Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

podcast. The title of today's podcast is why we need the enormous power of Jesus more than ever.

Why we need the enormous power of Jesus more than ever. We're facing great challenges

today, great challenges on so many levels around us. And so it's easy to lose sight of the

enormous power of Jesus and fall into a very small vision, small expectation, very little faith,

and we get overwhelmed. And it's easy to be taking things into our own hands and trying to figure

it out. One of the gifts of COVID-19 is, I think for so many of us in leadership, especially in the church, we thought

we knew what we were doing. We had a plan, and all of that got disrupted and continues to

get disrupted as God is shifting the wineskins of how we do church, and we're being thrust

in a fresh way into Jesus. Now, the story, the message of this podcast, I'm going to be sharing a

message from you, comes from Mark Chapter 5, and it's Jesus, it gives you a glimpse, it gives us a

glimpse into the enormous power of Jesus over evil in the story of the garrisoned demoniac.

In fact, it's more graphic than any other story in the New Testament and gives

us a picture of what the demonic does to human beings and destroying God's image and

distorting God's image in people. And so the scene begins with a man full of a legion of demons,

a legion of 6,000. He's screaming at the top of his

oise. He's limbing in a cemetery. He's chained and shackled. That doesn't hold him. He's totally

uncontrollable. Violent, naked, chaotic. He wants to die. He's tortured. The situation's hopeless.

And then Jesus enters. And it shows the enormity, the completeness of Jesus power over the forces of evil.

I love this text. And one contribution of E.H. discipleship is the integration of this power of Jesus,

the incredible power of Jesus that we want to see and move in with the issue of the hard work

of discipleship. And again, back to filling up our houses with Jesus. So there's no room for the

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