[hospitality: the practice of welcoming strangers, visitors, or guests into our lives with kindness and generosity]
Theme: Extending hospitality to our families.
Challenge: One day this month, do something for someone in your immediate or extended family that would bring them joy. Invite them into your inner life by sharing a memory or instance of how God blessed your life through them. Be explicit about your thankfulness for them and what they mean to you.
Daily Prayer: One way God creates a hospitable spirit within us is through prayer. Throughout the month of January, let us together bring before God these specific prayers for our families and families in our community.
Sunday: Ask God for unity, reconciliation, and peace within your family.
Monday: Thank God for each member of your immediate family by name and pray for His presence to be with them.
Tuesday: Pray that your family would experience God’s health: physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally.
Wednesday: Ask God to fill your home with His Word and His Spirit, that it may be a welcome space for all who enter.
Thursday: Pray for families across our local community, that their relationships with one another would be characterized by God’s love and joy.
Friday: Pray for those families in our community who are struggling, that God would provide for their needs and heal their hurts.
Saturday: Ask God to protect and guide families in our community, that His abundant life might be known by all.
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