"How Great Is Our God" is a song written by

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, Jesse Reeves and

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. It was originally featured on Tomlin's album ''

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'', that reached No. 1 on the ''

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chart. It is also featured live on Tomlin's ''

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'' album. As of November 2014, it was the fifth most popular worship song, according to CCLI's top 25 worship songs chart. It also reached No. 1 on Christian Music Weekly's '' 20 The Countdown Magazine's'' Top 20 Worship Songs Chart. The song won Song of the Year and Worship Song of the Year at the 2006 GMA Dove Awards, and Worship Song of the Year again at the 2008 GMA Dove Awards. In 2009, gospel/jazz keyboardist

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, presented his instrumental rendition of the song from Tankard's No. 1 charting album, ''Mercy, Mercy, Mercy''. At Passion 2012, Tomlin performed a new edition of this song called "How Great Is Our God: World Edition". This new version included the original lyrics sung in several different languages: English, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Zulu, Afrikaans and Mandarin. It is the first track of his ''Chris Tomlin: The Essential Collection'' album. The song has also been adapted to be sung by small Christian choirs.

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