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The Blood Still Has Miraculous Power: Deep Spiritual Worship

The Blood Still Has Miraculous Power: Deep Spiritual Worship

Last updated on: August 25, 2023 at 11:28 am by Melissa Ingoldsby

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The Blood Still Has Miraculous Power: Deep Spiritual Worship 2023-08-25T11:28:04-04:00 Melissa Ingoldsby

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Bullying and how a worship song brought two unlikely people together

Growing up in the farm-filled Midwest, Missouri is generally considered a conservative and quiet place to live. As a budding teenager trying to figure out their identity, in that respect, it is hard to keep that balance of a conservative nature. Especially by expressing your identity in a way that is considered as blatant as a bright peacock standing in a room full of white doves, you might as well have bright paint splashed on your face.

Once I started High school, I dropped my girly, pink and pastel look that I had in middle school for a completely gothic style with black being my main choice of color. This was not of the norm, as many gave me and my friends looks. But, I was happy with the way I looked and I didn’t mind the judgement, usually. There was one particular girl that I had shared my weight training class with, who particularly judged me for my look. She believed it was demonic and evil and that I was this way for how I dressed.

She did not know anything about me, other than how I dressed. Especially the fact that my family was Jewish. I was raised in the Jewish faith and I celebrated Jewish holidays with my family at a very strict synagogue in University City, MO.

Strangely, even with this bullying and taunting I received, we somehow eventually started talking and we found out that we had things in common and that music was something we could relate to. Gospel and worship music was how we related to each other, strangely enough. In the locker room, she had her headphones and asked me to listen to this song that was gospel music.

I took her ear phones and placed it in my ears. I remember her looking at me, waiting for my reaction, though she tried not to make it obvious. It was an experience I can’t begin to explain. It was a warm sort of chill, it was as though everything had started to glow, to gleam, and inside I felt this intense feeling of love and joy. The vocals that belted out, “The Blood Still has Miraculous Power!” were otherworldly, passionate and full of love.

I was blown away and in awe. I remember being so excited with her as we expressed our feelings over this incredibly emotional connection with faith and God.

I believe the artful and truly divine nature of this worship and gospel message truly delved deep, crossing all social boundaries and truly helped two young people understand each other without judgement. Here is a link to the artist, Kurt Carr and the song itself: The Blood Still Has Miraculous Power.

Baptism and how it relates to the gospel and biblical message

Through many teachings in the Christian and Catholic religions, it is taught in the Bible that baptism is the purest way to cleanse yourself of all sins. This also is in accordance with God’s instructions and Jesus’ teachings, as well as being the first sacrament that is done through the Catholic Church.

The gospel of the song gives us the message of Jesus and his sacrifice:

Verse 1:] We can’t forget God’s sacrifice He saved this world with his son’s life God must have agonized and grieved To watch his child suffer and bleed But he knew the blood that his son spilled there Would save the world from her despair So there 2000 years ago God put his power in the flow And the sins of the world could not pollute it The years and time could not dilute it.

From an online article that is titled, CONNECTING THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AND WATER BAPTISM, we have this scripture: Paul said to the saints at Rome, “For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Rm.5:10). “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?” (Rm.6:3)

A message of salvation

I find myself wondering in these disheartening times, of the wars and the hatred and fear that has pervaded our world, why is there so much suffering?

I had found the verse Matthew 19:25-26 to be illuminating:

25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

And Acts 16:30-33:

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In the most distressing and painful moments of my life, I go back to the memories like the one I had with that girl in high school. How we shared such a beautiful connection of faith and God with that gospel song. That is why I consider religious art such as the music of Kurt Carr, and how I clung so lovingly to the Serenity Prayer my dad taught me to hold such a intimate and important relationship to me and my faith:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.

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About Melissa Ingoldsby

Melissa Ingoldsby is a 32 year old author for Resurgence Novels of her debut horror drama I am Bexley. She lives in the STL region and is avid reader of mystery, romance and horror, a cinema fan and part time writer for Vocal and has many self published books on Amazon. You can read more about the author here.

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