This past Sunday, 5/3/26, I heard Pastor Steve Randal, a guest speaker, speak at Servant’s Church on John 9 regarding the blind man. It was a short but very good teaching. It’s on Facebook if you want to check it out.
I want to take that teaching and expand on it with additional scripture and more insight. The Holy Spirit was speaking to me during that church service and I was truly blessed. Let me bless you in return.

John 9:1-7 NKJV
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. 4 I[a] must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. 7 And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

There is a belief that exists, in which I support because scripture shows us this, that sin causes sicknesses; and we know in the ten commandments that sin is passed down to the third and fourth generations.
So, it wasn’t unusual for the disciples to ask Jesus who sinned caused this man to be born blind. But Jesus response is remarkable…God did this to this man on purpose to show the His works in this man. Meaning, this man lived his childhood with no eyesight.

Then, look at the way Jesus healed him. He spat on the ground and made clay. Then He rubbed (anointed) it over his eyes.

Genesis 2:7 NKJV
7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Let’s think about what Jesus did and compare His action to when God formed man in His image. Here’s what I believe based on Jesus’ actions: He completed forming this man’s eyes. It’s like God decided to wait in completing this man’s image so He can show the world He’s the creator. This leads me to believe that this man was born without eyes. That’s speculation on my part but reasonable because God/Jesus finished putting clay in his eyes to finish forming him.

But there’s more. Instead of ‘instant’ healing him then and there, He sent him to the pool of Siloam or called Sent, to wash. Now, if you went and watched Pastor Steve Randal’s teaching on this past Sunday, 5/3/26 on Facebook, he showed us a map of where the blind man was when Jesus put the saliva clay mix on his eyes and how far of a walk it was for this ‘blind’ man to journey to the pool of Siloam.

Now I’m sure this man was used to these kinds of journeys, but this one was different. He walked with clay on his eyes down that pathway to the pool of Siloam in obedience. He did this because Jesus told him and he believed. How many people saw that? You see, Jesus didn’t heal to only show the group surrounding the blind man, but He showed the healing to all the people who saw the blind man journey with clay on his eyes. Maybe even some of them followed him to see what was happening.

When he cleaned his eyes in the pool of Siloam, he was able to see. What an incredible healing this was orchestrated by God Himself. And it is still being showed to the world today through the scriptures of what God did.

And this is where the title of this teaching comes into play. ‘Some Healings Take a Journey’. I can tell you from personal testimony how true this is. When I look at scripture, I see different healing methods. I want to share those different healing methods in this teaching to show you there’s more than one way to be healed.

Luke 13:10-13 NKJV
10 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way [a]raise herself up. 12 But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” 13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

The woman who was bent over was bound in her infirmity. Jesus spoke loosening her from her infirmity and laid His hands on her. She was healed.

Luke 5:17-26 NKJV
17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present [c]to heal them. 18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. 19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
25 Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. 26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!”

Jesus forgave sins and healed at the same time because of faith. Again, He spoke over the situation.

Matthew 17:14-18 NKJV
14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is [c]an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O [d]faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
Jesus rebuked the demon and healed the child from that very hour. Again, notice Jesus spoke over the situation.

Luke 8:40-56 NKJV
40 So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him. 41 And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged Him to come to his house, 42 for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying.
But as He went, the multitudes thronged Him. 43 Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, 44 came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.
45 And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”
When all denied it, Peter [o]and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, [p]and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”
46 But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” 47 Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.
48 And He said to her, “Daughter, [q]be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
49 While He was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the [r]Teacher.”
50 But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying, “Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well.” 51 When He came into the house, He permitted no one to go [s]in except [t]Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the girl. 52 Now all wept and mourned for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.” 53 And they ridiculed Him, knowing that she was dead.
54 But He [u]put them all outside, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise.” 55 Then her spirit returned, and she arose immediately. And He commanded that she be given something to eat. 56 And her parents were astonished, but He charged them to tell no one what had happened.

This event in history is very interesting. The faith of a woman with an issue of blood healed herself while a 12-year-old girl died. Jesus raised the little girl from the dead, thus healing her. Again, He spoke over the little girl but notice, the woman spoke over herself. Let’s see this in Mark.

Mark 5:25-29 NKJV
25 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. 28 For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”
29 Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the [a]affliction.

First, let me point out that every time someone was healed or risen from the dead, a word was spoken over them, whether by Jesus or spoken in faith by that individual. Second, all who were healed came to Jesus because they believed He could heal them. They heard and was obedient to the hearing of the Word.

Romans 10:17 NKJV
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

In some cases, the scripture tells us they were healed within the hour. And as we saw in John 9, the blind man wasn’t healed until he made the journey. Jesus told him to go, and he went. He was obedient because he heard the word and he was healed.

In my personal testimony, I was like the woman with the issue of blood, spending years and money with doctors dealing with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and hormones. I wanted healing and deliverance from those things. It took me about six weeks to build up my faith to walk away from all of that. And today, I am healed.

It was a process where I had to be ‘blind’ to the doctors prognosis and see that Jesus is more than capable of healing me. I had to ‘learn’ to have faith and act on that faith…it was the scariest thing I had ever done. I believed, and I’m not sure where this belief came from but I believed that I would die quickly if I didn’t take all of that medication. It may seem like a crazy statement but that’s what I believed.

Once I took my leap of faith, and I didn’t die, I believed Jesus healed me. In fact, I’m in better health today, and have lost 55 lbs since I made this leap of faith. This healing took me through a scary journey but Jesus healed me.

The last point I want to make on all of the healings I know of in scripture is that each needed to believe. Do you believe that Jesus can heal you?

Matthew 7:7 NKJV
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:7 is an incredible scripture. It tells me that God would move heaven and earth to give you what you ask. Have you asked Him and do you believe? He’s still healing today.