Be Hospitable

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. (1 Peter 4:9)

• Hospitality is the friendly reception and treatment of guests and strangers.


• Hospitality makes people feel welcomed and valued. It makes people think they are worth getting to know more, worth caring for, and worth serving for.


• Hospitality promotes love, affection and brotherhood. Hospitality brings life, respect, honor, encouragement, joy, laughter, peace, warm, strength, and hope.


• We are told to be hospitable to one another without grumbling. We are to show hospitality to everyone. There is no favoritism, no discrimination, no segregation or preferential treatment. There is no grumbling, no complaints, no sign of bitterness, and no selfishness displayed.


• Hospitality honors and glorifies God. That is how we are a light in a lost world. That is how we show the love of God for lost mankind.


• Hospitality is not a gift to possess; it is a gift you give to others. Hospitality is all about opening up your heart to another, putting others first, finding practical ways of demonstrating the love and acceptance of the Lord.


• Some of us have the gift of hospitality and practices it well. Others still need to learn and understand how it works.


• Seek hospitality. It makes all the difference in the world when one feels welcomed.
  

Praise The Lord, All My Soul

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
(Psalm 107:8)

If we complain less and praise more, we would be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Let us daily praise God for His common mercies.

Let us thank God for our eyes to see, for health and the strength to walk, for the food we eat, for the clothes we wear.

Let us thank God that we are not cast out among the hopeless, or confined among the guilty.

Let us thank God for liberty, for friends, for family associations and comforts.

Let us thank God for everything we receive from His hand.

We deserve little, but are plenteously endowed.

Let us daily praise God for His redeeming love.

We have been redeemed from the power of our corruptions.

We have been uplifted from the depth of sin.

We have been led to the cross of Christ.

Our shackles of guilt have been broken off.

We are no longer slaves.

We are children of the living God.

Oh! Let us not be silent.

Let us praise God for Who He is.

Let us praise Him for what He has done for us.

Praise the Lord, all my soul.