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Thursday, September 2: Scripture – Mark 7:29-30
29 Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” 30 So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Prayer Focus: Jesus is moved and impressed. Maybe he knew she was going to teach him and his disciples something about God’s…
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Wednesday, September 1 : Scripture – Mark 7:27-28
27 He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Prayer Focus: When someone comes to Jesus asking for assistance, the response…
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Tuesday, August 31: Scripture – Mark 7:25-26
25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. 26 Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. Prayer Focus: What would you do for the health of…
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Monday, August 30: Scripture – Mark 7:24
24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, Prayer Focus: As we continue through the 7th chapter of the Gospel according to Mark, we find Jesus attempting to get…
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Sunday, August 29: Scripture – Mark 7:14-15
14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.” Prayer Focus: Be renewed today from the inside out. Keep washing your hands, but…
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Saturday, August 28: Scripture – Mark 7:10-13
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God)— 12 then you no longer permit doing…
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Friday, August 27: Scripture – Mark 7:8-9
8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.” 9 Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! Prayer Focus: Jaroslav Pelikan once wrote: “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of…
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Thursday, August 26: Scripture – Mark 7:6-7
6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ Prayer Focus: You might know that the word hypocrite traces its roots to Greek stage actors…
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Wednesday, August 25: Scripture – Mark 7:5
5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” Prayer Focus: The Pharisees and the scribes see the disciples not living according to the tradition, ie eating with defiled hands. That’s an interesting way to set up…
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Tuesday, August 24: Scripture – Mark 7:3-4
3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze…