DAILY DEVOTIONAL Sat. 1st Mar. 2025 TITLE: UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BLOOD DID FOR YOU SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 1:7 (KJV). “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;” NARRATION: What Christ accomplished through His shed blood is the heart of Christianity. If Jesus did not shed His blood, then we have nothing to glory in. You are alive because Jesus shed His blood for you. Many people sing about the blood of Jesus and at times when we pray, we shout the blood of Jesus. We talk about the blood without understanding what the blood did for us and how to apply it to our lives. You can shout all you want, but it will not become effective in your life if you lack an understanding its working power. Without the blood, you cannot be saved. Without the blood, you cannot be redeemed. Without the blood there would have been no Christianity. But He shed His precious and spotless blood for a reason. When they put the crown of thorns on His head, blood was shed. The scripture tells us that while He was praying in Gethsemane blood was shed. Scripture also tells us that when He was nailed in His hands blood was shed. From His feet and from His side, blood was shed. There were specific reasons why this blood was shed and it applies to our case. There is a life we ought to live called the kingdom life, and there are things that you ought to have by reason of your position in Christ. Therefore, when things in your life are contrary to that which Jesus has accomplished for you, never tolerate it. Don’t be complacent and just accept it as the norm. Command that contrary situation to get out from your life. When you truly understand what the blood had accomplished on your behalf, you will be able to stand your ground. When the enemy wants to plant sickness on you, you will say no. Christ shed His blood to take away sickness and disease. He shed His blood to redeem you from the curse into blessing. He shed His blood to redeem you from shame and lack. FURTHER READING: Hebrews 9:11- 28 (NKJV) “But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. [12] Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. [13] For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, [14] how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? [15] And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. [16] For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. [17] For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. [18] Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. [19] For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, [20] saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you." [21] Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. [22] And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. [23] Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. [24] For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; [25] not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another- [26] He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. [27] And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, [28] so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. MY CONFESSIONS: This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. It is the dawn of a new season for me. This is a great and blessed month for me. Thanks be to God for bringing me into the month of March. My month of Progress and Advancement. This shall be a wonderful and blessings full month for me. Grace shall continue to abound unto me. Mercy shall continue to speak for me. I shall continue to find favour of the Lord. It is the third month of the year, and I will not walk alone. The glory of the Trinity is resting upon me. Great and mighty things God shall do for me and through me. I am matching on in the rest Christ has secured for me. I am marching on in victory. I am marching into success. I am marching from glory unto glory. The obstacles and barriers in my path are being removed. I am taking delivery of everything God has packaged for me. The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon my lot. The name of the Lord shall keep me safe and secured. The Covenant that I confess will not fail me. I will not die but live. Nothing will die within me. Nothing will die in my hands. And nothing will die around me. I live in divine health and soundness of mind. All my needs shall be divinely met. All my bills shall be divinely settled. I will arise and shine. For my light has come. The glory of the Lord is risen upon me. Lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places. For I have a goodly heritage. There shall be no failed harvest concerning me. This month shall surely count for me. It is good news for me all through this month in Jesus name. Amen! 🙏🏾 Good Morning. And Happy New Month!