Oceans in the Desert

By Kathi Pelton

2023 may have been your best year to date— or it may have been your hardest year to date. Yet, either way, our God is worthy of an offering of praise.

God, we praise you for your grace, forgiveness, your mercy and your love that was always with us throughout the past year. Through the good times and the bad times, the hard moments and the easy moments— Your love surrounded us. Your faithfulness went before us and behind us and we are filled with gratitude.

And now we prepare to enter 2024 with hope and trust in our God. We know that once again His faithful will go ahead of us and His love will never depart from us. Though good times and hard times will come— we put our trust and our hope in Him alone.

God, surprise us with more than we can ask or imagine in the year ahead. We receive blessings from your hand as we put our hope in You. We enter the gate of 2024 with confident expectations of seeing your hand move mountains, your presence bring light into our lives and your truth overcome every deception. Breathe upon this year Your breath of life and speak Your Word that dispels darkness. May your goodness pass before us in 2024.

As Mary spoke when the angel of the Lord visited her, “Be it unto me according to Your word!” That is our prayer today.

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Thank you and Happy New Year. We declare a special blessing over you and your family for the new year.

Jeffrey & Kathi Pelton