(A Psalm) of praise. Of David. I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever (with grateful, affectionate praise). Every day (with its new reasons) will I bless You (affectionately and gratefully praise You); yes, I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and His greatness is (so vast and deep as to be) unsearchable. Psalm 145:1-3 (AMPC)
Notice the title of the Psalm: “(A Psalm) of praise. Of David.” The Hebrew superscription of this psalm reads, “Tehillah of David.” Tehillah is a spontaneous new song. It is singing from a melody in your heart by adding words to it. It refers to hymns of the Spirit. The word is found 57 times in the Old Testament. One such example is Psalm 34:1:
…his praise (tehillah) shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1 (KJV)
David did not compartmentalise his life into the secular and the sacred. Every day was an opportunity to praise God. His songs did not solely arise when everything was going his way. In fact, it was usually when he was up against things and had relied on God’s deliverance that a new song came forth. Take for example, Psalm 40:
I waited patiently for the Lord;
And He inclined to me and heard my cry.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God… Psalm 40:1-3 (ESV)
We can be like David and determine in our hearts, “Every day (with its new reasons) will I bless You…”