‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

“Don’t you understand yet?”

She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even dogs are allowed to eat the scraps that fall beneath their masters’ table.”

“Good answer!” he said. “Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.” 

Lord God my Father,

Soften my heart so it may be reshaped to your will, open my ears so I may hear you. I am unworthy but you make me worthy. Deliver me from my sinful way.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen