Two Blind beggars who were needy out loud is the simple answer but there is some really deep truth here if you are willing to dive in. To quote an amazing sermon by Dave Busby from a sermon he did a year before his death of Cystic fibrosis, (posted below).

Sight for Those Who Are Blind

29 As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. 30 And two people who were blind, sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” 31 But the crowd sternly warned them to be quiet; yet they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 32 And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” 33 They *said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.” 34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him.

Matthew 20:29-34

The Two Blind Beggars in Matthew 20:29-34 were:

  1. Honest about their needs
  2. Needy out loud
  3. Took their needs to Jesus
  4. Persistent against naysayers
  5. Specific about their need

But dig into those qualities and apply them and the results may amaze you. Here is my story from boot camp with Masculine Journey last week.

Having shared this in my first talk Thursday night, I felt the message was as much for me as anyone. We have prayer cards that we ask the participants to share their prayer needs through the camp and we have ammo boxes all around the camp for them to place them in. After sharing this idea the prayer needs that first night were so honest they kinda shocked me all the more I was asking God to help me be honest etc…

The next day my friend Andy Thomas did the “Wound Talk” where he shared some of the more significant wounds in his life and at the end he let the spirit lead him and did something no one had ever done before. We use the movie clip from Goodwill Hunting where Robin Williams has Matt Damon’s file where his father had beaten him with a wrench. Robin then confronts Matt Damon’s Character, Will with the powerful statement, “It’s Not Your Fault!”

What Andy did different was to ask us all to close our eyes and picture God holding our file, and Andy asked us to see what was in our file. Then he sent us out on a covenant of silence, (that’s an hour alone in the woods with God asking God to walk you through this need).

When I began this process alone out in a field, God showed me many files, so the first thing I asked him was to give me the one he wanted to work on today. As God opened the file, there it was, and a pretty gruesome picture of my sin totally exposed. When I was seventeen I was dating a girl and we had gone too far doing things we should not have been doing, we got engaged and I reasoned that it was OK because we would soon be married.

On labor day 1973 all came out in a tragic way, she had a tubular pregnancy, which means the egg having been fertilized begins to grow in the Fallopian tube, and it soon bursts causing major hemorrhaging and the loss of the baby.

Her parents my parents all at the hospital, the possibility of her death, that few hours in the surgical waiting room I would have gladly traded for a wrench beating. Oh yes, I had a wound that Jesus wanted to heal. I need forgiveness, for me, for her, my parents, her parents. I needed to break an agreement that this would make me tarnished and unlovable. Those were all much needed but the most difficult thing I could see right then was I had never mourned the loss of that child. That is a process that I sensed I really need to work on.

I wrote all on a prayer card that the team would read and pray that night, and the prayers of my brothers and the care helped in ways I didn’t see coming, but what I really didn’t see coming was the last day of boot camp.

We had a question and answer time and the participants asked us to pray over their hearts we broke off and each of the team prayer with one of the participants, something that also had never happened at a boot camp the last day when usually everyone is trying to leave. Then the real thing God had for me was the next question that came from a 19 year old young man name Zach: “How can we pray for you all?” WOW!~

I immediately shared the story about my wound, that lead to a huge time of each of the team sharing a deep need. Then the coolest thing I have ever seen at a boot camp, the participants came and prayed over us individually.

I am just going to tell you, it stopped Superman, Jesus ministered to us all in such an intimate way I doubt any will ever forget, I know I won’t.