103 Reasons To Be Grateful This Thanksgiving

As Thanksgiving day approaches, I wanted to take a moment to outline some reasons we can be grateful.

It’s so easy to look at our lives and feel like there’s nothing to be grateful for this thanksgiving. But I tell you there’s a lot if only we can spend some time reflecting. Reflect on God’s goodness, faithfulness, mercy, love, grace, peace, joy, and blessings amongst others.

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Also, take a moment to reflect on the year so far, don’t you see the many blessings?

They are uncountable but I have collated 103 reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving.

Matter of fact Thanksgiving day shouldn’t be the only day we will thank God in a year.

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What the Bible Says About Thanksgiving

As Christians, we ought to cultivate an attitude of gratitude because the bible commands us to give thanks always.

16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NKJV

The bible passage above enjoins us to rejoice always, pray ceaselessly and give thanks in everything because it is God’s will for us.
Everything means everything, it means under no circumstance should we be sullen and ungrateful. Yet how often we forget this biblical injunction.
How often have you looked around you and felt dissatisfied with your life, happenings around you or your loved ones? I also have fallen short severally, but thank God for His grace and mercy.

Why We Should Give Thanks Regardless Of Our Situation

Before we think about the things we don’t have, or what God hasn’t done, or how unfair life is, let’s be grateful for life. Because God is the giver of life. (Genesis 2:7)

“… the Creator of the heavens,  who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth  with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people,  and life to those who walk on it:” Isaiah 42:5 (NIV)

God has spared our lives, therefore we should be grateful for this. Well, you may ask, what is the essence of life without all the things you desire?

And I will respond with the bible verse below;

Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! Ecclesiastes 9:4 (NIV)

Did you read that?

It means when there is life, there is hope, and your situation can change positively if you hold firm to your faith.

My post on biblical examples of answered prayers is proof that there is hope.

Without much ado, below are 103 things to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. The list is endless but I believe before you finish going through it, gratitude will well up in your heart.

Let me quickly say that the list has been written in no particular order.

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List of 103 Things to be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

1. Be grateful for the gift of life – there’s hope for a living dog than a dead lion. Read my story of hope here, pressed but not crushed; a story of hope.
2. Thank God for internet access, that’s why you can read this post.
3. Be appreciative that you either have a phone, a tablet, laptop or desktop to be able to read this. Or you at least have access to one.
4. Thank God for your family.
5. Appreciate God for your health.
6. Be grateful for your means of livelihood.
7. Thank God that you are not in crisis.
8. Be thankful that you are not living in a war zone.
9. Give thanks to God for your body parts.
10. Appreciate God for a sound mind.
11. God’s saving grace is another reason to be thankful.
12. God loves you, cares for you, and wants you to know it. Be grateful for this.
13. Thank God for the way you reason.
14. Bless God because you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
15. The Almighty gives you bread and water in due season.
16. You have a roof over your head.
17. Give thanks to God for sustaining you with warm clothing.
18. What about the shoes on your feet? Be grateful for those!
19. Thank God you’re not in the middle of a famine.
20. Glory be to God for answering every time you pray.

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21. Your children
22. Your colleagues at work
23. You have access to the Bible which is God’s word
24. God faithfully forgives you each time you repent
25. It is the will of God
26. When you give thanks, God will do more for you.
27. God daily loads you with benefit
28. He saved you from an accident that could have claimed your life.
29. He fights your battles for you
30. He anticipates your needs and provides it.
31. The government and workers who work tirelessly in the interest of the country.
32. Thank God for cars on the road, planes in the sky
33. Thank God for civilization
34. Thank God that you can worship Him freely without fear of persecution
35. Thank God for those challenges that they have not swallowed you
36. Thank God that you know where you are and where you want to be
37. Thank God for your goals and aspirations because He knows them all.
38. Thank God for the privacy of your thoughts. If everybody could know the horrible thoughts you have towards your spouse, brother, sister, loved ones and even enemies, how embarrassing that would be.
39. Thank God for the name of Jesus
40. Thank God for the blood of Jesus

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41. Thank God for the holy spirit who teaches us all things and brings everything to our remembrance
42. Thank God for the thoughts he has for you, they are thoughts of good and not of evil to give you a future and a hope
43. Thank God for his everlasting love
44. Thank God for the gifts of the holy spirit
45. Thank God for your friends
46. Thank God for being your pillar and holding your life together
47. Thank God that you are not a victim of violence
48. Thank God that depression did not get the better of you
49. Thank God for defeating the devil
50. Thank God for giving you power to be called His son
51. Thank God for the love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the holy ghost
52. Thank God for your pastors and ministers who labor over you
53. Thank God for the church of God that is marching on and the gates of hell cannot prevail
54. Thank God for safe delivery of our women, wife, sister, mother, cousin, or aunty.
55. Thank God for the children
56. Thank God for sustenance
57. Thank God because in Him we live, move and have our being
58. Thank God for adding another year to your life
59. Thank God for the elderly ones
60. Thank God for the widow and widowers

61. Thank God for every spirit-filled song that has blessed your soul this year.
62. Thank God for every soul-stirring message you have heard
63. Thank God that you are still in Christ
64. Thank God for drawing you to Himself.
65. Thank God for your bed
66. Thank God for a good night’s sleep
67. Thank God you’re able to go when you need to
68. Thank God for lifting you up from the pit and setting your feet on solid rock.
69. Thank God for giving you a new song to sing
70. Thank God for his joy that overflows your soul
71. Thank God for his guidance and direction
72. Thank God for being a present help in trouble
73. Thank God for our furry friends
74. Thank God for peace of mind
75. Thank God that you are not running helter-skelter
76. Thank God for his promises because they are yes and amen
77. Thank God for the air we breathe because it is free
78. Thank God for your digestive organs
79. Thank God for social media
80. Thank God for scientific breakthroughs that help eradicate terminal diseases and sicknesses

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81. Thank God for Bible study teachers and faith bloggers like me who help to propagate the gospel.
82. Thank God for every soul that has been impacted through this site.
83. Thank God for my readers and subscribers
84. Thank God for the privilege of prayer, that we can go to him everytime.
85. It is the right thing to do.
86. Thank God for the firemen, for the emergency workers
87. Thank God for the hospitals
88. Thank God for your favourite tea/coffee
89. Thank God for your soul
90. Thank God for the beautiful flowers
91. Thank God for the trees that give their shade
92. Thank God for the strength to lay down and get up as many times as possible.
93. Thank God you have a place to call your own
94. Thank God for being able to take a shower.
95. Thank God for the ability to brush your teeth
96. Thank God for Christmas because it marks the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
97. Thank God for all the seasons of life
98. Thank God for every rainbow because it’s a signal that God will never again destroy the earth with a flood.
99. Thank God for the cycle of life, we live, we die, we’re born.
100. Thank God for seedtime and harvest time.
101. Thank God for creating us in his own image and likeness.
102. Thank God for His indescribable gift 2 Corinthians 9:15
103. For His wondrous works Psalms 75:1

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