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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 2, Day 11

by David Joynt on June 12, 2019


EPHESIANS 4:30 | And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:19 | Do not quench the Spirit.

The fear of God leaving us or taking his Spirit from us is a false one. But there are certainly ways we can limit the Spirit’s work in and through us. We can persist in patterns of sinful behavior. We can refuse God’s correction and direction. We can stop worshipping, serving, praying and connecting with other believers. We can stop confessing our faults and insist on living out of our own resources. All these behaviors diminish us as followers, and as people.

Are you cultivating or quenching the Holy Spirit?
How are your spiritual practices? Which ones do you need to rededicate to?

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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