Exodus 12:13 “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

 

DAILY READING: John 1:35-51; 1 Chronicles 9; Haggai 1:1-2:23

 

On Christmas Day some years ago, the well-known minister of the Gospel, Kenneth Copeland was faced with a serious situation. His 11-year-old granddaughter was diagnosed with neisserian meningitis. At that time there was a wave of spinal meningitis in their area which had been killing young people. Kenneth and his wife, Gloria were away from home when they received the call telling them that young Lyndsey was hospitalized with the meningitis. Immediately they returned back home and headed to the hospital. There, the doctors said Lyndsey was so sick, they were afraid she might die before morning.

 

Despite the negative report, the Copeland Family refused to fear. They stood together for Lyndsey’s healing—applying the blood of Jesus, and taking Communion together. The family had been pleading the blood of Jesus over their lives, for a number of years, and at this time of trial, they began to speak the covenant of the blood of Jesus. They laid claim to the finished work of Christ on Calvary and invoked the blood against the meningitis disease. At midnight, Lyndsey who had been lying, delirious for over 12 hours, and who hadn’t said anything that made sense all day—suddenly gritted her teeth and declared, “I’m healed in the name of Jesus.”

And sure enough, Lyndsey was healed by the blood of Jesus! When the doctors came the next morning she was perfectly well; and was soon discharged.

 

Indeed, there is deliverance power in the blood of Jesus. When God instructed the Israelites to take the blood of a lamb and paint it on their doorposts and they did, the angel of death passed them by.

 

Exodus 12:13 says, “And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” The blood on the doorposts provided divine covering for the Israelites from the death angel. The blood on the door posts was a type of the blood of Jesus. The blood of the lamb foreshadowed the shedding of the blood of Jesus who was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).

 

Today, as New Testament believers, we don’t need to rely on a token because we have the real thing; the precious blood of Jesus that was spilled on Calvary. Now, if the shadow of the blood of the Lamb could deliver the Israelites from the death angel, imagine what the real blood will do for us when we believe and apply it!

 

No human blood flowed through Jesus; His blood was divine. And in His blood is great power for any deliverance you may need. His divine blood has the cure for cancer, heart trouble, diabetes, AIDS, or any other disease and sickness. His blood delivers from sin, and every form of addiction. Therefore if you are faced today with any form of affliction, bring it under the blood. The blood is sufficient. It has not lost its power. Indeed, the blood of Jesus has all the power of God in it to establish deliverance for us.

 

PRAYER

Lord, I thank You for making available to me the blood of Jesus to rescue me from every form of captivity. Indeed, by Christ’s blood shed on Calvary, my deliverance and victory is established forever in Jesus’ name.

 

QUOTE

Nothing liberates like truth, the truth you know and act upon will set you free.