Blood has always been something I prefer to avoid; even the blood of animals. Thank God for already killed and cleaned animals we eat. I don’t know about you but it taste just like the freshly killed ones to me maybe even better. However, as I learn more from the bible about blood it gets clearer to me the reason blood has been an issue to me.
Leviticus 17: 11 & 14a affirms that the life of every animal is in the blood. As soon as the blood of any living thing and/or being is drained from its body, it ceases to have life. Indeed, there is power in the blood of every living thing. No wonder God instructed that the blood of animals be shed for the remission of sins before Christ came.
Recently, as I tried to imagine what must have inspired the hymn ‘there is power in the blood of Jesus’ I felt like my eyes opened to deeper truths of the reality of the strength and power in the blood of Jesus and what that blood is able to do for us. I want to share some of these thoughts that have changed my prayer life yet again.
In the coming of Christ to the world, God actually came down. No wonder one of the names of Jesus is ‘Emmanuel’ which is translated ‘God with us’. The blood that flowed in Jesus is the blood of God which carries the fullness of the life of God. According to the scriptures, the blood of Jesus Christ was shed once and that is for eternity. Also, since God lives forever, the life in the blood exists forever and has the same effect forever. There was no need for any other blood to be shed.
It had to be that blood of Jesus to deliver us from the clutches of sin and our strong enemy (the devil) especially because man through Adam, had given him legitimate authority and power to operate in man and on earth; so that even the life of so many animals could not totally deliver us from his hold.
Since God will not come into the world nor would He pour out his blood to earth from heaven because He is righteous, just and not a thief, He came as man and poured out once that most powerful blood on earth thereby defeating the devil in his terrain.
The blood of Jesus poured out on the cross was one of the most powerful things that happened at Calvary. Immediately, that blood is appropriated in one’s life, everything begins to change. It grants access to the rest of the benefits that we enjoy as a result of what happened on the cross. It immediately washes one so you can move to the kingdom of light and be called by a new name. It creates a definite separation between us and evil and brings immediate, total deliverance. No demon in hell can stand against this blood. No wonder the bible says in Revelation 12: 11 that ‘they overcame him by the blood of the lamb’
We must learn to appropriate this blood in the place of prayer. When we plead the blood of Jesus in prayer, we are like lawyers making a strong case for something before a judge based on statue or case law. Our basis for some requests is the blood of Jesus so we must plead it in those instances.
Have you been chanting 'blood of Jesus' over and over again like a joke or have you being making jokes with this blood? It is lack of revelation knowledge. You may need to ask God for fresh revelation. Let us take what is serious seriously.
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