Plead The Blood of Jesus Like THIS

Before I was ever saved, I had a relative who loved Jesus and taught me the significance of the protection of His Blood.

I learned that by pleading the Blood over myself, the Lord would keep me safe. Throughout grade school and junior high, whenever I felt in danger, I would plead the Blood of Jesus as my protection. Although I had little understanding of what I was really doing, I knew the Blood of Jesus could and would protect me if I asked. When I would plead the Blood, I was applying its protecting and life-giving power over myself. It didn’t work according to the level of my understanding; it worked because God is always faithful to His Blood covenant!

God wants us to live in the promises and protection of our covenant with Him. We must realize the benefits of Jesus’ shed Blood, but we must also apply His Blood to our lives by “sprinkling.” We’ve looked at how the shed Blood of Jesus contains all the rights and promises of the new covenant, so now let’s look at how the sprinkled Blood activates the supernatural power of the covenant as we speak, claim, and confess its victory.

Applying the Blood

We already know the Passover points us to what is rightfully ours under the new covenant, but it can also help us to better understand the power and process of sprinkling the Blood of Jesus or what we often declare as pleading the Blood.

The account of the Passover in Exodus 12:22-23 is the first biblical reference to the sprinkling of blood:

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

A bunch of hyssop was to be taken and dipped in the blood, and then applied to the top and side posts of the door. This applying of the blood was done through striking the lintel and the two side posts of the door. This act of applying the blood was also referred to as sprinkling, as mentioned in the book of Hebrews regarding the night of the Passover.

Through faith [Moses] kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them (Hebrews 11:28).

Every part of this process is significant and speaks to us prophetically about how to sprinkle the Blood over our own lives and why we can plead His Blood today!

First, hyssop was a type of plant with a watery substance in its roots, which would likely make it easy to use for applying the blood to the doorposts. Its job here was to take the blood from the basin and apply it. In the same way, it is our privilege today and our responsibility to plead and apply the Blood of Jesus over our lives, property, and families.

Fast-forward to the New Testament—hyssop represents our tongues, or the words we speak. We see this in Ephesians when Paul speaks to husbands about loving their wives:

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word (Ephesians 5:25-26 NASB).

There is a connection here between water and words. This “washing of water” happened through what was spoken. It was a spiritual occurrence that was applied through something said.

The children of Israel applied the blood to their houses by sprinkling it with the hyssop. How do we “sprinkle” or apply the Blood of Jesus today? Just like with the water in Ephesians 5, we do it with our words!

Notice at the Passover that a “bunch” of hyssop was used to sprinkle the blood of the lamb (see Exodus 12:22). I believe this is not an accident or play on words but meant to show us that we can continually apply or plead the Blood a “bunch” of times! I like to make this my reminder that I need to apply the Blood of Jesus by speaking it a “bunch” of times every day—as often as I need!

The sprinkling might look something like this: “I am healed; I am saved; I am delivered; I am forgiven; I receive grace, mercy, and help in the time of need. Devil, you cannot touch my family, my finances, my destiny—I plead the Blood of Jesus!” These are more than just words—this is the sprinkling of the supernatural power contained in the Blood Jesus Christ shed for you! When you plead the Blood of Jesus, you are standing in a legal authority that the devil cannot contest. This sprinkling is a legal process, and when you stand under the Blood, you always win!

As long as the shed blood was left in the basin and not applied, the death angel had a right to strike that home. The blood had to be lifted out of the basin and sprinkled on the door to fulfill its purpose of protection; when the Lord saw the blood, He would not allow the destroyer access to that home.

This basin is a prophetic picture of the fountain mentioned in Zechariah 13:1—the “fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” This basin and this fountain both speak of the fountain of Jesus’ shed Blood that is always available to us! Like the children of Israel, we must take the bunch of hyssop (our mouths/our words), dip it into the basin (Jesus’ shed Blood), and then apply the Blood to every area of our lives by speaking it. As we declare the Blood of Jesus, we are under God’s supernatural protection that keeps the destroyer at a distance. It is the same thing as the Israelites sprinkling the blood using the hyssop!

The children of Israel were not allowed to leave their houses unless the blood had been applied, causing the enemy to pass them by. I encourage you to make this a regular practice—don’t leave your house without pleading the Blood of Jesus over your home, your family, your pets, your belongings. Please understand that I’m not saying this out of legalism—this is a right and privilege of the new covenant that God wants us to enjoy! I’m also not saying we should do this out of any kind of fear of the enemy. We must be careful to speak from a place of faith, not from a place of fear as we know Job did when he offered blood sacrifices for his family. “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7 NKJV). It’s so important that we’re aware of the power of our words, especially the power of the Blood that is activated as we sprinkle it on a regular basis.

When Jesus sat with His disciples at the Last Supper (Passover), He told them, “I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come” (Luke 22:18). The “fruit of the vine” was vinegar or sour wine. In Matthew 27, as He was being crucified, He was offered “vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink” (Matthew 27:34). Did you see that? Jesus wouldn’t drink the vinegar (sour wine / fruit of the vine) at this point because it wasn’t yet time for Him to do so. But let’s look at where and when Jesus did drink of the fruit of the vine.

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost (John 19:28-30).

Remember that He’d told the disciples that He wouldn’t drink “until the kingdom of God shall come” (Luke 22:18). At this point, He was just moments away from death when He said, “I thirst.” I believe He was not only thirsting for natural drink, but He was also thirsting for the Kingdom of God to come to earth. Notice how He is given a drink: “they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on hyssop, and put it to his mouth” (see John 19:29). It was only when the hyssop had touched Jesus’ mouth that the Kingdom He’d been thirsting for came.

Once again there is a key connection between hyssop and the mouth, or our words. On the cross, Jesus’ words, “It is finished,” declared that His Kingdom had come. When we speak words of life, we actually cause the power and blessing of the Kingdom to manifest in our lives and in the earth!

Revelation 12:11 tells us the ones who overcame the enemy did so through the Blood of Lamb and “the word of their testimony” and by loving Jesus more than their own lives. Our words are a key part of how we overcome the enemy! Whatever we speak and declare with our mouths is what will manifest in our lives.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).

This verse is reminding us to choose life over death and speak words of faith rather than negative words that produce negative results. We must declare life! Apply life over yourself and your family! We do this by speaking right, applying the Blood rights of our covenant, and declaring the promises of His Word. We need to do this both over the doorposts of our lives but also our homes like Israel was instructed on the night of the Passover.