{"id":8597,"date":"2026-05-06T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:01:26","slug":"great-faith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8597","title":{"rendered":"Great Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cHave mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.\u201d But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, \u201cSend her away, for she keeps shouting after us.\u201d He answered, \u201cI was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\u201d But she came and knelt before him, saying, \u201cLord, help me.\u201d He answered, \u201cIt is not fair to take the children\u2019s food and throw it to the dogs.\u201d  She said, \u201cYes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters\u2019 table.\u201d  Then Jesus answered her, \u201cWoman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.\u201d And her daughter was healed instantly.\u201d MATTHEW 15:22-28 (NRSV)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.\u201d But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, \u201cSend her away, for she keeps shouting after us.\u201d He answered, \u201cI was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\u201d But she came and knelt before him, saying, \u201cLord, help me.\u201d He answered, \u201cIt is not fair to take the children\u2019s food and throw it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8597\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}