Thankliving

Daily Scripture Threshing for Today, Friday, November 21, 2025

Today's Text: Psalm 103:1-5

Key Verse: Psalm 103:2 (KJV): “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.”

Today, the Lord invites us deeper—not just into a moment of thanksgiving, but a lifelong posture of “thankliving.” In the Psalms, David models gratitude as a rhythm embedded in life’s daily journey, not merely a response to blessing, but a lifestyle of continual remembrance. He urges his soul to “bless the Lord,” to recount each mercy, to make thanksgiving a constant spiritual breath. David’s stpory teaches us that thankfulness is not reserved for finished battles or mountain-top victories; true thankliving roots itself in every season, in valleys as well as peaks, in the ordinary and the miraculous.

David knew pain, pursuit, waiting, weakness—and still his heart clung to gratitude. He understood that the soul is prone to forget, to become dull to God’s everyday kindness. That is why he insists: “forget not all His benefits.” Thankliving means rehearsing God’s goodness, naming blessings past and present, and making them the melody that carries us forward. We see in David that a grateful heart is a guarded heart—guarded against bitterness, pride, and weariness—because it is continually refreshed by remembrance of God’s faithfulness.

Why does the Lord desire our lives anchored in gratitude? Because thankliving transforms perspective and sustains endurance. It is the antidote to complaint, self-pity, and envy. In cultivating gratitude, David demonstrates that joy is not circumstantial, but covenantal—grounded in who God is, not just what He gives. Thankliving moves us from fleeting praise to abiding adoration. It fosters an identity: not just as receivers of blessing, but as worshippers—living monuments to God’s sustaining love.

Choose today to make gratitude your lifestyle, not merely a reaction. Let every breath, every memory, every victory, and every trial become fuel for praise. Speak to your soul as David did, commanding it into remembrance. As you do, you reflect the psalmist’s secret: a heart continually anchored in God’s goodness becomes unshakeable. Thankliving marks our lives for others to see and serves as a testimony through feast and famine, and a light of praise shining through every circumstance.

Action Steps: Write down three specific ways God has sustained or blessed you this week. Pause to meditate on each, naming God’s faithfulness aloud. Begin and end every day by blessing the Lord, just as David did. In moments of difficulty, rehearse your list and let gratitude shape your spirit. Let your daily living become thankliving.

Quote for the Day: “Thankliving is gratitude set to motion—a life that sings the faithfulness of God, sunrise to sunset.” (Simon Olatunji #quotablequote)

Let Us Pray: Faithful Father, thank You for all Your benefits, for mercies new every morning and strength for each day. Forgive me for forgetting Your goodness and for times I have taken Your gifts for granted. Teach me, like David, to make praise my continual dwelling, and gratitude my way of life. May my soul never tire of remembering Your faithfulness. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Thank you for walking this journey of thankliving. For more encouragement, read: Psalm 34:1-4, Ephesians 5:18-20, Hebrews 13:15.

With all my love and prayers,

Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D.

Your Darling Bishop (DaBishop)

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