Hospitable Generosity | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 8, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. |
| 0:07.0 | Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 0:10.7 | Deuteronomy 24, verse 19. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:19.0 | Hospitable generosity was written by Matt Lucas and read by Wes Ward. |
| 0:25.2 | Deuteronomy chapter 24 verses 17 through 22. |
| 0:30.6 | Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember that you were |
| 0:40.9 | slaves in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this. |
| 0:49.2 | When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it |
| 0:55.7 | for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you |
| 1:01.6 | in all the work of your hands. When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the |
| 1:07.8 | branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 1:14.6 | When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. |
| 1:20.1 | Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 1:24.8 | Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. |
| 1:30.4 | That is why I command you to do this. |
| 1:41.9 | Hospitable Generosity, written by Matt Lucas. A few years ago, our church hosted refugees fleeing their country because of a change in their political leadership. |
| 1:47.3 | Entire families came with only what they could fit in a small bag. |
| 1:51.9 | Several of our church families opened their homes, some with little room to spare. |
| 1:57.8 | Such gracious hospitality echoes God's command to the Israelites before they inhabited the |
| 2:05.0 | promised land. As an agricultural society, they understood the importance of the harvest. Every bit of food |
| 2:13.1 | would be essential to get them through until next year's harvest. God told the Israelites when harvesting |
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