John 9:1-7
As He went along, He saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
After saying this, He spit in the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it in the man’s eyes. “Go,” He told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam.” (This word means “sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
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This was the story we summarized to a blind beggar named Jose, on a sidewalk in Antigua, Guatemala.
I was doing evangelism with my friends, Cimmie and Ashlyn. Ashlyn felt prompted to talk to all the people sitting on the streets and pray for them.
We eventually made our way to Jose, a sweet old man sitting on the ground. We sat down next to him and got to talking (over google translate). He told us that in one eye, he was completely blind, and the other was foggy. He said his eyes caused him pain.
We told him we would love to pray for him but first we shared the Gospel.
After telling him the story of Jesus, and him agreeing with it, we prayed over him and declared healing in Jesus’ name.
When we said “Amen,” we opened our eyes…
and he did too.
He looked at each of us with the widest stare you could imagine. And then in Spanish he starts saying “I can see, I can see! It’s not cloudy anymore! No more pain!”
Ashlyn, Cimmie, and I could hardly believe our eyes (Literally)! We thanked God repeatedly with a mix of laughing and crying.
The miracles that happen in the Bible are not just in the Bible. Hebrews 4 talks about how the Word is alive and active- that has never rung more true in my ears.
