Revelation 12:11
‘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’.
DAILY READING – Galatians 1; Jeremiah 47-48; Psalm 142
Today, the world is in the era of technological warfare. And one of the defense systems used in such wars are antimissile systems that intercept incoming missiles and explode them in midair. Israel has one of the best of such antimissile systems in the world. Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile battery is an amazing defense technology that shields Israel’s cities from harm. It has been a game-changing defensive weapon that intercepts enemy rockets, and with employed explosive warheads shatters them in midair, protecting Israel’s citizens from harm.
Hamas and other terrorist groups, have fired thousands of rockets at the Jewish nation. Yet very few ever hit their targets. During Israel’s war with Hamas in 2014, when Hamas fired 4,000 rockets and mortar rounds at Israel from the adjacent Gaza Strip, the Iron Dome batteries were responsible for intercepting 90 percent of their targets. And miraculously even the 10 percent missed by the iron dome, still failed to hit populated areas in Israel or cause significant damage. The Iron Dome is seen as a God-sent that has saved many Israeli lives; it is indeed a testament of God’s love and mercy to His people. Even Hamas has attributed the lack of their accuracy to hit Israeli targets to Israel’s God moving the rockets off-course to protect His people.
Indeed God knows how to protect His own. Every day in the world spiritual battles are being fought on all fronts. But in these battles God has promised protection to His children.
Psalm 91:4b says ‘Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day.’
And one of the ways God protects us spiritually is by the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus is a defense for us against the wicked. The blood goes forth as a spiritual missile deflector to destroy every incoming arrow of the wicked.
2 Corinthians 5:4 says that ‘Mortality, [which means death] is swallowed up of life.’ And Isaiah 25:8 says ‘God will swallow up death in victory; And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces;’
This is God’s plan for us. Just as the red sea, representing the blood, swallowed up the Egyptians, so the blood of Jesus swallows up death, sickness, poverty, evil and everything that represents the rod of the wicked in our lives.
In the book of Exodus, despite all the wonders God showed in Egypt, Pharaoh still held the Israelites bound, until the sign of the blood was applied. After the sign of the blood, Pharaoh released them from bondage in a hurry. Oftentimes there are forces of limitations that try to keep men bound on the ground. Perhaps, despite your efforts this year, certain things still seem to keep you from attaining your God ordained heights. But today, whatever is still resisting and limiting your progress, by the blood of Jesus they lose their hold on you. Indeed every pharaoh of limitation resisting your progress, by the blood, you are free from their oppression. Just as the blood made the difference for the Israelites, the same way, the speakings of the blood makes a difference for us today in Jesus Name.
PRAYER: Lord, today, I invoke the blood of Jesus against everything fighting my life and my destiny. Indeed by the mystery of the blood I have overcome in every battle of life in Jesus Name.
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Nothing liberates like truth, the truth you know and act upon will set you free.- – WORDBITE 222.