The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power
July 2010 Newsletter
My brother Don called me several weeks ago with an incredible story regarding a miracle God performed for him while he was dreaming.
In his dream our sister called, requesting his help in evicting a demon from a house she was trying to sell. He agreed and they set up a time to meet the following morning. She picked him up and they drove to the house and went inside. He could definitely feel the presence of the evil spirit.
They stood in the middle of the living room and started to pray. He commanded the demon to identify itself. To their dismay the demon materialized at the far end of the room. It looked like a young man of around 15 years old with jet black hair, dressed in black with black pointed shoes and opened shirt.
The demon walked past them laughing and mocking their prayer and sat down on his haunches at the other end of the room.
Though very frightened, Don walked toward the demon commanding it to go in Jesus name. The demon stood up casually, remarking as he did, “I know Jesus just as well as you and I’m not afraid of him.”
Don lost his courage and retreated to the other side of the room where his sister stood trembling. He said, “This demon is scaring me to death. It mocks me and it’s not afraid of the name of Jesus.”
They started to pray again and the thought came to him to use the blood of Jesus as his weapon against the demon.
With renewed courage, he strode back toward the demon and jabbing his finger in its chest, said, “I rebuke you with the blood of Jesus and command you to go back to hell.” He could feel the blood of Jesus burning this demon where his finger had jabbed him. It recoiled like he had stuck a hot cigar to its chest. Don said he could hear it sizzle. It slapped his hand away and screamed, “Don’t say that to me.”
“Oh, you don’t like the blood of Jesus, do you?” Don replied. The demon looked at him with fear in its eyes and he could tell this demon knew it was finished.
Don stuck his finger right in the middle of its chest in the very same spot and repeated, “I rebuke you with the blood of Jesus and send you to hell.” The moment his finger touched its chest it started to burn and sizzle like a piece of burning plastic, only this time the demon fell to the floor and continued to burn until it disappeared.
Don awoke from the dream, singing at the top of his voice, “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power” a song released by Andre Crouch in 1978. He was singing it so loud, he thought he might wake up his neighbors, but it didn’t matter. He continued singing it until he fell asleep.
He woke up in the morning singing the same song. He knew the dream was from God and suspected it might concern our sister so he called her and asked if they might have lunch that day. They met for lunch and he shared the dream with her. After some discussion they both felt it pertained to him.
He left the restaurant and returned to work. As he entered his place of business, he reached up to scratch the area around a mole on his chest that had concerned him for the past two months. It had appeared as a tiny white mole the size of the head of a pin. It started to grow rapidly until two months later it was as large as a pencil eraser and had turned color from white to brown and then yellowish green. It had all of the symptoms of a malignant cancer.
He had kept it to himself to avoid alarming his family but knew he would have to have a doctor do a biopsy soon. It itched all the time and he had developed a habit of scratching it. He reached up to scratch it through his shirt and couldn’t feel it. He walked into the restroom and unbuttoned his shirt. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Not only was it gone but it had vanished without a trace, not so much as even a discoloration of the skin. He sat there stunned. He had gone to bed with a life threatening health issue and woke up with the problem completely healed.
He compared the spot where the infected mole had been with where he had jabbed his finger in the demon’s chest and knew it was the exact same spot. He is now telling everyone about the miracle God performed for him, and how it happened through the power of the blood of Jesus as he dreamed.
Even now after several weeks have passed, he still finds himself stopping to look at where the mole used to be and marveling at the power of the blood of Jesus.
Satan and his army hates and fears the blood of Jesus because they know how powerful it is. My first experience of a demon’s fear of Jesus’ blood occurred in a deliverance session in 1998. Casting out demons was still something new for us and we were in the learning mode. We knew we had been given authority over evil spirits;
“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to
overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” (Luke 10:19)
and the spiritual weapons to fight with.
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.” (Eph. 6:10-12)
But like I said, it was new to us and we were still trying to discover how to use those spiritual weapons. When we threatened him with the blood of Jesus, he started to tremble causing the man’s body to shake violently. He asked us not to allow the blood to touch him. We asked it why. It said the blood is like liquid fire. This encouraged us to call for the blood. He started howling so loud we were afraid the crowd in the foyer would think we were hurting someone. We were. A real hurt. Since that day I have witnessed untold numbers of times when demons scream when they feel the blood of Jesus.
The most incredible experience of my career in deliverance occurred over a two year period beginning in December, 1999 and continued until January, 2002. I was combating some strong demons inhabiting the mind of a lady who had been programmed throughout childhood by professional programmers. I was overwhelmed when I discovered I not only had to cast a multitude of demons out of her but also destroy the complex labyrinth of mazes, stairways, secret passages and compartments the programmers had constructed in her mind and imprisoned demons in.
I complained to the Lord that I was no match for these professionals. I knew nothing about programming and did not feel up to the task of learning how to deprogram a human mind. He answered, “Use the blood of My Son Jesus.” I did and I was amazed when a mammoth demonic empire was washed away each time I called for the blood of Jesus. I heard demons beg and plead and scream in mournful sounds that could only come from the throat of a denison of hell.
The blood of Jesus has the same power today as it did on that infamous day it ran down His brow, back, hands, side and feet and mingled with the dust you and I were created from.
The blood still flows. Its power still heals and redeems. Satan and his hordes are still as terrified today as they were that day.
No wonder satan has launched an attack in the last fifty years against the blood. In the early sixties he energized a group of backslidden theologians in dead seminaries who deemed themselves the custodians of the Christian religion to question the need to talk about the blood.
These enemies of the cross began to refer to Christianity as the bloody religion and urged ministers to edit Jesus blood from the gospel message to make it more palatable to the masses. They have been successful in large segments of Christianity in removing any reference to the blood from modern preaching.
The result has been the same thing that happened to the Church when the Roman Emperor Constantine declared Christianity to be the state religion of the Roman empire in 313 A.D. The Masses began embracing Christianity for political correctness with no change of heart.
Satan’s attempts have failed for there is still a remnant that believes and clings to the power of the blood. They know it is the only means God has provided for cleansing away the filth of their sin.
“To Him who loves us and has washed us from our sins in His own blood.” (Rev.1:5)
They know it is the only thing that can purge them of a guilty conscience and allow them to stand before God and know they are clean and innocent in His sight.
“How much more then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our conscience from the guilt of the acts that lead to death.” (Heb. 9:14)
They know the means of their healing came from the blood that flowed from the wounds in His back.
“By His stripes we are healed.“ (Isaiah 53:5)
And they know when the enemy comes against them, as it did against my brother Don to try to kill him with cancer, they can use the power of the blood to defeat him and drive him away.
“And they overcame him (satan) by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.” (Rev. 12:11)
Thank You Jesus
There is Still Power in Your Blood
I would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to attend the upcoming TDS School of Deliverance held on the Campus of The Church of Glad Tidings in Yuba City, CA, August 16--18, 2010.
Jesus said,
“If I cast out demons by the finger of God,
the Kingdom of God has come into your midst.” (Luke 11:20)
There will be an opportunity to witness the kingdom of God come into our midst and see demons driven out. There will also be a transferable anointing to take home with you to see the Kingdom of God come into your midst in your own local Church from this exciting experience.
We are offering the sermon “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power” released just this month, as the free mp3 download. Please take advantage of this free gift with no strings attached.
The blood of Jesus will never lose its power.
A fellow warrior,
Jess
