I want you to turn to Luke 17, Luke Chapter 17, and we're going to continue our series called

Living in His Presence.

And we're really talking about worship, and we're talking about entering God's presence

not just every weekend but every day and not going out from his presence if you

remember we talked about this but going out with his presence, if you remember we talked about this, but going up with his presence,

living in his presence.

And so the title of this message is, His Thanksgiving.

His Thanksgiving.

And even though we're approaching the holiday of Thanksgiving,

this is what the pilgrims did.

We know they gave thanks.

Sometimes we don't think about it. We just think about

Thanksgiving is one word and as a holiday and we get off work and get to eat and

watch the game. But it comes from the words, thanks, and giving, or you can interchange those, giving thanks.

As I told you a moment ago, let's give thanks.

That's something some people say to me,

you might not know where it came from.

It's nowhere in the Bible until Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

And then you'll hear Jesus,

he's the one that started that every time when he broke bread,

it said he gave thanks.

So it came from Jesus himself trying to teach us that even daily provision

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