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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 1, Day 2

by David Joynt on June 03, 2019


MATTHEW 6:9 | Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Language is a mystery and a wonder. Puffs of wind help us discover how we think and feel, allow us to share attitudes and plans, anticipate future events, learn from previous ones, and create art. Eugene Peterson says there are three languages. Information language helps to identify objects and things, and allows us to describe and explore our world, with its complex connections and interactions. Motivation language moves others, making things happen, whether a baby crying for food, an advertiser enticing a purchase, or a politician garnering a vote.

But the most basic and important language is the language of intimacy and relationship, the words by which we express love and connection. This is the language of our faith and our prayers. Jesus taught us to call God Daddy, Abba and to hallow his name. This is love language.

Is prayer intimate for you?

Tags: prayer, relationships, intimacy, language

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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