Step Out on the Word

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. (Jesus) spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way, therefore and washed and came seeing. ---John 9:1,6,7

Here is a man who had been blind from birth. Jesus walked over to him, spit in the dirt, made clay of the spittle, smeared the clay on the man’s eyes and said, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.”

That man could have said, “What do You mean, ‘go wash in the pool of Siloam?’ Look, Jesus, I don’t need a bath – I need my sight! What is mud in my eyes going to do? Everyone will laugh at me. I’m waiting for You to work a miracle. I’m waiting for a feeling.” But he didn’t say that.

Instead, the Bible tells us that the blind man submitted himself to Jesus and went to the pool of Siloam and washed the mud off his eyes. He had to obey what Jesus told him to do with no feeling and no manifestation. Every symptom was still there; his eyes were still blind. The only difference was that he now had mud in his eyes! There was no physical change at all.

But Jesus said, “Go,” and the blind man went. Jesus gave him an opportunity to walk by faith. Remember, faith is belief with legs on it. Faith is action. So the blind man took off for the pool of Siloam on the Word of God alone. (Jesus was God wrapped in human skin.) That was his faith in operation. He went, he washed and he lifted his head seeing. But he had to step out on the word Jesus spoke before he saw results.

Sometimes people say, “I wish Jesus would speak a word to me so I’d have something to believe.” But God has given them something to believe—His Word! So, find out in God’s Word what He has said about your situation. Then step out on that Word, believing what He said. Let your faith take hold of your answer. Release God’s power in your life!

Confession: Jesus has spoken to me in His Word. I choose to take Him at His Word, even when I’m not able to see my answer yet. Jesus says I’m healed, so I am healed!