Showing Hospitality

God strengthens those who want to bring glory to him. If you want to help people know God, then he’s going to powerfully move in you. Priscilla and Aquila end up changing and touching the world through their faithfulness, but it started by them saying, “God, here's our home. Here's our business. Here's our life. What do you want?” They were hospitable. And a marriage on mission is a hospitable marriage. 

1 Peter 4:8-11 speaks of hospitality too. These verses state, “Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.”

Something that we can all love about this passage in first Peter is that we see you don't have to be brilliant to be used by God. You just have to be available. You have to say: My home, my life, our marriage, God, whatever you want to do, use that. It's not just that we do ministry and then go to our home. Our life is for the Lord. If you make your home a house of ministry, it's powerful what God can accomplish there. After all, the church of Corinth started in the living room of Priscilla and Aquila. 

Discussion/Reflection Question: Are you available to have your home, life, and marriage used by God in whatever ways necessary to get more people to know Christ?