Will you turn with me to I Chronicles chapter 23 reading verses 27 to 32...and thinking about the subject this morning "Thanksgiving Everyday..."

Will you note particularly verse 30 which says, "They were to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord and likewise at even." God highly values our expressions of praise and gratitude. You only need to read the scriptures in order to discover that. The matter of praise and thanksgiving occupies a much larger place in the context of scripture that is even a matter of prayer. It is an interesting thing that if you open your Bible pretty much in the middle, you open it to the book of Psalms. And right there in the heart of the Bible, you have this emphasis over, and over, and over again. Not only on the importance of praise and thanksgiving but also the value that God himself sets upon it...