To do God-things, we have to spend time with Him. Apart from Him, we can do every good thing but not God-thing.
Jesus went about doing good, healing ALL who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Acts 10:38). We can see a few things from this verse.
1) Jesus focused on doing good.
2) Healing is always good.
3) Jesus healed all who were oppressed by the devil. This means that the root of every sickness and disease is an oppression of the devil.
4) Jesus healed ALL. Yet He didn't heal ALL throughout His ministry on earth. This means that He only healed ALL those who came to Him, as well as those whom He saw/met when He went about preaching in the cities/villages.
5) The reason Jesus didn't heal ALL everywhere is that He had to move on to where God told Him to visit/preach (Luke 4:43-44). This reveals that He wasn't busy doing good things but God-things.
He would depart from people at times to spend time with God so that He knows the God-things to do, instead of good things.
6) Since healing is always good, and that sickness is an oppression of the devil, to focus on simply doing good things and not God-things means that the devil has successfully drawn you away from God's assignments.
To put it in a practical sense, if I spend all my time ministering healing to the sick and not care about my wife and my son, not providing for them, not parenting my child, etc, the devil has succeeded.
Good things can distract you from God-things. Ministry is not when you are doing good things, but when you are doing God-things.
P.S: Sometimes, it's about washing the toilet bowls.
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