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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 4, Day 28

by David Joynt on June 29, 2019


PSALM 84:11-12 | For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you.

A sun provides light and energy. A shield protects from death and danger. God’s both a sun and shield for his devoted worshipers. He wants to share “favor and honor”, better translated “grace and glory.” He chooses to bless us with his own goodness, sharing his beautiful life, his honorable glory.
The psalm ends with a third beatitude. Verse 4, Verse 5, and Verse 12 all have blessings.

Put your own name into these three blessings and claim them as your own.

Ask God to be a sun and shield for you today.

Tags: praise, favor, shield, honor

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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