CHRIST’S LIFE IS IN OUR BLOOD
I was thinking I could use some Holy Spirit pep talk right
now, to re-energize, inspire and take my faith higher. So what kind of pep talk
would it be? Well, the amazing personal
supercharge given to us through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross is THE most
powerful energizer! Check it out: Colossians 1:27
tells us that when a person gets born again, they have “the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you.”
The spirit of Christ Jesus lives in our very souls and bodies now.
2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us: “If any
man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; Behold, all things are become new.” If we
really believe what the Bible says about this, we can tap into a huge advantage
in life, a power-punch of Spirit power we’ve received from God Almighty, the
Creator of all things.
It’s the power punch that gives us new
abilities and makes us different and better than the person we used to be. We
have the power to be gentle and kind, to be stronger and
healthier, to step out in love with confidence, to perceive what others don’t,
to get personal answers from God daily to make brave and right decisions, to
excel in life.
Take a short journey with me now through the seven
bleedings of our Lord Jesus Christ and see what amazing things He’s given us
through injecting His blood into our born again lives. The Bible says that the
“life is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). So in each area of His bleeding, we have
new ability in that area.
The first bleeding for us was in the garden of Gethsemane
when He prayed: “Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And his sweat
was as it were great drops of blood” (Luke 22:41). Jesus was willing to do
God’s will rather than His own. One drop of this sweaty blood gives us the
power we need to do God’s will rather than our own. We CAN do God’s will; We
have the ability.”
Jesus next was “scourged” by the Roman soldiers. They
thrashed Him 39 times with a whip made of several leather pieces, each loaded
with jagged metal or bone pieces that tore and ripped open strips of flesh on
His back. The physical tearing of the flesh from His body would also leave
gashes and wounds susceptible to disease. Since His blood was perfect, He would
have no lasting repercussions from any gashes, pain, or any other physical
maladies. His blood covers all bodily things: sickness, weakness, disease,
pain, broken, torn or missing parts. 1 Peter 2:24 reminds us that they could
not contaminate Jesus’ blood in any way and it is, “by whose stripes ye were
healed.” The Bible tells us we have access to total healing through the blood
of Jesus. When we believe in God’s sacrifice for us, we realize that He gave
Jesus so that He could reconnect with us. Jesus was the price He paid to get us
back from Satan’s dominion over us. AND, God got Jesus back too, which the
devil did not anticipate!
This is supernatural stuff. The Bible calls it “born”
again, when we accept Jesus as Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead.
No pain, injury, mental disorder, malignant growth, weakness, disability, or
any bodily abnormality is attached to the new birth we get. None of that could
attach itself to Jesus and when we got “born again,” the same capacity to
thwart evil in body or soul is what we have. It’s “born” into us at that
moment. We start over! The Spirit of God in us can miraculously, supernaturally
change everything, if we only believe that what the Bible says is truly the
Word and Will of the ONLY TRUE GOD.
Medicine, exercise, food and other things given by God in
the first place, can help, but ultimately, it’s the LIFE of Christ Jesus, in
Spirit energy, in your “born again body” that has a miraculous and wonderful
effect on every particle and cell if we only believe what the Bible says. God
keeps His Word.
The third place Jesus shed blood was from internal bruises.
Isaiah 53:5 tells us: “He was bruised for our iniquities.” Jesus was mocked and
beaten. Distress and swelling were caused by broken capillaries and dislodged
blood beneath the skin's surface. When we believe the significance of this kind
of bleeding, it’s able to take away any humiliation and deep emotional bruises
we’ve carried—the wounds that we don’t want anyone to see, even wounds we suspect,
but maybe don’t even fully recognize ourselves, until they’ve been taken away.
The fourth bleeding was from the crown of thorns jammed
into His skull. So much of what goes on in our lives is directly related to
what happens in our brains, our minds. Jesus’ blood applied to our minds and
physical brains, and we can more easily think right thoughts, and make wise
decisions like He always did.
Next they nailed Jesus’ hands and feet to the cross. The
blood from his hands, spiritually into our hands, gives us unique power in our
hands. Think about what we do with hands—we touch, write, make things, give
things, stop things, clap, lift, and much more. Believing to let the blood from
Jesus’ hands, by Spirit, pulse into our own, can change everything and everyone
we touch.
Number six is the blood from Jesus’ feet. It changes the
path we can walk on. Matthew 7:14 tells us “straight is the gate and narrow is
the way, which leadeth unto life.” Though narrow, it is the path of dominion
like God says in Deuteronomy 11:24: “Every place whereon the soles of your feet
shall tread shall be yours.” This will only be true when we walk in obedience
to the ability the blood of Jesus has given us.
And lastly, number seven. When the soldier came to see if
Jesus was dead, he took his spear and pierced Him through the side—through his
belly, his lungs, and his heart—making sure his entire life force bled out.
That bleeding gave us his entire life for eternity. The blood shed from his
belly made available Holy Spirit to abide within our bellies, in our innermost
self. As Jesus said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out
of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” That’s what happens when we
walk by the Spirit - we flow as a living Spiritual river.
The blood shed from his lungs made available new life
in every breath.
And the bleeding from his heart gave us the ability to
Spiritually know his heart and be able to extend God’s heart to others. As
Jesus said: “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father
(John 14:9).” For many of us, that is our life goal.
Love, Carolyn
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