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All right, welcome back to the Daily Blade. This whole week, we are going to walk through

one of the Psalms, and it's Psalm chapter one. And this Psalm is near and dear to my heart.

And the reason that it's near and dear to my heart is because almost 21 years ago when my son j p joseph

parry martin the fourth was born every night when i would put him to bed i would pray this p.

p.m over him and so when he was like two days old and he couldn't even understand what i was saying

all the way up even

to when he got into high school and didn't love it. I prayed these words. Psalm 1, blessed is the man

who walks not in the counsel of the wicked nor stands in the way of the center nor sits in the seat

of the scoffers. 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 that yields its fruit in its season

and its leaf does not wither and all that he does he prospers the wicked not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore, the wicked will not stand in judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Now, when I would pray this over JP, I would modify it just a little bit, and I think I memorized it like in the NIV or something. It was 20 something years ago. And so I would make it very personal to him. I would say, blessed is the man that does not walk into the way of the wicked or stand in the way of the center or sit in the scoffer, but he delights in the law of the Lord and and upon his law he meditates day and night. And then I would say, J.P., and may you be like a tree planted by streams of running water, may your fruit never wither, may everything you do prosper. And I kind of left out the wicked stuff, and I say, may God bless the righteous. Now, here's what I want to encourage you with.

If you have kids, you should pray out loud over your children, that it should be the constant

thing that they can look forward to every night. Pray out loud and not just random prayers

that you make up. That's fine. But I would highly encourage you to pick some Bible

verses to pray over your kids. Part of the reason I pick this to pray over my son is because it says

blessed is the man. And I wanted my son to grow up to be a man. And he turns 21 this year.

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