The Mystery of the Blood


Someone once said that the true measure of our faith is in direct proportion to our trust in the blood of Jesus Christ. When the going gets tough, what do we trust in?

If you're like me, you spent most of your Christian life basically taking the cross for granted. We are so oversaturated with the cross, it's like a religious symbol. We are so familiar with it, it tends to lose it's significance. Or should I say, over time we take the cross for granted. At some point it fails to convict us any longer. We forget what Christ actually accomplished on the cross.

The temple prayer performs a great maintenance function for us. It reminds us of the cross. We spend time praying through the many benefits of the blood of Jesus Christ.
In praying the temple prayer we really begin at the brazen altar which represents the blood sacrifice.

Faith in the blood is our title deed to everything. (Heb 11:1) Here we lay hold of all that the blood secured for us. Our level of faith in the blood of Christ will impact how much of the blessings we hope for; will become the blessings we actually see. (2 Cor. 5:7)
The blood has already secured our new identity. It has also secured our healing, (Isa 53:5) our deliverance (Gal 3:13-14), our righteousness, (2Cor 5:21) our transference from worldly living to kingdom living, (Col 1:13) and our adoption as sons and daughters. (Rom 8:14, 2Cor 6:18)

This work is finished but our trust in it can grow each day as we revisit and declare the power of the blood in our own lives.

How much do you really believe in what Christ has already accomplished? Have you really embraced your new identity and all the benefits that Scripture describes as your inheritance?

Or do you believe Scriptural Truth on Sunday, but the world's "truth" Monday through Friday?

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