10.October.2026
An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal”
Yesterday we looked at Who sent us, how He led, and the heart it has to come from. Today is regarding what He actually sent us to do. There are two things: proclaiming the gospel and taking authority over sickness.
Neither one is optional for the person who is sent.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Matthew 10:7-8
He gave it to them in a single breath. There is no ranking in it, no choosing the comfortable half, and no order that makes one a condition of the other. Preach, heal, cleanse, raise, cast out, and then the line that matches yesterday: freely ye have received, freely give.
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark 16:15-18
Mark records the same commission with the gospel first and the signs following those who believe and go. The two are written as one assignment, not a main task with an optional extra.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. James 5:14-15
And it is not only for the apostles. James hands it to the ordinary church, where the sick call for the elders, who pray in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith is placed in their hands.
None of this is a verdict on the person who is sick. When the disciples assumed that someone’s sin must be the reason, Jesus corrected them.
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. John 9:3
Sickness is something we take authority over and never a transfer of responsibility from us the believer to the sufferer, and the going and the commanding belong to us who believe and the power is His.
All of it has to come from the heart we saw yesterday, because power without going out and doing what Jesus did in love, is just noise.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-2
Both assignments, together, from that heart. Neither one is a performance, and neither one is a hobby. It is the same love from yesterday, as I have loved you, carried into the places where people are lost and the places where they are hurting.
Tomorrow we will look at what keeps us renewed enough to keep going.
I challenge all of us to ask ourselves this question: have I treated either of these two as optional, and is it love and compassion that moves me when I do them?
Make today count and see you tomorrow.
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