Genesis 4:10-11 “The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.” This question is still being asked today. What have you done? The blood is still crying in the Land. Everyday around the world an estimate of about 400,000 people die from homicide, hunger, and currently COVID-19. What about the blood of the innocent babies? What about in the war-torn zones? Those being killed because of their faith in Christ. If you want to put a number to the innocent blood that have been shed in the nations of the earth, I think it will be enough to create other nations. I wonder if we ever reflect on these bloodsheds and the effects it has on the people and the land. Psalm 139:13-16 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
God is the creator of mankind and He is the only one with the right to take away life. In the world today, due to the evil in the nations of the earth, the enemy has been on a mission to drink innocent blood from the lives created by God. In the nations of the earth, there are lots of road accidents, gun violence, other kinds of harm; physical harm resulting to injuries and death, demonic killers, death from unknown and sometimes strange health issues etc. According to Numbers 35:33 “You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.” Blood pollutes the land and therefore if its polluted, it cannot bring a blessing at that same time. Thus, we see lots of strange things happening in our communities.
We have broken the command of the Lord so we must arise and cry for mercy. Jeremiah 22:3 “This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.”
Innocent bloodshed brings a curse upon a city. Jeremiah 26:15 “Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
Although the blood of Abel brought a curse upon the earth, we must sprinkle the covenant blood of Jesus over our land, homes, communities and ask that it speaks the blessing of God. Hebrews 12:24 “to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.”
We must arise and declare that we hate what the Lord hates; the hand that is shedding innocent blood. Proverbs 6:16-19 “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”
Pray that any innocent blood that has been shed in the place or land of you inheritance/ blessing, the blood of Jesus will arise and nullify. Deuteronomy 19:10 “Lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.”
We must purge the innocent blood in our families, church and communities and it is only through the blood of Jesus Christ. Deuteronomy 19:13 “Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.”
Pray against and call on the fire of God upon this wickedness of the earth where the wicked run to commit evil. Isaiah 59:7-8 “Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.”
We must declare the wrath of God upon these evil minds. Micah 2:1 “Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.”
Pray that the blood of Jesus will cleanse us and the entire land of all the evil humans sacrifices that have been offered. Psalm 106:38 “They poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.”
Pray that the blood of Jesus will cleanse us from every curse in the land caused by secret killings. Deuteronomy 27:24 “Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.”
Innocent blood provokes God to anger. 2 Kings 21:6 “And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.”
We must as believers pour out the blood of Jesus onto our land to purge out the innocent blood. Matthew 26:28 “For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
Pray that the Blood of Jesus will arise and purify us. Hebrews 9:14 “How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”
We must drink the blood of Jesus to purify us from every affiliated, known or unknown participation in shedding innocent blood. Matthew 26:27-28 “And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
The enemy is holding some because of the claims of innocent blood but we have the power to overcome by the Blood of Jesus declaring that it has set us free. Revelation 12:11 “And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.”
Even if it was innocent blood shed by our forefathers, the blood of Jesus is able to wash us clean. 1 Peter 1:18-19 “Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.”
We have to come to Him in confidence through the blood of Jesus and nothing else. On our journey into the presence of the Lord, we pass through the blood of Jesus into the holy place, and we are bath and cleansed from any stains. Hebrews 10:19 “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.”
We can only make peace with God through the blood of his son. Colossians 1:20 “And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.”
Apply the blood over your homes. Exodus 12:13 “The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.”
As you drink the blood of Jesus, speak life over every aspect of your life. John 6:53 “So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.”
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