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"We Plead the Blood" by Christa Rooks: Freedom From Generational Strongholds


What if your battle isn’t the one you see? 

Christa Rooks wrote “We Plead the Blood” in the middle of her husband’s seven-year illness, when doctors ran out of answers and desperation was running deep. Something changed when she and her husband stopped looking only at the physical symptoms and started asking spiritual questions. Old family agreements, generational patterns, unhealed childhood wounds — these things actually matter more than we dare to admit. Christa sings, “In the fog of war the enemy speaks lies,” naming exactly what so many of us feel but rarely say out loud. Confusion isn’t neutral. It’s a tactic. 

Christa Rooks - We Plead the BloodHer husband found healing, not through one prayer, but through counsel, renunciation, and time. The bridge declares: “Contracts with death are broken, we’ll never be the same.” That’s the testimony that Christa wants the world to hear. 

The apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 10:4, “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.” Keep in mind that your fight this week may not look spiritual on the surface. It could be a pattern you can’t break. A fear that outsizes the situation. A wound that keeps reopening. Ask God to show you what’s really underneath it all, because strongholds rarely reveal themselves. 

Take one thought captive today. Just one. Bring it to Jesus instead of rehearsing it alone in your head. Renounce what needs to be renounced. Ask for the counsel or prayer support you’ve been avoiding. May this song encourage you to take that step. 

Christa wrote this song as a weapon, not just a melody. Yes, God will help us destroy these spiritual strongholds. “We plead the blood, Jesus, Perfect Lamb of God.”

(Related scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:4; Revelation 12:11; Colossians 2:14)

Background:

We Plead the Blood is very personal. It talks about the spiritual battle we face as followers of Christ. Written during a difficult season of my husband’s seven-year-long illness, we were desperate for answers and healing. We began to realize that his physical symptoms could be a response or signal to something deeper. Knowing about generational curses and agreements that had been made by family members, we renounced any involvement and received freedom for us and our children. Over the next few months that followed, my husband met with a Spirit-filled and Spirit-led Christian counselor who helped him receive healing from childhood trauma and strongholds in his life. I’m fully aware that the spiritual realm is more real than anything in this physical realm we do see. The enemy wants us to feel defeated and depleted. Yet the blood of Christ covers us! We are redeemed, delivered, and free! I am happy to say that my husband’s physical symptoms have been healed because he received inner healing. Only God! I pray this song blesses and encourages you as you listen.

Release date: August 21, 2026

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