Your Faith......

Matthew 15:28 NIV
Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

Many of us have read the story highlighted above of the Syro-Phoenician woman who came to Jesus for the healing of her daughter. I'm sure many of us have wondered why the woman stayed through the insults, the avoidance and the attempts to send her away. She stayed through and got what she wanted, even though there had been great obstacles on her way.
Let's relate to a few: she did not deserve what she got. She wasn't an Israelite then and there was no covenant of healing with her, yet she got what she wasn't entitled to. Why? Because she persisted. Nothing good comes easy, neither does it just come by claiming it in words; your life must show that you desire it.
Jesus gave a parable that seems like an insult: it is not proper to take the bread meant for the children and give it to dogs. Pause for a moment and ask yourself what your response would have been if you had been told that. I'm sure there would have been an 'appropriate and worthy' reply. For this woman, what she wanted was too important to let words bother her. It must be the same with us. Words of men must not keep us from what the Word of God has promised us. If men say theirs, hold on to what God says. It was what Jesus said that mattered at the end, not what the disciples said or even what Jesus said initially. It therefore means that as long as God has not closed the chapter and verse of my life, the book is still open and more good things can be added. I must keep asking God what I want until I get it or he tells me its not time for it yet. What man has got to say is not important; it is what God says that counts.

Let your faith take root in what God has promised and watch him do the incredible and the miraculous. His time of favour is here.