Genesis 48:8-22
Psalms 19, 46, 66, 67
Romans 8:11-25
John 6:27-40
Mark 7:24-37
The Syrophenician Woman
This Greek woman knew Christ in her heart before she encountered him. “As soon as she heard about him.” Then woman was desperate and she went in faith believing to find Jesus. She “begged” Jesus to heal her daughter. She believed that He would.
Jesus told her that healing is the children’s bread. He meant that it should be extended to the Jews first but prophetically demonstrating that it would be extended to the Gentiles as well.
This woman humbled herself totally before Christ when she said “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
Jesus responded to her heart’s cry, her faith and her humility and her daughter was delivered.
The Healing of the Deaf and Mute Man
Some people brought a man who could not hear or speak and they begged Jesus to heal him.
Jesus put his fingers in the man’s ears and touched his tongue and looked to heaven and the man was healed. This fulfilled the word spoken of Jesus in Isaiah 35:6
Let us seek Jesus with all our hearts in faith and humility this lententide and consider all that is ours being Gentiles grafted into the vine.
We thank our Heavenly Father that we are welcomed at the children’s table.
Healing is ours to give and to receive. Look around you and see that the harvest is white. Then look up to your Father in heaven and He will do the works and give you the words for others. Intercede and let the heart cry out for the sheep…
Joyce Westlake