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Prayer About Hospitality

by Stephen Wong
02/17/21
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Lord God,

You call us to love one another,

And one great way we can do this is through showing hospitality to each other,

Although not all of us are particularly gifted in hospitality,

Or live in the cleanest homes,

We thank you that by your grace our homes can become places,

Where life-changing fellowship and discipleship occur,

So Lord, teach us to open our homes wide to our brothers and sisters in Christ,

As we learn to share our lives with one another,

Help us to create homes where people always feel welcomed and loved,

And help us to always be prepared to show hospitality to someone in need,

Please teach us not only to invite people when it is convenient to do so,

But to also be willing to open our doors,

Even during times when hospitality feels tiring and burdensome,

Or when there are people who we would rather not serve,

Or when showing hospitality requires a costly sacrifice of our time, money and resources,

As we seek to live as your holy people,

Shining out as lights in the world,

May we learn to love and build up each other in the faith,

Through extending our homes to one another,

But Lord, teach us not only to open up our homes to the church,

But to extend the invitation to our wider communities,

We pray that you would help us to create homes that are places of refuge,

Where those in need can come in and receive care and support,

And where people from all walks of life,

Can experience a taste of what living in God’s family is like,

I pray especially that our homes would be places where people can know the love of Jesus,

So that through our servanthood in hospitality,

More people would be brought from death to life into your Kingdom,

And your heavenly family would continue to grow ever larger.