Great is thy Faithfulness!

All day yesterday and this song and phrase has been going over and over in my spirit.

Great is thy faithfulness!

I have been through times in my life where I was desperately waiting to see God fulfill his promises to me and I continued to believe that God would be faithful. During those days, I repeated again and again that God was faithful, but that was a statement based on God's character and definitely not based on what I was seeing or feeling at the moment.

Great is thy faithfulness!

And I can look back and see where I am now and can say with certainty that God is indeed faithful. Not even a year and a half ago I was in such a dark place. A struggle. And I could not see how or when God would keep his word. And yet here we are, with 4 beautiful kids that God has given us as proof that God is indeed faithful. And he sees us and knows the desires of our hearts and is working everything out behind the scenes when we don't even think he's paying us any attention.

Great is thy faithfulness!

And he has provided for us in financial ways beyond what we could ever imagine.  I don't usually discuss our finances here because it's kind of a personal matter and I don't want people to think I am being prideful or bragging about myself. Please know I am bragging on my God. This past year we bought and sold a house, got a bigger car, had Seth and paid related medical and other expenses, went without a normal paycheck for 6 weeks while I was home with Seth (on top of the normal Christmas expenses), but we never even felt the anticipated financial strain. We had extra money come in from unexpected sources. We have survived 3 months with 4 kids and really haven't changed our standard of living or had to cut back. And we have an adoption credit coming when we file our taxes. Because God always takes care of his own.

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.