You can't defeat sin, so you might as well stop trying.

Is that true?

If you believe that lie, why try?

You'll be defeated before you start.

That is deadly counsel that you cannot get victory over sin.

That's the counsel of the ungodhood.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Walgaboo.

Author of A Place of Quiet Rest for Friday, January 4th.

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth is continuing in a series called How to Have a Happy New Year.

Well, here at the start of this new year, we're talking about how to have a truly happy new year.

To have a happy year is to have a blessed year, and we're talking about how to have a truly happy new year. To have a happy year is to have a

blessed year. And we're looking at Psalm 1 this week and next. And in this Psalm we see God's

prescription for blessedness, God's prescription for happiness. And I hope that you're reading

the Psalm with us this week. It's only six verses,

although we're managing to do eight or so programs on this short Psalm. But I hope that

you're reading it with us, that you're memorizing it, you're meditating on it. You have this

week and all of next week. And what a great foundation to lay for the new year as we see

God's prescription for a happy new year,

for a happy life, for a happy eternity found in this short song.

Now in verses 1 through 3, which we're looking at, we see the description of the righteous person.

So let me read the first couple of verses of this Psalm. Psalm 1, verse 1,

Blessed is the man, happy is the man or the woman, who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,

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