A Prayer For Thanksgiving

(I got this prayer off a flyer from a store in Frankenmuth. I hope it touches your heart.)

They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

Psalm 145:7

Lord, as I sit down at a Thanksgiving table once again,

I want to thank You for Your goodness to me.

Thank You for meeting my needs every day- for food and shelter and clothing, and for the many extras You provide that I so often take for granted.

Thank You for family and friends who make my life complete. Thank You that even when we are miles apart, we are bound by the cords of Your love.

Thank You that I live in a country where I am free to worship You and to read Your Word.

Most of all, I thank You for Your Son, Jesus Christ, who is the "light of the world". When I turned to Him, He flooded the darkness of my soul with the light of Your love.

Thank You that He not only died for my sins, but that He is alive today at Your side- hearing my prayers and preparing a home for me in Heaven.

Thank You that Jesus came into this world and took up residence in my life as Saviour, Lord, and God.

Thank You for all that You have given me as a Christian: The Holy Spirit who is Your presence in my life, the Bible that is a light to my pathway, and Christian friends who encourage and help me.

Thank You that I can face tomorrow with hope because Jesus is living for me.

O, Lord, how truly rich I am!

Thank You for all You mean to me.
Amen

"...Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations. "

Psalm 100: 4-5

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1 Chronicles 29:11-13

"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power

and the glory and the majesty

and the splendor,

for everything in heaven and earth is yours.

Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom;

you are exalted as head over all.

Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things.

In your hands are strength and power

to exalt and give strength to all.

Now, our God, we give you thanks,

and praise your glorious name."

Psalm 95:1-6

"Oh come, let us sing to the LORD!

Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;

Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

For the LORD is the great God,

And the great King above all gods.

In His hand are the deep places of the earth;

The heights of the hills are His also.

The sea is His, for He made it;

And His hands formed the dry land.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker."