Demoniac or Disciple?

HAS THE SPIRIT DESCENDED? ARE YOU DRIVEN?
The Difference Between a Demoniac and a Disciple:
Mark 1:10-12… the Spirit like a dove DESCENDED upon him and immediately DROVE him into the wilderness.
Are you driven? The immediate evidence of the Fullness of the Spirit is an IMMEDIATE, insistent, undeniable drive that possesses your life and takes you where otherwise you might not choose to go.
Jesus makes no mention of tongues when He told the disciples to go and tarry for the descending of the Spirit. He did expect however that they would be IMMEDIATELY, and insistently driven into all the world.
Are you “baptised” in the Spirit? Has He descended on your life? Then where have you been driven in God? In what wilderness did you encounter the tempter and pass the test? What desert did you come out of in the power of the Spirit in signs, miracles and wonders? Perhaps what we have called “the Baptism of the Spirit” has in fact only been a cathartic, emotional experience devoid of any true holy substance because brothers and sisters we have not been driven! The world is unchanged and we are still in our sins.
Repent quickly! Jesus is passing this way…
Mark 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
What positive, productive enterprise in life have you forsaken to follow Him? If you do not have an answer to that question perhaps it is still pending. Hurry now – he is almost to the vanishing point on the horizon. You can still catch up to him and accept His “come follow me” invitation. It isn’t too late.
Mark 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
What viable, meaningful relationship have you left behind in the care of others to follow Him? Say your good-byes quickly – the Master calls you…
The Difference Between the Demoniac and a Disciple:
Mark 1:23,24 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
The demoniac knew Him and lamented what he stood to lose. The disciples knew Him and embraced the loss, forsaking all to follow Him. What has the coming of Christ into your life destroyed? Are you lamenting the loss, or rejoicing in the freedom? That is the difference between the demoniac and the disciple. Do you need deliverance?