From age 12, Jesus was reportedly engaging the doctors of the law in meaningful
discussions. As early as that age too, He was already fully aware of His mission on
earth. You will recall that when His parents found Him in the temple and wondered why
He had gone missing, He told them that He must be about His Father’s business. That
was a demonstration of a sense of mission. However, Jesus did not plunge into it until
some 18 years after that when He was about 30. He waited until the Holy Spirit came
upon Him before He began to preach, teach, and perform miracles. So the Holy Spirit
was the energizer and secret behind all the great things that He did. As shown in our
text, the casting out of devils was by the Spirit of God.

“Once we realise that we carry the same Spirit as Jesus, what will be left for a life of exploits are bold actions
of faith.”

In our previous meditation, we learned that our possibilities in God are huge, as huge as
what Jesus enjoyed. What we must add is that just as Jesus did not enter the realm of
great works until the Spirit descended on Him, neither can we unless we experience the
fullness of the same Spirit. Good enough, we have access to the same Spirit of God.
This implies that believers can cast out devils, just as Jesus did. Once we realise that
we carry the same Spirit as Jesus, what will be left for a life of exploits are bold actions
of faith.