This document discusses the importance of thanksgiving and praise to God. It argues that thanksgiving and praise are vital steps to entering God's presence. Thanksgiving allows us to enter God's gates, while praise brings us into God's courtroom. The document encourages verbalizing gratitude to God through practices like thanking Him at the start of each day, during worship, for blessings and hard things, and when reading the Bible. It provides biblical passages supporting the importance of thanksgiving and praise. The document concludes with questions for group discussion on these topics.