Title: It's Okay to Be a Dog
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It's okay to be a dog
Matthew 15:21-28
There is a lot of garbage around us. No one has any regrets about that much garbage. No one has an attachment to what is thrown away. People never value things like crumbs or discarded stones. However, through the garbage, worthless stones, people who have no ability to do anything, the abandoned things, and the discarded things, amazing vitality is worked, and in the case of a beautiful and noble life, fruit is born, and amazing powers of new life are born. There are a lot of them inside. There is only one way for this life force to work, the power of new life to appear, and to bear the fruit of a noble life. It is prayer. The Canaanite woman who was healed of her daughter by asking, crying, and supplication with all her strength toward Jesus Christ is showing us the power of prayer.
1. Her prayer was only a cry full of screams.
The condition of being called a Canaanite, the position of the woman, and the fact that even her daughter was possessed by a vicious demon were conditions that in the world were regarded as mere crumbs. She couldn't help but scream. I couldn't help but cry. Because otherwise, he could not bring people's attention, God's attention, into his life. At the Canaanite woman's cry, the disciples wanted her to return as soon as possible. Jesus said, “It is not lawful to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” But she did not give up and cried out, screaming, saying that she would eat even the crumbs that fell from her master's table, so she would have to get the crumbs' favor. God hears prayers filled with screams, and the Lord hears them. We have to shout. We must cry out to God. Then the new life will overflow with vitality.
2. Her prayer was to find the ‘son of David’.
3. Her prayer was to have pity.