A Prosperous New Month

As many of my regular readers have probably picked up by now, I pray through the book of Psalms each month (150 psalms divided by 30 days in a month = five a day). At the beginning of each new month, I start again at Psalm 1. And here is what greets me:

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

(Psalm 1:1-3)

Blessed! It is my confession. To confess something means to speak in agreement with it,* and I speak in agreement with this psalm.

• I am a blessed man.
• I do not walk in the counsel of the ungodly.
• I do not stand in the path of sinners.
• I do not sit with the scornful.
• I delight in the instruction of the LORD.
• I mediate in it continually.
• I am like a tree planted by rivers of water.
• I bring forth fruit in its season.
• My leaf shall not wither
• And whatever I do prospers.

I say these kind of things out loud, sometimes very loud and with great enthusiasm, and I recommend it to you. It is a wonderful way to start off a prosperous month.

For more on this, I’ve written a number of times about Psalm 1 and also about confession. Click the labels at the bottom of this post.

*Someone recently asked if our ministry practices “positive confession.” I answered that we practice speaking in agreement with the Word of God.