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 – –  Matthew 20:1-16; Numbers 13-14; Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

Christianity today  and the Mirror UK , recently reported an astonishing incident that happened at the Pentecostal  church in Bogota, Colombia.  While the pastor was preaching , a hooded man armed with a large knife suddenly leapt from his seat inside the church  and rushed at the pastor. He was about to stab the man of God when he suddenly froze as if gripped by an “invisible force”. Just inches away from the pastor, the attacker then took his hood down and then appeared to lose his balance as he collapsed. He fell to the ground convulsing as churchgoers quickly disarmed the assailant. The astonishing incident was caught on camera inside the Pentecostal  Church. As the knife-wielding man attacked, the video footage showed the pastor, Pedro Pablo Martin, calmly saying, “There is power in the name of Jesus,” repeating this several times.  It was while the pastor was declaring these words that the attacker suddenly froze as if gripped by an “invisible force” and then he lost his balance and fell to the ground convulsing.

In an official statement, the church  said what the worshipers just witnessed was God directly intervening to stop evil from harming a man of God. “We have a powerful God and his name is Jesus Christ. There is power in the name of Jesus,” a church spokesman said.

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.

Indeed we are  overcomers by the blood of Jesus. Through the blood we are separated from the evil in the world.  Indeed we need to understand that 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 the children of darkness is not permitted to happen to the children of light. There is need for us to understand that our case is 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.

indeed we must understand that 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. By the blood we are healed, we are protected, we are favored, we are exempted from all harm. 

Let us therefore always exercise our covenant rights by pleading the Blood of Jesus continually over our lives, over our families and all that concerns us. . 

.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.