Blood power…

 Blood power…

Interesting…..

https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/circulatory/blood.htm

I had forgotten the pain that it takes to make my body fight off cancer… in the making of good blood to ward off the cancer that has invaded…the deep ache in the blood-making bones…so here I am at midnight+ thinking about this process…even in the  pain thinking about the body as a “magnificent machine”, (there is a family devotional we read to our children about our bodies as “magnificent machines”)…God made us so incredibly complex, each part having a particular role…each working synergisticly

 to combat the enemy, cancer…and it is automatic…the doctors add some chemicals to increase the pace…but God knows the outcome and proceeds in that direction…He has given the intellect to even make the chemicals…make the right decisions…

He is the ultimate Controller of ALL things…our blood flows, works at his command….

When you think about how blood is used throughout the Word, it is so fitting…it is a sacrifice of a lamb’s blood to save the Israelites In Egypt…a sign the save those who put their trust in God to pass them by…

It is used at the tabernacle, to be placed on the alter…for sacrifice as well…

 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

Exod.12.21-23

 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.” Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.

Exod.24.6-8

Jesu speaks to Nicodemas about being born of the blood and the Spirit…

 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” “How can someone be born when they are old?” 

Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” 

Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John.3.1-6,16

 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 

God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—

Rom.3.23-25

 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”says the Lord.“Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool.

Isa.1.18

 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Luke.22.44

 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. 

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 

But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. 

This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Col.1.19-23

Our blood is part of the process of our healing, physically…but, Christ’s blood is our eternal healing…both perfectly planned by a Creator…we can’t do without either to Live…

Thank YOU…

Power in the blood…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQjfYbeGtbA&list=RDOQjfYbeGtbA&start_radio=1

Be sure to read about the author..under the song…under “more info”….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_PS_qe6Ks&list=RDTr_PS_qe6Ks&start_radio=1

Nothing but the blood of Jesus…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9mN4ydRpFk&list=RDOQjfYbeGtbA&index=2