We have been talking quite a bit about the kingly inheritance God has given us. First, we studied the Fine Line Between Arrogance and Confidence, where we learned that arrogance says, “Look at what I’m doing!” Confidence, on the other hand, sounds like, “Look at what God is doing through me!” Humility and giving God the glory are essential when sitting down in our rightful, heavenly place of authority! You can read the whole blog here.
Next, we dove into the Old Testament and discussed Joshua and Caleb’s Godly perspective on the giants that were intruders in Israel’s Promised Land. Like the Israelites, you and I have a God-given inheritance that is currently under our ownership, yet we don’t necessarily enjoy all the benefits of that inheritance without properly renewing our mind to the Word of God and pressing into His promises by faith. Just because God promises something in His Word (take salvation, for example) doesn’t mean that everyone breathing automatically operates in that promise. The Bible is clear about the gift of salvation–it is free, but must be received by a believing heart and the confession of Jesus Christ as Lord. So we saw that God’s Promised Land, although legally belonging to us, is not ours in an experiential sense without taking action according to God’s perspective on the matter.
You can study the second blog in the Royalty Series here: Go In and Possess Your Land!
Next, we studied the amazing truth that is revealed in Rahab’s faith-filled words just before Jericho was taken:
And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.
Joshua 2:11, AMPC
At the exact moment you received salvation, the giants in your land began to tremble. What land? you ask. What has God promised you in His Word? That’s your land. We explore this truth and its application today in a previous blog entitled Your Giants Are Trembling.
Finally, we studied the connection between blessing and honoring God and receiving the things God promised us in His Word (‘taking up the cup’ of salvation) as heavenly kings ruling by faith (Psalm 116:13) in the blog How Do Godly Kings Reign?
Do you see a pattern here? I’ve endeavored to emphasize the importance of shifting our perspective from a natural, humanistic standpoint to a powerful, confident, and kingly standpoint. God’s desire is that we view His Promises as our own inheritance and grow up in Him–learning the ropes of taking our rightful stance as citizens of Heaven.
My assignment in today’s blog post is to reinforce this entire teaching with our central foundation and the secret to our success as Heavenly kings living by faith on the earth.
All God’s Promises are Yes and Amen
First, let’s acknowledge that God is a good God. He only has good things for His precious children. Not evil. Not weird. He wouldn’t do something terrible to one of His children ‘in order to teach them or build their faith’ any more than I would do something like that to my earthly children.
We live in a sinful world that lies under the sway of the devil, and God is so good that He takes every opportunity–even the worst things that happen to us–to build us up and propel us into our purpose and destiny.
The Bible says that all the promises of God are Yes and Amen.
For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 1:20, AMPC
God’s Yes is His green light for our Amen. Did you see that? You and I have a green light for everything that He has promised in His Word. He’s saying Go for it! If I made a promise in my Word, it is yours! It belongs to you today! You don’t have to wait for Me to answer; I have already answered! You have My blessing! And He will help you obtain every one of His promises.
If this is new revelation to you, I encourage you to read and re-read this scripture as many times as it takes to sink deep into your soul. This is God’s Word. This is God’s Will. This is how God thinks. This is what Jeremiah 29:11 was talking about–God has nothing but good plans for you, and He intends to fulfill all of them–but not in a vacuum. Our consent and cooperation is required.
How the Blessings Come
This is the part that changes lives. Are you ready to learn something brand new from the Word of God today?
Let’s ask the Teacher to do what He does best.
Holy Spirit, thank you for leading me into all truth. Fill me with fresh revelation knowledge of your Word. Fill me with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Thank you for filling me with Your sweet presence today! I am filled with the Holy Spirit!
Let’s look again at 2 Corinthians 1:20 in the Amplified Bible.
For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.
We don’t receive anything from God by our tenacity. Nor our holiness. Nor our well-crafted prayers. These things are beneficial and godly in their places. The promises of God find their Yes in Jesus Christ.
Oh, the precious Blood of Jesus! How can we even dare the boldness required to enter into the Holy of Holies? What can wash away our sin? What can make us whole again? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus…
Since the devil and his demonic forces are the source of all evil, all wrongdoing, and all the barriers between you and God’s blessing in your life, it is important that we understand a few things about what the Blood means to us in overcoming opposition.
How do we overcome him? How do we obtain what was promised? How do we access the promises of God over our lives?
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation 12:11, KJV
The way we overcome the devil is by the Blood of the Lamb, by the word of our testimony (witness), and not loving our lives unto the death. Let’s explore the foundation of the Blood of the Lamb.
The Blood of the Lamb
It seems that, in a general sense, the American Body of Christ does not honor the Blood of the Lamb as much as many of the ‘old timers’ of faith did. Especially as we find ourselves in the final moments of this age, we need to magnify and learn all we can about the glorious Blood of Jesus.
Every benefit and blessing we possess in our redemption, including complete and total victory over Satan, is based on Jesus and His triumph over Satan at the Cross. We have victory over Satan because of Jesus’ shed Blood. The old-timers in Pentecost understood a truth about the Blood of Jesus. They would preach the Blood against the devil. That’s scriptural.
Kenneth E. Hagin
The Blood is the key!
It’s not in our confident “In the Name of Jesus” prayers that the true power of the Cross finds its service–no, but in the shed Blood of a sinless Lamb. We overcome the enemy by the Blood. Without the Blood, our confidence is baseless. Without the Blood, our tenacity is flimsy and misplaced.
Supreme confidence and stability comes to the child of God in prayer when standing upon the firm foundation of the shed Blood of Jesus. That’s how the Bible teaches us to pray and to overcome.
In his short book, Honor the Blood, W. B. Young brings to light a staggering amount of insight and revelation into the Blood of Jesus. I highly recommend this book, which you find here for free.
Here’s an excerpt¹ from his book that I find particularly powerful:
“And they overcame him [Satan] by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (Revelation 12:11).
The Holy Spirit, Who is the Infallible Teacher, will make real to each one, His way of working this “mystery” of the wonder-working power of the blood of Christ to meet every thrust of Satan. In this verse He has given three general guide lines:
1. The basis of our power and authority over all the enemy: “the blood of the Lamb.”
2. The word of our testimony. This is the practical application of our belief in “the blood of the Lamb.” When the conflict is close and fierce with the Adversary, our testimony will be directed to him. Jesus practiced this truth. Under the protection of the blood of Christ and with the authority vested by Christ himself, [you] unafraid and unflinchingly notify Satan that he is a defeated foe, that he has no right or power in a given situation because you are moving against him and his activity with the “standard” provided by God, the precious blood of Christ. God promised His people that when He saw the blood He would deliver. God will keep His part of the covenant. Our responsibility is to “sprinkle the blood.” It is God’s part to deliver.
3. All aspects of the self-life must be reckoned “unto death” if Satan is to be defeated. The redeemed saint who is cleansed from sin must become a selfless saint in order to become a victorious warrior. When these three premises are met, then the child of God is able to exercise his heritage of spiritual authority. The unlimited power of the blood of the Lord Jesus will be loosed.
The Blood: Our Covenant with God
Friend, it is imperative that we walk as kings and priests on the earth, manifesting and experiencing the fullness of the inheritance that God has promised us in His Word. That includes a life of healing, health, wholeness, life, passion, direction, confidence, power, and purpose (to name a few). We are obligated to pursue God’s very best in our lives by the precious gift of the Blood.
We are designed to be overcomers in everything we set our hand to.
How does all this work? What does it mean to ‘honor the Blood’?
It means we honor the covenant we have with God.
We are people of covenant. We have royal blood coursing through our veins because Jesus spilled His. We have been reconciled to God because of Jesus’ work. That’s the power of the Blood.
When you said “Yes” to Jesus, you officially entered into an eternal covenant with God. Almighty, Holy God can now legally enter into eternal covenant with unholy man by the Blood of Jesus. This is what allows you and me to access the glorious benefits of salvation.
We have life because of the Blood. We can claim the promises of the Word of God because of the Blood. We have access into His exceedingly great and precious promises because of the Blood of Jesus. We need to talk more about the Blood!
Yes, we overcome all kinds of obstacles in life–and we should, we are royal heirs, after all–but our victory is made possible by the glorious, perfect, and eternal Blood of the Lamb. Thank God for the Blood.
Many tools are given to us to overcome evil with good, but they all ultimately find their foundation in the Blood of the Lamb, which takes away the sin of the world. We overcome first and foremost by the Blood!
My prayer today:
Father God, I thank you for the spilled Blood of Jesus. Words escape me; how can I thank you for such a wonderful gift? You have saved me and made me whole; you have translated me out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light–I am saved for all eternity!
Lord, I ask right now for a revelation of the Blood of Jesus. Show me what it means to plead (as in a courtroom) the Blood of Christ in my daily life. Show me the power of the Blood. Show me how to overcome the devil by the Blood of the Lamb. Teach me to guard my mouth and defeat the enemy through the word of my testimony. Engulf me with passion towards you, Lord, so that I do not love my life more than you. Fill me with boldness today. I’ll die before I renounce your Name! Thank you, Father!
I pray these things in Jesus’ Name!
¹ W. B. Young, Honor the Blood, Osterhus Publishing House, 4500 W. Broadway, Minneapolis, MN 55422
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