Please find below the notes from the Elder's Prayer this past Sunday.

Psalm 145

Great are you LORD. Thank you for the privilege and honor to call you Father while you are also our King and our LORD. What a remarkable honor. As we pray and contemplate who you are, Help us to use all of the vocabulary we can muster to describe your great activity, your greatness, and your goodness. Help us to praise you like David models for us in this Psalm.

Help us to extol you, our God and King and bless your name forever and ever.

Help us to be mindful daily of your greatness so we can't help but bless you and praise your name forever and ever.

Great are you LORD, and greatly to be praised. Remind us of what you can do. Your greatness is unsearchable, unending, vast, incorruptible and beyond our grasp to fully understand it. Protect us so that we never lose our awe of you or become ritualistic or take you for granted. As we grow in the knowledge of you, may we never become familiar in a deadening way or a way that dulls our perception of you and your greatness.

Help us to be faithful in seeing your majesty clearly, profoundly and consistently. Make us anxious to commend or to talk about your great works from generation to generation in our homes and in the church declaring your mighty works with exuberance, accuracy and unparalleled fervor. I pray our declaration and proclamation is fueled by our meditation on your glorious splendor and reflecting on your wondrous works.

As we influence those younger around us, I pray they will also speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and likewise declare your greatness. Oh that your young people would passionately testify of your fame and your abundant goodness while speaking, living and loudly singing of your righteousness. Help them cherish God's greatness as they have seen the older cherish your greatness and adore the gospel before them.

Thank you God for being gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The cross is a perfect display of this love. Remind us there is more mercy in you than sin in us. You are good to all and your mercy is over all of us. Thank you for your mercy being over all that you have made. This common grace is enjoyed by all people as you make it rain on the just AND the unjust. Nonetheless, we know all people need to respond in faith and repentance to the gospel message to be saved. Never let us think that anyone is beyond your reach or your saving grace. Your mercy is always capable to save. Help us to rightfully see the miracle it is that you saved us, despite our wretchedness. Give us a burden to take your word to all people, to trust the word and the Holy Spirit to initiate salvation, not resting in our methods or persuasive words. It is only by your great mercy and grace that anyone is saved. Praise you for your willingness to save. I pray that our mouths will unceasingly praise the name of the Lord, forever and ever, amen.