Book review: The Blood that Heals

Would you want to learn more about the Power of the Blood? You can get yourself a copy of The Miracle Meal book at bonniebahati.com 

That Friday by every human measure, was a disaster. A man who had healed the sick, raised the dead, and fed thousands was handed over to be crucified. His followers scattered, his mother wept, and the sky went dark. It looked like the end of everything but what appeared to be the worst day in history was, in the courts of heaven, the most glorious day since creation. On that day, blood was shed and in that blood was the power to change everything.

What was a terrible Friday became a glorious Friday, because His blood was shed.

There is a substance more precious than gold, more powerful than any medicine ever formulated, and more authoritative than any earthly covenant. It is the blood of Jesus Christ. For many Christians, the blood is a familiar phrase, sung about in hymns, referenced in scripture, invoked in prayer. Yet its full power remains an unexplored aspect.

When Jesus Christ walked the road to the cross, His blood was shed seven deliberate times, each shedding carrying a specific purpose, each drop accomplishing a distinct dimension of redemption for every believer.

The Law of Moses provided that blood had to be sprinkled seven times on the Mercy seat. On the way to the cross, Jesus shed his blood seven times in fulfillment of what was supposed to happen to the blood of the animals. Understanding each of these seven moments is key to walking in the full power of the blood.

Seven Moments. Seven Victories.

Pastor Bonnie Bahati.

The journey of the blood began in the garden. In Gethsemane, under the crushing weight of what lay ahead, Jesus' sweat became as great drops of blood, and in that first shedding, soul-healing was made available. Depression, inner anguish, and soulish diseases were placed under His blood right there in the garden.

When soldiers beat His face and plucked out His beard until He was, as Isaiah wrote, barely recognisable as a man, blood flowed a second time, so that every believer could bear the image of Christ. His disfigurement purchased our restoration.

His back was then torn open by a lead-tipped Roman whip. The third shedding was brutal and intentional. Isaiah 53:5 declares it plainly: "He was whipped so we could be healed." Every sickness, every disease, answered for at the scourging post.

A crown of thorns which was like a helmet of razor-sharp spikes rammed onto His head, drew the fourth blood shedding. In Genesis, God cursed the ground to produce thorns after Adam's fall. When Jesus bled through that crown, He broke the curse of toil, struggle, and fruitlessness. The fifth and sixth sheds came at the cross itself, when nails pierced His hands and feet: so that the work of your hands might be blessed, and your walk through life established.

Finally, after His death, a soldier drove a spear into His side. Blood and water gushed out, and in that seventh shedding, the Spirit of grace and prayer was poured out, and the Church was born.

Would you want to learn more about the Power of the Blood, you can get yourself a copy of The Miracle Meal book at bonniebahati.com 

What the Blood Accomplished

This precious blood secured your redemption, tore open the veil into God's presence, cancelled evil covenants, destroyed the power of Satan, defeated death, and gave every believer direct access to the throne of grace.

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony."

Revelation 12:11

The power of the blood speaks today. As Hebrews reminds us, the blood of Jesus "speaks better things" than even the blood of Abel. It speaks forgiveness where guilt condemns. It speaks of healing where disease attacks. It speaks of access where sin once built a wall.

Whatever you are facing today, sickness, bondage, a curse, a broken life, the blood of Jesus has already made provision for it. Seven times it was shed. Seven times it spoke. And it is still speaking.