There’s a difference between pleading the blood and applying it, and most of us were only ever taught the first one. Pleading sounds like begging — please, please, please. Applying sounds like ownership — I apply the blood right now, in the name of Jesus. One treats the blood like something you’re hoping still works. The other treats it like something that already does.
You have to become what could be called a blood pusher — someone who actively pushes the power of the blood into every situation, rather than passively hoping it eventually shows up. Pain doesn’t get to negotiate with you. You tell it plainly: you have to leave my body, pain, because I have authority over you right now in the name of Jesus.
Galatians 2:20-21 gives the posture behind this: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me… I do not frustrate the grace of God.” Pleading, in a strange way, frustrates that grace — it treats a finished transaction like an ongoing negotiation. Applying honors it as settled.
Next time you catch yourself pleading out of old habit, stop mid-sentence and apply instead. The blood isn’t waiting for permission. It’s waiting for you to use it like you believe it.
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