Practice Hospitality

Amos 4; Amos 5; Amos 6; Psalm 86; Titus 1
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Hospitality … Something we have lost

Scripture

Titus 1

8 Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.

Observation

Are you hospitable? Do you have people over to your home? Who came over last week? How about the week before? How about last month? How many people did you have over to your house last year? The qualifications for being an elder or a deacon is that you must be hospitable.

How many verses and how many places in scripture talk about being “hospitable”? All you have to do is do a word search on “hospitable” and find out. Let me try that and I will give you the verses that I find.

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 1 Tim. 3:2

Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 1 Peter 4:9

and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the saints, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds. 1 Tim. 5:10

Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Romans 12:13

Application

I will look for ways to practice hospitality this week. How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me put into practice Your word and show me how to practice hospitality. Thank You for people that have practiced this gift and have been so hospitable to us. Our friends in Mexico and Cuba know how to live out these verses and they model for us just how it should be done. Help me to be hospitable this week without grumbling.

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