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Divine Imperatives November 15 Devotional

by David Joynt on November 15, 2023


MATTHEW 7:8 | 8For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

 

There is no modifying conditional exception in this sentence. This is a straight up promise that God will answer our prayer. Just as Jesus responded to questioners, seekers, and knockers, so God will respond to us. Period. The response may not be instant, on our timeline, and it may not be according to our wishes. But it will be for our eternal good, our sacred development, our ongoing transformation into people suited for forever.

 

 

Memorize this promise.

 

 

Gracious God,

Prepare me to receive your responses to my prayers, always trusting they are for my ultimate good.

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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