What does Matthew 9:31 Mean?

Context Summary

It is thus that the Master speaks to us: Believe ye that I am able to make you happy, though you are cut off from the light and gladness of the world? Believe ye that I am able to enrich you in poverty, strengthen you in weakness, and raise you even out of death itself, so that the barren rod may bear blossom and fruit? Believe ye that I am able to give a knowledge of God which eye hath not seen nor the heart of man conceived?

It may be with a trembling faith that we answer, Yea, Lord. But how blessed is the soul that dares to say Yea to the Master's challenge. Understand that there is no limit to what He will do for you, if only you will trust Him. The measure of His giving is according to the measure of your faith, and the measure of your faith will be according to the measure of your abandonment to Him. Spread abroad His fame. Pharisees hate Him, but demons flee. [source]

Chapter Summary: Matthew 9

¹  Jesus heals a paralytic
⁹  calls Matthew from the receipt of custom;
¹⁰  eats with tax collectors and sinners;
¹⁴  defends his disciples for not fasting;
²⁰  cures the sick woman;
²³  raises Jairus' daughter from death;
²⁷  gives sight to two blind men;
³²  heals a mute man possessed of a demon;
³⁶  and has compassion on the multitude