My wife and I ministered to a young Christian woman who was seeing an ungodly man. Despite our caution and counsel, she pursued the relationship. She eventually yielded to his pressuring and had sex with him, which resulted in pregnancy. Upon learning out about the pregnancy, the man directed her to abort the child. She refused and had the baby and the relationship continued for a long time.
The ungodly man remained unfaithful to her and was seeing many other women. He also fell into drug and alcohol use. This young woman was faithful to him and still "in love with" him, despite these things. So, I sought God about this and He instructed me to "sever the tie" of the blood that was shed on her behalf in this relationship.
Without anyone knowing about what was being done, her mother and father went before God and petitioned Him to "sever the blood tie" and "release her from that tie." Within two days, she sent the man away. It was like he never had a hold on her and she was free of this tie that bound them. She never even knew about her parent's prayer, but God did.
Since God was the One Who had placed that "bond," He had the power to break or replace that bond. God can restore the blood tie all in the Blood of Jesus for Christian couples. However, we need to know about it in order to pray properly. We sometimes think that when we get saved, everything is completed. It is as far as the sin is concerned, but sometimes the consequence of sin remains. If someone contracted Aids from sin, for instance, then God can forgive the sin causing that disease. But, the consequence still leads to death in the body.
God tells us in Joel 2:25 that, "I will restore what the locust and cancer worm has destroyed." I believe this means much more than crops of grain, but includes everything that was destroyed. I know that God can restore the power of the blood tie that was meant for marriage, as well as restore everything else (see the lessons on the Law of the Kinsman Redeemer). We haven't allowed ourselves to put faith in everything that grace has come to do in our lives.
The blood covenant that God placed in our lives, has been one of the most powerful weapon satan has used against us. Because we didn't know or understand it, we walked in the consequence of the misuse of it instead of the power of it. There is much we still need to learn as we continue our walk with God on this side of glory.
Many will see this as foolishness, but to those the enemy has held captive by this, it will be a great day of deliverance. Jesus said in Matthew 18:18-19 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, Whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already in heaven."
This blood tie is already "proper and lawful in heaven" and you can use the power of the Name and covenant with Jesus to declare it proper and lawful here on earth. God can, and will, restore that which the enemy has tried to destroy. We must know what is "lawful and proper" on earth in order to have faith in the restoration of our own blood covenant with one another in heaven.
Remember, that the life is in the blood. It doesn't matter whether it was the temporal blood life of bulls and goats or the eternal Blood of the Lord Himself or the blood of the covenant with each other in marriage. The life is still in the blood. Redemption has come and the power of it goes far beyond what we have previously believed.
The blood covenant was God's way of binding and uniting man and God. It was also His way of uniting man and woman. If you come before the Lord in earnest and seek His counsel on this subject, then He will reveal the power of His idea of the marriage covenant to you.
God doesn't tell us everything He knows, but only that which we ask Him in our time of prayer and fellowship. Most of us have probably never sought God's wisdom about this subject. I went before God on behalf of another because I didn't know the truth on this subject. God revealed things to me concerning the blood covenant, but I'm sure there is must more to be learned about this.
This is something we can teach our young people that will arm them with understanding about premarital sex. We can prepare them with insight and wisdom to help them know the power of this blood covenant and will hold their marriages together under nearly anything that comes at them.
This blood covenant between a man and his wife, is second only to the Blood covenant between God and man. This is the second most power covenant in all of creation. We missed the power of the covenant altogether, because we failed to understand virginity as God intended. Even in today's Christian circles, virginity is looked down upon as being "old fashioned."
It's not that the sin of premarital sex isn't forgiven, but the blood is shed for all the wrong purposes and the life it is as wasted in the life it poured out. It's like the blood of goats and bulls being shed outside the altar in the old covenant. Even though the life is in the blood, it was wasted when it poured out on the ground. It had no purpose and there was no faith in that blood.
So much precious blood has been shed on the altar of carnality and has been wasted with no power of life in it for marriage. There are some women for whom virginity is just a cumbersome thing that doctors needed to remove for convenience. Lack of understanding has made the Word of God of no effect. God made this covenant and He will perform it in our lives.
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