Comments on: Pleading the Blood of Jesus Is it Right or Wrong?

By: Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

Tom Lessing (Discerning the World) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:49:32 +0000

In reply to Jennifer Bynum Mason. Hi Jennifer, Thank you for your comment. You are so right. True biblical faith has nothing to do with any kind of ritual or incantation.

By: Jennifer Bynum Mason

Jennifer Bynum Mason — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 23:54:20 +0000

I heard a sister state in her prayer, “I plead the blood over this situation.” I was taken aback with such a strange declaration because we do not practice such a thing in our fellowship. It reminds me of the Scripture in 2 Kings 18:4, when King Hezekiah removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image of Asherah and broke in pieces the bronze serpent Moses had made the Nehustan, or in 1 Samuel the people used the Ark of the Covenant as some type of lucky piece to take the place of God and His power. As human beings, we rather have the propensity to hold on to relics as objects of our faith rather than trusting in God's Word. Just additional support to make the prayer appear more powerful. So, who are you trying to impress? You or God? Can God be manipulated, by our grandiose prayers of showmanship? Christ finished the work on the cross, Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15) So, why do we have to add feeble words to help our cause? The cake has been frosted enough!

By: Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

Tom Lessing (Discerning the World) — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:02:41 +0000

In reply to Maria. Dear Maria, Thank you for your comment and it is our pleasure having been able to help you understand better.

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:56:46 +0000

Thanks for this as has bothered me for a long time as none of the Apostles or disciples ever pled the blood in NT.
James did mention anointing the sick with oil( not the recipe given to Aaron as forbidden to use on people we read a little further on!!) for healing by elders so I will accept that as biblical but we are not told to anoint things or for protection.

By: Sisandz

Sisandz — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:28:39 +0000

this is very good thank you for such a comprehensive study, it gets to show that we dont think about what we say when we pray, just repeating things you hear without discerning it and testing against scripture. Wow it really got me thinking. thanks for your faithfulness

By: Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

Tom Lessing (Discerning the World) — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:15:41 +0000

In reply to CindyLP. Hi CibdyLP. Indeed, Jesus shed his blood for the remission of our sins and should not be used as a kind of magical word to protect your home, your car, your kids, or anything else you value. God promises that He will never leave nor forsake us and also that nothing can separate us from his love.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:35-39)

Pleading the blood amounts to unbelief and that you must do something to activate God into doing again something He has forgotten. Something like, "Oh dearie me, Jesus' blood has somehow been deactivated in my life and I must plead it over me to activate it again." People plead the blood because they fear tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness (poverty), perils, or the sword. They want to live cushy lives and the blood of Jesus supposedly provides it for them.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18).

I fear that if you tell them what I had written here, they will want to disfellowship you from their group. And. maybe not. Do not fear them.

By: CindyLP

CindyLP — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 22:28:44 +0000

Thank you so much for this study. I have joined a prayer group that pleads the blood of Jesus and it has caused me to question this type of prayer as I’ve never seen it written in scripture to do this. Jesus told us how to pray in Luke 11 as a template. It has always been my understanding from scripture that Jesus’ blood was shed once for all. Thank you so much.

By: Deseree Russouw

Deseree Russouw — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:51:46 +0000

I came out of a church that pleaded the blood, strangely it was an evangelical ANGLICAN. I joined a Pentecostal church, which my Mom was attending for a short while and saw a big change in her. This Pentecostal church does not believe in pleading the blood. That was in 1979. since then I have done a lot of research and there is no scripture to support the “pleading of the blood, it is a false teaching. Yeshua’s blood was shed for the remission of our sins, to cleanse us but it is in His authority and His powerful name that we ask Abba Father to set His angels charge over us to protect us, to keep us safe, to pray for the sick and in Yeshua’s mighty name, we cast out demons. Yet many Christians still plead the blood even though they are told that it is not scriptural

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:16:54 +0000

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By: Deborah (Discerning the World)

Deborah (Discerning the World) — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 08:10:55 +0000

In reply to Pastor Don Sallow. Hi Pastor Don Thank you so much for your comment! :smile: