Prayers for a Blessed Thanksgiving

As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, let’s pray God will cover our family times together and fill our homes with His presence, peace, joy and love.

Also, please take a moment and ask the Lord if there is someone He wants you to bless during the holidays, perhaps with a special dinner or gift. Do you have lost neighbors, or are there people from other countries who have never experienced Thanksgiving or Christmas in a Christian home before? Ask the Lord what He wants you to do to shine His light during this beautiful season meant to be all about Him.

Father God, during the holidays, as we gather together, please be Lord over our families and every interaction. Use us to bless everyone around us, to bring Your peace to situations that would normally be stressful. Go before us, Lord, to the places where we will gather together. Cast out anything evil that is not of You, and fill those places with Your felt presence and Your angels. Watch over our interactions. Remind us to intercede, especially for those we will spend time with who don’t yet know You. Wherever the enemy plans to sow dissension or cause difficulty, crush those plans, Lord, and bring forth instead love, peace, joy, patience, and understanding instead. Help us see others through Your eyes and speak the words that lift up, not harm. Make us quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Remind us these holidays are not about us or how others treat us; they are about You and the blessings You have given us, especially the gift of Your Son who gave His life so we can live. Help us love those around us with the same sacrificial love, laying down our own wants or hurts, and choosing to serve. Fill our travels, the places where we meet and our whole time together with Your presence, delight and conversations that lead to You. Protect our children as they play and fill them with joy and peace. Be with our loved ones who are far away and can’t join us. Meet them in special, intimate ways. Let them feel Your comfort and joy. Bless them with something beautiful, even miraculous from Your hand in such a way that they will know it is from You. And guard our hearts until we meet again. For those of us who are missing loved ones who have passed on from this life, give us comfort, sweet memories, and peace, dear Father. Let this holiday season be one that brings You glory. And any way that You want to change us, Lord, we offer You our hearts and minds to do with as You will. We love You. Touch us deeply with Your presence, mercy and grace. May Your love flow through us to everyone around us over these next few days and weeks. Remind us not to lean on our own understanding, but to look to You in each situation and carry out Your purposes in the power of Your love. For without You we can do nothing, but with You we can shine the light that draws the weary, hungry, hurting and lost up into Your arms. In Your name. Amen.

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