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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 2, Day 9

by David Joynt on June 10, 2019


PSALM 51:10 | Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

This verse expresses a profound truth. There is no neutral ground in the spiritual and human realms. Everyone is in the game, witting or unwitting, playing for God’s purpose or for a darker one. We all have a spirit within us, and a heart that is clean thru forgiveness or grimy without it. The fact that many people ignore spiritual realities does not change this! David, the great man of God, was serving the forces of evil in 2 Samuel 11 and 12.
The first and primary desire of every human being must be the clean heart that only God can grant, the freedom and release that comes with his pardon and blessing. The sense of rightful attitude and fresh opportunity to cooperate with God and grow in relationship to him is the best longing of our hearts.

Do you have this desire for a clean heart and right spirit?
At moments today when you are confused or struggling, use this verse as a prayer.

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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