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Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 6

How are you being tested today? Ask God for a persevering heart.

by David Joynt on July 29, 2016

Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 6

EXODUS 16:1-3
LUKE 4:16-30; 23:35-36

Know that your committed heart will not remain an untested heart. You will be tested by unpopularity, as Moses was when Israel began to complain in the desert. You will be tested by failure, as Sarah and Abraham were when the pregnancy tests were negative every time. You’ll be tested by criticism and opposition, as Jesus was from his first sermon all the way through his last words on the cross. A committed heart is always tested, and the measure of commitment is the determination to meet and pass the tests.

 

How are you being tested today?

Ask God for a persevering heart.

Tags: commitment, leadership

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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