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The Father's Business Podcast
The Father's Business Podcast
He is-A Blessing for Your New Year
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What if every need you carry could meet a specific name of God? We close our series on the character of God by threading dozens of biblical names and attributes into one sweeping, spoken blessing for the year ahead, paired with a heartfelt thank you and a short creative pause while we pray and prepare what’s next.
Across this warm, reflective finale, we name mercy that rises new every morning, steadfast love and faithfulness as steady ground, and the deep friendship of God who never forsakes us. We pray peace as true shalom that guards anxious minds, ask the Good Shepherd to restore worn souls, and invite presence over striving so your days are defined by abundance rather than scarcity. We explore grace and truth that free instead of shame, justice that restores, and wonder before the Creator whose beauty fills ordinary life with meaning. Identity takes center stage as we bless you to walk as a new creation—chosen, adopted, redeemed—singing the freedom of Christ in both quiet and crowded places.
This benediction gathers language of Scripture into practical encouragement you can pray over your calendar, your relationships, your work, and your rest. While we pause to seek God for the next season, more than 200 archived episodes—teachings, stories, devotionals, and prayers—stand ready to meet you right where you are.
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The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God. I'm Elizabeth Gunter Powell. And I am Kimberly Roddy. Welcome to the Father's Business Podcast. We are so glad that you've joined us. Hey everybody, as we're coming to the end of our series, He Is the Characteristics of God. On behalf of Kimberly and myself, we just want to start by saying thank you. Thank you for listening, for leaning in, for showing up week after week to as together we have explored the character of God. It's been a great journey. I know that I have been both encouraged, um, assured, and convicted at times as we have taken a deep dive into some of the characteristics of who God is for us and what does that mean to our lives. And we just wanted to say thank you for your emails. Thank you for all the encouragement on social media. And we just really appreciate you being on this journey with us. After this episode today, we're gonna take a bit of a break from releasing new podcasts. We're gonna step aside for just a short season to pray and write and prepare for the next thing coming from the father's business. And we can't wait to share with you what God is stirring up in our hearts. And we'll be keeping you updated via emails, social media. So stay tuned while we take some time to prepare the next thing coming from the Father's Business. But while we take this step away, um we want to encourage you to go back through the archives, either on our website or on wherever platform you listen to to our podcast. There are over 200 episodes waiting for you. They are filled with teaching and stories and blessings and devotionals and prayers. And we are praying that God will lead you to just the right episodes for you so that He can meet you right where you are. So let this be a season of re-listening and revisiting and receiving from Him exactly what you need for this season of the journey. Before we end this series, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate with you all of the names and the characteristics of God that we have talked about in this series. And so we're going to take everything that we've learned, every name, every attribute, every glimpse of his goodness, and we wanted to speak a blessing over you into the coming year. So I am going to end this podcast with a blessing that it that is not just about words, but it's about the truth of who God is and who he wants to show himself to be in the new year that is ahead of all of us. So on behalf of everyone from the Father's Business, we wish you a wonderful New Year's celebration. And we pray this year that this will be a time where you get to know God in a deeper and more profound way. Because for every need you have, there is a characteristic of God that can meet that need. So, beloved, be blessed to rest in the compassionate and gracious God who abounds in steadfast love and faithfulness. May his mercy rise new over you every morning. May you be rooted in his love made manifest in Christ, and strengthened by his patience, which gives you room to grow and breathe. Be blessed with overflowing joy because he is a forgiving God. He pardons iniquity and delights to show mercy. May His faithfulness and steadfast love that is new every morning be the firm place your feet stand, and may you know him as your friend, the one who walks with you and never forsakes you. Be blessed to know that God not only loves you, but he likes you and he calls you his friend. May the Lord who is peace guard your mind and heart. Be blessed as his shalom steadies you when the world trembles. May the Good Shepherd lead you beside still waters and restore your soul. Be blessed in his abundance, allowing his abundance, not scarcity, to define your days. May his presence go with you and give you rest. May you meet him in solitude, hear him in stillness and abide in his love. Be blessed to be shaped by the God full of grace and truth, whose justice restores and does not shame, whose truth sets us free and does not condemn, and whose grace transforms us. We bless your eyes to be lifted in awe before the creator, the God of wonder, who declares the end from the beginning and fills creation with beauty and abundance and creativity and delight. May you walk in boldness as a new creation. You are chosen, adopted, and redeemed. And may the freedom of Christ be the song your life sings. Be blessed to live in reverence before the Holy One, whose holiness convicts but also cleanses, whose purity does not shame you but transforms you until you are as white as snow. Be blessed to savor Jesus as your Savior, not only the one who rescues, but the one who satisfies your deepest longings with good things. May gratitude deepen your joy and anchor your worship of him. Be blessed as the wonderful counselor guides your steps in this new year. May his wisdom quiet your confusion and illuminate the path before you. Be blessed in the name of the mighty God, the warrior and champion who fights for you. He strengthens you when you are feeling weak, and he steadies you when you are weary. Be blessed to rest in the arms of the everlasting Father, whose compassion is limitless, whose care never ends, and whose love will carry you all of your days. Be blessed in the name of the Prince of Peace, whose rule and wholeness know no end. His peace is so abundant that your worry and fear can never outlast his peace. And may that peace, that shalom, reign in every part of your life, in the big and the small. May the God who has revealed himself in all of these ways be compassionate, gracious, loving, forgiving, faithful, peace, presence, holy, creator, identity, counselor, mighty warrior, everlasting Father, shepherd, and savior, and so many more. May all of who he is fill your coming year with the fullness of him. May every name he carries become a promise you live from, a truth that steadies you, and a shield that protects you. May you be transformed by his supernatural love of you. Be blessed to walk in his strength, rest in his tenderness, listen for his counsel, live in his wonder, abide in his presence, and dwell in his peace. May the grace of Jesus and the love of the Father and the fellowship of the Spirit be with you now and always, and may you more deeply discover the fullness of who God is for you and who you are in Him in the coming year.com. Be sure to follow us at the Father's Biz on Instagram and Facebook.
