Unchanging God and his unchanging promises

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We are utterly ashamed and full of confusion; because we have to confess that we have doubted you."

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SpurgeonBooks
December 15, 2025

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the unchanging nature of God, also called the immutability of God. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Glorious Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, you have not changed. You are still a covenant God and you keep that covenant to all of your people; neither do you permit a single word of it to fall to the ground. All of your promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, to your glory. We believe those promises will be fulfilled in every jot and tittle; not one of them will lack fulfillment or fall to the ground like the frivolous words of men. Have you said, and you will not do it? Have you commanded and it will not come to pass? We are utterly ashamed and full of confusion; because we have to confess that we have doubted you. Many of our actions have been atheistic. We have lived at times as if there were no God.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“But you are the same, and your years will never end.” (Psalm 102:27)

When heaven and earth shall pass away from the dreaded presence of the great judge, he will be unaltered by the terrible confusion, and the burning world will affect no change in him; even so, the psalmist remembered that when Israel was vanquished, her capital destroyed, and her temple leveled with the ground, her God remained the same self-existent, all-sufficient being, and would restore his people, even as he will restore the heavens and the earth, bestowing at the same time a new glory never known before.

The doctrine of the immutability of God should be more considered than it is, for the neglect of it tinges the theology of many religious teachers and makes them utter many things of which they would have seen the absurdity long ago if they had remembered the divine declaration, “Because I, the LORD, have not changed, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed” (Malachi 3:6).

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Luobohe Miao of China.

This is a group of more than 100,000 people who have, as far as we know, never heard the hope of Christ. There is no Bible in their language, no church they can attend, and no Christians among them. They will never hear the gospel unless someone brings it from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Luobohe Miao.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Rediscover our glorious, unchanging God

As Spurgeon said in today’s Verse of the Day, we should think about the immutability of God more often than we do. God’s unchanging nature is seriously good news — it shows us that God is gloriously greater than we are; for while we change and decay, our God never will.

A fantastic book to help you grow your knowledge of God (in order to grow your AMAZEMENT at God) is None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett.

This book walks through several attributes of God (including his immutability!) and shows why he is gloriously undomesticated, beyond our greatest expectations.

Your view of God is far too small. Allow this book to open the cage and let the lion roar.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“I could no more think of a changing God than I could of a round square.” — Charles Spurgeon