A Thanksgiving Prayer “Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord: let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.” Psalm 100
This Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in America. Canada already had one before the snow and ice hampers that fine but cold nation from giving thanks to God.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to gather with family and friends and reflect on the blessings of the last year. Many of us experience renewed hope and faith during the Thanksgiving holiday because we turn our eyes onto what is most important.
What if we spent time each day in giving thanks and prayer? How could God grow out faith and trust if we lived a life of thanks through all seasons and not just Thanksgiving time? When your heart is filled with gratitude, there is little room to worry or complain. Here is a classic Thanksgiving Prayer:
“O Heavenly Father:
We thank Thee for food and remember the hungry.
We thank Thee for health and remember the sick.
We thank Thee for friends and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us to service.
That Thy gifts to us may be used for others.
Amen.”
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As the Good book reminds us: “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.” Psalm 136:1
Rev. Terry Rebert is Pastor of Historic Zion Lutheran Church in Ottawa Lake, Mi. and weekly devotional writer of Words of Faith for Transformation Ministries.
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