If Er was evil in the sight of the Lord, he was unmistakably evil. God's acts of judgment are never rash or knee jerk. He knew/ordained that the Messiah would come from the line of Judah. They (God's judgments) are always in view of what is to come or what is to be.

Thankfully our great Savior Jesus came to restore what the enemy has sought to destroy. And to wash us clean by His blood from all evil, defilement and corruption that has resulted from our pride and arrogance. May we all learn to run to and cling to Him in these days and to be regularly sprinkled by His cleansing blood.

For a government leader to rule rightly and justly he will need boat loads of prudence, knowledge, discretion, counsel, understanding and power. Only as wisdom from God is obtained will these other qualities be obtained. They flow from wisdom.

I’ve found it very interesting in scripture that sibling relationships get so much coverage. And what I’ve concluded is God originally intended for sibling relationships to bear much fruit for His kingdom.

So when Luke says in 2:52 of Jesus, “And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” He wants us to know that one of the practices that enabled Jesus to attain to this kind of walk with God was His prayer life. One cannot have favor with God and not regularly commune with Him in prayer.

If we are ever to truly and effectively lay “….aside the old self with its evil practices, and …put on the new self…” (Colossians 3:9, 10), we must identify as clearly as we can by the Holy Spirit’s help what the old self looks like and operates like especially within our families and what the new self is that must replace the old self.

As I write this last post on healing (at least for now), I want to say that I apparently do not have the gift of healing, and I have not...

Jesus wants to continue to heal the sick and cast out demons and do other miracles as necessary among all the nations. But for Him to use us we must stay simple and childlike in our faith and dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

Being used by God can be a dangerous snare of Satan because it so easily causes one to think we are doing fine spiritually. But in fact we may need a major clean up on the inside.

esus has always cared for the sick and diseased and injured. Jesus has always intended for His church to be His instrument to heal such people through. He has not changed. But we His people/His body has ebbed and flowed throughout the centuries.

"... my experience with most if not all theological systems, is there are exceptions, and we should not ignore them. Our fleshly carnal nature loves formulas, and we have a tendency to put our hope and trust in systems instead of in our Savior."

Is He not today looking for laborers or workers who will follow His three fold pattern of ministry? Is He not today looking for those whose hearts are filled with His compassion for the misery that sickness and disease brings to people and families?

"...one of the reasons so many of us do not see healing in Jesus’s ministry as we should is because we do not see Him as we should. Many believers erroneously believe that the reason Jesus healed people is because He was God and because He wanted to prove He was God, or He wanted to authenticate His claims to deity. Some actually teach that this was His main reason for healing the sick."

There are many reasons why in general in the church in the West we do not see the call to contrition, brokenness, humility and poverty of spirit like we should. One of those reasons is because sin is so deceitful. The writer of Hebrews says we can be “ hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” (Hebrews 3:13).

God wants us all of us to be able to say with utter sincerity, “…The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21 He wants us to get to the place where we realize Jesus Himself and His kingdom rule and presence in our lives is far more precious and valuable than any assortment of material riches and wealth.

Every animal, person, commodity, speck of gold, silver, etc., on the planet belongs to God. He does with it what He wills. There is no lack or shortage with God. He knows of resources that no one else knows. And He knows how to get them where they need to be.

God expects and has made provision for us to see every person in our world the way He does. Objectifying and assessing the opposite sex or the same sex according to their looks, build, etc., much less violating/engaging sexually with them is no longer an option for a believer in Christ.

Every good thing God has planned and intended for humanity on this earth is dependent to some degree upon the institution or relationship of marriage between a man and a woman functioning on all cylinders. No wonder Satan and his demons have gone after it with all of their diabolical fury.

In one sense all of our sicknesses and diseases are a result of the fall of man and entrance of sin into the world. But there are times where specific sicknesses and/or diseases are a result of specific sins.

I find it interesting that in Ezekiel 34:1-4 his rebuke starts off in non specific prophetic kind of language, but then in vs. 4 he gets very specific. And the first two specific things mentioned have to do with sickness, “Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased (literally “sick”) you have not healed…”