A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Based on Psalms 95 and 136

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.

Oh Lord, we give thanks to you for your infinite greatness and goodness. For you have created all things by your great power and called them good; you sustain all things by your good hand; and you love to bless your people out of your goodness. Thank you, Father, for these many blessings. For sun and moon and stars; for the changing of the seasons; for fields beautifully arrayed. Thank you for many relationships you have given us; thank you that you that we are not alone. Thank you, Father, for our daily bread. Thank you for giving us safe places to live and work and worship you. And thank you for revealing yourself to us, for you yourself, Lord, are our ultimate good.

Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
For His mercy endures forever.
Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
For His mercy endures forever:

Now to Him alone who does great and wondrous works, who made the heavens and earth in power and wisdom, who sustains his creation with goodness and mercy, and who bled and died on our behalf, we offer up our eternal thanks and gratitude.

It is in Christ’s name I pray,
Amen.


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.