Eternity Is Written In Our Hearts***

The Holy One calls to me this morning.  Matters of the heart are weighing heavy on my mind and the Holy Spirit knows the burdens.  He speaks from out of the early morning darkness and brings His light.

"I came to change the death sentence to a life sentence". 

There is nothing subtle about my indwelling Counselor He never minces words with me but cuts through all the chaff and goes to the heart of every matter. 

This season on my journey with Jesus have brought the extreme pendulum swing of emotions from the deep sorrow of saying our earthly "good-byes" to a precious son and brother, uncle and friend 'til we meet again, to the delightful news of a precious new life being added to our family.   I have had sweet visits and conversations that are way too short with my beloveds who live far away, and I know that each day will bring battles for all of us who still live on this planet in chaos.

This morning, the Holy One has painted a picture of the eternal.  It is a hard reality that we all have an expiration date on the calendar when we will exit our flesh bodies and our spirit and soul will be catapulted into another realm. 

While life on earth will continue to be lived sandwiched between the boundaries of birth and death until the King of Kings returns in glory, we live out our temporal lives in a temple made of dust. This temple will return to the elements from which it is formed.  In the eternal scheme of things God's purpose for our individual lives is being worked from birth to death here on earth.

Nine years ago, I had the privilege of walking with my husband of 31 years to the finish line of his temporal life.  It was not my first exposure to the death of a beloved, but it was the closest one in my earthly existence. Then in 2018, I walked my sweet momma through that same valley of the shadow of death.  And in 2019, my world was again turned upside down by the sudden death of one of my sons taken home way too soon. 

For me it has been a walk in God's grace, sometimes just minute to minute.  I came to understand that God's grace is truly seen in the rear-view mirror.  Our difficult days require putting just one foot in front of the other when life becomes like trying to walk through a swap with flip flops on your feet.  Somehow we make it through but only by the Grace of God.

I am thankful to have been given an eternal perspective of life, otherwise these times and experiences might have done me in.  Each was a huge mountain that would have been too hard for me to climb without a hope for life beyond the veil.

My husband lost his life here in a brutal battle with cancer, my momma was just tired at 95 years of age and quietly passed on and my son was suddenly whisked away due to a broken and diseased heart.  But I know that the real enemy of all humanity is death itself no matter how it comes or what situation spells the end of our physical existence here on earth.

In each situation that ends in temporal death, the fact that must be considered is that in life we all have an expiration date set by the Hand of our Creator God.  Our temporal lives have a purpose, and that purpose is fulfilled when we exit our physical body and not one second before. God's Word tells us to number our days and that means that we should make each one count for something.  

So, what is our life purpose?  Could it be the same for every person ever born?  I believe so! 

The greatest philosopher who was ever lived wrote these words: 

"The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright --Words of Truth.  The words of the wise are like goads and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails given by the One Shepherd.  And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of many books here is no end and much study is wearisome to the flesh.  Let us hear the conclusion of the matter:  Fear God and keep His commands. For this is man's all.  For God will bring every work into judgement-including every secret thing whether good or evil"   King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

The greater purpose God, our Creator, has given every human ever born is to seek for and find Him.  Then we must make a personal decision to live under His Lordship both here and on into Eternity.  He has been calling every man, woman and child into a love relationship with Himself since the beginning of time as we know it.

What we find to do on the journey with our hands, does not change what we are to do with our heart.  The evidence of His Sovereign and Divine Being is everywhere in creation.  No one is without a reason to seek Him or with an excuse to deny Him. 

As it has been said, all of us are born with a God shaped hole in our heart and our over-arching purpose in this life is to find that missing piece to our human existence and join Him in a forever love relationship.

Since the days when King Solomon wrote these words, we have entered a new paradigm.  Over countless generations, God was setting the stage for the day we look back to in history as the day the Savior Son of God, called by the name Jesus, came into the world.

The purpose for life did not change on that day but our ability to "see" the God we are supposed to be seeking was given.  Jesus' life, death and resurrection ushered in a new and privileged era for humanity we call the church age and Grace.  God wrapped Himself in flesh for flesh eyes to behold Him and to testify to the world of His character and love.

After His resurrection, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit into the world, and it is He who calls us to a personal relationship with the One who died our death and opened up the way of eternity.  Once we have been given the opportunity to accept Jesus as Savior, the choice is ours. Whether we do or not determines where we will spend eternity: at home in paradise with our Creator or in the place of "gnashing of teeth" separated from His love.    

Each one of us having been born into a fallen world, is on a trajectory that leads to the pit of hell.  "Hell" is a place of permanent and eternal separation (relational death) from our Creator God unless we choose a different course.  God has provided a way for each one of us by way of a free will decision to change the course and trajectory of our life.   

Jesus conquered the great enemy of humanity called death (relational separation from our Creator God) and was resurrected in glory.  He came to change the death sentence to a life sentence.  Now we can experience the same eternal life that God Himself exists within. 

Our great purpose then, is to reach out and grasp the gift of eternal life that God the Creator and Father of humanity is offering through Jesus Christ His Son.  Once our eternal destination with Him is set, and we declare Jesus is our personal Savior and Lord, our purpose then becomes telling as many as will listen to us, what He has done to insure our eternal life with Him in Heaven.  Temporal death will merely send us into His welcoming arms.

Once saved here on earth, until our pre-set expiration date, we have a new occupation as a servant of the Most High God, but our job may be anything good and God-directed that we find to put our hands to accomplish.  The Lord will lead us into interesting opportunities to share our faith and His love.

Eternity is written in our hearts.  The Keeper of eternity wants to spend it with us.

If you do not know Jesus the Christ, is 2021 your year to find Him?

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?

        

 



   





       

The Holy Spirit of Truth***

The Holy One calls to me this morning.  "Tis the season" as they say.  And while we may repeat in our hearts, "Jesus is the reason for the season", we get into the frenzy of mall and even online shopping that indicates a basic conflict between our head and heart  "reason for the season".

The birth of Jesus changed the world.  God's gift to humanity came as a Babe in a manger, but traditions have been instituted that change the focus as the unsaved world participates in a strictly Christian celebration. 

Forced acceptance of our beliefs corrupts the purity of our faith.  We see this played out in the material, worldly take-over of  a day we celebrate as the pivot point in our  history when God sent His Son into the world to change hearts and minds and even our misunderstanding of the Creator Himself.

This morning, the Holy One speaks of anther gift from God that the Church alone can celebrate:  The gift of the Holy Spirit Himself. 

His gentle voice comes from out of the darkness of the night just before dawn.  "Do not be afraid of the truth.  The truth will set you free". 

My thoughts scatter almost like roaches when a light is turned on in the darkness. Fears begin to rise up and out from my carnal thoughts especially when He said "Do not be afraid".  It is interesting how the words "do not be afraid" inspire within us almost a compulsion to go there. 

What is it about truth that creates a fear?  I can tell our meeting this morning is about to get dicey for my flesh as the Holy Spirit leads me into all truth and truth is the subject of His lesson plan today.

He takes me to His word:  John 14:16, (NKJV) "If you love Me keep My commands.  And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper that He may abide with you forever--The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows Him; but you will know Him for He dwells with you and will be in you.  I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

Then in John 15: 26 (NKJV) , again the Lord speaks of our indwelling Counselor, "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

The great gift that Jesus promised and the One our Heavenly Father has sent to all who believe in the Name and person of His Son, Jesus, is the Holy Spirit of truth.  When truth comes to dwell within the heart and life of a believer all the lies and deception that our carnal nature has accepted in the past must be (A) revealed and (B) rejected. 

This is a process of purging and refinement and initiates a battle between our flesh man and the Spirit of Holiness within.  The new governor of our lives aka The Holy Spirit, as promised, will lead us into all truth and teach us all things.  It is a new education with a different purpose and perspective than we have been taught before.

Fears are a part of our carnal nature but there is also a demonic  "spirit" of fear that is an outside force attempting to manipulate our thoughts and thereby our actions.  Truth stands as a mighty internal force against both the flesh man and the devil.  Fear creates a form of bondage that holds us in a grip and keeps us from truth. 

As I ponder the "do not" of this morning's message, I must allow my Counselor to point out what He sees. A deeper consideration of what fears must be confessed and cast away reveals some of the toxic poison from the original  temptation of Eve.

Fear of God's good Sovereignty is an issue  Evil has portrayed our Loving Creator as anything but loving and ultimately good.   We fear His wrath, we fear His rejection, We fear His control that would withhold what we need or desire, but more to the point we fear what His ruling authority means to our own agenda which is flesh motivated.

The enemy causes us through provoking thoughts to question God's intentions toward us and fears of the worst of intentions can create a wall of mistrust that has us running away from truth rather than toward it.   Rather than ask God for truth we try to defend what we think even if it represents a delusion.  False religion and even legalism is a deception.  We become programmed to the familiar even if the familiar is not true.

I question the "why" of it and the Lord sheds His light to that dark confusion in my mind.  " Truth requires action.  A lie acknowledged demands a correction.  That is why the truth is often avoided but in the end will set you free".

Once we come to know the truth, and God IS truth, there is a requirement to re-calibrate our thoughts and actions to embrace what may be and usually is foreign to our flesh. Beyond that, we then must repent for what we have been shown and is at odds with truth.  Repentance opens the way for healing and deliverance from those evil habits and thoughts that grip our lives and hold us hostage.

Our first experience is to accept, in spite of all the evil we see, that God so loves the world that He gave His only Son so that all who come to believe in Jesus, (His life, His death and His resurrection)  as Savior, will not perish but have everlasting life.

The truth is stranger than fiction and the lies that promote self-deliverance must be dismissed in the truth that God NOT us brought salvation for His Beloved creation: humanity.

The truth runs counter to all "religion" because all religion is reversed.  God reaches out to us for relationship.  But religion places the burden on us and says we must reach out to Him and provide a reason for His acceptance and thereby save ourselves.  Knowing and accepting His offer through Jesus is different and in reverse of us initiating the relationship. 

As the Holy Spirit leads us into truth there come refinements all the time where we must surrender and not defend our best flesh thoughts or action when they are revealed to be contrary to Holy assessment. 

The fear that truth might be hard to accept becomes like a cloud of resistance and self-deception actually shackles us from being set free. Truth by its very nature reveals what stands in the way of our freedom.  If we persevere in seeking truth, the way out of the deception and even correction will be as gentle as the Lord Himself, who told us that His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

I accept and confess that many of my thoughts and actions have betrayed my Lord.  They are evidence of a faithless lack of trust in His good and all powerful Sovereignty, and Divine control.  I confess fear that if I let go of my inept "control", things will spiral even more out of control.

Pressing in I see the breakthrough of the truth is like the light and dawn of this new day.  I choose to release my fears and persevere in discovering the gracious bounty in my Father's benevolent gift of His Holy Spirit of truth.   I come in humble appreciation for Him and petition for even more truth He has to bring, that truly does sets me free.

The Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?                             

  

Heavenly Truth***

The Holy One calls to me this morning.  Evil has struck again and this time on our own shores.  America is under attack and it seems to have come from within.  If ever there was a need for wisdom and discernment from Heaven, it is now.  The Lord has drawn me into His Presence with confidence that I have standing to petition for His intervention not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is.  

This morning He speaks soberly "Why have you not asked to be lead into ALL truth.  That is the reason I sent the Holy Spirit to indwell you."

I find it amazing how long it takes for me to appropriate things that were promised by my Lord so long ago.  Really, at the very beginning of the new covenant  between God and humanity,  Jesus promised that our Heavenly Father would send a Divine counselor, comforter, and friend to occupy a place in our hearts that had previously been empty.  The Holy Spirit comes to fill a void we are born with that only God can fill.

Knowing and growing in the wonderful relationship with the Holy Spirit, I delight in all the new information yet always regret how long it takes me to appropriate and apply His wisdom. 

I have for a long time asked for His wisdom and He has been gracious to deliver.  He has opened my eyes to the better ways of the Lord when I ask.  But today I realize how I have not asked Him to lead me into all truth.  There is a difference in my mind between situational wisdom and "All Truth". 

The Holy Spirit does as He always does and takes me back to the Word.

John 14: 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you".

The Holy Spirit is our bridge to the Trinity. He will teach us all things...and that means He will teach us Heavenly things as well as earthly things. Through His wisdom, He teaches so we can handle all of life's sometimes confusing situations.  But in Truth He stands ready to open up Heavenly things and give us a Divine Godly perspective with an eternal view. 

Since the fall of humanity back in the garden of our origins, we have been infected with a virus known as sin and the symptom of that virus is great confusion when having to distinguish between good and evil, truth and lies. And furthermore there comes the impossible mandate to act in a holy way acceptable to a Holy God. We were created in innocence so we are not naturally wired to make such distinctions between good and evil, truth and lies, so any judgements we render according to our carnal minds are flawed. 

Thankfully the Holy Spirit within us provides a Godly discernment and gives us the ability to gain the Lord's determination as to what is good and what is evil, what is truth and what is a lie.  The question is whether or not we will rely upon His leading us into all truth and teaching us all things and then will we follow His lead?

Our first dose of Truth is the knowledge about our Savior, Jesus. We learn enough to trust Him initially but there is so much more to learn. As we grow into maturity I believe we grow in curiosity about our Lord and God so that we may discover more about the mystery and majesty of our Triune Godhead before we meet face to face.

The Holy Spirit is our truth teacher, our comforter, when truth may be hard to handle (especially about our own carnality or difficult life trials) and He is our advocate. As our advocate His presence assures us that we belong to the Lord and nothing the enemy conjures up can take us out of The Lord's hands.

The truth is that we have been redeemed out of the hands of the devil and through Jesus our original dominion over the earth has been reclaimed and reinstated to our control. The Holy Spirit is our source of Godly wisdom and through such wisdom we can know how to maintain our reclaimed dominion here on earth.  But Truth reveals the battle before we are given our part to play.

As I now petition to be led into all truth, the Holy One will provide the Heavenly perspective along with the wisdom to operate according to it.  Our nation needs Divine protection and Divine perspective of our original purpose on this earth:  To accurately represent the One True God and His Son Jesus to the lost, dying and deceived world around us, and to live in a peaceful land that is founded upon Biblical freedoms.

The enemy wants to silence our message and our example.   While we have in the past betrayed our mission and struggled with becoming one with the world, today we have the opportunity to return to our Lord and retake our dominion until we die here or are supernaturally taken out so that prophecy can be fulfilled.

Let us pray in the Truth that the Lord has NOT abandoned His people nor the Nation of people that have been called by His Name.  For the sake of His name let us cry out for His Divine intervention and protection so that we can once again be the light in the darkness and operate in unity as One Nation under God.   This is the responsibility and privilege of the Church of the Living God.         

Today may we cry out to Our Heavenly Father that He send the Holy Spirit to teach us all truth, repent for our corporate sin and wait with excited anticipation on Him to deliver those priceless lessons.  Our God reigns! 

The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?

The End of The Enemy's Reign***

The Holy One calls to me this morning.  The deepest issues of life with my Lord cannot be discussed in the hallway and in passing.  Some issues require days to navigate the deeps for understanding to shine a light in the dark catacombs of my mind.

The temptation is to stay busy.  So much to do and so little time in the bigger spectrum of what the world deems as "urgent".   But I know in my heart that I must forsake the urgent to focus on the important and I must determine "important" as defined by my Lord.

I want to understand life and to know my God to the greatest of my ability given the carnal mind I was born with.  To gain the mind of Christ is not just an instant thing and thoughts must be tested and checked against the Truth of His written word and that takes time. 

Evil is running rampant and much of my struggle is in the need to refuse to take the bait and surrender to the lies that the devil whispers in my ear.  Yes, I do hear voices other than the Voice of the Holy Spirit.  The Word tells us that Satan, our enemy, is a liar.  A liar speaks lies.  Therein is how we come to be deceived.  He speaks.  We listen.  And we fail to discern and refute his lies, which then gives him the power over us.

The Holy One speaks into that struggle this morning,  "Satan was created to be a servant of the Most High.  He was created to serve the Will of the Creator." 

With that statement the Light shines in the darkness of my room and wrestle.

Drawing down has taken some time.  But in the sweet place of His Presence, the random thoughts of late are like dots on a board about to be connected. 

One of my favorite all time chapters of scripture is Isaiah 54 and for years I considered Isaiah 54: 16-17 NKJV to be like a life verse that when I found that truth, it was a game changer:

"Behold I have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work.  And I have created the spoiler to destroy".

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from Me says the Lord."

Being of a warrior mentality, these are victory words and a promise I have claimed for all my battles here on earth.  Understanding that our battle is not against flesh and blood was another piece to the picture as was given in Ephesians 6.  These verses together helped me get a perspective that God is in control of the spoiler and the amount of chaos he can inflict.  I grew to understand, that what the enemy brings to harm us, the Lord merely uses to strengthen and not defeat us. 

But lately as the world is inching toward the final battle here on earth, there was a question in my mind and a deeper wrestle about what that verse might mean in these more desperate days of persecution. 

Since the wake up call, by the Holy Spirit, thoughts keep streaming into my brain. Thoughts about Satan and his created status as a servant.   Only man was created in the image of God Himself and only "saved" man can claim the position and relationship as sons and daughters.  If pride caused the evil insurrection and rebellion of his role to serve the Creator, imagine the rage at knowing that for all of time he would be in servitude to the sons and daughters of the Creator as well.

So, the epic journal reveals that Satan went off the reservation, rebelled against God and left his role as servant.  Angels have free will, since we read and understand that 1/3 of the angelic host chose to follow Satan in that mutiny. But they have no remedy for rebellion and no opportunity for salvation.

Lucifer wanted to be god and in that drive for power and control he set about to deceive the rightful heirs (humanity) of all that the Creator created.  Having lost his place in Heaven, he was catapulted to earth.  He set up camp here and brought the same temptation that drove him to rebellion and placed it before Adam and Eve.  The desire for independence from our Creator. 

Satan took our dominion and enslaved humanity to do his evil bidding. Thus came the fall and how we ended up here with evil dominating and humans being in servitude to the enemy of our Heavenly Creator.

The roles got switched and evil took up the reins of power over the Lord's Beloved.

But GOD.....who so loves the world (of people) that He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ into the world not to judge but to save us.  His love affair with us has been in operation since the beginning of our world and time.   

Satan and his hordes hate their designated role as servants and seek to rule over God's Beloved during this "age" on fallen earth.  To do so they have to divide us from our ordained inheritance and destroy the Truth about ourselves and our Abba Father.  Jesus came and set the record straight as well as fulfilled the Holy requirement of death for sin.  Jesus redeemed us out of the hands of the evil one. 

Today I have a greater understanding of the verses so dear to my heart. Today I see the magnitude and power of these verses.  These verses come alive in the Truth of the Lord's death and resurrection.   Knowing in advance everything the players in the Garden of Eden would do before they were ever placed there, the plan for our rescue and deliverance was already in place before the fall.

Knowing that humanity would fall in free will and not be able to save themselves, and since the Holy terms of a Holy God for reconciliation could not be met by sinful human flesh alone,  God wrapped Himself in flesh to pay the price that no man in and of himself could pay.  One act, one Man, one remedy for all humanity.

The destroyer had a purpose in God's design and that was to deliver up the Son of God/ Son of man to be crucified. In the death that the evil one arranged, was brought to fulfillment the penalty for man's sin and the God provided reconciliation with the Creator which ended the enemy's ruling authority over the Lord's beloved.  God's purpose has been fulfilled.  Our purpose is now to enforce the victory that Jesus provided His Kingdom Kids. (that's us)

By the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony, we overcome the devil in our lives. (Rev 12).  Therefore, "no weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord".

The lies of the enemy have been silenced by the truth.  But an action on my part must follow  It is not good enough to know the truth and not declare it.  A testimony is a declaration and a verbalizing of a personal experience. 

Taking the graphic of the Blood of the Lamb during the Passover and Exodus of the Nation of Israel out of Egypt,  the blood  had to be applied out of a basin and onto the door. Left in the basin, the blood of the lamb did not protect the household.  It was a applied to the doorway of the house by a bunch of hyssop.  This hyssop is symbolic of our testimony and our statement of faith.   

We must speak about our belief in what the Blood of Jesus has done for us, not from a podium unless you are called to speak to an audience,  but to the liar and the multitude of witnesses in the unseen realm.   Our declaration activates the power of the Blood over our lives like placing it on the doorpost provided protection when the angel of death passed over Egypt.  Faith speaks...and Satan leaves.

The ultimate end of the enemy will take place at some future time, but the end of his reign over us was accomplished by the Blood of the Lamb shed on that Cross over 2000 years ago.  And now by our testimony of that Holy Blood we have the power to conquer, prevail, get the victory (aka) overcome Satan. 

It's time for all of us to realize the power in the Blood of Jesus and by the word of our testimony make our declaration of victory and thereby end the enemy's reign over our lives.    

The Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him? 











 

         




 

The Power of the Blood of Jesus: God's Antidote for Guilt ***

The Holy One calls to me this morning.  "Be still and know that I am God"  has been the message from Holiness to me for several weeks.  Lessons have come from various studies and sources.  Even the weather has been a situational hindrance from any outside busyness.

The quiet down time has allowed more opportunity to see the outside world turning while my inside world seems to be standing still.  The Holy One speaks with the soft insistent rain falling on my window.  "The rain is cleansing the atmosphere just like the Blood of Jesus cleanses your mind.  Remember and declare that truth"

True to form, the Holy One speaks into my deepest wrestles.  I know that since Salvation I have been forgiven for all sin in my life and through repentance for any misconduct since that day keeps my chart of accountability free and clear.  The nagging question is, "if I have been forgiven and I believe that, why do I still feel guilty?"

This has created many wrestles over the years and most end with the cloud still hanging over and no real relief.  I know that I have an enemy who is the accuser and he drags out things that I  have been forgiven for just to torment my righteous soul.  Understanding his MO explained some things but the question changed to "am I the only one who feels this way?"

Honest friends have confessed they wonder about that too.  Today I am so ready to hear what the Holy One has to say about the cleansing of my mind.  He draws me to His Word.

Hebrews 10:19-22, "Therefore Brethren, having boldness to enter Holiest (The very presence of God) by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil that is His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart sprinkled (with the Blood) from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." 
  
I have been doing a study on the Blood of Jesus and its Power to cleanse my carnal mind because I came to realize that the catacombs of my mind hide the flesh mis-information that evil uses to defeat me. That probably runs counter to the argument that I have the mind of Christ (which I do), however diving deeper into the Power of the Blood of the Lamb...it is the word of our testimony often so neglected that is the true power over the enemy.   Rev 12 confirms that truth, "And they (true believers) overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony."  The word of my testimony is a verbalization of my belief and faith in what the Blood of Jesus has done for me.
 
To take from the symbolism of Passover and the Blood of the Lamb applied to the doorpost with a bunch of hyssop, I see that the Blood of the Passover  Lamb was drained into a basin....but in faith it was applied to the doorpost to activate it's powerful protection from the angel of death sent out over the entire land of Egypt. If the blood remained in the basin, not applied to the doorpost, the children of Israel would have died within just like the Egyptians. They would have suffered in a sense like the unsaved...

As Christians we have lost our understanding or never been deeply taught of the power that is available through the Blood of Jesus applied consciously and by faith to our lives. It has been left in the basin so to speak. We understand that it is important to our eternal destination but fail to grasp how it is to be applied to our lives here today. 

Consequently we suffer like those around us, who are going through life without a clue and without the personal knowledge of so great a rescue and protection from out of the grip of the evil one. That is after all what we have been redeemed from. Death is Satan’s signature of possession and bondage to his evil control can continue after our Salvation unless we enforce our freedom in redemption.

The Blood of Jesus has a Power that is undefeatable. That power is ours to apply but as scripture says, “my people die from lack of knowledge”, so here is the Truth about the Blood of Jesus in case you have forgotten or have never been taught.

Through the Holy Blood of Jesus:

We are forgiven of all sin.
We are redeemed (bought back, delivered from sin) and out of the hands of the Devil.
We walk in the light and we are cleansed now and continually being cleansed from all unrighteousness and a guilty conscience.
We are justified and can know that God sees me just-as-if-I’d never sinned
We are sanctified…made Holy and set apart for God.
The enemy has no place in me, no power over me and no unsettled claims against me (even as he tries to use accusation and guilt to hold me in emotional bondage, there is no legitimate claim he can use)
All claims against us have been settled by the Blood of Jesus. There is no condemnation (adverse sentence) against us in Christ Jesus.

Jesus came to set the captives free. It is the shed Blood of the Holy One that sets us free. Many of the “captives” are among the Lord’s very own people inside the Church of the living God.  The enemy is called the "accuser"   He accuses us of all sorts of things and mental guilt holds us in chains. 

I think it is the time to “resurrect” all the reminders and lessons of what the Power of the Blood is and provides as we take it out of the basin and apply it to our lives.
 
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?