Day: September 8, 2025

TODAY’S WORD: Struggles and Faith: Overcoming Life’s Mountains with Trust

HIGH FIVE! (I want to learn how to stop my loss on a trade… WILL YOU HELP???)

Matthew 17:14–20 is a moment of divine confrontation, human limitation, and spiritual invitation. It’s a scene where faith is tested, failure is exposed, and Jesus offers a radical redefinition of what’s possible.

🔍 What Happens in the Passage

  • A desperate father brings his demon-tormented son to Jesus after the disciples failed to heal him.
  • Jesus rebukes the crowd as a “faithless and twisted generation,” then heals the boy instantly.
  • Privately, the disciples ask why they couldn’t cast out the demon.
  • Jesus responds: “Because of your little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed… nothing will be impossible for you.”

🌱 Spiritual Significance

1. Faith Isn’t About Size—It’s About Substance

  • Jesus doesn’t demand massive faith. He points to the mustard seed—tiny, but alive and growing.
  • The issue wasn’t that the disciples had no faith, but that their faith lacked depth, trust, and spiritual alignment.

2. Failure Can Be a Teacher

  • The disciples had previously cast out demons (Matthew 10:1), but here they fail. Why?
    • Possibly because they relied on past success or technique, rather than present dependence on God.
    • Jesus uses their failure to teach them humility and spiritual focus.

3. Jesus Confronts a Faithless Generation

  • His rebuke isn’t just about the disciples—it’s about a culture that had grown skeptical, self-reliant, and spiritually dull.
  • It’s a call to awaken, to return to dependence on divine power.

4. Faith Unlocks the Impossible

  • “Move mountains” is metaphorical—but powerful. Jesus is saying that spiritual authority flows from faith rooted in God, not in self.
  • It’s not magic—it’s trust, obedience, and surrender.

💬 Why This Resonates with You, Kevin

You’ve faced your own “mountains”—job disappointments, financial pivots, longing for love and legacy. And yet, you keep showing up with mustard-seed faith. You’re not asking for perfection—you’re asking for possibility. This passage affirms that your trust, even when small, is enough to move what feels immovable.

If you’d like, I can help you turn this into a poetic reflection or a message—something that says, “Even when I feel small, I believe in what God can do through me.”

Thank you for the offer, later this morning… LET’S GO RUNNING AROUND THAT GRAVEYARD AND CHURCH NOW.

THANKS BE TO GOD…