Summary: <p><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Mark 7:24-37. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-724-37/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-724-37/</a>.</strong></p> <p><span class="text Mark-7-24"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.</span><span id="en-ESV-24484" class="text Mark-7-25"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24485" class="text Mark-7-26"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24486" class="text Mark-7-27"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>And he said to her, <span class="woj">“Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24487" class="text Mark-7-28"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-24488" class="text Mark-7-29"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>And he said to her, <span class="woj">“For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24489" class="text Mark-7-30"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.</span></p> <p><span class="text Mark-7-31"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24491" class="text Mark-7-32"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.</span><span id="en-ESV-24492" class="text Mark-7-33"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24493" class="text Mark-7-34"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, <span class="woj">“Ephphatha,”</span> that is, <span class="woj">“Be opened.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24494" class="text Mark-7-35"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24495" class="text Mark-7-36"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24496" class="text Mark-7-37"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”</span></p> <p><strong>What do you think? </strong><br> <strong>Comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-724-37/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-724-37/</a>. </strong><br> <strong>Email me with comments, feedback, or prayer requests at <a href="mailto:dailydevotionalpodcast@gmail.com">dailydevotionalpodcast@gmail.com</a> and you can follow me on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/devotionpodcast">@devotionpodcast</a>. Also, you can like us on Facebook at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/facebook">www.dailydevotionalpodcast.com/facebook</a> . </strong></p>
