Receive And Embrace

Mark 6:7-13


And He called the twelve to Himself, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits. ⁸ He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts— ⁹ but to wear sandals, and not to put on two tunics.
¹⁰ Also He said to them, “In whatever place you enter a house, stay there till you depart from that place. ¹¹ And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
¹² So they went out and preached that people should repent. ¹³ And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.


The word of God is our life.  We are to give thanks for it, praise it, and shout it out from the roof tops, that we have a God who can love us back to a sound mind, manifest us a life and a career that no man can take nor destroy.  God has placed us on earth to serve Him for His glory so His word must be learned and trained in to give Him His rightful praise.  Our Lord sent His disciples out telling them that they need not take anything for their journeys.  This meant the word of God would be all the world needed if only they embraced it.  Whatever door the disciples knocked on, the residents were supposed to receive them with open arms and be honored that true life awaited them in the word.  Our money, savings, and any other incomes, including hospitality and love were to be disbursed to the disciples as an appreciation for the true gospel.  If not, they were to be looked upon as a curse from
God.  Also He says not to even wear two tunics.  Rest and appreciation were to be extended to them from every aspect of their lives, as it is for us today.  It is spirits upon us, generational curses, that need to be broken, and only spiritual love will break them.  These are demons we are playing with out here.  Their every move is to entice us into pleasing our fleshly desires.  They want us to become so stimulated that we can only want more.  Spiritual healing has to be desired.  So we must use the spiritual man within us.  God can only connect with us through His spirit and He asks that we do the same.  We must be willing to become sacrifices, being trained by God to overcome.  Isaiah 11:2 "The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom, and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord."  We have dominion over ourselves and God's earth.  Receive and Embrace it.  2 Timothy 1:7 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 


Blessings to us as we receive and embrace the power of God,


Vincent Young, Christian Analyst