Nancy De Masuagemuth says hospitality isn't optional.

Whether you are married or single, whether you have your own home or you share an apartment

with some other women, whether you're rich or poor, you have a mandate to be hospitable.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For April 18th, 2024 showed hospitality to those around him. And it couldn't

have been easy. He was single. He didn't have a permanent home, and he lived in a hot desert climate.

But instead of making excuses, he obeyed his father. Let's find out how to do the same. Here's Nancy.

We've been talking about the ministry of hospitality and how as we extend hospitality to others as we open our hearts and our homes to others we become a reflection of the hospitable

heart of God and of the heart of Christ who came into this world and though he was not

received he came to receive us and he asked us to receive him

and then to receive others as he has received us. Now when we think about

hospitality it's easy to think of certain people who come to our minds who are just really natural hosts.

I mean you know the kind of person I'm talking about, their home is just kind of a constant bed and breakfast and they're always

having people in and they make it seem so easy and their house never gets dirty and

their linens are always clean and they always have fresh flowers sitting on the

bedstand and for any guests who might just happen to come by and they they just have this home that sparkles and this heart that sparkles. We think of that kind of person and if you're like me and these things don't come as naturally

you tend to think well that's good they have the gift of hospitality but I don't

want us to see from God's word that the ministry of hospitality is not just

for some specially gifted people. Now thank the Lord for those people. My mother

is one of them. She loves hospitality. she is wonderful at it, she's a gracious hostess, and I grew up in a home where this was modeled.

But I'm glad that I don't have to be as natural at all that as she is and as some other women that I know.

It's important for us to understand from the scripture that all of us are to practice hospitality,

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