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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 2, Day 12

by David Joynt on June 13, 2019


PSALM 51:12 | Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Confession is restorative. This restoration has inner and outer dimensions.
Inwardly a clean heart increases our joy, the emotional experience of our faith. And it also removes the inner barriers to our obedience.
God wants us to know joy! He wants our obedience to become glad and not grudging. Jesus’ parables about commitment emphasize the joy and excitement of following him. Grim duty is not the goal. The farmer who discovers the treasure in the field, the merchant who finds the pearl of great price, they both gladly “sell all.”

How willing is your spirit?
How much joy do you have?
Read Matthew 13:45-46

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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