It is noteworthy that the Lord did not tell Cain to stop doing what is wrong, but to simply “do right.” Legalists will focus on getting people to stop doing what is wrong, but the Lord emphasized the positive, doing what is right. As Jesus taught us, loving God and our neighbors is the fulfillment of the Law. In this way, the positives that we do through love will automatically keep us from doing what is wrong. For example, if we love God, we will not worship idols. If we love our neighbors, we will not steal from them, envy what is theirs, or murder them. The simple way out of depression is to start doing what is right, in love.
Faith Promise Declaration #7
I am marked by God. He has placed His name upon me and marked me for His blessings through Christ, the fullness of God’s blessings has been released upon me. I am blessed! Nothing can stop God’s blessings from soaking my life. In faithfulness and obedience, I will walk under God’s commanded blessings
Depression and the resulting suicide and murder is becoming epidemic among today\’s youth. There must be the important institutions of apprenticeship that enabled children to learn responsibility and engage in meaningful employment during the years when they most need focus, purpose, and responsibility. As the proverb states, “Idleness is the devil\’s workshop,” and he has certainly used the idleness of youth that was forced upon them. Therefore, we must redouble our efforts as parents to give our children meaningful duties and responsibilities, especially during puberty. What are now their worst years can be their best years if they learn to “do right.” If they are positively employed, depression will seldom find a door into their lives.
The summer solstice is on the 21st of June 2015 @ 16:38 UTC.
- Summer begins in the northern hemisphere because the summer solstice occurs when the sun crosses the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere. It will be the longest day of the year, it is also the first day of summer, the celebration day for the resurrection of Adonis (also called Tammuz and Osiris) with weeping and lamentation and wild revelry and immoral acts.
- Pray that the summer solstice will prophetically be the sign of the light of God that has come and the glory of the Lord which has risen upon you, your family, business, community, church, nation and continent. Pray through Is 60:1-3
- Pray that the summer solstice shall mark a cessation of the works of darkness; as it is also the shortest night.
- Today is Father\’s Day. Father’s day is observed on the third Sunday of June. It honors all fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and father figures for their contribution. It was created to complement Mother\’s Day.
- Learn to celebrate our fathers both spiritual and physical and our mentors on a regular basis and as often as you can, express your appreciation for them in tangible physical ways apart from blessing and praying for them.
- Pray that the Lord will raise more fathers who are patterned after His own heart, to bring succor to the brokenness in societies which struggle from a syndrome of fatherless generations.