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I Am Because You Are October 23, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on October 23, 2025


JOHN 15:7-8 | 7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

The “I AM” statement, in which Jesus claims to be the true vine, also has vertical significance. If we abide in Him we will be fruitful and our lives will glorify the Father. Now part of abiding is discipline and focus. It means organizing our lives around our devotion to Him, expressing our faith in worship, embracing generosity, caring for other “branches,” meditating on His word, and serving in His work to help, heal, and save. No one abides without a clear decision and an ongoing, focused determination to do so.

 

Are you determined to abide? How is this determination manifested in your life?

 

 

Gracious God,

May my determination to abide be real today. Sharpen my focus, open my heart, enrich my prayers. Clarify my vision and let me serve You.

Amen.

 

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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