Welcome to this 31 day series where we will spend 31 days covering our homes in PRAYER!! We are also reading Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love
Read more details about this series and the book club here.
Read Day 1 here & print your October calendar of verses to pray.
Verse to Pray for Our Home
Luke 3:10-18
“What should we do then?” the crowd asked.
John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
“Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”
He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.”
The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.”
Prayer:
May we go and live like John told the people in this passage. Most of us do in fact have more than two shirts and more than enough food. Lord, convict our hearts. Break our hearts for what breaks Yours.
Radical Hospitality Book Discussion
Find book here: Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love
I would LOVE to hear from you in the comments! How are you liking the book? What struck you the most??
“Suspicion is one of the enemies of hospitality. Fear is at the core of suspicion. We are all starved for love, yet we are mostly unwilling to trust others to give us what we need.” Radical Hospitality, p. 112
We all have needs. Why is it that we are so picky about who we allow God to meet those needs in us? We have all missed the blessing at some point because of our suspicion or our fear of those who are unlike us, whether that be a disabled person, a person of a different race or religion or a person maybe doesn’t even go to church. Gasp!
God is faithful to provide ALL our needs, but often times His provision doesn’t look like the neat and tidy package we were envisioning in our minds. It’s time to open up that box and let Jesus out of it!
{This pep talk is for me as much as it is for you!}
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