There is power, power, wonder working power
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

Some of you, like me, are old enough to remember when these words used to be sung in church quite regularly. I remember singing this song in my Bible College days. Without even understanding the significance of the words, I would belt this song out at the top of my lungs.

The name and blood of Jesus always lifts darkness from me. I have wrestled with demons in the night that have tried to choke me and overcome me, but I have always overcome by the blood of Jesus.

I remember one time going down to my family room in the middle of the night because I couldn’t sleep. After an hour or so I managed to slip back into that glorious unconscious state, when a dark spirit came into the room around me.

I opened my eyes to look and it was complete darkness, darker than any night that I have lived through before. It was the kind of darkness that you might imagine the Egyptians encountering as a plague.  I was paralyzed. I tried to open my mouth but nothing would come out.

If you’ve gone through this, then you know what I was wrestling with. I have learned to apply the name of Jesus and the blood of Jesus to such experiences.

I cried out to Jesus and the paralysis left me. I got up from the couch and ran upstairs where my wife was sleeping, but before I got there I woke up inside of another dream and started to go through the same thing all over again. I cried out to Jesus and the mercy of His blood again, and once again the darkness began to lift. I got up and went up stairs for real this time.

Each time I called on Christ and spoke His name and His blood the darkness lifted.

The song I quoted above then becomes more meaningful when you’ve gone through these experiences. You realize that the blood of Jesus is indeed glorious in the face of a supernatural battle. You come to understand that when you call out the name of Jesus you will overcome and be victorious.

In Psalm 18, David finds himself surrounded by darkness and his enemy, so that the only thing he knows to do is cry out to his God in heaven. We read that God got up from where He was sitting on His throne and rode the backs of His angels, with dark clouds surrounding Him as He approached the earth to fight on His son’s behalf.

As He came close to the crisis, lightnings and thunderings came out of the cloud as darkness was suppressed beneath God’s feet, and all of this because of one cry of His favoured son.

Romans 16:20 says, “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” As you cry out to God, His peace comes into your situation, a peace that the enemy always flees from. So call out on the name of the Lord today and expect to receive a great victory.

There is no depression, anxiety or evil that can hold you down in the face of Christ our Lord.

You are more than a conqueror in Christ. You are in fact an overcomer, so the next time darkness tries to hold you down, remember that there is power in the Name of Jesus and in the blood of the Lamb.