Dear Lord,

There’s SO much to be thankful for today, but most of all we give thanks for your amazing love and your willingness to demonstrate it by sending your precious son to die on a cross for us so we could be forgiven for our sins and spend eternity with you in heaven! We thank you for your presence in our lives every day and for the power of the Holy Spirit and the work He does in and through us. We thank you for your word and the wisdom and understanding we gain by reading and meditating on it. And we thank you for all the angels you send to guard and direct us and all the ways they assist and minister to us at all times. We thank you for the people in our lives that we love and who are very special and significant to us in so many ways. And we thank you for those who love us and that you’ve allowed us to be significant in their lives as well. We thank you for your infinite mercy and grace and for the capacity you give us to forgive and love unconditionally. We thank you for peace that passes all understanding and that we can be content in all circumstances, because we know you work EVERYTHING out for good when we love you and are called according to your will and purpose for our lives. And we even thank you for the difficult times in our lives when you taught us what it means to be fully reliant on you, and for the many things you teach us in such times and that they’ll ultimately be used for your glory. We thank you for our abundance of material blessings, and we ask for your forgiveness for our lack of gratitude for how truly blessed we are in comparison to those who suffer from lack of things we consider essential, like clean drinking water and nutritious food, good health and a roof over our heads. We truly are blessed beyond belief, but we often fail to realize just how blessed and fortunate we are and to give you thanks for all that your hand has provided.

There are SO many things to give thanks for in my personal life, Lord, that it’s hard to know where to begin! But first, I have to thank you for the call you’ve placed on my life for FAM Ministries and the most awesome sense of joy and fulfillment it’s brought to my life. And I thank you for the tremendous growth I’ve experienced in my own walk with you and for the opportunity and ability to study and be blessed by your word. I thank you for each of the women (and men) you’ve brought to the ministry as I pray for your most awesome blessings to be poured out into their lives today and always. I pray that they will continue to draw closer to you, Lord Jesus, because I know that when we’re in right relationship with you, all of our relationships are right. So please lead them into the righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit you told us your kingdom is all about. And I thank you for the special blessings each of the ladies are to me personally, because they’re all such special and unique women, and I treasure each and every one of them. So I pray for YOUR wisdom, patience and guidance in all that I say and do, and pray that it ALWAYS leads us back to your word and a greater reliance on your power and love. I pray for your special blessings in the homes that are missing dads or moms this year and thank you for the work we know you’re doing in the lives and hearts of the absent husbands and wives to bring healing and restoration to their families. I thank you for the work I’ve already seen you do in the lives of so many of our ladies, Lord, and thank you in advance for all that I know you will be faithful to complete in the coming year, and for the many more families that will be restored by this time next year!

We love you and give you all praise, honor and glory. So please lead us to live our lives as yielded and willing vessels so that your work can be accomplished through us and others will be able to see your love and goodness in us. Be Thou glorified in our lives today and always. In the most awesome name of Jesus Christ, we pray and give thanks! Amen.

Here’s a very appropriate message from Joyce Meyer for today, A Thankful Attitude. So let’s all remember to give thanks to the Lord for all the wonderful things He has blessed us with, and remember that Colossians 4:2 says Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. May you all be blessed this Thanksgiving Day and always!

Posted Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 at 9:38 am in Seeds Of Faith.