Songfacts®:

• New Jersey native Breland grew up the son of two ordained ministers who filled their home with gospel music. Whenever Breland visits his preacher grandpa in Georgia, he attends his church, where the buoyant services are filled with gospel music. Here, over a vigorous guitar riff and handclaps, he expresses his thankfulness to God for the southern way of life.
  
  "As someone that grew up in church and has a faith background, I think it's really easy to forget where you came from and to think that you did everything on your own, and I'm not someone that believes that. I really feel like a lot of this, if not all of it, has been divinely orchestrated," Breland told Kelleigh Bannen of Today's Country Radio. "And so, I'm always praising the Lord for different things that happen, both good and bad, because you learn lessons on both sides. But I think being able to do what I love for a living and not having always been able to do that is something that I'm extremely grateful for. And hopefully what people take away from this song is that regardless, as I say in the pre-chorus, win or lose, praise the Lord. It's a song about gratitude, being thankful."
• Though Breland lets loose on Saturday, he'll always be in church on Sunday morning.
  
  Praise the Lord that I got everything I want and need and more
  I might turn up on Saturday, but first thing Sunday morn'
  I praise the Lord
  
  Breland chose the words "might turn up on a Saturday night," rather than "might get drunk" in the chorus carefully. "Because 'get drunk' is very, very specific," he told Audacy's Rob & Holly. "It doesn't have to be that. It also doesn't have to be drinking at all. You might just be going out on a Saturday and then waking up early Sunday, whether or not drinking is involved. You could do it from home. 'Might turn up' is anything... it felt more universal to me."
• Thomas Rhett steps in just over the midway point of the song to express his gratitude to God for a country life worth living. Rhett has touched on his Christian faith before on such songs as "Remember You Young," "Be A Light" and "Heaven Right Now."
• Released on March 7, 2022, Breland and Rhett teamed up to debut "Praise the Lord" at the 2022 ACM Awards a few hours later.
• Breland wrote "Praise The Lord" with David Garcia, Jessie Jo Dillon and Hardy shortly after he arrived in Nashville in 2020. He sent the demo to producer Julian Bunetta, who passed it on to Thomas Rhett. The country star agreed to the collaboration because his kids loved the song.