Authority in Money or in the Spirit?

Numbers 21-23; Mark 6,7 

“…Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. These were his instructions: ‘Take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in your belts.’”

Mark 6:6-8

Jesus sent his disciples out on mission assignments in his authority and power, not with the authority and power of money, education, or culture. The authority with which Jesus commissioned his disciples included authority over evil spirits.

Would we rather have money and authority over evil spirits?

The vulnerability of not knowing where they would stay or what they would eat put the disciples in the position of full dependency on the power of God.

Have we ever allowed ourselves to be placed in these circumstances?

What barriers are there to our experience of the authority of God in our lives?

What will we be willing to do about those barriers for the sake of God’s mission-purposes in our lives?

“Lord Jesus, I surrender all I have to you; I rely on your Spirit’s power to live on mission through me, for your glory.”