Isaiah 53:4-5 ‘Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed’

DAILY READING    Luke 15; Genesis 27:1-45; Psalm 20

Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. By the early 5th century, Christianity spread through the works of early missionaries such as Palladius, and Saint Patrick. Known as the “Apostle of Ireland”, St. Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland.  According to one of the stories told about the life of St. Patrick during his minstry, he had led King Aengus of Ireland to the Lord. The king wanted to be baptized as a symbol of his new faith. He was baptized a Christian in the royal seat of Cashel by Saint Patrick himself. During the preparation for baptism, in the middle of his prayers, while his eyes were closed, Saint Patrick lifted his pointed staff and brought it down, hard, sending the spike through the center of King Aengus’s foot. The king stifled a cry of pain and kept silent. Patrick, unaware that he had accidentally stabbed the king’s foot with the sharp pointed end of his staff, continued praying. Finally he finished his prayer, and stepped out of the water. It was only then he noticed the king’s wound. As Patrick saw the blood flowing in the water, he realized what had happened. When he apologized and asked the king why he hadn’t said anything, Aengus replied, “I thought it was part of the ceremony!”

Formerly as a pagan, the king was used to the demands of personal sacrifice of blood. However in Christianity the only blood required for sacrifice and atonement is the blood of Jesus. Hebrews 9;12 says ‘Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us’

With His own Blood Christ has paid the eternal price for salvation. Our blood doesn’t have to be shed in any form as part of the ‘ceremony’. Jesus took every pain for us. He died young that we might live long. Himself took our sickness and bare our infirmities and by His stripes we are healed. However it takes knowledge of the truth to walk in redemptive freedom. You need to know your covenant rights so that the enemy does not deceive you to suffer unnecessarily. Whosoever the son of God has set free is free indeed. You are born again not to suffer again.

Jesus suffered in our place, We have to walk in the consciousness of the victory He has won for us. Many people are silently accepting afflictions, thinking it is part of the ‘ceremony’. But because Jesus has paid the price in full, affliction  is not permitted to arise a second time. We are not meant to accept trials or challenges with docility, rather we are to arise and fight a good fight of faith against them, knowing that faith guarantees our victory. And the weapons of our warfare not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. One weapon that guarantees our victory is the weapon of the blood. This is the high standpoint of the Christian faith. Christ paid a high price at Calvary, to enable us walk free from every oppression.  Therefore do not accept anything outside of God’s will for you. Refuse and resist every plan of the enemy to put again upon you what Christ has aready suffered for and paid for at Calvary. In this new season it is time to arise by the help of The Spirit to take authority over every molestation in your life. Jesus by His Blood has given us the power ot tread upon serpents and scorpions. Therefore what you do not want, do not watch. Begin to invoke the blood against every affliction.

It doesn’t matter the pharaoh that may have been oppressing your life, once the blood is invoked every chain of oppression is broken.  In the blood is our victory. You don’t have to suffer the afflictions people in the world suffer. By the blood we are redeemed from every captivity. And always remember that the battle is not yours but the Lord’s. This is why you do not confront the devil with human wisdom, rather, you confront him with the mystery of the Blood of Jesus Christ.  Once the mark of the blood is upon our lives, every trouble, problems and evil harassment must bow before us. Indeed we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb.

PRAYER: Lord, please grant me a deeper revelation of the power that is in The Blood of Jesus. And as I begin to invoke the power in The Blood against every oppression, I thank You Lord for granting me rest and victory in Jesus Name.

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Your heart needs to be filled with The Word of God to the point of overflow. – WORDBITE 222