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This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Lies, Women Believe in the Truth that Sets Them Free.

For Friday, April 12th, 2024, I'm Dana Gresh.

What comes to your mind when you think of the word hospitality? Do you break out in a cold sweat? Do you envision a Pinterest perfect house? Nancy's helping us get back to the basics on what the Bible teaches about true hospitality. Let's listen.

As I've been studying the whole matter of Christian hospitality, one of the things in the scripture that has been most challenging to my own heart is to learn that God is a hospitable

God, that he has a heart for hospitality. We see in the scripture that God is a hospitable God. That he has a heart for hospitality.

We see in the scripture that God is a refuge.

He is the perfect host for those who seek refuge in his dwelling place.

Psalm 90 tells us, Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

He is our heart's truest home. He's a hospitable

God. I discovered this past week of verse, I'm sure I'd read it many times before, but I'd never

thought about it the way that it hit me this week. In Deuteronomy chapter 10, the scripture says,

God loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Now, if that doesn't describe hospitality, I don't know what does. God loves the stranger,

giving him food and clothing. And what's the implication? The next verse, therefore, you are to love the

stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Moses is saying, God took care of you and brought you into his home, was a host to you

when you needed to be cared for. Therefore, you are to extend that hospitable heart of God

to others who need it. God is a God who welcomes the poor and the needy.

He welcomes the outcasts.

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