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Day 42: Purpose

Pray for the spirit to fill every nook and cranny of your heart.

by David Joynt on May 21, 2016


JOHN 14:15-17

What do you pray for? The greatest gift God gives us through Christ is the Holy Spirit. Our most earnest daily prayer should be “Fill me with your Spirit, Lord!”

Do you need an Advocate? Do you need a Helper? Would you like an Encourager? How about a wise and wonderful Counselor? A personal Tutor in truth? A Guide amid life’s complexity? A Source of power and energy and inspiration? All these words are ways to render Jesus’ name for the Spirit, the parakletos. Every Christian needs a Pentecost.

Pray for the spirit to fill every nook and cranny of your heart.

Tags: devotional, encountering, purpose

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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