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Divine Imperatives November 14 Devotional

by David Joynt on November 14, 2023


MATTHEW 7:7c | 7c “Knock and the door will be opened to you!”

 

Many people knocked on the door during Jesus’ ministry. The woman with a perpetual bleed “knocked” by touching his garment and expecting a healing. The leader of the synagogue knocked when his child was dying. The 10 lepers came in order to be cured of their disease. The blind, the lame, the deaf, the mute, they all came knocking with their troubles. In every instance Jesus opened the door and delivered the touch or pronounced the word that changed their dire circumstances.

 

 

When have you knocked?

 

 

Gracious God,

Thank you for being available in a crisis, for being there when all else fails and there are no options. Give us the faith to knock.

Amen.

 

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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