Thanksgiving Prayer
Heavenly Father, Lord God of Hosts, we ask Your blessing on
this food and on our family and friends about to partake of it. We thank You
for a country where each person is allowed to seek You in his or her own way,
free of a state-imposed theocracy which works to the benefit of the theocrats
and against the people’s liberties. We thank You for Your bounty, ever aware
that there are so many people throughout the world who live under systems of
oligarchy, tyranny and statism who thus suffer from hunger, privation and a
lack of freedom. We ask that You put charity in our hearts to help the less
fortunate of our own volition, and not through coercion.
We thank You for the foresight of the founders of this great
Republic, who gave us a free-market, capitalist system where property rights
are protected, allowing the accumulation of wealth, which has given tens of
millions of Your people Freedom from Want since it was establish out of the
smoke and suffering of battle. We ask Your protection and care for our free
economy and our free society that future generations may share in Your bounty
and blessings.
Father, we seek Your blessings on our troops and our
veterans, those young people who give all, often even their lives, to protect
the freedoms You have bestowed on us, from those who make a perversion of God,
a catechism of power, and a religion of the state. Return our guardians safe to
their families, comfort the wounded and, when they must sacrifice all, take
them into Your Grace for eternity. They are truly the one percent, who shame
their contemporaries who want to receive without toil from the efforts of
others. We thank You for sending them to protect us and to serve as an example
of the better angels of our nature.
We know, Father, that our people and our country have not
been perfect. Nor have we who petition you on this day of Thanksgiving been
without sin and flaws. We ask Your blessing and guidance on those who would
make our nation better and freer and more prosperous and to make us better
people. We ask that You turn Your face against those who would destroy freedom
and prosperity, whether they disguise their lust for power as being in Your
name or the name of “social justice” and secular government. Put up Your hand
as a shield against those who would enslave Your people to government to toil
for those who traded power for unearned largess.
We ask, Father, that You preserve this great Republic and
its free institutions, including the freedom for people to keep what they earn by
their toil and by taking the risks that advance prosperity, free from the fear
of confiscation by thugs on the street or thugs in government. We ask this in
Your Name, not for ourselves, who have already enjoyed wonderful lives in this blessed
country, but for our children, our grandchildren and all future children, that
they may enjoy the blessings of liberty and Freedom from Want that we believe
are gifts from You and thus the rightful inheritance of Your people.
Amen.
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