7:24 耶穌從那裡起身，往泰爾、西頓的境內去，進了一家，不願意人知道，卻隱藏不住。
7:25 當下，有一個婦人，她的小女兒被污鬼附著，聽見耶穌的事，就來俯伏在他腳前。
7:26 這婦人是希臘人，屬敘利腓尼基族。她求耶穌趕出那鬼離開她的女兒。
7:27 耶穌對她說：「讓兒女們先吃飽，不好拿兒女的餅丟給狗吃。」
7:28 婦人回答說：「主啊，不錯；但是狗在桌子底下也吃孩子們的碎渣兒。」
7:29 耶穌對她說：「因這句話，你回去吧；鬼已經離開你的女兒了。」
7:30 她就回家去，見小孩子躺在床上，鬼已經出去了。
24 Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.[g] He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. 25 In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27 “First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
28 “Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29 Then he told her, “For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.”
30 She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
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「信心」不只是被動的，甚至是主動和勇敢的！要敢想並且要敢要，就像這一位住西頓的希臘女子，不僅不是以色列人，更是與以色列為敵的民族，但是她確信主耶穌是屬於全人類的救主，所以主耶穌說：「讓兒女們先吃飽，不好拿兒女的餅丟給狗吃。」她可以很流暢的回答：「主啊，不錯；但是狗在桌子底下也吃孩子們的碎渣兒。」
詩篇81篇10節：「我是耶和華─你的上帝，曾把你從埃及地領上來；你要大大張口，我就給你充滿。」
今日我們確信上帝是施恩憐憫的上帝，我們就當大大張口來求上帝，讓上帝的大能彰顯在我們的生命之中，讓世人看見上帝的榮光！正如彼得前書2章9-10節所說：「惟有你們是被揀選的族類，是有君尊的祭司，是聖潔的國度，是屬上帝的子民，要叫你們宣揚那召你們出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。你們從前算不得子民，現在卻作了上帝的子民；從前未曾蒙憐恤，現在卻蒙了憐恤。」
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