I have been praying that God will help us to bring the healing touch of Jesus into our broken world. I find this to be a simple prayer to pray but a mind-boggling undertaking to achieve. If God were to mobilize a people actually to bring the healing touch of Jesus into the world, how might He go about it? God has already given us His grace-filled answer.

Hear the Word of the Lord! "There are varieties of gifts…varieties of ministries…varieties of effects…. God…works all things in all persons…God has placed the members each one of them in the body, just as He desired…I show you a still more excellent way…love" (I Cor. 12:4-6, 18, 31; 13:1).

Do you know the best thing a local Church can do for God is for her people to put into practice whatever talents, gifts, strengths, gifts and abilities they might have, baptize them in the love of God and put into practice what those assets bring to church and community.

Different people will have different gifts that will lead to different ministries that will lead to different effects. As we go out and be who we are, contributing what we are able to contribute, and we go out for no other reason than the love of God fills us to the brim, the power of God's presence sits loose a new level of possibility. In this arrangement the authority of Holy Spirit becomes the one defining factor. In this arrangement the people of God will be in a place to participate in God's work in God's way through God's power and by God's provision.

What can you do for God's church today? Go for it!

All of us need the touch of God on and in our lives. The presence of Jesus in the world tells us that this need has been satisfied. Acts 10:38 tells us Jesus, "went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him." God was with Him and when Jesus is present with us, God is present with us, too.

Do you see Jesus this way? Wherever He went, He went there doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil!" Isn't this a great word for our age? He was about doing good and He was about drawing near to people in healing ways.

What an awesome gift Jesus is to the world. What a wonderful Savior, one who draws near to people in grace and mercy, and brings the grace of God into the very real stories of very real people.

Do you think that maybe Jesus could live through His Church that way? Wouldn’t it be great to have it said of the Church that wherever it went it did good and it brought the healing touch of God into the lives of people who lived in oppressions of a thousands kinds? I have a deep-seated theological conviction that this is our true job description, which kicks into gear the moment the church scatters from worship into the world of everyday living.

May God help us do the kind of good over which He will say, "Well done." May God help us to bring the healing touch of Jesus into a broken world.