Zechariah 9:11 ‘As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.’
- DAILY READING – – James 1; Jeremiah 21-22; Psalm 129
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf was a German, born in 1700, who founded a community of earnest Christians called “The Lord’s Watch”.
This community began after a drastic encounter that Zinzendorf had with the blood of Jesus. Prior to then, Zinzendorf had no zeal or much interest in the things of God. When he graduated from the university, he had taken a trip throughout Europe to visit some of the cultural high-spots. At an art museum at Dusseldorf he saw a painting by Domenico Feti entitled “Behold the Man”. It was a portrait of Christ with the crown of thorns pressed down on his head and blood running down his face. Beneath the portrait were the words, “I have done this for you; what have you done for me?” As he stood there, watching the blood of Jesus dripping down, he said to himself, “I have loved him for a long time, but I have never actually done anything for him. From now on I will do whatever he leads me to do.”
And The Lord led him to found the community of earnest Christians. These were a people, utterly, and radically dedicated to making Jesus known. In 1727 this community started a round the clock “prayer watch” that lasted unbroken for 100 years. There were about 300 persons in the community at the beginning, and various ones covenanted to pray for one of the 24 hours in the day. In 1792, 65 years later, with the lamp of prayer still burning, the little community had sent out 300 missionaries to the unreached peoples of the West Indies, Greenland, Lapland, Turkey, and North America. Indeed the encounter that Zinzendorf had with the blood of Jesus transformed him and positively affected many lives around the world.
Titus 2:14 says, “He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.”
Indeed an encounter with the blood of Jesus will birth fresh fire and zeal for the Gospel in us. Jesus shed His blood to redeem us from a life of mediocrity, therefore we cannot continue to be stuck with living an average life. His blood was shed to enable us live a life of impact on earth, to move from weakness to strength, from obscurity to a place of influence and power.
Zechariah 9:11 says ‘As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.’
By the blood we are delivered from every waterless pit. The blood of Jesus breaks every yoke of stagnation and lifts us to a place of relevance and power.
And as we corporately engage the blood of Jesus at this time through prayer, it will cleanse our nation, remove the infiltration of darkness, drive out the enemy and restore the peace of God in our land in Jesus Name.
PRAYER: Lord, by the blood of Jesus please ignite a fresh fire and zeal in me to carry out the assignment You have ordained for me on the earth. By Your grace I will make a definite mark in my generation in Jesus Name ..
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Nothing liberates like truth, the truth you know and act upon will set you free.- – WORDBITE 222.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK METAMORPHOSIS]