You are "covered by the Blood"

Dear Friends-
Today's message speaks to our faith and reminds us that we should live in the knowledge of God's power and protection. The Israelites' homes were marked by the symbol of the blood which protected them from the angel of death. Under that protection, the Israelites could remain indoors and quickly prepare for their escape from slavery (despite the calamity that occured all around them).
As God's people, we're also protected by the Blood. God placed a sign on us that covers us and allows us to move forward knowing that His promises will be fulfilled. This protection doesn't mean that we will never experience stress or difficulty- even the Israelites endured 40 years of "hard living" in the desert. However, God's people were marked for victory and they eventually made it to the Promised Land. We will make it too.

Allow your story to be speak to God's glory. No matter how hard things get, remember that you're covered by the Blood. Adversity will pass and you will win.

Have a blessed and victorious week!
K.

Exodus 12 1, 11-13, 21-27
1 While the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the Lord gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron:
11 These are your instructions for eating this meal: Be fully dressed,[a] wear your sandals, and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the Lord’s Passover. 12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the Lord! 13 But the blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.

21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel together and said to them, “Go, pick out a lamb or young goat for each of your families, and slaughter the Passover animal. 22 Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the Lord will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down.
24 “Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever. 25 When you enter the land the Lord has promised to give you, you will continue to observe this ceremony. 26 Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ 27 And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground and worshiped.