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Mark 9:23

马可福音 9:23

The Passage

All things are possible to him who believes.

In the other language

在信的人，凡事都能。

Theme

Power of faith

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Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

When pressure makes every option seem closed, these words leave room for possibility: “All things are possible to him who believes.” The passage does not explain how to manage your workload, but it challenges the assumption that what you can presently imagine is all there is. Faith here need not become another performance requirement, as though exhaustion or anxiety proved you had failed. You can acknowledge what is difficult and still turn toward God in trust. That is different from predicting success or insisting that your preferred solution must happen. This passage does not explain how to manage work pressure. How might you turn toward God in trust without needing to know how this season will turn out?

Carry thisTrust leaves room beyond what you can presently imagine.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

“All things are possible” opens a wider horizon than your own estimate of what you can manage. The verse does not directly describe loving relationships, but it invites faith rather than resignation. Perhaps you have begun saying that you are simply impatient, that listening is not your strength, or that you cannot apologize without explaining yourself. Belief does not guarantee a response from the other person or erase the need for boundaries. It does invite you to question whether your present habits must define every choice you make. Which habit have you called unchangeable that you could instead bring honestly before God?

Carry thisYour present habits need not define every loving choice.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

When Jesus says that all things are possible to the one who believes, possibility is no longer confined to human calculation. The passage does not specify what you need to let go of, but it offers a place to examine resignation. There is a difference between acknowledging a real limit and deciding that your understanding of that limit tells the whole story. Faith does not require you to deny difficulty or guarantee yourself the result you want. You can bring your limits honestly before God without turning them into a final verdict. What settled conclusion might you hold more lightly as you make room for trust?

Carry thisYour limits can be acknowledged without becoming the whole story.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

When everything feels crowded, the word 'possible' can sound like pressure to do still more. Jesus speaks here about believing, not about increasing your output. The passage does not directly teach a practice of stillness, but it invites you to consider trust where you have been relying only on your own capacity. Its words are not a forecast that every desired result will happen. You can sit with them without turning faith into another demand to perform. For a moment, the unfinished list can remain unfinished while you attend to God rather than measure yourself. This passage does not teach a practice of stillness. When in your busy day could you pause to attend to God without asking yourself to accomplish anything?

Carry thisFaith is not another measure of your daily output.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

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Mark 9 — in context

17One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;

18and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

19He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

20They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

21He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has come to him?” He said, “From childhood.

22Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”

23Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

25When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

26Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”

27But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

28When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

29He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

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