Pleading the Blood of Jesus: How to Win Every Spiritual Battle

Pleading the Blood has nothing to do with begging.

Pleading the Blood has nothing to do with the mechanical repetition of empty words. Plead in the Scriptures is legal terminology. Before we consider the “why” and “how” of pleading the Blood, we will define our terms to agree with the Bible’s use of plead, plead my cause, etc.

Reev

One Hebrew word translated plead is the root word reev. In its verb form it means: to strive, contend, to conduct a legal case.  In its noun form it means: dispute, controversy, case at law.

It is variously translated as the emphasized words in the Scriptures below:

The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand (1 Samuel 24:15).

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil... (1 Samuel 25:39).

(How interesting this wording is... “hath pleaded the cause...and hath kept...from evil....” Just what we can do in pleading our only case, the Blood of Jesus!)

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips (Job 13:6).

(The book of Job is filled with the imagery of the courtroom. The need of a mediator, an arbitrator, between God and Job is the theme. We have used only one verse from Job.)

Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me… (Psalm 35:1).

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man (Psalm 43:1).

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily (Psalm 74:22).

Plead my cause, and deliver me… (Psalm 119:154).

Rob not the poor...neither oppress the afflicted...

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them (Proverbs 22:22-23).

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee (Proverbs 23:11).

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool (Isaiah 1:17-18).

The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people (Isaiah 3:13).

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting . For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me (Isaiah 50:6-8).

(Here it is! This is prophetic of Jesus and His triumphant death and subsequent justification. He says, “Who will conduct a legal case or suit with Me?” The answer, of course, is that no case or adversary can stand against Him. Therefore, our case, the Blood of His Cross, is sure.)

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon (Jeremiah 50:34).

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life (Lamentations 3:58).

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness (Micah 7:8-9).

Shawfat

The marvelous Scripture that follows uses the Hebrew word shawfat with the Lexicon giving the meaning in this verse as: plead; have controversy together.25

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified (Isaiah 43:25-26).

Now we know what the Bible means by plead.

Let us proceed to learning how to plead our case by pleading the Blood.

Pleading Our Case: Redeemed by the Blood!

A great courtroom procedure has ensued since the fall of man. the Father is God the Judge of all. (Hebrews 12:23.)

Jesus Christ, the Righteous, is our Advocate. (1 John 2:1,2.) The American Heritage Dictionary defines advocate as: One that argues for a cause. One that pleads in another’s behalf; an intercessor.

Satan is the Prosecuting Attorney—the accuser.

for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

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 (Revelation 12:10,11).

The title “the accuser of our brethren” reveals Satan’s char- acter and, therefore, his ongoing activity. (That’s why I try not to listen to accusations against brethren. I know where they originate. And I fear to be found on the accuser’s side in any matter.)

The Bible is the Book of the Law.

Someone has said, “If man’s redemption is to be real, it must be solidly lawful.”

Redemption is the crux of the matter.

Adam exercised his free will and fell into the hand of the enemy.

The Blood of the Lamb redeemed man from Satan’s hold and unto God and His plan.

The American Heritage Dictionary gives this definition of redeem: “To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum.”

As a child, I heard an evangelist tell a story which helped me understand redemption.

A father and his small son worked together and built a toy boat. They whittled out its hull, painted it red, and attached a white sail. Then they enjoyed many happy hours sailing it in the river running through their village.

Somehow the father died. When the boy sailed the boat alone, it brought back good memories. Until... One day a big wind caught the little sail and carried the boat down the river faster than the boy could run after it. Out it sailed into the sea.

The boy missed his boat so much for the long time it was gone.

About Thanksgiving time, he was overjoyed to see his little boat appear in the toy shop window.

He ran inside and said, “That’s my little boat in the window! My father and I made it and it was lost to the sea.”

The shop owner said, “The little boat was brought in by fishermen who found it. I’ll let you have it for what it cost me.”

The boy had no money. But he went to work. He cut wood. He sold papers. He did everything he could think of to do. Each day he counted his money. And each day he held his breath as he passed the toy shop to see if the little boat was still there.

At last, on Christmas Eve, he had enough money. But had someone bought the little boat for a gift? How thankful he was to see it still in the window.

When he came out of the shop, he clasped the little boat to his chest and cried, “Little boat! Little boat! You’re twice mine! I made you! And I bought you!”

God made us and He redeemed us. He redeemed us not with silver and gold, but with “precious Blood.”

“Say So”

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy (Psalm 107:2).

Pleading the Blood with our mouths lines up with this Scripture. The Bible instructs us to say that we are redeemed.

If the enemy tries to put the curse upon you, say that you are redeemed from the curse of the law.

Say, for example: “I am redeemed from the curse of the law. You can’t put that (name it) on me. According to Deuteronomy 28:61 all sickness is the curse of the law. But according to Galatians 3:13 I am redeemed from the curse of the law and I say so. I am redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb. I overcome you, Satan, by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of my testimony.”

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! That is pleading the Blood!