Participants: Kathy Matthews, Rachel Matthews, Richard O'Ffill
Series Code: TAH
Program Code: TAH000163
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00:29 Hello, welcome to "Thinking About Home."
00:33 This is Richard O'Ffill filling in for our host, 00:37 Kathy Matthews, and we will do the best 00:40 we can with the program today with me as the host. 00:42 And so I need to get on and introduce our guest. 00:45 And our guest today is host Kathy Matthews. 00:48 Now, no wonder I am filling in for Kathy Matthews. 00:51 Yes, Thank you very much that you come. 00:53 I am thankful that you will do this. 00:54 Welcome to "Thinking About Home." 00:55 Well, thank you. How did I do? You did fine. 00:57 Well, I didn't do nearly as well as you usually do. 01:00 And who is that sitting besides us today? 01:01 This is our daughter Rachel. 01:03 She is our younger daughter. 01:04 Hi, Rachel. Hi. 01:05 Welcome to "Thinking About Home." 01:06 Of course, you've been here before. 01:07 Yes. Only except that there is more of her now. 01:09 I know, Isn't she is growing? 01:10 She is taller, yes. 01:11 She is taller and isn't it a thrill? Isn't a thrill? 01:14 Yes, it breaks my hearts sometimes. 01:17 You wait till you get to be a grandmother 01:18 like I am a grandfather. 01:19 Maybe the Lord will come before that. 01:21 Oh, yeah, yeah. 01:22 So she is got a guitar over there 01:24 and somewhere in the program today, 01:26 she is going to sing a song that she... 01:28 Wrote... Did you write? 01:30 Yes, I did. 01:31 Well, we are looking forward to hearing that 01:32 when the time come. Thanks. Right. 01:33 In our program today, we carry on from the program 01:38 that we did last time. Our subject is hospitality. 01:43 And, you know, they have the spiritual gifts, 01:46 what are they called them "Inventories". 01:48 I suppose. That they give in the churches these days. 01:51 And though I don't think that hospitality is listed 01:54 in scripture in first Corinthians 01:56 as particularly a gift of the spirit. 01:59 No. It's definitely in the spiritual gifts inventory. 02:01 Yes. Because there is no doubt that, 02:04 that, that some are really hospitable, 02:07 and I was saying in the other program, 02:10 look you are from Arkansas. 02:11 Both you and I from the South 02:13 and we talked about the Southern Hospitability. 02:15 Yes. But...Yes. 02:17 But... we are not just going to be talking about 02:20 any kind of hospitality. 02:21 This is not Miss Manners and this is not Emily Post. 02:26 But it's hospitality in the context... Of soul winning. 02:30 Of soul winning, of caring. Yes. 02:31 Of caring, of really giving ourselves 02:35 and before we give a little recap of the story you told us 02:39 in the last program, I have got to tell you 02:42 about a Pastor I heard one time that he was trying to help 02:44 his church to be hospitable. 02:46 And so when he would stand up during the announcement 02:49 time he would say, I wanna apologize 02:52 to all of our visitors were here today. 02:55 You will probably go away from church with your hands 02:57 so sore because so many people will, you know, will... 03:00 Join your hands. Just got to hurt your hands. 03:03 And then in another week he would apologize. 03:06 He would say, you know you're gonna think 03:08 that word is so uncoordinated here that we are just, 03:11 we don't have it all together because you will 03:14 probably going to get invited to go home 03:15 and eat with somebody five or six times. 03:18 Well, that's great though, trying to encourage the people 03:21 in a positive way and there was a time in which 03:25 I was going to church as a visitor was to be asked 03:29 invited to someone's home. 03:30 Right. Now we are... 03:31 And that should be done. 03:32 And, you know, I think that probably often these days 03:35 we are talking about what "Potluck". Yes. 03:38 I want to know who ever made that name? 03:39 I don't know. Potluck! 03:41 I like fellowship dinner. Fellowship dinner! 03:43 What about vegetarian cuisine? 03:46 I don't know. Is that being said now, is it? 03:49 Oh! When I heard someone say that, you see, 03:51 and so you say the dessert and please stay after church 03:54 we will be having "vegetarian cuisine". 03:56 Really. Well, anyway, 03:58 whatever it takes, 03:59 whatever it takes to make the people feel welcome. 04:01 But as we began to talk, 04:03 as we begin to think about hospitality, 04:07 in another program you told us an experience 04:09 that you had and you tagged the word Hospitality on it 04:13 and it is a concept that's very much deeper and wider. 04:17 Well, I think a lot of people will probably call it 04:18 Evangelism in a lot of ways, 04:20 but it is a part of Evangelism that requires 04:24 just open our homes. Go ahead. 04:26 Well, which is exactly what you did and it's not just 04:29 opening your home to have somebody to end 04:32 with eat because you told us a story of when you and Tom 04:35 were apartment managers and now there is a couple, 04:38 and remember you said that, 04:40 I said they looked weird and I forgot the word. Do you? 04:42 Different. Different! What about that Rachel? 04:45 Rachel would have said weird. And so... 04:47 Umm...Frightening! Yeah. Frightening. 04:48 Frightening a bit of her. 04:49 And you are talking about that they were really 04:50 almost another culture. They were from another culture. 04:54 And they moved in and how you had them into your home. 04:58 Yes. And you began to work with them. 05:02 I don't know if we would say, you know, 05:05 you extended your family to them. 05:07 Yes, we did. We extended our family to them. 05:09 We didn't just hold them up in prayer and say, hi, 05:12 how are you doing? In passing, it was important to me 05:16 to win and you test for green lights, I think. 05:20 You test for throwing out information 05:24 and seeing if a person is interested. 05:26 If they are not interested I can't go there at least 05:29 not there now. And these people were, 05:33 they were just so hungry and needy, 05:36 and they needed someone that was our age level in their life. 05:39 They had not had that. 05:41 They had not had a good example of role model necessarily. 05:46 They just did not get what they need. 05:47 It's the typical problem today. Everybody is too busy. 05:51 Most of the children go off and raise themselves 05:53 then they grow up. 05:54 And there is this hunger that's inside of them. 05:57 This for Christ but they need the family. 06:00 They need the family of God. 06:01 And they need a home to show them, what is this? 06:05 You and Tom, you know, you were at time your friends, 06:09 at times you were parents, it sounds to be like to them, 06:12 at times you were referees. Yes. 06:13 You were saying that they would actually come 06:15 to your house and everything short of... 06:18 Yes, physical. Physical, they were just hollering 06:20 at each other and... 06:22 Well, and well and we would try to keep it down 06:25 to where they could communicate. 06:27 But then we want to go on in our program today 06:31 and discuss some of the principles that were involved 06:34 and some of the benefits of... 06:36 Well, in some of the things it does not seem like a benefit. 06:39 It's a blessing but it doesn't seem like it 06:41 when you are going through. 06:42 But this story had a happy ending. 06:43 I think we ought to start there, 06:47 that this couple actually changed their lifestyle 06:48 completely and can we say so they lived happily ever after. 06:51 No. No, I can't say that. They did come to Baptism. 06:57 This is what they wanted but that's not where it stopped. 06:59 It just could not stop there. It wasn't all of the sudden. 07:02 Everything was okay in their life because it wasn't. 07:05 They needed to have a continuing family situation 07:08 in their life and I supposed the things 07:12 that I might call a blessing. 07:14 I didn't always call blessing not when I was feeling it. 07:18 Especially when you look at open up to your homes 07:21 and the times and the hours it takes for two-three times 07:25 a week and when you are tired 07:28 and you need to rest or you would like to get away 07:30 on your own and you know that there are more in need 07:34 the new arm. And you know that inviting them into your home 07:37 is what's going to keep the interest level going. 07:40 If you drop them for very long or if you say, 07:43 well I need to take care of me now for a while, 07:47 some people can't handle that they need to be 07:50 continue to be cared for. And it becomes very inconvenient. 07:56 You know the reason I am naming these all 07:59 because we need to think about 08:02 what it's going to take out of us to be a blessing. 08:06 But it will become a blessing to us. 08:09 May I say you something at this point 08:10 because a moment ago I asked you the question, 08:13 and they lived happily ever after, 08:15 and you suggested no there is a kind of follow up. Yes. 08:19 But yet you use this soul winning expression 08:22 and so you are saying here to equal they were Baptized 08:25 but it's required follow up and it popped into my mind, 08:28 an experience I had one time where a lady was telling me 08:32 that before she was Baptized she was getting 08:34 a lot of this hospitality and I don't mean to be 08:37 disrespectful but she was saying; 08:39 before I was Baptized the minister visited 08:42 me everyday. Yes. 08:43 And she said, you know, 08:44 sadly I haven't seen him sense and of course, 08:47 in her case at least when she was Baptized 08:52 then her whole world began to crash in around. 08:54 She begins to loose friends, 08:55 her husband begins to react to her. 08:57 Really needed somebody. 08:58 And she needed somebody more than ever 08:59 and I thought to myself, and I don't think 09:02 you meant this that if we see hospitality strictly 09:06 as soul winning and then when the soul is one 09:09 then you can drop out. 09:10 No, I didn't mean that at all. 09:11 But you don't mean that at all because 09:12 what I am hearing is say is that, 09:14 is that hospitality in its wider sense is on going, 09:18 it's daring to be involved in an ongoing way 09:21 and giving yourself to other people. Right. 09:23 But this has its pros and cons. 09:26 I should say pros and cons. 09:27 It has its positives and negatives. Yes, it does. 09:29 I think you are going over showing that, right. 09:30 And that's where we are going to some of that now 09:32 and I would like to, I would like to move aside 09:36 of our comfort zone. 09:37 The ministry does not have to be dealing one never visits. 09:41 We need to be visiting and so forth. 09:43 But we also need to be bringing people home 09:45 to our own homes. And this is why I keep; 09:47 I want to keep hammering this home. 09:49 We need to open our homes to people. 09:51 And yes, we need to be careful and yes, 09:53 we need to understand what we believe 09:55 so that we don't get taken in by other influences 09:58 but if we bring people on our own grounds, 10:00 needy people can see if we are modeling 10:04 Christ like character. 10:06 If it's something that we are surrendering to own homes, 10:09 others need to see it. 10:11 And this is not pride or showing off. 10:14 This is working in Christ vineyard, in your home. 10:17 And so it's Evangelism, but it's a Evangelism 10:20 in the realm of being hospitable, very hospitable. 10:23 Do you know it occurs to me when you say 10:25 that because you keep talking about giving of yourself 10:30 and you know not to be disrespectful to the value of 10:34 the printed page which is of course, very, very powerful. 10:38 Sometimes when people began to have problems 10:39 they'll say here is a book. Go, read the book. 10:41 Yes, yes. Read the book. 10:42 And it's very easy to do that. 10:43 But lots of people don't read. That's right. 10:45 You know, and lots of people do read 10:47 but this couple didn't. 10:48 Well, the wife did but the young man did not. 10:50 He needed visual. He needed tactical. 10:53 Well, he needed to see something. That's right. 10:56 He needed somebody to put an arm around. 10:57 He needed to see something. 10:58 He needed to become flesh and blood. 10:59 And he, yes, and they always responded. 11:02 They were very observant, 11:03 very observant, bright people. 11:06 But I wanted to go through come some of the things 11:08 that so get ready for a change because it's a blessing 11:13 but it can be also very difficult while you are doing. 11:17 I talked about the time, the hours that it takes. 11:20 It's inconvenient. You may have to, 11:21 now we took off work. 11:23 There were times that we took off work. 11:24 The people that nurtured us to the church, 11:27 they took off work at times 11:28 and they lost income in other works. 11:30 The Good Samaritan, he lost time and money... 11:32 Yes, that's right, time and money. 11:34 And so there are also late nights. 11:37 There is your time again, but time in most specific way. 11:41 There maybe late nights when you need to get up 11:43 in the morning and go to work and you feel like, 11:46 huh I am too tired to handle this. 11:48 But I have something there is more necessary 11:50 to take care for the sake of the Lord and their sake. 11:52 Rachel, you are, you know, 11:55 you were younger when all these was happening. 11:57 Do you remember this thing that was going on 11:59 where your folks were helping this couple? 12:01 Yeah, I remember it. Like really, often times, 12:06 they come over and halfway through, 12:09 not even halfway through I had to go upstairs 12:11 in my bedroom and I stayed, 12:12 I just had to stayed up there the rest of time 12:13 because of subject matter and things. 12:16 You know I just couldn't stay there and listen to it, 12:19 and they would be up until eleven, 12:20 sometimes midnight, sometimes later just trying, 12:23 my parents trying to mediate 12:25 and the couple just kind of passing it out. 12:30 Passing it out that was to put mildly. 12:31 Yeah, right. And giving them a chance, 12:35 they just giving them a chance in another person's home 12:39 and we felt like we had to allow some of this stuff 12:42 to be gotten out of the way before we could get 12:44 to scripture and we talked about some of that 12:46 and it's pressing and some people just can't handle that. 12:49 I am not saying that this is for... 12:51 For everybody. This type of thing is for everyone. 12:54 Or is it always has a happy ending? 12:56 No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't always 12:58 have a happy ending. 12:59 It could have turned out in another way. 13:00 Right, and your heart can be broken 13:01 and you can feel like did all kinds of things wrong but, 13:04 you know, the Lord is teaching us as we go along. 13:06 So I am just encouraging people to really open 13:09 their homes and don't be afraid that when the Lord 13:14 gives you that golden opportunity to you 13:16 with the persons start nurturing them, 13:18 start bringing them in the home, 13:21 and some will be different than others. 13:23 There maybe some who don't need that 13:24 and merely inviting them home to dinner 13:27 would be the only thing that they need, 13:30 but this was different. 13:32 These types of people were different. 13:33 They had a lot of lack of coping skills 13:37 and so let's move on the late nights, go ahead. 13:40 Before we go on, you know, 13:42 I've got to tell our viewers that I've said to Kathy 13:46 when she tells us a story, 13:47 I said no Kathy we don't all have to do this, do we? 13:49 Is this, I mean, we've got to do this. 13:51 Are we not hospitable? And she said, no, no. 13:54 She is telling us, you are telling us a story 13:57 and it's a wonderful story and a happy story 13:59 but obviously I think, 14:01 I think what we were trying to learn 14:03 and to be inspired in these program is that we need 14:05 to be giving more of ourselves appropriately, 14:08 yes, according to who we are as the Lord 14:12 puts it in our hearts and I think don't you think 14:14 we need to be praying for compassion. 14:15 I don't know how you can do this. 14:18 Rachel, how did you look at to get 14:20 such a compassionate mother? 14:22 Oh, no, no. Don't build, don't build me up. 14:25 Don't build me up because when we were talking about 14:27 really our human nature, we are talking about times 14:31 when I wanted to say and Tom wanted to say 14:33 and Rachel wanted to say, oh, 14:36 tonight do we have to this again 14:40 or can you get out of this somehow? 14:42 And then the realization of, 14:45 no that's not the right attitude. 14:46 I need to help them. And I am not talking about 14:50 codependency or strange rescuing like 14:53 we've got to rescue every cat and dog 14:55 that comes along if you understand what I mean. 14:57 What were you praying because, 14:59 I am going to play the devil's advocate 15:01 for just a minute because when we hear 15:03 these kinds of stories, things pop into our minds 15:05 and say well that would be dangerous, 15:06 you know, we will hear that one. Yes. 15:07 You know that will be dangerous or you know, 15:10 I could get into trouble or are they going to sue me 15:12 or something. You must have been praying 15:15 about this and as we pray sometimes 15:17 the Lord open doors and close doors, 15:20 it must have been all the indications 15:22 of doors were opened. These people were responding. 15:24 They were. They were responding. 15:25 Yes there were. Often we did the other program 15:26 I couldn't help but think, this was not 15:29 what it appeared because if this had been getting worse 15:31 and worse and worse, I am sure it had its ups and downs. 15:33 Yes, it did. But yet you could see that 15:36 this young couple was responding 15:38 and this was softening your heart 15:39 and Rachel could must have, you know, 15:42 thought well this is worth of trouble 15:43 I go up to my room, but that's worth the trouble. 15:46 Well but it also, we're gonna get into 15:48 a little bit of how it effects your children 15:50 other than just maybe negative because 15:53 it will also inspire them. 15:55 It can also inspire them to pray for others which means, 15:58 I've got to get outside of myself. 16:00 I can't just think of how I feel about the situation. 16:03 What is it the Christ would have me do here 16:04 for their needs? And you know 16:07 this is not the only time that we've had people 16:09 in our home. And not everybody 16:10 was as needy as this couple. 16:12 We've had young single people who have come into our home. 16:16 They spent weekends. 16:17 They became like adopted sisters. 16:18 Ingrid! And people who just wanted a home life 16:24 for a little while. Some who were just 16:27 like I said the mere dinner, but let's move on here. 16:30 It teaches us as coping skills, 16:33 we needed to help them learn some coping skills. 16:36 We needed to help them learn time management, 16:38 which means that we had to come up with a way 16:42 to do it better. I was going to say that 16:44 I think you were the ones that were learning these things. 16:47 Exactly! Well, they become a blessing to you 16:50 because it's developing your character 16:51 and it took time away from our family 16:54 but we also had to be able to take time together 16:58 apart from this. So we didn't, 17:00 we didn't tried to forget ourselves entirely in it. 17:04 But it does demand things of you. 17:09 It's intentional. It does demand things of you. 17:11 It may cause you emotional drain. 17:14 It's going to, don't say may. 17:15 Yes, you may want to quit I said, 17:18 but for the love of Christ you continue on. 17:20 Right it can strains us. It can strains us, 17:22 which develops in you the character attributed 17:25 tenaciousness and the right things. 17:28 Tenacity, which you know becomes more self disciplined. 17:32 It requires you to be more of an example 17:34 because the Holy Spirit works on your heart 17:37 and mind that says what is that I want them to see 17:39 in my life. How do I want to represent Jesus here? 17:42 And it requires you to, the fruit of the Spirit, 17:46 there is more of Christ in you or the patience, 17:50 the long suffering, the endurance, 17:54 the tenderness that requires you when maybe you with snap 17:57 but you don't want to do that because you don't want 17:59 to misrepresent Jesus, and it develops in you, 18:03 your own faith by reciprocal influence 18:05 because you are speaking your faith, 18:07 you want to live your faith and so therefore it makes 18:12 you stronger in your own faith. 18:13 I am sure. Well Jesus himself is more blessed 18:16 to give into His seeds. Yes. He do. 18:17 And this generation is about, is about taking. 18:21 And you are talking about the flip on that. 18:24 Its about giving. Yes Giving. 18:25 About giving of oneself. Yes, it is. 18:27 Even in our nastiness, even in our simple nature's 18:31 the Lord can make a great blessing out of it. 18:35 And polish us, so they were not quite so nasty 18:37 and were not quite so...unkind. 18:39 Now is this our queue where you introduced a little song, 18:43 you know, like they used to say on the radio programs, 18:45 before we go on folks now we're gonna have little song 18:47 or something like. Yeah, almost. 18:50 Yeah, we are because I wanted Rachel to sing 18:53 something that she composed 18:54 and then but let me give you or do you want to give 18:56 a little background on how it, this is a skip ahead. 19:00 Now this is three years beyond. 19:03 And they lived in another state 19:06 and we are not quite as close. 19:08 That chapters. That chapters kind of close, 19:11 but we keep in close touch because 19:12 they need that touch. They need that family. 19:16 The mother of the girl wasn't, 19:19 did not take kindly to her becoming 19:21 a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian 19:23 and she claims the scripture of the Lord 19:26 will give me a family, the Lord will take me up, 19:30 and so we were still quite close, very close. 19:34 They have now an eighteenth month old baby, 19:35 a little baby boy. His name is Avon. 19:37 And he is like my first grandson. 19:39 I was going to say this, 19:40 beginning to sound like grandma. 19:41 It is. He is a sweetheart. 19:44 And so how does the song fit into this? 19:46 Well, go ahead. You want to talk about it. 19:48 Sure. Mom was talking on the phone to the girl 19:51 and they had been talking about struggles 19:53 that they had been having, 19:54 things that had been going on their life, 19:56 and I went outside and I had just something playing 20:01 over my head. There was just almost retelling 20:03 a story and a song. Okay. 20:05 And so I came in and I picked up my guitar 20:08 and it was just like it all fell together. 20:10 You know, the words came, 20:11 well I think, and mom helped me just with 20:14 a couple of words and stuff. 20:15 But it just seemed to really fall together. 20:20 I had been sharing with the young lady 20:22 over the phone that God is not far away, 20:28 that was it take you by the hand part of it 20:31 that I was saying over the phone, 20:32 is that what you came up with? 20:33 I came, I can't remember but I was helping her 20:37 to understand that if we fall backwards again, 20:40 don't think that God is very far away. 20:42 Don't give up. He is not far away, 20:44 and don't give up. And so it just developed 20:48 and when I got up the phone. 20:49 She said mom come here please 20:50 and you got to hear this and it just happened. 20:53 So this is what I am talking about with children 20:56 in our family. There isn't just 20:59 the feelings of or do we have to do this again. 21:02 There is also that drawn out of us 21:05 that starts caring about them even in the youth 21:07 because it inspires them to pray. 21:10 It inspires them to have tender feelings towards 21:13 somebody else who is having far difficult, 21:16 more difficult times than we are having, so... 21:19 And I will gonna hear Rachel sing a song. 21:21 Right, yes. Okay. 21:36 She's crying on the phone 21:46 Reaching out the hand 21:55 Can't just sing, she feels so alone, so wishing 22:03 And can't just sing, She's turning to you and me 22:12 So take her by the hand and tell her 22:18 that He is not far away And take her by the hand 22:24 and tell her. You know the way 22:34 Walk with me together we will see Calvary 22:54 He is struggling with his heart 23:03 Does God still really care? 23:11 But if he only knew that God is within too 23:17 And if he only knew how to break this chain 23:34 So take him by the hand and tell him 23:39 that God's not far away 23:43 And take him by the hand and show him 23:49 You know the way 23:55 Walk with me together we will see, Calvary. 24:26 Thank you so much Rachel that was beautiful. 24:28 Wasn't that nice mama? 24:30 I think it's sweet. Yes, it's quite tender song. 24:33 And to me it's, it's, it's the combination of a story, 24:38 a story of where a family cared 24:39 or a family gave up itself 24:42 and this is from a young person's point of view 24:44 because obviously Rachel was giving of herself. 24:48 Yes, she was. 24:49 She was doing all of that and still does, in fact. 24:52 People were in her home, 24:53 you know kind of messing up her life, 24:56 but she was very much a part of it. 24:57 Well, that's part of how we come out ourselves. 25:00 Well, we have been talking about hospitality 25:02 and we can't help but think of that text in the scripture 25:06 which said that we ought to not forget the... 25:09 Entertain angels unaware. 25:11 Entertain strangers because they could be angels. 25:14 They could be Angels. Yes, I am sorry. 25:15 From what you telling me this couple that you had... 25:18 Is the flip side? 25:19 They surely weren't. 25:20 They surely weren't Angels that's for sure. 25:22 No, not to begin with, but there is a lot of sweetness 25:24 that has come from it. 25:26 You know, what would you say, 25:28 you know, we have had two program now about hospitality 25:30 and we have been sharing your experience 25:32 and we have heard Rachel's, 25:34 her little testimony at the end. 25:36 To our viewers what's the message of this? 25:38 What's your desire? 25:40 What do you wanna come up this? 25:42 What's your council to us? Well, I want to see, 25:45 I would like to see that a person would open 25:47 their home more fully, 25:49 be kind and more giving to come out of ourselves, 25:54 come out of our comfort zones. 25:56 Tom was telling us one time when we went to Russia. 25:58 He would walk around house and say, 26:00 uh expand your comfort zone. Oh, yes. 26:03 Expand your comfort zone. 26:04 And when we were dealing, 26:08 when we were being hospitable, 26:09 in this manner it's going to expand your comfort zone. 26:14 Oh, you expand your comfort zone 26:15 even to the point we become uncomfortable. 26:17 Yes, even to the point where you become 26:19 uncomfortable but it's a blessing. 26:20 And I think that we wouldn't want anybody to think 26:23 that when we began to do new things 26:25 that we are going to be comfortable when we do it. 26:27 Or we gonna be a little bit uncomfortable, 26:29 but then as we do it we began to feel gratify, 26:31 we began to feel bless. 26:32 Jesus said it's more blessed to give than to receive. 26:35 And of course there's other scriptures 26:38 that Jesus Himself calls on us to deny ourselves. 26:42 To deny ourselves! 26:43 Of course this generation does not like that. 26:44 Doesn't like it. It's all about taking, 26:46 it's all about taking and... 26:48 I would like to see people dedicate their homes 26:50 like this, to dedicate it to the Lord 26:53 and maybe even have a service in dedication. 26:57 In which we say that our home is gonna be 26:58 not only just where we live, 26:59 it's gonna be kind of refuge, can we say? 27:02 Yes, right, right. 27:03 We've done that before in our home and I would, 27:06 you know, maybe sometime 27:08 I will get to tell somebody about it. 27:09 Let's pray about that. Okay. 27:10 Shall we as we close our program? 27:11 Let's do that. 27:13 Heavenly Father, we are thankful for Rachel 27:15 and for her sweet song. 27:16 We are thankful for her sweet heart 27:18 that's committed to you. 27:19 She loves Jesus in her youth. 27:22 We are thankful for our Lord, 27:24 the Matthew's family in which they gave up themselves 27:28 and that in spite of the inconvenience 27:30 it was a blessing and there will be people 27:33 in heaven because we heeded the command of our Lord 27:36 where when He said it's more blessed to give 27:39 and to receive and that we should deny ourselves. 27:42 Lord give us the spirit of sharing, 27:44 give us the spirit of hospitality. 27:47 We pray that you'll give us the spirit of compassion 27:50 that others might be blessed not only by 27:51 what they read or what they see on 3ABN, 27:55 but by the lives or daily lives being touched. |
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