Any of you had a massage, and someone puts a hand and they squeeze you there? Your hand will just close like that, just closes. Actually when someone massages it's very nice - and the reason it does that, is because there's a massive nerve that runs through there, around past your elbow - that's called your funny bone but it's actually the nerve - and it runs right across through to your heart, right across the chest.
So what they did was, they drove a spike right through the nerve, and immediately His hand would go like a claw like that, and blood would spurt out all over His hands. When Jesus did this, He suffered immense torment and He had to, in order to breath, keep pulling Himself up on His hands, on that spike. Blood would spurt out until in the end, the hole opened up, and you could even see the very bones inside. It was a horrendous way to die, and Jesus shed His blood on His hands for every work you did that was evil, everything you've ever done that was wrong. The blood was shed for forgiveness and cleansing, and that blood can be applied to every sinful action, no matter what we have done, no matter what we have participated in, no matter what our hands have touched that have brought defilement to our life. You can come and say Lord, with my hands I have sinned. Lord, I am guilty of punishment and judgement because of what I did with my hands, but I thank you today that the blood of Jesus Christ was shed to cleanse all my works!
You can apply that blood and have cleansing - not only have cleansing, but you can also have blessing upon the works of your hands, because Jesus died not just to forgive us, but that we might be blessed in all the works of our hands. So you can arise whenever you fail, whenever you do something with your hands that's wrong or evil, and you can just say Lord, I come before you. What I did was sin, what I did was wrong, but I come Lord to the cross, I come to the blood was shed, I apply that blood to this work of mine, and I decree and declare in agreement with you, forgiven, now today I present my hands to you, and I declare the works of my hands are blessed. When I lay hands upon people, the blessing of God will flow, the anointing of God will flow. Whatever I do will be blessed by Almighty God.
That's good faith praying for you, day by day by day, praying for the works of your hands, because everyone can go out and do something. You do something with your hands. Why not begin to get your hands clean. Hands are always connected to the heart. What we do comes out of our heart.
Second thing then is the feet. The Bible - because obviously the feet speaks of your walk, because wherever your feet go, that's where you're going. So your feet are the walk, your direction in life, your steps, your ways. So when the Bible's talking about your feet, it's talking about your ways, the kind of walk you have. You can walk in pride. You can walk in fear, you can walk in anxiety, you can walk in rebellion. You can walk in independence. Whatever your walk, your walk is your path. Now initially when you take one step, that's not a path, but you keep taking the same steps, after a while there's a path that you've worn, and when you look at that path you can see what's written all over it: pride, fear, grief, rejection. Your path that you walk will come out of the decisions you make, and so your feet speak then of your walk, the way you live your life.
People become known for their walk. They become known for how they live out their life, so if there's pride in your heart, you become known as a proud or an arrogant person; if there's anger, you become known as an angry person, and you have an angry way. The Bible says we all like sheep have gone astray, every one to his own way, so when the Bible's speaking about the feet it's speaking about your steps, the walk you take. It's speaking about the decisions you make day by day that will take you in a certain direction. Jesus died and shed His blood. He shed His blood over His feet. What did they do? Well they took these huge spikes and they put them right there between the second and third metatarsal bone. They drove the spikes straight through the feet. Now it turns out that if you were to find that spot on your feet and press on it, you'd find it quite painful because there's a nerve there as well, so the spike went straight into the nerve that's bunched there, right at that place, and now this excruciating pain and shock would have gone right through His body.