CHILDREN’S CORNER – Dr. Toyin Ogundipe

In the first six months of the year 2020, we learnt the stories of Joseph, Daniel and Jonah.

The second half of 2020 continued to be challenging due to Covid19 pandemic.  We started Saturday outdoor half hour sessions in the home of the Preteens, and one hour zoom sessions with the Teens. The time for teens was 5pm – 6pm. The time for the preteens varied depending on whether it was outdoors (4pm – 4.30pm), or on Zoom 6 pm – 6.30pm. We spent the six months revising the various methods of healing of blind men, by Jesus and the Nativity of Jesus.  

LESSONS FROM JESUS HEALING OF THE BLIND

1.     Mark 10: 46 – 52. Blind Bartimaeus shouted for help and would not be deterred.

2.     He succeeded in getting the attention of Jesus. Jesus asked him what he wanted, to which he answered that he wanted to receive his sight.

3.     Jesus replied, “Go your way; your faith has made you well” and immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus.

CONCLUSION:

Jesus spoke healing to this blind man

LESSONS FROM THE BLIND MAN HEALED AT BETHSAIDA

1.     Mark 8: 22- 26. People brought a blind man to Jesus and begged that Jesus should touch him.

2.     Jesus led the blind man by hand out of the town, spat on his eyes and touched him asking what he could see. The blind man replied that he could see men like trees walking.

3.     Jesus put his hands on the blind man’s eyes again and made him look up.  Then his eyesight was fully restored, and Jesus sent him back into town, instructing him to tell no one how his sight was restored.

CONCLUSION

Jesus had to touch this man twice to heal him. He also spat in his eyes.

LESSONS FROM THE HEALING OF THE MAN BORN BLIND

1.     John 9: 1- 7. This blind man’s healing came about because the disciples of Jesus asked a question about the effect of sin in our lives. The question was “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.”

2.     Jesus then spat on the ground and made clay with his saliva; and anointed the eyes of the blind man with it. He then instructed him to go and wash the clay away from his eyes at the Pool of Siloam.

3.     The blind man obeyed and returned, with restores sight, to where Jesus met him. He also believed in Jesus because of his healing.

CONCLUSION

Jesus spoke, touched, and tested this blind man’s obedience, for him to receive healing.

LESSONS FROM THESE HEALING MIRACLES OF JESUS

1.     We studied three healing miracles of blind people by Jesus and learnt how different the methods were.

2.     When we ask God to heal us, we must resist the temptation to tell Him how to do it.

3.     All the healings resulted in faith in God for all those who were healed, therefore, when we ask God to heal us, we must expect our faith in God to grow through every miracle of healing.

4.     Jesus used various methods to heal the blind as led by God His father. The lesson is that God cannot be put in a strait jacket. He is sovereign and uses different methods to achieve His purpose.