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.

Truth is more important than ever, but often not readily available in the national discussion about abortion. So this morning I dug up some of the posts on Kingdomstreams that speak to this issue.

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.

Pastors have a strong fleshly tendency to get off on tangents and to lose sight of what we have clearly/biblically been called to do, especially to focus on.