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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -12

by David Joynt on April 22, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -12

1 CORINTHIANS 13:2 | 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

 MATTHEW 17:20-21 | 20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”

 If you have faith like a tiny mustard seed, you will move mountains! Jesus had an ambitious agenda for His followers. They were to act in His name, with His authority, healing and teaching and converting. They were to be a light in the darkness, unafraid when confronted with opposition and persecution.

 They were to have ultimate trust in God’s power to bring His kingdom, defeat evil, and establish a lasting reign of peace and justice. Moreover they needed to have faith that love’s weapons, that is grace and truth, could accomplish these things.

 How strong is your faith in the victory of God?

 

Tags: faith, god, victory

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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