PHILLIPSBURG FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH January 2015 From The Pastor’s Pen NEWSLETTER Continued on page 2 In just a few days 2015 will be history and 2016 will be upon us. Like it or not, time marches on and the calendar changes. But the Word of God remains the same. Would you like to be blessed by God in 2016? Who wouldn’t? I hope and pray to be blessed in the New Year. All of us feel that way, which is why we wish each other a “blessed” new year. We mean by that, “May the favor of God rest upon you all year long.” (Or as the Hebrews would say SHALOM) That’s a wonderful thought. No one (at least no healthy person) gets up and says, “I want to be miserable today. I hope I have a rotten day.” We all want to be blessed. We all want to be happy. We all want to find fulfillment in what we do every day. Psalm 1 tells us how we can be continually blessed every day. In just six short verses we learn the secret of the life God blesses. And it’s not related to New Year’s resolutions. Every January most of us make a list of things we want to change. But the blessing Psalm 1 talks about goes much deeper. “Blessed is the man.” Happy is the man. This is God’s prescription for happiness. As you study this psalm, you will discover that blessedness relates to the way we live and the choices we make. It depends on the kind of people we are. From God’s point of view, there are two ways and only two ways to live because there are two kinds of people in the world and only two kinds. There are the righteous and then there are RELAX GOD WANTS TO BLESS YOU IN 2016!
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PHILLIPSBURG FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
January 2015
From The Pastor’s Pen
NEWSLETTER
Continued on page 2
In just a few days 2015 will be history and 2016 will be upon us. Like it or not, time marches on and the calendar
changes. But the Word of God remains the same. Would you like to be blessed by God in 2016? Who wouldn’t? I
hope and pray to be blessed in the New Year. All of us feel that way, which is why we wish each other a “blessed”
new year. We mean by that, “May the favor of God rest upon you all year long.” (Or as the Hebrews would say
SHALOM) That’s a wonderful thought. No one (at least no healthy person) gets up and says, “I want to be
miserable today. I hope I have a rotten day.” We all want to be blessed. We all want to be happy. We all want to
find fulfillment in what we do every day.
Psalm 1 tells us how we can be continually blessed every day. In just six short verses we learn the secret of the life
God blesses. And it’s not related to New Year’s resolutions. Every January most of us make a list of things we
want to change. But the blessing Psalm 1 talks about goes much deeper. “Blessed is the man.” Happy is the man.
This is God’s prescription for happiness.
As you study this psalm, you will discover that blessedness relates to the way we live and the choices we make. It
depends on the kind of people we are. From God’s point of view, there are two ways and only two ways to live
because there are two kinds of people in the world and only two kinds. There are the righteous and then there are
RELAX GOD WANTS TO BLESS YOU IN 2016!
From The Pastor’s Pen continued
the wicked. Everyone in the world falls into those two categories. There is no “in-between” category. Psalm 1
shows us how the righteous live and why they are blessed. It also shows us the end result of both ways of life.
If we want to be blessed by God in 2016, we need to pay attention to this psalm.
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in
the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers” (Psalm 1:1-3).
Isaiah 40:8 " The grass withers, and the flowers fade. but the word of our God stands forever." Determine that in
this new year 2016 you will spend more time meditating on His word so that whatever you do will prosper,
SHALOM to all my brothers and sisters in the Lord. Love you, Pastor Herder