GOD'S PLAN IS UNCHANGING

1.  Definition

   God is unchanging in His Person and His purpose. He is perfect and absolutely reliable. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

   The Bible says that one day, there will be a great event called the Rapture. The Rapture terminates the Church Age and removes the believer in the Body of Christ to heaven. This is our blessed hope. There is a resurrection to life program for us. What guarantee do we have that this will occur? We can trust God. He will not lie. However, has something occurred since the prophecy was given in the first century to void the promise? What guarantee do we have that God hasn't changed His mind or plan?

2.  Documentation

Hebrews 6:17

In the same way, God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath.

   His purpose, of course, is a reference to the plan of God. It is immutable because He is immutable.

Hebrews 6:18 

In order that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge in laying hold of the hope set before us,

Hebrews 6:19

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,

3.  Meditation: God said it, I believe it, that settles it forever.

   God will never alter or change His plan; therefore, all promises and prophecies stand as "it is written." 

  No event in history, no matter how unusual or terrible, has ever changed the plan of God.

  The plan of God is perfect, and because it is perfect, God will never need to change, alter, add, or subtract from it. It is permanent!

  The plan of God is not affected by mistake, ignorance, or inability on God's part.

4.  The Drill: Discipline yourself to godliness

1st Claiming the promises

   I turn to God. I bring Him into the picture by claiming the promise in Romans 8:28. From
that promise, I recognize that God is at work. God has a plan, and all the problems in my life are related to that plan. God is in the trouble that I am experiencing.

2nd Concentrating on the rationale

   This includes God's purposes (Hebrews 6:17), promises (Psalm 132:11), and unchanging Word (Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 5:18).  

In a world of constant change, we find peace in a God who does not change, knowing that His truth is grounded in the nature and character of an unchanging God, James 1:17.