<p>15:25&nbsp;<em>But she came and knelt before him, saying: Lord! Help me!- </em>The kneeling was worship. The Greek&nbsp;<em>proskuneo</em>&nbsp;is defined by Strong as meaning &ldquo;to lick like a dog licking his master&rsquo;s hand, to crouch&rdquo;. This paved the way for the Lord&rsquo;s response, that it was not appropriate to cast the children&rsquo;s food to the dogs. And she responds that she is as a dog under the children&rsquo;s table (:27). Her posture, therefore, was perhaps consciously intended to mimic a crouching dog. Her worship was not in song, but simply in recognizing that He alone can &ldquo;help&rdquo;.</p>
<p>The Canaanite woman simply prayed: &quot;Lord, help me&quot;. The Lord's response was to heal her daughter, with the comment: &quot;Be it unto you even as you wish&quot; (Mt. 15:25,28). She didn't specifically ask for anything, she just stated her problem, but the Lord understood her few words as expressing her hidden will, and treated this as her specific prayer request. And here we have untold comfort for those who feel (needlessly) that they are not good at praying because they&rsquo;re not good at verbalizing.</p>