Songs of Summer - Week One

Sunday, June 06, 2021

Every album releases a single to set the tone and get the audience excited. Psalm 1 is like the single before the album--setting the tone for the whole book. It opens the window to the truly blessed (happy) life.

Each of our bodies have "happiness" chemicals

Oxytocin - Chemical of Comfort

Dopamine - Chemical of Discovery

Sero06tonin - Chemical of Significance

Psalm 1 shows us how to tap into these three "happiness" chemicals GOD'S WAY.

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers… Psalm 1:1 (NIV)

Oxytocin - Chemical of Comfort

Challenge: Do a relationship inventory

… whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. Psalm 1:2 (NIV)

Dopamine - Chemical of Discovery

Challenge: Think about what you think about

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Serotonin - Chemical of Significance

Challenge: Go Help Someone

Bottom Line:

GOD'S BLESSING is found GOD'S WAY

Challenge:

Find GOD'S Blessing