Prayers, Part 5: Thanksgiving

The series of prayers concludes with this prayer of thanksgiving. It covers the following three areas:

1. Thanksgiving for unasked-for blessings: His original love towards mankind, the gospel and its spread throughout the earth, our own salvation and the means by which we came to know Him, etc.
2. Thanksgiving for blessings given in answer to our own specific prayers
3. Thanksgiving(/blessing of the Lord) for His qualities and Person in general: His mercy, love, holiness, majesty, goodness, etc.

...and it is based on Psalm 111. Enjoy, and let us together thank the LORD for His goodness and love:

A Prayer for Giving Thanks

Praise to You, O Lord, God of all!

We have come together to give You wholehearted thanks

As the congregation of the upright

whom You have washed and sanctified

by the blood of Your Son, Jesus

Great are Your works, O Lord

Full of splendor and majesty

Most of all Your great work of redemption in Christ

Which You continue in the Church

Through the gift of Your Holy Spirit

Who causes Your wondrous works to be remembered

Who inspires us to love and study them

Who teaches us to seek You

Who fills us with Your grace

For Your righteousness endures forever

You are gracious and merciful,

O Lord of mercy and provision

And You provide food for those who fear You

For both our bodies and our spirits

You remember Your covenant forever

And therefore You have heard our prayers

And answered our pleas when we have cried to You

in the name of Your Son, Jesus

our only High Priest and Mediator

You have shown us the power of Your works

Which are ever faithful and just

All Your precepts are trustworthy

Established eternally to be performed

with faithfulness and uprightness

And You have sent redemption to us, Your people

That we might thus perform them

Remembering that Your covenant with us in Christ

Is everlasting.

Holy and awesome is Your name, O Lord, our God!

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

And His love is its fullness!

May we practice it in good understanding,

through Jesus Christ, our Lord

by the power of the Holy Spirit

One God, united without confusion

distinct without separation

Whose praise endures forever! Amen.