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Questions Week 11 Day 7

by David Joynt on July 15, 2017


 

LUKE 8:40-42, 49-56

 

I love the prayers and poems and songs we call the psalms. They express the great range of human emotion and the variety of human fortune in ways that are honest, real, and beautiful. But prayer is different after Jesus! In Jesus’ life, we have the immense privilege of seeing God answer petitions personally and directly. If there was any doubt about whether God cares for our suffering before our Lord’s advent, then there should not be afterward. Jesus healed. Jesus comforted. Jesus reversed the processes of disease and decline and death. He restored the broken, freed the opposed, lifted guilt. In His resurrection, we see the solid basis for the great hope that God’s power can overcome everything that destroys life and that He will keep his promise to restore all things. We can pray with hope!

 

 

Are you hopeful when you pray?

 

 

Notice the all out intensity of Jairus’ appeal to Jesus.

 

FAMILY TIME—

What is hope?

How does it help?

 

 

Tags: hope

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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