Examples of Mealtime Prayers

 Examples of Mealtime Prayers

Use these prayers around your family table or take them as inspiration to write your own prayers!

Prayers

 

Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we gratefully receive from Thy bounty, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

 

Bless, O Father, Thy gifts to our use and us to Thy service; for Christ’s sake. Amen.

 

Come, Lord Jesus, be our Guest, and let Thy gifts to us be blessed. Amen.

 

Be present at our table, O Lord. Be here and everywhere praised. These mercies bless and grant that we may feast in fellowship with you. Through Christ. Amen.

 

God our Maker, for what we are about to receive, make us truly grateful, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

 

May we eat and be full, and may our lives bless the Lord, our God, for the good He has given us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

Father, for this food and for every Word that comes from Your mouth, we praise Your name, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

 

Father, You work miracles with only a handful of flour and a little oil, with only five loaves and two fish, but You so often provide us much more. For grace upon grace, we give You thanks. Amen.

 

God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. By His hands we all are fed. Give us Lord, our daily bread. Amen.

 

God, our Father, we give thanks for what we eat and drink today. We want to do all to Your glory through Christ our Savior. Amen. 

 

Heavenly Father, everything You created is good, and we receive this food with thanksgiving, through Christ. Amen. 

 

Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who brings forth bread from the earth. Amen. 

 

Our Father, You give us our daily bread, and You give us the True Bread from heaven. For these gifts we give you thanks. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

 

God, our Father, be with us today. Bless our happy gathering, and bless this meal that we share. Protect us all, and help us to grow in our faith. In Jesus’ name we give thanks. Amen.

 

Our Father, send your Son, the Light of the world, to shine into our home and hearts today as we receive these good gifts around this table. Amen.

 

Our Lord, we receive this food and drink with joy and gratefulness. For these gifts and so many more, we bless your name. Amen.

 

God, our Father, You bless us abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that we need, we may abound in every good work. Amen.

 

God, You are able to make all grace abound toward us, that we, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. You supply seed to the sower and bread for food. We ask that You supply and multiply the seed we have sown and increase the fruits of our righteousness. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Scriptural Basis for Mealtime Prayers

Mealtime Prayers

Deuteronomy 8:10, “When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.”
 
Matthew 14:19, “[Jesus] took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, 
He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and
the disciples gave to the multitudes.”
 
Matthew 26:26-27, “As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and 
broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body.’ 
Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, 
‘Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood. . . .’”
 
Luke 24:30, “Now it came to pass, as [Jesus] sat at the table with them,
that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.”
 
Acts 27:35, “[Paul] took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all;

and when he had broken it he began to eat.”

Devotional Learnedness

There is a phrase that I picked up from my mentor that reflects the ongoing spiritual growth of the Christian. The phrase is “Devotional Learnedness.” This phrase refers to every type of Christian learning for devotional purposes and the pursuit of spiritual excellence. Remember what Jesus commanded in the Great Commission of Matthew 28 was for “disciples” to be made. Disciples are followers and students—lifelong learners. Also, a pursuit of holiness or spiritual excellence is not for the sake of earning our salvation, desiring the praise of men, or simply to fulfill religious duties. Rather, a pursuit of spiritual excellence is to live worthily of the calling that we have in Christ Jesus (Col 1:10; Eph 4:1; 1 Thess 2:12; Phil 1:27). Now, there are several passages that discuss how a Christian ought to live a life worthy of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Similarly, there are several key passages that discuss devotional learnedness. A few may be shared here.

Colossians 1:9: “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. . . .”

2 Timothy 3:15: “[F]rom childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

Galatians 4:19: “My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you. . . .”

Romans 8:29: “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Romans 12:2: “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

2 Peter 1:5-9: “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.”

2 Peter 3:18: “[B]ut grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”

So then, let us learn and obey the Bible—the Holy Scriptures—that we may be made into the people that God would have us to be.