By Shirley Rosemarie Evans and  Christopher Dryden

Afterwards, Jesus went up to a mountain and called out to the ones he wanted to go with him. And they came to him. Then he appointed twelve of them and called them his apostles. They were to accompany him, and he would send them out to preach, giving them authority to cast out demons. 

Mark 3:13-15 NLT

By Chalcedony Williams & Shirley Rosemarie Evans  

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness…Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region…

By Christopher Dryden

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
    that the blind will see,
that the oppressed will be set free,
     and that the time of the Lord’s favour has come.

Luke 4:18-19 NLT