A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Lord, how can we find the right words to express our gratitude for all your blessings upon us? Material and spiritual blessings that we cannot even count.

Beloved Heavenly Father, thank you for our life in Christ, for we do not deserve such salvation that "has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of [your] beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." (Col. 1:13) We were once your enemies, but you reconciled us with you through the perfect sacrifice of your beloved Son and gave us free access to you through the new and living way that He opened to us through His blood.

Thank you for your daily provision for us and our loved ones, for we know that it is You who give us everything we have, and even with all our efforts, we would not even be able to dress ourselves like the lilies on the field that neither sow nor reap. Thank you for the health that allows us to get out of bed with the necessary physical faculties to live another day in your presence.

Dear God, thank you for allowing us to breathe, walk, run, smile, love, be loved, see the world you created, and marvel at your power and glory in every part of creation. Thanks for those who love us, our family, church, friends, and everyone who is part of our lives. Thank you also for what we do not have and are not because we are confident that the best for us is not what we want but what you plan for us. If we do not have something or are not what we wanted, it is by your will, and we thank you for that, too.

Thank you for your constant presence guiding us. For your Holy Spirit who strengthens us, convicts us of sin, and intercedes for us because we do not even know how to pray. Thank you because He comforts us when we need it and strengthens us when the circumstances of life weaken us. Thank you for the hope of glory, for the certainty that "the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us." (Rom. 8:18). Thank you, Lord!

To you be all glory and honor. To You be our Thanksgiving; to You from whom all blessings flow.