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Belong & Become, Week 2, Day 11

by David Joynt on March 11, 2020

Belong & Become, Week 2, Day 11

JOHN14:17b | 17b You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

We invite God into our lives and receive the precious gift of his spirit. Then it is up to us to cultivate the gift. Gifts undeveloped and uncultivated do not grow. Intellectual gifts require study, athletic gifts training. Musical gifts practice. All human gifts also grow by collaboration. It is the same with God’s spiritual gift of the paraclete.

As we study, train, practice and collaborate with God’s people, we grow spiritually. As we grow we have clearer vision of his activity and purpose. As we join in his activity and realize his purposes we become more like him and so more effective for him and with him.  Prayer, worship, study, service, friendship—all can become for us avenues for spiritual growth, in which we sense a deep partnership with his spirit in our work and lives.

How are you cultivating the Holy Spirit?

Are you studying? Training? Practicing? Collaborating?

 

Tags: holy spirit, gifts, growth

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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