
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  • Jesus prayed like this. in israel we were just in the
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  • Garden of gethsemane where there are olive trees from the
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  • Ancient days where jesus prayed the night he was arrested. and
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  • He's lamenting and he's pouring out this prayer and blood...
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  • Sweat drops of blood are oozing from his skin. he is lamenting.
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  • Same thing happens when jesus at those same hours as he stood
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  • Before jerusalem having rejected him... jerusalem
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  • Having rejected him, and he begins to sob. he begins to
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  • Weep. and he laments the judgment that is coming upon
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  • The people that he loves.
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  • If we were to include lamenting in our praying, we would find
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  • Ourselves drawn closer to god. we would. peter makes this
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  • Point in 1 peter 5:6 and 7. “therefore, humble yourself
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  • Under the mighty hand of god that he may exalt you in due
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  • Time, casting all of your anxieties upon him because he
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  • Cares for you.”
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  • I love to sing songs like this morning of declaration and
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  • Exaltation of christ, and supplication as we offer our
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  • Requests to god. but there is a time and there is a place in
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  • Our lives for... for lamentations.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Powerpoint ministries began over three decades ago when god
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  • Placed a burden on my heart and my wife, deb's, to use media to
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  • Reach more and more people across the world. and over the
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  • Years, we've been blessed to receive phone calls, letters,
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  • And personal stories from people sharing how god has
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  • Given them a deeper understanding of scripture
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  • Through our broadcast ministry.
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  • Though it's my voice you hear, it's god's message that i'm
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  • Proclaiming. and all the credit, all the honor goes to
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  • Him. when people hear the good news of jesus, that's the
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  • Gospel. when the bible is opened and taught, and when
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  • They explore its message, it absolutely changes lives. and
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  • That's what we are here to do. we take the gospel, the word of
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  • God, and the testimony of jesus, and we share it across
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  • Television, radio, youtube, facebook, instagram and more.
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  • All for one singular purpose to bring the message of hope to
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  • The world. the message of jesus christ to as many people as
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  • Possible right now. now here's where i need you. i want more
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  • And more people, especially those who are far from god, who
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  • Don't know jesus to hear the right message. this message of
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  • Hope at the right time, which is right now.
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  • But we can't do it without your help. will you join us today by
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  • Every dollar you give today, which doubles your impact and
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  • Helps us reach more people with the message of jesus.
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  • It's incredible what god can do when we get together, when we
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  • Work together, when we pray together to share the message
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  • Of jesus to the world. so please give your best gift
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  • Today at jackgraham.org and your gift will be doubled.
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  • Together we'll be sharing the life changing message of christ
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  • And christ alone until the whole world hears.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • In the middle of all this lamentation, comes this
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  • Exhortation. verse 21: there's a mindset change. he says, "but
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  • This comes to mind..." have you ever just... in times of
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  • Lamentation and... and depression in your life, have
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  • You ever just grabbed yourself by the scruff of the neck, if
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  • You will, and spoken to yourself and changed your mind
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  • About the way you're thinking? that's what happened to
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  • Jeremiah. in spite of the circumstances all around him,
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  • The death and the despair and the depression. he says, "but
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  • When i call to mind, i have hope... hope."
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  • Jeremiah said in his book, 29, verse 11, the book of jeremiah
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  • 29:11, he said, "i know the plans for you, not to harm you,
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  • But to give a future and a hope." and what is this hope?
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  • Hope lives in the promises of god. hope is been described as
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  • Oxygen for the soul. you can't live without oxygen and you
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  • Can't live without hope. and hope lives... where does hope
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  • Live? hope lives in the promises of god. in god
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  • Himself. it is trusting god and believing god. it's believing
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  • The facts, not the feeling. it's believing what god says,
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  • Not what the devil says or you say... say. and when we refocus
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  • And reset and repent, then we find that we can trust god and
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  • Believe him for every need in our lives because he is our god
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  • Of hope.
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  • Romans 15, verse 13 says: “may the god of hope fill you with
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  • All joy and peace and believing that you may abound in hope.”
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  • Paul said in 2 corinthians 1:3 that “our god is the father of
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  • Mercies.” and we see it here, don't we? that god is faithful,
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  • That he is compassionate, that his mercies are new every
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  • Single day. with every new morning comes new mercies. and
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  • We have this promise; we have these promises.
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  • There's a promise in the bible for your every need. did you
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  • Know that? for every battle you fight, for every burden you
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  • Bear, for every problem you face. and all of the promises
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  • Of god are, yes and amen, in jesus christ. you can
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  • Persevere. you can hold on because of the hope that we
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  • Have in jesus christ. so here is the truth: god is faithful.
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  • Deuteronomy chapter 7 and verse 9 puts it this way: "know
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  • Therefore that the lord..." you see, we don't live by what we
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  • Feel; we live by what we know! "know, therefore, that the lord
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  • Your god is god. the faithful god who keeps covenant and
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  • Steadfast love with those who love him and keep his
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  • Commandments to a thousand generations." and after all of
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  • These generations... after all these mornings... after all of
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  • These years, god is still faithful! he's faithful to me.
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  • And every promise that he gives us in his word is unshakeable
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  • And guaranteed it is unbreakable, it is infallible
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  • Because he has made a covenant with us; he has given us a
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  • Promise. and the character of god is at stake on his
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  • Promises. god cannot lie! and when god makes a promise to us,
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  • We can count on the fact that he will always come through
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  • With every promise.
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  • When we say god is faithful, we're talking about his
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  • Integrity; we're talking about his character. we're speaking
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  • Of his infallibility, his dependability. and his promises
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  • Are because of this unceasing love and because of his great,
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  • Mighty power to do what he says he will do.
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  • Maybe you've heard that old line that when you're facing a
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  • Crisis and you feel like you're going over a cliff, grab a hold
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  • Of a rope and then do what? tie a knot in the end of the rope
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  • And hang on. well, that's frankly not that helpful to me.
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  • I need something more than a rope with a knot on the end of
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  • It. i need not a rope but hope.
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  • Feel like you're at the end of the rope today, hanging by a
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  • Thread? don't give up hope! why? because god is faithful
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  • And his promises live and therefore where his promises
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  • Live, there is hope. god's hope; his rope... his hope
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  • Never breaks! hebrews 10:23 puts it this way: "let us hold
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  • Unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised it
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  • Is (what?) faithful." despair, depression, defeat never has
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  • The last word when god is our hope! and he is!
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  • God's love for you is greater than you can ever know.
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  • Jeremiah once again, the prophet... he wept a lot but he
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  • Also worshiped a lot. and he said, "god loves you with an
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  • Everlasting love." jeremiah 31:3. so when it says his
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  • Mercies are new every morning, that his compassions do not
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  • Fail, that god is faithful, it means that his loving care is
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  • Always for us and with us. don't rush past these words!
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  • God loves you! you are his child! let that sink down deep
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  • Within you! god's love, his grace is dependable; it is
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  • Faithful; it is eternal and he will not allow anything in your
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  • Life as his child that is not motivated by his love for you!
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  • Did you hear that? god will not allow anything in your life
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  • That is not motivated by his love for you!
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  • And when you weep like jeremiah, and lament and cry,
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  • And wonder how on earth... how am i going to get through?
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  • Qavah in the hebrew. qavah in the hebrew.
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  • How?! remember hope! remember your hope in jesus christ
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  • Because god faithful. and that means that we can have
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  • Confidence in christ when we pray. it means that we can be
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  • Confident when we are tempted, that we can overcome
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  • Temptation. for what does 1 corinthians 10:13 say? when we
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  • Are tempted, "god is faithful and will not allow us to be
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  • Tempted more than we can bear. and with the temptation will
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  • Make a way of escape." why? because god is faithful. and
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  • When you are realizing the faithfulness of god and
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  • Remembering the faithfulness of god, you are courageous to face
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  • Anything in front of you. your faith because of the
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  • Faithfulness of god overcomes every fear.
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  • The prophet's point in all of this is when you don't
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  • Understand what's going on... when you say, "how?", that the
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  • Question really isn't "how?"; it is him. you can live with
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  • Hope in him because the future is in his hands. his compassion
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  • For you, his love for you is limitless. and when you lift
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  • Your thoughts from the ashes and in your mind, you throw
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  • Open the windows of hope, you are strengthened with "strength
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  • For today and bright hope for tomorrow."
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  • Those are lines in a poem written by a man named thomas
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  • Chisholm. he was a... a newspaper man, saved in his
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  • Mid-twenties and ordained as a minister a few years later. but
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  • He was known locally for his poems, and he wrote many poems.
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  • He continues to write poems in spite of the fact that his
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  • Health issues... he had major health issues and he couldn't
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  • Really fulfill his calling as he desired. he couldn't really
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  • Be the pastor, the preacher that he wanted to be, but he
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  • Kept writing the words to these poems.
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  • And he wrote a poem from lamentations chapter 3, among
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  • Many. he sent it to a man by the name of thomas runyon who
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  • Worked at the moody bible institute in chicago. and as
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  • Runyon was looking through all these poems, he was taken by
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  • This one from the words of lamentations chapter 3. and he
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  • Prayed and god gave him a melody. god gave him the music
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  • To this poem which you now know is the song great is thy
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  • Faithfulness.
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  • You think of this song, a hymn as being really old. well, it's
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  • Not that old. it really came into prominence in the 1930's
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  • And the 1940's. and in reality it wasn't going anywhere much
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  • As a song until a young bass... baritone singer by the name of
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  • George beverly shea sang it on the radio in chicago.
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  • “great is thy faithfulness, o god my father, /there is no
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  • Shadow of turning with thee;/ thou changest not, thy
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  • Compassions they fail not;/ as thou has been thou forever wilt
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  • Be.”
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  • And there was a young evangelist by the name of billy
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  • Graham who heard bev shea sing those words on the radio. he
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  • Reached out and contacted mr. shea, asked him to join him as
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  • A young evangelist in his evangelistic ministry. and the
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  • Two coupled up later with others... cliff barrows,
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  • Primarily. and in every crusade, they began to sing
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  • Great is thy faithfulness. bev sang it; the congregation began
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  • To sing it. it was sung in 1954 when billy was preaching in
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  • London, and it captured the hearts of the people of britain.
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  • “great is thy faithfulness! great is thy faithfulness!
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  • Morning by morning new mercies i see;/ all i have needed thy
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  • Hand hath provided. great is thy faithfulness, lord, unto
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  • Me!”
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  • “summer and winter, springtime and harvest, sun, moon and
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  • Stars in their courses above/ join with all nature in
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  • Manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. /
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  • Great is thy faithfulness! great is thy faithfulness!
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  • Morning by morning new mercies i see; / all i have needed thy
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  • Hand hath provided. great is thy faithfulness, lord, unto
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  • Me!”
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  • “pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thy own dear
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  • Presence to cheer and to guide;/ (and here's the line i
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  • Love so much) strength for today and bright hope for
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  • Tomorrow, blessings all mine, ten thousand besides!”
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  • [pastor sings]
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  • “great is thy faithfulness (sing it)! great is thy
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  • Faithfulness! morning by morning new mercies i see; all
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  • I have needed thy hand hath provided. great is thy
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  • Faithfulness, lord, unto me!”
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  • True! he is forever faithful. the psalmist said in psalm 37.
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  • “feed on his faithfulness.” feed on the faithfulness of
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  • God. when you feed on something, you desire it, and
  • 00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:44.606
  • Then you devour it! and then you digest it. you feed on the
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  • Faithfulness of god. god's faithful love.
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  • You know what we need? more of that... more of this prayer. we
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  • Need more. you know, the problem with prayer? ... you
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  • Know the problem with prayer? we don't do it enough! james
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  • Said, "you have not because you ask not." jesus said, "ask, and
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  • You will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will
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  • Be opened unto you." and when you trust in god who is
  • 00:25:32.087 --> 00:25:37.959
  • Faithful and true, he will never break a promise. when you
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  • Go to him in prayer, you can count on the fact that in his
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  • Time, in his way he will answer.
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  • Life is fragile. life is described in the bible as a
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  • Vapor... it's a mist on morning... on the morning dew.
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  • Our heart is just one heartbeat away from eternity. we're one
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  • Heartbeat away from standing before god! we think we've got
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  • 70 or 80 years more, maybe more to pursue our goals, to raise
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  • Our families. maybe, but maybe not. we're all just one
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  • Heartbeat away. and the fact is, life is brief no matter how
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  • Long you live it on this earth. and eternity is long and you
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  • Need hope... a hope that sustains life. "strength for
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  • Today and bright hope for tomorrow." and a hope that
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  • Endures beyond the grave so that you win in life.
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  • This happens... the mercies of god, the love of god... because
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  • Of what christ has done for us. it hadn't happened in the book
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  • Of lamentations, but those mercies that are new every
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  • Morning to us... they came at the cross. hope came out of the
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  • Grave when jesus burst forth out of the tomb. and he is
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  • Alive, and therefore, hope is alive because jesus is alive.
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  • ♪♪♪
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