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The Upside Down World, Week 11, Day 7

by David Joynt on November 25, 2017


LUKE 11:13


This verse is profound. In our praying, there is much more going on than simply requests being made and answers being given. Prayer is meant to change us, to align our wills with God’s will.

God wants to help us with our daily needs and our small requests. Nothing is too minor to bring to Him. But He wants to give us the best gift more than anything else. He wants to bestow the ultimate present. The best gift is the gift of Himself. The ultimate present is the Holy Spirit—the deep sense of being filled, blessed, loved, forgiven, enfolded, and connected to our Father.

Sometimes we want a kazoo, and God wants us to experience a whole orchestra!



Do you pray for the Holy Spirit to be more deeply present in your character?


Do you ask for the freedom that comes with the Spirit? For the power?




FAMILY TIME— Read Galatians 5:22-23 together. Which Spirit fruit does each member long for most? Pray for one another’s spiritual desires.

Tags: freedom, prayer

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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