Book excerpt: As you will discover in this book, every favor, benefit, and blessing we receive is because of the blood of Christ. The cruel beating and stripes Jesus endured were not only for our salvation, healing, and deliverance, but for our protection, peace, sanctification, righteousness, eternal inheritance--and so much more. The suffering inflicted on Jesus, which He received on the way to the cross and at Calvary, were beyond any pain we can imagine. God's Son bore this agony to guarantee every benefit we can now receive. Each of the 39 stripes Christ suffered were specifically for you! Says the author, "The blood shed by Christ is not just an historical event that happened 2,000 years ago, it is for today."