Break the ice. What tends to prompt your gratitude? (Time with friends? Gifts? Family?)

Many of the Psalms teach us how to be thankful and how to describe our gratitude to God.

Read Psalm 33 aloud together.

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Name as many attributes of God found in Psalm 33 as you can.

How might describing God (to God) spark gratitude in you?

How many different ways does the author invite people to praise God in verses 1-3? Which one is your preferred way to worship God?

How does affirming the sovereignty of God over all things help us to be thankful, worshiping people? (verses 10-12)

To close your time together, follow David’s lead in gratitude before the Lord. Ask the group to complete the psalm of praise below (Psalm 100) with their own words of thanksgiving.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

* Pause to pray: Name 3 things that you can praise God for today.

Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

* Pause to pray: Celebrate who God is and who you are to him.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

* Pause to pray: Give thanks to God and describe his work in your life.

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

* Pause to pray: Recount the details of God’s faithfulness to you. Amen.