Lord, Increase My Faith

  Matthew 15: 21-28

The Faith of a Canaanite Woman

21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”

23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

The persistence and faith of the Canaanite woman serve as a solid example to us of how we are to pray. She has a goal and she will not give up until it is achieved.  Her daughter woood not have been healed had she listened to the disciples and Jesus himself, and gone away as they insisted.  She insisted more and won.  What do I want  as desperately a this woman's want?  Can I, will I, approach Jesus as she did?

Bro. Rene