Matthew 15

📖  Matthew 15:21–22 ESV And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”

1. Powerful prayer your own .

📖  Matthew 15:23 ESV But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”

2. Powerful prayer through God’s .

📖   Psalm 13:1–2 ESV How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

📖  Habakkuk 1:2 ESV O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?

Three quick points about God’s Silence:

A. God’s Silence is sometimes a .

B. God’s Silence is sometimes about .

C. God’s Silence is always about .

📖  Matthew 15:24 ESV He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

📖  John 1:11 ESV He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

📖  Matthew 10:5–6 ESV “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, 6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

3. Powerful prayer isn’t by .

📖 Matthew 15:25–27 ESV But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26 And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

4. Powerful prayer isn’t by the of others.

📖 Matthew 15:28 ESV Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.”

Spiritual strength when we pray through rather than from it.