Go Home to Your Family and Tell them all …

“​Jesus did not let him [come], but [instead] He said to him, “Go home to your family and tell them all the great things that the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you.” (Mark 5:19¹ AMP)

Reading: Mark 5:1-20²

God wants to save the world by our preaching of the cross; we are the witnesses of this truth. A witness must have an experience; a witness who does not have an experience is a false witness. Every witness has an experience, or must have had an experience.

In view of this, whenever we have an encounter with Jesus Christ, He focuses on liberating us from the things that hold and try to control us in captivity. The demoniac of Gadara was held and controlled by unclean spirits. In his encounter with the Lord, he was touched with power and liberated. Believe God to touch you with power as you read this devotional . The same Jesus who touched the man of Gadara will touch you with His power.

God wants to liberate and bless you so that you can testify to the rest of the world around you. The Lord liberated and empowered the man of Gadara to be able to reach 10 cities. If a man without a Bible school training reached 10 cities, I can do no less. It’s time for a real encounter with the Lord that would so liberate and empower us to publish the news of God’s mercy.

If you are a Christian, you must preach the gospel,  your first responsibility is to your family. God has a purpose to save the world and we have a role to play. The world must be redeemed from the pain of the present and we are the agents of change and messengers of redemption.

If you have had an encounter with the Lord that liberated and empowered you; you must tell people around you. You must publish the news. When the Lord healed the man who was buffeted by demons, He sent him back to his family. You are a messenger to your family. We must revive the culture of sharing the Word of God with our families. We are sent as messengers to our families, as you share the word of God with your family may the power of God be made available to liberate them.

Go tell them! Go share the word with them. Go and announce to your family what things God has done for you. We must testify that God has had mercy on us. Our families must know that the grace and mercy of God has found and empowered us. This how to influence the families of the earth with light.

Receive the grace and ability to share your testimony and faith with your family. Every wicked power plaguing your life is losing its hold. God will give you a testimony. You will have stories of triumph to share. The Lord will keep and sustain you. You will make impact in Jesus name.

Stay blessed; I love you.

Referenced Scriptures

1. Mark 5:19 (KJV): Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. ↩︎
2. Mark 5:1-20 (KJV): And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel. ↩︎