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The blood of Jesus is the most referenced, most sung about, and least understood reality in the Christian faith. Every believer knows the blood was shed. Every believer knows it was shed for their sins. And every believer includes some reference to the blood in their prayers, usually as a closing line or a protective covering.
But almost none of them understand what the blood is actually doing right now in real time in the heavenly realm that directly affects the power, the confidence, and the effectiveness of every prayer they pray. There is a revelation about the blood that the early church understood, that the New Testament writers documented, and that EW Kenyon spent years teaching. A revelation that has been largely forgotten by the modern church.
And when you recover it, the way you pray will change so fundamentally that you will look back on your previous prayer life and realize you were praying at half power your entire Christian life. Because the blood does not merely cover your past. It empowers your present. And the way it empowers your present, specifically your prayer life, is the forgotten revelation that this teaching is going to restore.
This teaching is not a general survey of the blood of Jesus. It is a focused, specific, practically-oriented revelation about the connection between the blood and the power of your prayers. We explored the legal function of the blood in the courtroom of heaven in an earlier teaching. Today we are going deeper. We are going to see what the blood does between the courtroom and the prayer closet. How it transforms the way you approach God and why understanding its present tense ministry is the key to praying with a power that most believers have never accessed.
EW Kenyon considered this revelation to be among the most important in his entire body of teaching. He wrote, "The blood of Jesus is not a memory. It is a ministry. It did not simply accomplish something 2,000 years ago and then become a historical footnote. It is active, operative, and continuously at work in the heavenly realm, doing something for the believer right now that directly affects the potency of every word that comes out of his mouth in prayer."
The blood is a ministry, not a memory. That distinction is the door into this teaching. And once you walk through it, you will never again treat the blood as a mere theological reference point in your prayer life.
Here is where the church has lost something invaluable. Most Christians relate to the blood of Jesus in the past tense. They know it was shed. They know it purchased their salvation. They know it cleansed their sins. And they are grateful for all of that. But their relationship with the blood is essentially historical. It is something that happened, something they look back on with reverence, something they remember during communion. And then they move on to the business of praying, confessing, believing, and exercising authority without any consciousness of what the blood is doing at this very moment to support, empower, and accelerate everything they are doing in prayer.
The result is a prayer life that operates without the awareness of its most powerful backing. Imagine a diplomat who has been sent to negotiate on behalf of the most powerful nation on earth. He has the full authority of his government behind him. He has the military power, the economic resources and the legal standing of the entire nation backing every word he says at the negotiating table. But he does not know it. He thinks he is negotiating alone. He thinks the power behind his words is limited to his own intelligence and his own persuasiveness. And so he negotiates timidly, uncertain of his standing, unsure of his leverage and willing to accept terms far beneath what his government has authorized him to demand.
That is the picture of a believer who prays without the consciousness of the blood. The backing is there, the authority is there, the power is there, but the awareness is absent. And without the awareness, the prayer operates at a fraction of its intended potency.
EW Kenyon exposed this deficiency with a statement that should provoke every praying Christian to examine what they know about the blood's present ministry. He wrote, "Most believers use the blood as a closing line in their prayers. They say, 'I plead the blood of Jesus' without any understanding of what they are actually invoking." And the prayer that invokes something it does not understand is a prayer that cannot fully access the power of what it is invoking.
The blood is the most powerful legal instrument in the universe. But it only operates at full capacity in the prayer life of a believer who understands what it is doing right now. The blood only operates at full capacity. When you understand what it is doing right now, that is the key. Not what it did, what it is doing.
So what is the blood doing right now? Let us go to the scriptures and see the present tense ministry of the blood laid out with unmistakable clarity. The foundational text is Hebrews 9:11 to 12. "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
Jesus entered the heavenly holy place with his own blood, not a symbolic representation of his blood, his actual blood. And that blood was presented before the throne of God as the full and final payment for every sin. But notice the verse does not say the blood was presented and then removed. It was presented and it remains. The blood of Jesus is in the heavenly holy place right now. It has not been withdrawn. It has not expired. It has not lost its potency. It is there, present, active, and speaking.
Hebrews 12:24 confirms the active present tense function of the blood: "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel." The blood speaks present tense right now. It is not silent. It is not resting. It is actively speaking in the heavenly realm at this very moment. And what it speaks is better than what Abel's blood spoke. Abel's blood cried for vengeance. Christ's blood speaks for pardon, for acceptance, for access, for authority.
Every time you pray, the blood is speaking on your behalf simultaneously. Your words are ascending from earth. The blood's testimony is sounding in heaven. And the combination of your faith-filled prayer and the blood's continuous advocacy produces a spiritual force that nothing in hell can resist.
EW Kenyon connected this active ministry of the blood directly to the believer's prayer life with a clarity that should permanently change the way you approach the throne. He wrote, "When you pray, you are not approaching God alone. The blood has arrived before you. It has already spoken. It has already testified on your behalf. It has already declared your righteousness, your access, and your right to be heard. By the time your first word reaches the throne, the blood has already prepared the way. And the prayer that is conscious of this, that is aware that the blood is actively supporting it, carries a confidence and a weight that the blood-ignorant prayer cannot match."
By the time your first word reaches the throne, the blood has already prepared the way. That is the forgotten revelation. Your prayer does not arrive at an unprepared throne. The blood has been there continuously testifying, declaring, and maintaining the legal basis for your access. When you pray, you are stepping into an environment that the blood has already sanctified for your arrival.
Now, let me show you how this changes the way you pray in specific practical terms.
First, the blood eliminates the need for a performance-based approach. Most Christians carry an unconscious belief that the effectiveness of their prayer is somehow connected to how well they have been behaving. If they have had a good week, they approach God with more confidence. If they have had a bad week, they approach with more hesitation. But the blood renders your behavioral record irrelevant to your access. Hebrews 10:19 says, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." Boldness by the blood. Not by your behavior, not by your track record, by the blood. The blood has secured your access permanently and independently of your daily performance. And when you are conscious of this, the hesitation disappears. You do not approach God calculating whether you have earned the right to be heard. You approach God knowing that the blood has already established the right, and that right does not fluctuate with your performance.
Second, the blood gives your prayer a backing that transcends your personal authority. When you pray in the name of Jesus and you are conscious that the blood of Jesus is actively supporting your prayer in the heavenly realm, you are not praying with just the authority of your identity. You are praying with the authority of your identity plus the advocacy of the blood. The blood is your legal counsel in the courtroom of heaven. It is speaking on your behalf. It is presenting the evidence of your redemption, and it is doing so with a voice that the judge of all the earth cannot ignore because the blood is His own Son's blood, and its testimony is perfect, complete, and irrefutable.
EW Kenyon described the blood's role in prayer with a metaphor that makes the dynamic unforgettable. He wrote, "Think of the blood as the seal on a royal document. A document without the king's seal is just paper. It carries no weight. It has no authority. But a document bearing the king's seal carries the full power of the throne behind it. The blood of Jesus is the seal on every prayer the believer prays. Without the consciousness of the blood, your prayer is just words. With the consciousness of the blood, your prayer is a sealed, authorized, royally-backed document that heaven is legally obligated to honor."
Your prayer is a sealed, authorized, royally-backed document. That is what the blood does. It does not merely decorate your prayer. It authorizes it. It seals it with a legitimacy that comes not from you, but from the sacrifice that purchased your right to pray in the first place.
Third, the blood provides the legal foundation for praying with expectation. Many believers pray and then wonder whether God will answer. The uncertainty is not about God's power. It is about their standing. They are not sure they have the right to expect a response. But the blood eliminates that uncertainty entirely because the blood has already established your standing. It has already declared your righteousness. It has already secured your access. And a prayer that is backed by the blood is a prayer that has a legal right to expect a response.
1 John 5:14-15 says, "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." The confidence described in that verse is not a psychological state you work yourself into. It is a legal certainty produced by the blood's continuous testimony in the heavenly realm. You know He hears you because the blood has secured your access. And because you know He hears you, you know you have the petitions. The entire chain of confidence rests on the blood.
Let me give you a vivid picture of what is happening in the heavenly realm. Every time you kneel to pray, imagine a courtroom. You are the plaintiff. You are bringing a case before the judge of all the earth. The case is your need, your petition, your request, your declaration of the word over your circumstances. In any earthly courtroom, the strength of your case depends on the quality of your evidence and the competence of your attorney. But in the heavenly courtroom, you have something no earthly plaintiff has ever had. You have the blood of the eternal Son of God serving as both the evidence and the attorney.
The blood testifies that your sins have been paid for. The blood testifies that your righteousness is established. The blood testifies that the covenant is in force. The blood testifies that your access is legal, your standing is secure, and your right to petition the throne is irrevocable. And the judge, who is your Father, looks at the blood and sees not your failures, but the perfect sacrifice that answers for them. He sees not your unworthiness, but the worthiness of the Lamb whose blood was presented on your behalf. And He rules in your favor, not because you deserved it, because the blood merited it.
Hebrews 9:22 establishes the non-negotiable role of blood in the entire economy of redemption: "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." Without blood, no remission. Without blood, no forgiveness. Without blood, no access. Without blood, no standing. Everything in the covenant rests on the blood. And the blood that rests in the heavenly holy place is not the blood of bulls and goats that had to be renewed year after year. It is the blood of Jesus Christ. Shed once, presented once, and effective forever.
Hebrews 10:12 confirms this permanence: "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God." One sacrifice forever. Sat down. The work is complete. The blood has been accepted. And the acceptance is eternal. That means every prayer you pray today, tomorrow, next year, and for the rest of your life on this earth is backed by a blood that has already been accepted by the highest court in the universe. And that will never need to be represented, reapproved, or revalidated. Your prayer is pre-approved by the blood, and pre-approved prayers carry a weight that unapproved prayers can never carry.
EW Kenyon described the practical impact of this preapproval on the daily prayer life with a statement that should eliminate every trace of prayer anxiety from your experience. He wrote, "The believer who understands that his prayers are pre-approved by the blood does not pray with anxiety. He prays with the calm assurance of a man who knows his check will not bounce because the account it draws on is the infinite riches of Calvary. The blood has made the deposit. The covenant has guaranteed the funds. And every prayer drawn on that account will be honored because the God who accepted the blood has committed himself to honoring every claim made on its basis."
Every prayer drawn on that account will be honored. That is the practical effect of the blood's present tense ministry. Your prayers are not speculative. They are not hopeful requests sent into the unknown. They are authorized withdrawals from an account that has been funded by the blood of Jesus Christ and guaranteed by the God who accepted it. And that account has never been overdrawn.
Revelation 12:11 reveals the offensive power of the blood in the believer's life: "And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their lives unto the death." They overcame by the blood and by the word of their testimony. The blood and the spoken word together. The blood provides the legal authority. The word of testimony provides the vocal expression, and the combination is an overcoming force that the enemy cannot withstand.
When you pray with the consciousness that the blood of Jesus is backing every word you speak, and you speak those words in faith in alignment with the word of God, you are deploying the two most powerful weapons in the universe simultaneously: the blood and the word of your testimony. And the enemy who stands against that combination is an enemy who has already lost.
Kenyon connected Revelation 12:11 directly to the daily prayer life with a statement that should inform every prayer you ever pray again. He wrote, "The blood and your testimony are a combined weapon. The blood provides the legal standing. Your testimony provides the declaration. And together, they produce an overcoming force that the enemy has no answer for. The believer who pleads the blood without the testimony has authority without expression. The believer who testifies without the blood has expression without authority. But the believer who combines the two, who is conscious of the blood's legal power and declares the word with faith, is the believer who overcomes in every situation."
Authority without expression, or expression without authority. Both are incomplete. The blood and the testimony must operate together. And the believer who understands this will never again pray without the dual consciousness of what the blood is doing in heaven and what the word is doing on their lips.
And here is the climactic truth that should permanently change the atmosphere of every prayer you ever pray. Colossians 1:20 adds one more dimension that should permanently reshape your understanding of the blood's reach: "And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." Peace through the blood, reconciliation through the blood, not just between you and God, but between all things and God, things in earth and things in heaven.
The blood has established peace in the entire cosmos. And when you pray, you are praying within a universe that has been reconciled to God by the blood. The spiritual atmosphere has been cleared by the blood. The legal environment has been established by the blood. And the prayer that is conscious of this cosmic peace operates with a freedom and a confidence that the blood-ignorant believer cannot access.
You are not praying alone. You are not praying unsupported. You are not praying into a void and hoping that someone in heaven notices. You are praying with the most powerful legal advocate in the universe actively working on your behalf. The blood of Jesus is in the heavenly holy place right now. Speaking right now, testifying right now, declaring your righteousness right now, securing your access right now, and backing every word you speak with the full authority of the covenant it ratified.
When you pray, you pray with the blood. And when you pray with the blood, you pray with the power of an eternal covenant that God Himself established, sealed, and guaranteed with the most precious substance in the universe, the blood of His own Son.
Kenyon expressed this with a weight that should settle permanently into the spirit of every praying believer. He wrote, "The blood of Jesus has changed the nature of prayer forever. It is no longer the cry of a sinner hoping to be heard. It is the confident declaration of a righteous son, sealed by blood, backed by covenant, and guaranteed a response by the faithfulness of the God who made the covenant."
When you understand what the blood has done and what it is doing right now, prayer becomes the most powerful activity a human being can engage in. Because it is not just you speaking, it is you speaking with the blood behind you. And the blood has never lost a case. The blood has never lost a case. That is the revelation. That is the forgotten truth restored. And it belongs to you every time you open your mouth in prayer.
So let this revelation permanently reshape the way you approach God in prayer. The blood of Jesus is not a historical artifact. It is a present tense ministry. It is in the heavenly holy place right now. Speaking on your behalf, declaring your righteousness, securing your access, and backing every prayer you pray with the authority of an eternal covenant. You do not pray alone. You pray with the blood. And when you are conscious of this, when this awareness becomes the permanent backdrop of your prayer life, every prayer you pray will carry a confidence, a weight, and a potency that the blood-unaware believer cannot access.
The blood has changed the nature of prayer forever. And the believer who understands this will never again hesitate, never again doubt their access, and never again wonder whether their prayer will be heard.
EW Kenyon left the church with a charge that should be spoken before every prayer. He wrote, "Before you pray, remember the blood, not as a ritual, not as a formula, as a reality. The blood is there. It has spoken. It has prepared the way. And the prayer you are about to pray is sealed, authorized, and backed by the most powerful covenant in the universe. Pray accordingly."
Pray accordingly. That is the charge. Not timidly, not uncertainly, accordingly. In a manner that matches the power of what backs you. And what backs you is the blood of the eternal Son of God.
If this revelation has changed the way you see the blood's relationship to your prayer life, if you now understand that the blood is not merely a past event, but a present tense ministry that backs every prayer you pray, then declare it in the comment section below. So type these words: "The blood of Jesus is speaking on my behalf right now. It has secured my access. It has declared my righteousness. It has sealed my prayers with the authority of the eternal covenant. I do not pray alone. I pray with the blood. And every prayer I pray is backed by the most powerful legal instrument in the universe. I am righteous. I am accepted. I am heard, and the blood has never lost a case." That is not a formula. That is a blood covenant believer declaring the present tense reality of the most powerful ministry in the heavenly realm. Leave it in the comments now.
And as you begin to pray with this new consciousness of the blood's ministry, as your prayers take on a weight and a confidence you have never experienced before, there is a principle that will take this blood-backed prayer life and give it a precision that most believers have never experienced because the blood secures your authority. But authority must be exercised. And there is a specific law in the kingdom of God spoken by Jesus Himself that governs exactly how a blood-backed, faith-filled, identity-conscious believer exercises authority over every mountain, every obstacle, and every impossibility. It is not a suggestion. It is a law. And it operates with the same unfailing reliability as gravity.
When you understand this law and begin to operate in it with the blood consciousness you have gained today, your spoken words will carry a force that circumstances cannot resist and that the spirit realm must obey. In the next teaching, we're going to open that law, break it down condition by condition, and show you how to speak with the kind of authority that moves mountains. If what you heard today gave you the backing of the blood, what comes next will show you the law that makes that backing operational in every situation you face.