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Matthew chapter 15 verse 28

then Jesus answered her

a woman great is your faith be it done for you as you desire and her daughter was

healed instantly the story of a Canaanite woman that just comes to Jesus crying out for mercy,

specifically on behalf of her daughter who is severely oppressed by a demon, Matthew 1522 says, and Jesus at first did not answer her and begin speaking with her there's so much we could talk about

in this passage but she presses in she persevers and Jesus responds, oh woman, great is your faith.

Be it done for you as you desire.

And as we read through Matthew there's such an emphasis on faith on the

faith of even supposedly unlikely people a

can tonight woman here who the disciples are actually at one point

saying send her away for she's crying out after us and she presses in because why because she knows

who Jesus is she knows who Jesus is and what Jesus is able to do and nothing is stopping her from coming to him,

pleading before him for what she needs specifically for what her daughter needs.

On behalf of someone else, what a picture of intercession in faith, of praying in faith, of pressing

in, persevering with faith.

Why? Because you know who Jesus is

and you know what Jesus is able to do.

And when you know these things,

then it affects the way you pray. It affects the way you pray.

It affects the way you approach Jesus.

Like, just picture the temptation you and I have to prayerlessness to not pray as we ought and then

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