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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 1, Day 4

by David Joynt on June 05, 2019


PSALM 3:2 | Many are saying to me, “There is no help for you in God.”

David has been “the Lord’s Annointed” since he was a boy. (You can read about Samuel’s marking him as God’s king in 1 Samuel 16) Battlefield prowess enhanced his claim and led to universal acclaim. He was lionized in poetry and song. The two sources of his authority were public support and divine approval.
This one sentence threatens both. Many are claiming that God has withdrawn his support, as he did with Saul, and that David has been rejected. This must have shaken the King to his core because at his center, for generations, he had been the Chosen One, the God selected, the God blessed, the God led leader.

Have you ever lost support?

Has criticism ever shaken your sense of self?

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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