Date: Wednesday, 22nd November, 2023
Text: Mark 5:1-20
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Storms can either come from the devil or from God Himself. The kind of storm the disciples and Master experienced in Mark 4:35-41 was from the devil. He sent the storm in order to stop Jesus and his men from crossing over to the other side of the sea where the mad man of Gadara was. But the enemy’s plan failed.
Immediately, Jesus stepped out of the boat in chapter 5 of the book of Mark, he was met by the demoniac who was possessed by a legion of demons (about two thousand).
The man’s insanity was of the very worst type. He lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. He had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones- Mark 5:2-5
Eventually, he got his deliverance and went about single-handedly preaching and testifying about Jesus Christ in Decapolis (a league of ten cities)- Mark 5:20. He devastated the kingdom of darkness terribly and populated God’s kingdom by spreading the fame of Jesus across the cities single-handedly.
The devil knew beforehand that the man was a potential threat to his kingdom, so he bound him with high-level madness. And even when Jesus, the Deliverer was coming to set him free, the devil sent a storm. Those are the devices of the evil one. But Christ prevailed over them all.
Every storm sent from the realm of darkness to stop your deliverance will not achieve its purpose in Jesus name.
Prayer Nugget: I still every storm sent to stop my deliverance in Jesus name.