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

Heavenly Father, we just sang of your greatness. This greatness is not newly achieved but has been so forever. You are an eternal immutable God without beginning of days or end of life. You are eternally the same which is hard for us to grasp with everything around us changing at an increasing pace and with constant unpredictability. I pray that we are comforted by your predictable greatness that never ebbs or flows.

Scripture teaches us that You not only founded the earth and that heaven is the work of your hands, but that while your creation will one day perish, your faithfulness will outlast the world. Your being and purposes are everlasting. You will remain and you will continue unchangeable. You are eternally the same, eternally great, eternally worth trusting, eternally worthy of our worship and confidence.

You are the King, eternal, immortal, and invisible deserving of all glory and honor yesterday, today and forever.

As Richard Baxter noted “our houses may be burned; our goods may be consumed or stolen; our clothes will wear out; our treasure here may be corrupted; but our God is unchangeable, the same forever. Our laws and customs may be changed, our governors and privileges change; our company, employments and habitation change; but our God is never changed. Our estates my change from riches to poverty, and our names that were honored may incur disgrace. Our health may quickly turn to sickness, and our ease to pain; but still our God is unchangeable forever. Our friends are not constant and may even become our enemies; our peace may be changed into war and our liberty into slavery; but our God does not change.”

Father we praise you for your immutability. We praise you that you do not change. We praise you that you keep your promises. We praise you that your faithfulness never waivers. We praise you that your love never lessens. We praise you that you never slumber or grow faint or weary. We praise you for your sameness. We praise you that you are our rock and our refuge today as you were yesterday and will be tomorrow. I pray that we will live with this truth at the forefront of our minds. I pray that we too will kindly remind each other of these truths when we neglect to live in the reality of your unchangeable greatness. We praise you, our King who never changes and our everlasting God who is always near us and hears our prayers.