Great faith is marked by persistence, a refusal
to accept defeat. Difficulties only encouraged
her on.

We are taught that though there are instances
when deliverance does not appear immediately,
that is not a reason to be discouraged.

"Men ought always to pray, and not to faint."
It the Syrophoenician woman who was not of
the people of faith could prevail for an answer,
how much more should the people of faith!