Thanksgiving Poems by Christina Joy Hommes

Enjoy these Christian Thanksgiving poems as you thank the Lord for His goodness and His many blessings.

For These and More

For kindnesses and mercies
For grace and answered prayer
For favor, help, and blessings
For tender love and care

For guidance and protection
For working out Your will
For peace and sweet assurance
For strength that You instill

For fellowship and friendship
For hope and daily light
For need and wise provision
For songs to cheer the night

For truth’s illumination
For healing, growth, and life
For pardon and renewal
For triumph in the strife

For sending out Your Spirit
For home and life above
For joy and free salvation
For everlasting love

For countless proofs of patience
For always being near
For Scriptures true and faithful
For every promise dear

For these and more we thank You
With hearts of joyful praise
And magnify Your goodness
That crowns our passing days

Christina Joy Hommes

“Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness; and Thy paths drop fatness.” Psalm 65:11

Each Day I Have New Reasons

Each day I have new reasons
To praise and thank the Lord
For all His grace and goodness
With faithfulness outpoured.

He loads me down with blessings,
Pursues me with His love,
And follows me with mercy
That leads me home above.

He sends the rain and sunshine,
Good food and clothing, too,
Provides from such abundance
That every day it’s new.

He gives me friends and loved ones,
And calls Himself my Friend;
He’s made me heir of heaven
With life that has no end.

His every Word and promise
Is faithful, sure, and true;
His Spirit dwells within me
To strengthen and renew.

And even in the valleys
He’s with me all the way
To guide and guard and cheer me
Until the break of day.

Each day His countless blessings
Run over from above.
Lord, thank You for Your goodness
So full of grace and love!

Christina Joy Hommes

Lord, help me remember
The things that You’ve done:
The blessings You’ve sent me,
The battles You’ve won,
Each needed provision
That shows how You care,
The guidance You’ve sent me,
The answers to prayer.

Lord, help me be grateful
For all that You’ve done
And mindful to offer
Real thanks for each one,
To praise You for mercies
So full and so free
And love so abundant
It reaches to me.

I won’t be forgetful
Of all that You’ve done;
I’ll choose to remember
Each victory You’ve won.
I’ll tell of Your goodness
And sing of Your love,
And look for each blessing
You send from above.

Christina Joy Hommes

Counting My Blessings

I stop to count my blessings
And every time I find
There’s more than I can number
Since God’s so good and kind.

Yet still I love to list them,
These blessings from above,
To praise my God and notice
The greatness of His love.

For breath and life You give me,
For daily food and care,
For timely rain and sunshine,
For mercies everywhere,

For friends and all my loved ones,
For cherished moments, too,
For church and Christian family,
For all I know of You,

For pardon and salvation,
For heaven’s promised rest,
For giving me the Bible –
How richly I’ve been blessed!

For recent gifts and past ones,
For hearing when I pray,
For showing me such kindness,
For loving me each day.

Lord, thank You for Your goodness
So constant, true, and strong –
I’ll praise Your Name forever
With glad and grateful song.

Christina Joy Hommes

With Thankful Hearts

With thankful hearts we look above
And see You on Your throne,
We glorify Your mighty Name
And worship You alone.

With thankful hearts we’re looking back
At all the things You’ve done,
We stop to see Your mighty works
And praise them one by one.

With thankful hearts we look around
At blessings from above –
Provision, guidance, answered prayer –
That show Your constant love.

With thankful hearts we look ahead
With hope and trust in You
That what You’ve been You’ll always be
And as You’ve done You’ll do.

With thankful hearts we look to You
And lift our hands in praise
For all Your care and character
That guide and bless our days.

Christina Joy Hommes

Psalm 100

We raise a joyful noise to You
Our Maker, Shepherd, Guide
For endless mercies ever new
And truth that will abide.

We come to serve with cheerful song
And hearts that overflow,
Rejoicing that we each belong
To One who loves us so.

Within Your courts we lift our voice
And bless Your holy Name;
In thankful praise our hearts rejoice –
Your goodness we proclaim.

You reign alone the Lord of all,
Sustainer of our days;
Before Your throne we humbly fall
And bring our highest praise.

Christina Joy Hommes

The Simple Things

It’s sometimes just the simple things
That mean so much to me –
Their value lies in deeper worth
Than other folks can see.

They represent the precious things
The Lord has kindly done,
The ways He’s taught me of Himself
And battles He has won.

They help me think of special times
With those I dearly love,
Of moments spent alone with God
And blessings from above.

Each time I think of what they mean,
They bring a smile or tear –
They’re full of cherished memories
These simple things so dear.

Christina Joy Hommes

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For All the Many Blessings

My heart is overflowing
With gratitude and love
For all the many blessings
You’ve sent me from above.

Forgiveness and salvation
Would be enough for me
Without a home in heaven
For all eternity.

Eternal life in heaven
Through Jesus Christ my Lord
Would be enough forever
Without His kind reward.

Rich treasures kept in glory
That cannot fade away
Would be enough, dear Savior,
Without sweet gifts today.

With all of these You’ve blessed me
And countless more each day –
They show Your loving kindness
And stir my heart to say:

Lord, thank You for Your mercy
So wide and deep and free –
My cup is running over
With all You’ve done for me.

Christina Joy Hommes

Help Me See the Gospel

Lord, help me see the gospel
So clearly I can love
The Savior who redeemed me
And waits for me above.

Lord, help me see the gospel
So clearly I can win
The lost who need Your mercy
To save them from their sin.

Lord, help me see the gospel
So clearly I can tell
The wonders of salvation
To those who love you well.

Lord, help me see the gospel
So clearly I can rest
Through storms of life in Jesus
And learn to pass each test.

Lord, help me see the gospel
So clearly I can raise
A song of glad of thanksgiving
With joy and fervent praise.

Christina Joy Hommes

Lord, Thank You

Lord, when I try to thank You
For all You’ve done for me,
There’s so much I could mention
And more I cannot see.

You made the world around me
So beautiful and bright,
To show Your love and power
And echo heaven’s light.

You send such loving blessings
To show me day by day
How well You know and love me
And guide me all the way.

You give me home and loved ones
Where I can feel Your love
With friends and church that show me
What life must be above.

You speak to me through Scriptures
So I can walk with You
To light my path and teach me
The things I ought to do.

You came to be my Savior
And wash my sins away;
You died and rose to save me,
And hear me when I pray.

You call me to a purpose –
To walk with You below,
To testify of Jesus
And share the love I know.

You tell me of the glory
That waits on heaven’s shore
Where soon I’ll see my Savior
And live forevermore.

I think of all these blessings
With thousands more beside –
Your favor and Your presence,
The way that You provide.

Lord, thank You for Your mercy
And pardon full and free,
For words to praise and bless You
For all You’ve done for me!

Christina Joy Hommes

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