Elder's Prayer

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

Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD is Hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory (Isaiah 6:3)

God who alone can flatten every mountain and hill and make them low, and God who alone can lift up every valley, we praise you.

Thank you, LORD GOD, our Father, for coming to us with all of your might, raising us up from the dead, and gathering us to you, like a Shepherd who tends to His flock, carries them in His bosom and gently nurses us. Thank you for your mighty arms that rule the heavens and the earth.

You are the God who measured the waters in the hollow of your hands. You marked off the heavens by the span. You calculated the dust of the earth by the measure and weighted the mountains in a balance and in hills in a pair of scales.

We stand in awe of you.

Father, all flesh is like grass before you that flourishes and withers, like a flower that blooms and fades. But your holy Word will endure forever.

All the mighty superpower developed nations, developing nations and the 3rd world countries are all like a speck of dust on the scales. We are nothing before you.

To whom shall we liken our God? To whose likeness shall we compare our God?

There is nothing and no one like you O Lord. There is no one equal to our Holy, Righteous, Just, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Eternal, Merciful and Loving God. We exalt your matchless name; I AM that I AM.

Everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the one who gives strength to the weary and increases power to the weak, we seek you.

Please forgive us for relying on our feeble strength and looking at worthless sources for strength instead of coming to you.

Our help is in the name of the Lord and comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth (Psalm 124:8; 121:2).

Please strengthen and enable us through your Holy Spirit to walk in the newness of life as ones who have been buried with Christ through baptism into death and raised up from the dead from sin and darkness through the glory of our Father.

We look forward to the day we behold our God face-to-face on our knees or prostrate on the dust, humbled yet glorified and made whole in the image of your only begotten Son.

We thank you for the Trinitarian work in our reconciliation, sanctification, preservation and glorification.

We pray this in the name our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.