A Simple Prayer of Thanksgiving

Based on Exodus 34:6-7, Psalms 8:4; 100:3, and 1 Peter 3:18.

Oh most holy Father God, it is you that have made us, and not we ourselves. Thank you Father, thank you that we are not our own, but that we belong to you. Thank you for your gift of hope. Thank you for revealing yourself to us. For who are we, that you are mindful of us? That you would even tell us your name? But you are mindful of us Lord, and you have told us who you are. You are “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

Lord thank you for your mercy, thank you for your loving kindness, thank you that you bear with us patiently, thank you for your truth, thank you for forgiving our iniquity and disobedience, and thank you for your justice.

And most of all Father, thank you for the sacrifice your son made on our behalf, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to You. May always be mindful of the price you paid for us, until Christ comes again in glory, and in His name I pray, Amen.