Prayers For Thanksgiving Dinner: Heartfelt Prayers & Blessings Of Gratitude

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Make your Thanksgiving Day table overflow with gratitude with these heartfelt blessings and prayers for Thanksgiving dinner.

Nervous about leading the prayer at your family Thanksgiving? Or maybe you just want to shake your prayers up a bit?

You’re in the right place!

Below, you will find a long list of examples of prayers you can pray at your Thanksgiving dinner table, from prayers of thanks and praise to a more traditional Thanksgiving grace. You can use our exact words or just use the prayers below for inspiration to come up with your own.

Whether you are gathering with friends or family or just celebrating this special occasion yourself, Thanksgiving Day is a beautiful time to stop, remember, and thank God for His many blessings in your life. And it’s a great time to slow down and tell the people in your life how grateful you are for them, too (we’ve even included some blessings that you can speak over the people in your life, as well!).

A heart overflowing with gratitude is a wonderful thing.

Prayers For Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving Day Prayer

God,

Thank You for this special Thanksgiving Day – a day set apart for us to refocus our thoughts and hearts on gratitude. Help us to remember all of the ways you’ve blessed us – with friends, family, provision, sunrises, pets, and so many other ways You meet us where we are every single day.

Help us to remember the big ways we’ve seen You move in our lives but also the hundreds of small things You do for us throughout our days. And, not just remember them, Lord, but help us to share our stories of Your goodness with everyone around us so that all of the people in our lives can experience more of You.

With hearts overflowing with gratitude, we give our thanks to You.

Amen.

Prayer of Thanks & Praise

Lord,

Thank You for the food You have blessed us with today and for every person sitting around this table. You always provide for us, always bless us, and are unfailingly faithful. You deserve all of our praise and we pour our hearts out to You today with thanksgiving for all You’ve done for us.

We are thankful and so blessed. Amen.

Prayer Of Gratitude

Father God,

Thank You for always meeting me right where I am. You always hear my heart, understand my struggles, walk with me through my darkest days, provide for all of my needs, and You are my rock and anchor.

Today, let me feel my gratitude on a deeper level than I ever have before, seeing all of the ways You have moved in my life, answering prayers that I didn’t even notice. You are such a good Father and I am so grateful for Your goodness.

Amen.

Prayer Of Thanksgiving In The Bible

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with music and song.
For the Lord is the great God,
    the great King above all gods.
Psalm 95:1-3

Check out more Bible verses about thanksgiving & gratitude to read around your Thanksgiving Day table.

To Thank God For The Gift Of Life

Lord,

Thank You for the gift of life. It’s so easy to complain when things don’t go my way, but no matter how much I’m struggling, I know I am abundantly blessed. Because You created me from the first day of my life, and have loved me, cared for me, and protected me every day since.

You created me, beautifully and wonderfully, for a purpose, and I lift my life to You today as I strive to live that purpose out. With every breath You give me, let me breathe for You. I offer myself as a living sacrifice to You.

I love You, Lord, amen.

Thank God For His Goodness

Heavenly Father,

I thank You for your unfailing goodness in our lives. You are a God who gives us joy in our struggles, peace when it passes all understanding, and hope when there is no reason to believe things will change. No reason except for You, Father.

You are good when there is nothing good in me. You are faithful in the moments when I’ve lost my faith. And you pour out Your blessings into my life when I’ve done nothing to deserve it.

Thank You with all of my heart, amen.

Thanking God For All Of His Blessings

God, You are so good to us.

Thank You for every blessing You’ve poured into our lives – for family, for friends, for health, and for this meal You’ve blessed us with today. And, above all, thank You for loving us enough to send Your Son to die for our sins on the Christ. We didn’t earn it, we certainly don’t deserve it, but we are so very thankful today.

In Your Name I pray, amen.

Thanksgiving Table Prayer

Heavenly Father,

Thank You for this bountiful table You’ve laid before us on this special occasion, reminding us to return our hearts to gratitude. We are so thankful for this food, for every person sitting around this table, and for every loved one who couldn’t be here with us today.

I pray that You bless this food to our bodies and let us use it to do good works for You, counting our blessings today and every day.

With thankful hearts, we say, amen.

Thanking God For Answered Prayers

Lord,

Thank You for being an Almighty God who is bigger than our imagination but who still cares about the details of our every day lives. You hear our prayers, for big things and small, and You have answered prayer after prayer.

Thank You for being present with us always and for loving us so much that You satisfy our hearts’ greatest desires. We love You and want to shout out Your faithfulness from the rooftops.

You are so good to us, Father. Amen.

Be Present At Our Table, Lord Grace

Be present at our table, Lord

Be here and everywhere adored

Thy creatures bless and grant that we

May feast in fellowship with Thee

Amen

Check out more grace song ideas that you can sing at the dinner table that kids will love!

A Thanksgiving Prayer Of Remembrance

God,

Today on this Thanksgiving Day, help me to remember. While our table is overflowing, help me to remember the hungry. While we are here surrounded by loved ones, help us remember the lonely.

While we are in good health, help us to remember those whose bodies are failing. While we have jobs and homes, help us to remember the unemployed and the homeless.

In our remembrance, stir our hearts to action and equip us to be Your hands and feet and share our blessings with those in need. We thank You for our many blessings and ask You to show us how we can be a blessing to others.

In Jesus’ Name I pray, amen.

Thanksgiving Blessings To Speak Over Family & Friends From Scripture

Prayers For Thanksgiving Dinner - place setting at Thanksgiving table with the words "thankful" drawn on brown tag

Some of the blessings below are not exact quotes from the Bible but they are inspired by the Bible verses listed and some of the blessings below are directly from Scripture.

Numbers 6:24-26

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May He turn His face toward you and give you peace. Amen.

Psalm 20:4

May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.
Psalm 20:4

Philippians 1:9-11

May your love abound more and more with insight and knowledge so that you may have wisdom in how to live so that you may be filled with Jesus’ righteousness and blameless in His sight.