Title: Child-Like Faith:
- Pastor Aaron Anderson
- Aug 10
- 3 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Trusting His Word
We often overcomplicate the miraculous by demanding to understand how God works, but the Kingdom is accessed by coming to Him like a child and simply trusting His Word.
We laugh at the idea of a $45 "quantum moss smoothie" and reading a 20-page paper just to get healthy, but don't we do the exact same thing with God?
We want to know the who, what, where, when, and how. We want the spiritual mechanics explained, a clear timeline, and all the logic laid out before we ever commit to believing.
But God isn’t looking for our intellectual comprehension of His methods; He’s looking for our childlike confidence in His character.
The Simplicity of Showing Up
"When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 'He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.'" — Matthew 8:16-17, Mark 1:32-34, Luke 4:40-41 (See also Isaiah 53:4-6)
Look at the scene in Capernaum. The sun sets, the Sabbath ends, and the entire city brings their brokenness straight to Peter’s front door.
Notice what the crowd didn't do. They didn't bring theological debates. They didn't demand an explanation of how the healing was going to metabolize in their physical bodies. They just showed up.
Notice what Jesus did: He drove them out with a word. That's all it took—just His Word. When we come to God, we don't need a complicated formula. We just need to start trusting His Word.
The Kingdom Belongs to the Childlike
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." — Mark 10:14-15
Why children? Because a child doesn’t need to understand the thermodynamics of a combustion engine to trust their father to drive them home. A child simply trusts the driver.
Adults ask: "Do we have enough resources? Is the timing right? What are the odds?" Children just ask: "Is my dad here?"
When we approach God, our faith isn't about ignoring reality; it’s about recognizing that our Father has absolute authority over it. It’s coming with open hands, completely trusting His Word.
The Tragic Barrier of Unbelief
"He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith." — Mark 6:5-6
Contrast Capernaum and Jerusalem with Jesus' own hometown of Nazareth. In Capernaum, the whole city is healed. In Nazareth, Jesus is amazed by their lack of faith, and the miraculous is severely limited.
Why? Because our approach to God deeply affects His influence in our lives.
Revelation 3:20: "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in..."
God doesn't kick the door down. He does not force healing, deliverance, or salvation onto a closed mind or a hardened heart. He respects the boundary of our free will. Unbelief builds a wall that grace will not forcibly violate. He is not an invader; He invites us to open the door
Matthew 7:7-8. Ask, seek and knock.
The Legacy of Trust Continues
"As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by... and all of them were healed." — Acts 5:12-16
This wasn't just a Jesus phenomenon; this is how the Kingdom of God operates. After Jesus ascended, the disciples carried this exact same authority.
The multitudes from surrounding cities didn't come because they had it all figured out. They came because they saw the fruit of trusting the Word that the apostles preached. And just like in Capernaum, they were healed. Faith is truly contagious.
Drop the Doubt Paper, Pick Up the Word
Questions
Have you analyzed your situation so much that you’ve talked yourself out of a miracle?
How do you see (as a child now?) How can you restore the child like wonder?
How did His Word come alive to you?
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Have you analyzed your situation that you talked yourself out of a miracle?
Yes several times. When you struggle with health issues and depression sometimes a miracle seems so far away or you start to see improvements and then it feels like your back at zero again. And I have talked myself out of trying to tell people about our merical Maker father God just the enemy trying to get me farther away from God and me trying to show pea parent ople that God is the ultimate miracle maker.
How do you see ( as a child now? )
How can you restore the child like wonder?
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Have you analyzed your situation so much that you’ve talked yourself out of a miracle? Absolutely, no doubt about that at least one time or two or three...I have never considered myself analytical at all; I would think I am more emotional. Yet, the thoughts are there regardless, weighing things out, going through all the things that cause me to come to the conclusion that it just won't happen for me.
How do you see (as a child now?) How can you restore the child like wonder? I don't have to have so many words, trying to convince the Father to help me. The picture of a child holding their arms up to the Father, speaking a thousand words without…
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Have you analyzed your situation so much that you’ve talked yourself out of a miracle?
I am sure I have whether it was for myself or for someone else.
How do you see (as a child now?) How can you restore the child like wonder?
I need to take Him at His Word. What He said in His Word and to me personally I just need to believe it.
Restoring my child like wonder is to spend more time with Him and just do what He has told me to do that I know I cannot do in the natural.
How did His Word come alive to you?
It caused me to examine the why, probably not having child like…