Covering with/pleading for the Blood of Christ - biblical?

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Permalink Reply by Debbie Hasty on February 2, 2011 at 11:05am

First prayer is made from the heart through the faith of Christ that we build on daily. It is by the blood of Jesus that we are healed and that is why we plead the blood of Jesus over ourselves and those who need His covering. We need not have to pray as others by the words they speak, but to just speak from your heart for the petitions you are placing before the father. When we pray for the top of their heads to the soles of their feet is just asking God to cover them completely that nothing can come against any part of their person.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

1Pe 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Psalms 91:6  Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. Read all of Psalms 91 and the word pestilence means epidemics.

 

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Permalink Reply by Astrid on February 2, 2011 at 1:11pm

I know those scriptures, they explain why we are healed, and that healing has been done, which simply means that it is done, and still has effect for today, and tomorrow, for ever. So why asking, pleading for the Blood again during a special prayer? Where is it found in the bible, who has done so?
Didnt Jesus himself taught us to always pray IN His name only?

Andt to which scriptures refers the covering with Blood? The Lord's supper is spoken with honor and memorial to His Blood/Body sacrifice..

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Permalink Reply by Debbie Hasty on February 3, 2011 at 3:02pm

I must admit I did not understand what you were asking. Your reply intrigued me to dig further into this as I never really gave it no thought before and what I found below is from gotquestions.org. I too have spoke these words of pleading the blood until I read this with scripture and it truly is a false teaching of blab it and grab it. Thank you Astrid as you have taught this old dog a new insight into Gods word.

 

“Pleading the blood of Jesus” has no basis whatsoever in Scripture. No one in the Bible ever “pleads the blood” of Christ. Those who “plead the blood” do so as if there was something magical in those words or as if by using them their prayer is somehow more powerful. This teaching is born from the misguided and heretical view of prayer that prayer is really nothing more than a way of manipulating God to get what we want rather than praying for His will to be done. The whole Word of Faith movement is founded on the false teaching that faith is a force and if we pray with enough faith, then God guarantees us health, wealth, and happiness and will deliver us from every problem and every situation. In this view, God is simply a way to get what we want instead of being the holy, sovereign, perfect and righteous Creator that the Bible reveals Him to be.

Those who teach this Word-Faith falsehood have an exalted view of man and our “rights” to plead what we want and get God to respond the way we want. This is in opposition to true biblical faith exemplified by Paul’s life and his approach to suffering and trials. Paul wrote in 2 Timothy that “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12). But Word of Faith teaches that if we suffer or are sick or struggle with sin, it is because we do not have enough faith or that we are not pleading the blood of Jesus to claim what is rightfully ours. But we do not see Paul pleading the blood of Christ or claiming what is “rightfully his” when he was faced with trials and persecution. Instead we see his unwavering faith in Christ no matter what the situation: “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day” (2 Timothy 2:12).

Paul had “learned in whatever state I am in to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:11-13). Paul’s faith was in Christ alone, and he could say with conviction “the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever, Amen!” (2 Timothy 4:18).

“Pleading the blood” as it is commonly practiced has more in common with mysticism—reciting a magical formula and hoping it works—than it does with biblical prayer. Saying certain words does not make our prayers magically more powerful. Furthermore, “pleading the blood” of Christ is not needed to defeat Satan. He has already been defeated, and if we are truly born-again, Satan has no power over us other than what God allows for His purpose and glory. Colossians 1:13 makes this perfectly clear: “For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.”

Rather than “pleading the blood” of Christ for protection or power, Christians should obey the command in James 4:7 “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Rather than practicing an unbiblical model of prayer, we are to follow the simple precepts of Scripture—leading a pure life before God, taking captive all our thoughts to avoid giving sin a place, confessing our sins when we fail those first two precepts and putting on the full armor of God as outlined in Ephesians 6:13-17.

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Permalink Reply by Astrid on February 3, 2011 at 5:39pm

Thank you, Debbie and Jane,

first, I also love to look into gotquestions.org first, whenever I have a certain topic and need scriptures or new opions.
Second, I belong to a church that is following the teachings of K. Hagin, and therefore is named "Word of Faith" (OMG-LOL :-D)

BUT!!! our German belief is different than that described on gotquestionsorg or elsewhere. Yes, it is true, that we go according to the scripture and that faith is also one topic. But Jesus himself urged His disciples to have faith like a mustard-seed, to move mountains(problems). So there is nothing wrong with that. And of course not  WE are the masters, only by Gods Grace and His will things come to pass. But this whole wof-teaching, misleaded and sometimes unbiblical teaching is another topic.

Yesterday in our homecell-group I also asked my brethren where this kind of prayer might origin from.

Covering with blood:
They instantly referred to Ex.12/21-28, where the Isrealites used blood to protect themselves from  God's wrath, and that also all generations after them shall do so.

Pleading the blood
must be something typical American, English, as only our Ghanian sister uses this way of prayer, we German folks dont do so...But as I have read on English-speaking sites about this pleading, I just included in this discussion, too.

They could name me no other scriptures, it is used just as a habit to emphasize and re-call the power of Jesus Blood. And just because it is not written in the bible wouldnt make it un-godly, because it works (and I can confirm, too, that it worked for my prayers....)

 

But as I said, it is no-where described in the NT, by Jesus or His disciples..
I also think it is a man-made way of encouraging themselves to believe in the power of Jesus' sacrifice, and therefore is somewhat magical/fleshly...

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