BLIND BARTIMAEUS

Text: Mark 10:47.

And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

Of all the blind people that Jesus healed in the Bible, only one was recorded with a name, and he's called Bartimaeus, which means the son of Timaeus.

Today, we shall be gleaning some lessons from story of this blind Bartimaeus.

*He was a beggar.* Mark 10:46, _And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side *begging* ._

Almost every blind person recorded in the Bible were beggars before Jesus healed them. *Blindness and begging are two sides of a coin, when you are blind, whether physically or spiritually, you are at the mercy of others for obvious reasons.*

Many are beggars in the spirit because they are blind. *When you lack spiritual sight, you will beg others to do for you what you should do for yourself.*

Everyone who is not in Christ Jesus is blind and he's a perpetual beggar in Satan's court. 2 Corinthians 4:4 describes them thus- In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

However, some children of God have rendered themselves beggars in the hands of some prophets and pastors because they refused to grow in the spirit.

Any child of God who refused to add all the necessary faith supplements that are mentioned in 2 Peter 1:5-7 will eventually go blind and be vulnerable as well. This is why the verse nine of this chapter says, _But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins._ 2 Peter 1:9.

Ignorance, darkness and blindness are synonymous in the spirit realm. That's why the first thing God wants to treat in the life of anyone who comes to Him is darkness. The first thing He created in the beginning was light.Genesis 1:3. The first thing the life of Jesus in the life of believers will produce is light. John 1:4. The main thing the devil is targeting in a man's life is to keep him in perpetual darkness, Blindness and Ignorance.

You must cooperate with God in chasing out every darkness and Blindness in your life with His light.

*Bible Reading:*

Mark 10:46-52.

*PRAYER FOCUS*

1.) Father God, I pray that the eyes of my heart will be enlightened so I will not walk in darkness anymore.

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