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The Invasion Daily Devotional -30

by David Joynt on December 28, 2020


ACTS 1:8a | 8a But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. 

There will be no military invasion and no standard battles, political or martial. God came from heaven to earth, from the realm of light to the realm of darkness, to invade our hearts. The primary power He brings and shares with us in the Holy Spirit. It is spiritual power, God’s inner presence, that can enter our intellects, souls, and psyches, bringing healing and truth.

Without this dramatic intervention you and I are mortal creatures headed for death and disintegration. We belong to God from birth and even before because He creates us. He providentially shapes us through people and events. But it is only when we receive His Spirit that a different and divine form of life enters us. Without this new, divine life, or zoe, we are mired in self-concern and self-doubt, and self-promotion. With it we begin to be creatures of heaven who can share His life.

How is God’s new life operating in you?

 

Tags: holy spirit, new life

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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