The Power of the BloodBeispiel

The Blood: Our Power Plant and Environmental Perfection   

Blood infuses your physical body with energy. Hebrews 10:19 explains how the blood of Jesus gives you boldness to pray, which results in spiritual power: “…We can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus” (NLT). 

The blood of Jesus is a hidden power plant to energize God’s Word in your life. The energy comes one way—by entering God’s presence to pray. As soon as you boldly enter the Father’s presence through prayer, you are basically saying, “I’m here because of Jesus’ blood that cleansed me.”

God’s Word goes to work in your life when your prayers are based upon the privileges wrought by Jesus’ shed blood.

In our bodies, blood bathes each cell in fluid to maintain the proper environment and atmosphere for cellular functions. We also need a proper spiritual atmosphere. In the Old Testament the sacrificial blood was spread on the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies. Afterward, God’s presence would rest over the mercy seat because there was the covering of shed blood.

Do you realize that you are cradled in an abiding atmosphere of the Father’s presence through Jesus’ shed blood? His blood covers us in God’s presence so that we may call on Him at any time:

…let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:22 NLT).

God’s presence is our eternal resting place because we’re covered by the shed blood of Jesus. Do you dwell in God’s presence just when you are at church? Of course not! You can experience His presence in your car, in the kitchen, at work—anywhere! And that’s exactly what He wants you to do. The shed blood brings in the Father’s presence.