Condition: Blindness

Blindness is one of the most frequently healed problems in Scripture in terms of specific references!  We are the ones who make it a big deal, not God.  (Yes, I am aware that if your problem is blindness, you are not reading this for yourself on the screen.)

Although the restoring of sight to the blind can be considered a miracle, it is unnecessary for the gifts of healings or the gift of working of miracles to be in operation for a blind man to see.  The blind man can simply hear the Word of God and act on it.  Thus, he can receive his sight through his own faith, as some did in some of the passages listed below.  If others who were blind could have their faith make them whole, and they weren’t even born again, surely today YOUR faith can make you whole of blindness.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 cites blindness and failing of eyes explicitly as part of the curse for breaking the Law.  According to Galatians 3:13, you are redeemed from this curse.  “The burning ague [fever] that shall consume the eyes” is listed among the curses for breaking the Law in Leviticus 26:14-39.  (Some illnesses are known to cause blindness.  You are explicitly redeemed from such illnesses.)

2 Kings 6:18-20 tells how God made an entire army blind and then restored their sight.  If He can do this to an entire army, surely it is no big deal for Him to do it to one person!

Zechariah 14:12-15 describes a plague from the LORD against those who fight against Jerusalem that includes eyes consuming away in their holes.  You are redeemed from such plagues.

In Matthew 9:27-30, two blind men are healed by their faith.

In Matthew 11:4-5 and Luke 7:20-23, Jesus cites the fact that the blind are seeing as a proof that He is the Messiah who was to come.

In Matthew 12:22, Jesus heals a blind man who is also deaf and dumb (speechless).  In this case, an evil spirit was responsible for the condition.

In Matthew 15:30-31, Jesus heals all who are blind in a large crowd.

In Matthew 20:30-34, two more blind men are healed.

In Matthew 21:14, an unspecified number of blind people come to Jesus in the temple and are healed.

In Mark 8:22-25, Jesus ministers to a blind man.  The man gets part of his vision.  Jesus continues to minister to him and he receives all of his vision.

In Mark 10:46-52, Blind Bartimaeus is made whole by his faith.

In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus declares that recovery of sight to the blind is part of what He was anointed to preach.  This can be taken figuratively, but it also happened literally throughout His ministry.

In Luke 7:20-23, Jesus heals many blind people and declares this to be one proof that He is the Messiah.

In Luke 18:35-43, a certain blind man near Jericho is healed because of his faith.

John 5:2-19 describes the Pool of Bethesda, where many sick people, explicitly including blind people, went to be healed.  When the angel troubled the water, whoever got in the pool first was healed, so if a blind person got in, the blind person would be healed.

In John 9:1-7, Jesus ministers to a man who was born blind.  When he obeys Jesus’ instructions to go wash in the pool of Sent (Siloam), he receives his sight.

In John 11:1-44, which deals with the raising of Lazarus, there is a reference to the fact that Jesus opened the eyes of the blind.

In Acts 13:6-12, blindness is called upon a man who was opposing the gospel as judgment.  God never made any obedient person blind for any reason.  Blindness here as well as in the curse of the Law is clearly a judgment, which does not belong to anyone who has been washed clean by the blood of Jesus.  The blindness was only for a “season,” so we know that the Lord healed Bar-Jesus’s blindness at some point.

You don’t even have to lose your eyesight when you get old.  Moses didn’t (Deuteronomy 34:7).

In Isaiah 29:18 and Isaiah 35:3-6 we see that Christ will take away blindness when He comes to reign on the earth.  Where Jesus has his way, blindness leaves.

Psalm 146:8 says that God opens the eyes of the blind.  This Hebrew verb is in the continuous tense.  In other words, God is opening blind eyes on an ongoing basis.  If you’re blind, your eyes can be the next ones that He heals!