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Title: I just need a little
Text: Mark 7: 24-30
*Intro*: We have all experienced seasons in our life that we need a little help but we just can’t find it.
You are little short on your rent.
You need your baby’s dad help out a little more.
Your credit score is a little low for the loan.
You need a little help.
You need God to cut you some slack.
You are not asking for much.
But personally you may feel that you don’t have nothing going for you to get the help you need because who you are and what you are not.
In the past, the odds have been against you for getting that help.
But if God does not extend his hand of mercy towards you, you are going to be in more trouble.
What you need from Him is small compared to what He is able to do and what He has done for others.
All you are asking is for a little bit to get thru this hurdle.
You just need God to look past what you are not and bless you.
*Background*: Mark chapter 7 opens up with Jesus contending with the Pharisees on what is clean and what is unclean.
The Pharisees believed in doing certain rituals that one would be deemed holy.
However, Jesus comes along and shifts the paradigm by challenging them that it is not what you /do/ that makes you clean but who you are on the inside that make you clean.
You can do all the ceremonial rituals you want but if your heart is not changed, you are far from the Lord.
Jesus teaches us that it is not what comes from the outside that defiles you and make you unclean but what is on the inside of you.
The real issue is with the heart meaning your inner self.
The sin that you are doing has nothing to with your environment but what is in your heart.
It is here that we enter our story for today.
Jesus enters the borders of Tyre and Sidon and goes into a house trying to be low-key and rest but it did not happen.
His fame exposed him.
He did one too many wonderful things not to be unknown.
He touched one too many people.
He did one too many miracles.
He was a celebrity of that day.
The Paparazzi did not let him have an ounce of privacy.
His fame was heard by a desperate woman who according the Pharisees was unclean trying to get her daughter some help.
Though she was customarily unclean she had pure heart toward Jesus.
What she heard about Jesus was enough for her to have…
*I.
Faith to find Jesus vv.
24-26a*
Here we have a woman with a major need.
Her child has a problem.
But this was not one of those problems that punishment will take care of.
It is not the type of problem that a spanking would handle.
This problem was so detrimental; this mother had to get outside intervention.
Some of you mothers could testify that there are some things that your children are dealing with that you can’t handle.
And what they are dealing with it is not only harmful to them but to yourself.
This woman had one of those circumstances.
The text says that her daughter had an unclean spirit.
She had something on the inside of her that controlled who she really was and it was evil.
Our young people today are in trouble mainly because something inside of them is not good and it possesses them.
Some of our young people have anger inside of them and it possesses them.
They have lust and hopelessness on the inside of them and it possesses them.
Some of you share this nightmare of this sister in our text.
Your child is full of the devil and you don’t know what to do.
But this woman tells us what do in this type of dilemma.
You have to find where Jesus is and go to him.
The text says that she heard of him.
She did not know him.
She did not see him.
She only heard.
And what she heard about Jesus was enough for her to take a chance to see if He could help her with her trouble.
She had faith in what she heard Jesus can do.
We know that /faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God/.
This challenges some of us because we lack faith.
The reason is that we don’t hear to well.
We need to be better listeners about what God can do in our life.
We have too much stuff that blocks our hearing.
We have a wax build up cause by sin.
This mother found Jesus.
When she saw him, she fell prostrate at his feet.
This was a sign of humility, surrender and worshipped.
This women tells us when got a bad situation at home we have find Jesus and worship him.
Worship gets His attention.
In worship, He sees our heart and our needs.
But we see something problematic for this worshiping woman.
The text tells us something about her that is not favorable in the Jewish culture of Jesus.
She was considered unclean because who she was.
She was a Greek.
Not only a Greek but she was Syrophencian.
She was Gentile, those outside the Jewish faith that were look down upon and to add being a woman.
The odds were against her.
Some of you have felt like that you have had the odds against you because who you are and where you are from.
You did not get treated right.
People have look down on you in your time of need.
But there times when the odds are against you, you have to go against the odds to get what you need.
So what you grew up poor.
So what you were raised by a single mother.
So what you parents were on drugs.
Don’t let your background stop you from getting to God to get what you need.
This woman did not let her cultural barriers stop her.
This leads us to our next point.
*II.
Faith in what Jesus can do vv.
26b-28*
This is your motivation.
This woman had faith in what Jesus could do for her.
The text says she besought Jesus to cast out the devil from her daughter.
The word besought in the means to beg repeatedly.
She kept asking.
Don’t stop asking God for what you need.
Keep asking.
Be persistent.
This points us to the principal of prayer.
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