All that God is, He is always.

The eternal essence of God is infinite in that is has no limit, and the
infinitude of God’s essence is eternal inasmuch as His unlimited essence cannot change. When God said,
“I Am that I Am”, the Hebrew word translated “that” means so much more. It is true that it does
accurately mean “that”… but as the word “logos” means so much more in conceptual depth than JUST
“word”, so this Hebrew word, asher, means so much more than just “that”. It means who, which,
what, that; also (as adverb and conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that… in this
particular usage, where God is using it to describe His essential person (which is what a name
represented to the Hebrews), it is safe to assume all meanings were intended that can possibly
attribute to God’s limitless nature, as He is here not just giving His name, but informing both
Moses and the Hebrew people of His ability to perform, execute, and accomplish all that He is
saying He will do. Not only is He the possessor of all power, all authority, all time (and every
other dimension), all mercy, all love, all patience, all justice, all realms… all creation… but He is
all of those things fully, eternally. I do not say “in eternity,” or “for eternity” because those
phrases imply that there are things outside eternity or that eternity is progressive in nature,
which limits the forever-infinitude of eternity, meaning that all created things exist within it, but
none of them are eternal. I say eternally, because all God is (His essence) He is in an eternally-
present state. There is no progression of God; there is only progression within God. All things
that exist are in existence within, through, and to He who is eternally present. For instance,
since He is eternal and infinite, the increase of His government and peace (expressions of His
will, impressed onto creation that operates in time and space) can have no end, as He is
limitless, and “forever” His kingdom will exist, and God desires increase of the expression of His
will in creation (as we see all throughout Scripture, from the command to increase the then-
current Edenic reality onto the whole face of the earth, to the command from Acts to Revelation
to increase the redeemed from only Israelites to remnants of every people group).

The question that we must ask in regards to prayer is this… How does prayer change the course
of history by invoking an action or changing action than was going to be made, by a God who
cannot change (because that would stand against His limitlessness in time/space, i.e. his
eternally infinite/infinitely eternal nature, which contextually might also be referred to as
“eternally present”)? In other words, if He does it, there must have always been intention to do
it, since to be eternally present means to exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, as
they are all located within one eternity. Scripture makes it clear that God was moving toward
one end, but through intercession, chose to take a different course of action, which resulted in a
different end. It also makes it clear that He wants this intercession to take place. Since God is
not divided, but is one, than it is safe to assume that God cannot act contrary to His will.