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DAY 8: Assurance

Recall moments when you’ve felt God’s accompanying presence, provision, or guidance.

by David Joynt on April 17, 2016


JOHN 10:11-16 | PSALM 23

John 10 must be understood in light of the shepherd psalm, 23. In the Old Testament, Israel’s relationship with Yahweh is often described as that between a flock and their shepherd. Care, provision, direction, companionship, and assurance are part of this metaphor. God leads his sheep to lovely camping locations where there is still water and verdant meadows. He accompanies them under the threat of death and in the presence of enemies, providing and sustaining.

 

Read Psalm 23 two times. Make it a prayer the second time. 

Recall moments when you’ve felt God’s accompanying presence, provision, or guidance.

Tags: assurance, devotional, encountering

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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