Revelation 12;11 ‘and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives to the death.

‘DAILY READING – Romans 7; 1 Samuel 16; Psalm 61

Recently the Christian Broadcasting Network [CBN] featured an amazing story of divine escape. According to the story a pilot named Chris Hall escaped from a burning plane after it had crashed.  Chris, who is a Christian had been on a test flight of a new plane, and was heading towards Brownwood Regional Airport Texas, when he noticed the engine losing power. When he reached down to push the throttle forward to go full power, he found that the plane engine had gone dead. Chris tried to restart the engine but it wouldn’t turn over. What he didn’t know then was that his fuel pump had failed. As the plane continued to go down, he realized he was going to crash. So he said a prayer out loud to God.  As the plane eventually hit the ground, Chris jumped up to push open the door to escape but suddenly everything went orange as the plane burst into flames.

A friend of Chris’s who was waiting for him on the tarmac, when he saw the explosion in the distance, began to run towards the crash site, all the while praying fervently that God would save Chris. And God did indeed save him. The airport rescue team who responded to the emergency, as they saw the black smoke coming up, didn’t believe anybody would have come out of the fire alive. It was a huge fireball, at least four to 500 feet in the air.  But to their greatest amazement Christ walked out of the flaming inferno.  Chris was quickly rushed to the nearest hospital, where he was stabilized and it was found he had no broken bones or internal injuries. However, after the doctors assessed him, their report was that he would spend many months in the hospital before full recovery, their concern being the amount of skin grafts required to heal the 2nd and 3rd degree burns covering over 20 percent of his body.  But Chris’s family kept praying and believing God and within two weeks he was out of the hospital. And today Chris goes around churches sharing the story of God’s faithfulness and his miraculous escape from the clutches of death.

Chris’s miraculous escape from a burning plane is of course not common place, but that is the difference the blood of Jesus makes in the life of a child of God. Indeed we have a covenant of protection with God through the blood of Jesus. It is a covenant of exception, which means that what happens to others is not permitted to happen to us. As we serve God our case and portion is definitely different. By covenant, we are exempted from evil occurrences, untimely death, sickness, poverty, and every other evil in the world.  And this covenant is based on the power that is in the blood of Jesus.

In Exodus 12:13 God says ‘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.’

By the mark of the blood of the lamb,  death will always pass over us. Just as the case of Goshen was different by the blood we are exempted from afflictions of the Egyptians.  Psalm 91 says that when we make The Lord our refuge a thousand will fall by our side and ten thousand at our right hand yet it will not come near us. Why? Because we are protected by the blood of Jesus. His Name is a strong tower that we run into and we are safe. To live a life of victory we must learn to exercise the benefits of Christ’s  sacrifice by always applying the blood of Jesus over our lives. The blood of the Lamb is inexhaustible and never lacking in power. The power of the blood of Jesus has provided everything we need to live a life of victory, including Redemption, fellowship, healing, protection and authority over the enemy. Truly by the blood we are healed, we are protected, we are favored, we are exempted from all harm.

The Bible says in Revelation 12:11 ‘And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives to the death.’

By the blood of Jesus we will always overcome every evil agenda and escape every trap aimed at truncating our glorious destiny. Indeed through the blood of Jesus, everything resisting the unveiling of our glory, are brought under divine judgment in Jesus Name.

PRAYER:  Lord please grant me the grace to know that my case is different. By the revelation of the power in the Blood of Jesus please enable me to begin to understand and exercise my covenant rights as a child of God in Jesus Name.  .

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The tests you are going through in life today is not for your destruction, it is for your testimony. – WORDBITE 222