Welcome to the Prayers of Rest podcast.

I'm your host, Ashrita Chuchu, and this Advent season, we're praying for joy together, focusing on some traditional and non-traditional Christmas passages.

So take a deep breath and quiet your heart as we become aware of God's loving presence around us and within us.

Oh, friend, welcome to this last prayer on the prayers of rest podcast.

I'm your host, Ashrita Chuchu, and this episode wraps up our last and final season,

unless the Lord does an incredible work and changes something. This last season of the

prayers of rest podcast is the last prayer in our season of prayers for joy. We've wrapped up

the Advent season. We are now in the Christmas season, that 12 days of Christmas that

followed December 25th. But also, I'm thinking back on the 12 seasons of prayers of rest, the hundreds of thousands

of prayers that have been lifted up to God's throne room over the past few years.

And I'm getting a little emotional, just thinking about the many hours that we've

spent resting in God's presence together. So when you join me in this prayer of celebration,

this prayer of joy and Thanksgiving for all that the Lord has done

and all that he has yet to do. So take a deep breath and quiet your heart as we become aware

of God's loving presence around us and within us.

I thought it fitting that today's passage would be the same prayer that I have prayed over you

all these years.

A prayer of great joy from Jude verses 24 to 25.

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious

presence without fault and with great joy.

To the only God our Savior be glory and majesty, power and authority through Jesus Christ

our Lord before all ages, now and forevermore.

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