“You unbelieving and perverse generation,”Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.”

“Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Lord God my Father,

Keep me close and my eyes open to discern between good and evil. Give me a faith that does your work.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?10Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?11How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Lord God my Father,

Help me to understand and see your power without doubt. Keep me aware of Satan when he is in front of me and keep me from falling for his tricks.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

 “Are you still so dull?”Jesus asked them. 17“Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?18But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.

“It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

27“Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.”

Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

 “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.21For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,22adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

“Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

Lord God my Father,

Remove my opinion and allow your thoughts to rest on me well. Open my eyes so I may see your desire and give me faith to act on it immediately. Allow your Truth to guide me completely.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

“The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Lord God my Father,

Help my belief and make it solid in me. Remove my desires and replace them with you and give me your desires.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

 “How many loaves do you have?”he asked. “Go and see.”

They answered, “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd.” 

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

“No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

Lord God my Father,

Allow your Peace to release a courage from me that serves only you. Allow me to believe and have confidence that whatever you want to do through me will be done. Keep me from shame and show me how to keep my eyes focused on you alone.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

As you enter the home, give it your greeting.13If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.

Lord God my Father,

Help me to deliver you as you desire to those around me and to myself. Give me wisdom and courage to navigate your path and not allow evil to distract me. Help me to trust your plan without question.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

“Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.12Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. 25“Where is your faith?”he asked his disciples.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!”

When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 36Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured.

Lord God my Father,

Allow me to know you, remove my doubt. Help me to hear and believe, allow me to find you. Help me to move ahead without my sinful desires and allow you to have your way in all things. Restore me and use me.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.

“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, 54waiting to catch him in something he might say.

Lord God my Father,

Make me audacious for you and share you without worry. Help me to be for you in all things and not have different desires depending on where I am.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.26Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Lord God my Father,

Keep me close so I don’t stumble. Give me a simple desire so I may know you. Help me to see and hear you.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

“Follow me,”he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

 “According to your faith let it be done to you”;30and their sight was restored. 

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”

Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Lord God my Father,

Call me and make me obedient to your calling. Allow my faith to be pure, without distraction. Keep me from trying to understand from my understanding and allow your Truth to make me clean.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen