1 Peter 1:18-19 (NIV]  ‘For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.’

 

DAILY READING –  1 Corinthians 13; 2 Kings 7:3-20; Jonah 2

 

A half-century ago, thousands of Australian births each year were resulting in miscarriages, stillbirths or brain damage to babies. Doctors eventually figured out the babies were suffering from a condition caused by an incompatibility in blood types between them and their mothers. They also realized that the condition might be prevented by a treatment made from donated blood with a rare antibody. The medication known as Anti-D, is made from blood of people, who have a specific combination of RhD-negative blood and Rh+ antibodies. The only problem was finding someone with that rare antibody. After a frantic search, they eventually found a man named James Harrison whose blood contained the needed antibody that could be used to prevent the disease.

 

Harrison was encouraged by medical experts to donate his blood regularly to enable the production of the Anti-D drug. So, for the past 60 years, he has been donating blood every week. Since 1967 every ampule of Anti-D ever made in Australia has James’ blood in it. He has donated blood 1,173 times and according to the Red Cross Blood Service in Australia, James Harrison has saved approximately 2.4 million babies, and drastically reduced the rates of infant mortality in the country. Harrison was awarded the Order of Australia for his efforts, the country’s highest honor. The feat landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. He is known as “the man with the golden arm.”

 

However, in May 2018 at 81-year-old, he made his final donation. In as much as he wanted to go on, the doctors stopped him because he had become too old. In fact by then, he was already ten years past the stipulated age when he should have stopped donating blood, but he was allowed to go on because there are few people like him whose blood contain the needed antibodies to save these babies. More than three million doses of the Anti-D medication have been created from his donations, to ensure that mothers will continue to receive the vaccination, even after James has stopped donating. But in the meantime there has been a frantic search to find those with his kind of blood to replace him in donating the blood for the production of the Anti-D drug. This means that if other people are not found with the blood such as James to produce the Anti-D the lives of many babies affected by the disease may be in jeopardy.

 

What a joy therefore for us to know that the fountain of the blood of Jesus will never run dry or be unavailable to heal and deliver us! From the beginning it was God’s plan that there will be a continuous inexhaustible flow of blood to meet man’s continual need for atonement and cleansing. In the Old Testament, on the Day of Atonement, the blood of animals flowed continually from the altar for days. All pointed to the time Jesus would die on the cross and the fountain of His blood would flow forever. And when Jesus came and died on the cross, the once-for-all-time sacrifice of Christ did away with the necessity of yearly animal sacrifices, which could never take away sins and were merely a foreshadowing of the perfect sacrifice to come.

 

We thank God that the blood of Jesus will keep flowing forever to save whosoever comes to God. The blood of the Lamb is inexhaustible and never-ending. It is an unlimited supply.

 

1 Peter 1:18-19 (NIV] says ‘For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.’

 

The blood of Jesus is without defect and is not perishable. It is the blood of the everlasting covenant. When heaven and earth vanish, the redeeming power of Christ’s blood will continue forever. Also the blood of Jesus remains powerful forever, thereby giving us everlasting dominion over the enemy and over every works of darkness. Indeed, we are overcomers by the power in the blood.

 

Revelation 12:11 says , “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death”.  Indeed, by the blood of Jesus we are overcomers in every conflict of life. Let us therefore take advantage of the continual access we have to the blood of Jesus, by continually pleading the blood over our lives and all that concerns us. Truly there is victory by His blood.

 

PRAYER:

Lord, I thank You for the  free and continual access I have to the blood of Jesus. I thank You Lord that by the blood of Jesus I have continual  victory over every work of darkness  in Jesus’ name.

 

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You will never need more than God to experience the impossible in life.

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