Mary Wilder Tileston

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Invincible Patience
      Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. --Psalms 37:5 Plan not, nor scheme,--but calmly wait; His choice is best. While blind and erring is thy sight, His wisdom sees and judges right, So trust and rest. --ADELAIDE A. PROCTER "GREAT peace have they which love My law." They see that fro ...read

Inward Home
      In Thy presence is fulness of joy. PSALMS 16:11 My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.,br> EXODUS 33:14 O REST of rests! O peace serene, eternal! Thou ever livest, and Thou changest never; And in the secret of Thy presence dwelleth Fulness of joy, for ever and for ever. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I HAVE no home, unti ...read

Is Christ Born in Us?
      I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me GALATIANS 2:20 Christ in you, the hope of glory. COLOSSIANS 1:27 THOUGH Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If He's not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn. JOHANN SCHEMES THE great mystery of the Gospel does not lie in Christ without us only (though we must know also ...read

Jesus In Your Heart
      That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. EPHESIANS 3:17 Christ in you, the hope of glory. COLOSSIANS 1:27 ENTER my opening heart; Fill in with love and peace and light from heaven; Give me Thyself--for all in Thee is given; Come--never to depart. THOMAS WILLIAM WEBB WHEREVER thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or ab ...read

Joy in the Present
      The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. --PSALMS 37:11 Joy is Thy gift, 0 Father! Thou wouldst not have us pine; In darkest hours Thy comfort Doth aye most brightly shine; Ah, then how oft Thy voice Hath shed its sweetness o'er me, And opened heaven before me, And bid my heart rejo ...read

Joy of the Lord
      Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name, ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. JOHN 16:24 GOD'S "ask" Meaneth all fulness and all grace, Access in every time and place; Yet we To whom this mercy is so free, This privilege of light to bask In the full sunshine of His face, Regard prayer even as a task. ANNA E. HAM ...read

Just Do It!
       See that ye hasten the matter. 2 CHRONICLES 24:5 AND grant me, Lord, to do, With ready heart and willing, Whate'er Thou shalt command, My calling here fulfilling; And do it when I ought, With all my strength, and bless The work I thus have wrought, For Thou must give success. JOHANN HEERMANN NO unwelcome tasks become any the le ...read

Keep Your Judgements in Check
       Let us not therefore judge one another any more. ROMANS 14:13 TELL not abroad another's faults Till thou hast cured thine own; Nor whisper of thy neighbor's sin Till thou art perfect grown: Then, when thy soul is pure enough To bear My searching eye Unshrinking, then may come the time Thy brother to decry. "Jesu, Saviour, pitying ...read

Keeping the Focus
      Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. --2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 "I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills." The vision of God unseals the lips of man. Herein lies strength for conflict with the common enemy of the praying world known as wandering thoughts. If the eye is fixed on God, thought may roam where it will wit ...read

Kept By the Power of God
      Truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord. MICAH 3:8 You, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. 1 PETER 1:4,5 THOU must not look so much at the evil that is nigh, but rather at that which stands ready to pity and help,--and which hath pitied and helped thy distressed soul, and will pity and help it agai ...read

Lack of Kindness
      Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. --ROMANS 13:10 In her tongue is the law of kindness. --PROVERBS 31:26 THE worst kinds of unhappiness, as well as the greatest amount of it, come from our conduct to each other. If our conduct, therefore, were under the control of kindness, it would be ne ...read

Laying Up Treasures
      Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, . . . for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. --MATTHEW 6:20,21 SINCE I am coming to that holy room Where with the choir of saints forevermore I shall be made Thy music, as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And, what I must do then, think here before. --JOHN DO ...read

Leave Your Cares With the Lord
       I would have you to be free from cares. 1 CORINTHIANS 7:32 (R. V.) He that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. PSALMS 22:10 I HAVE no cares, O blessed Will! For all my cares are Thine; I live in triumph, Lord, for Thou Hast made Thy triumphs mine. FREDERICK W. FABER LET my soul roll itself on Him, and adventur ...read

Leave Your Soul to Him
      The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ROMANS 8:2 NOT yet thou knowest what I do Within thine own weak breast, To mould thee to My image true, And fit thee for My rest. But yield thee to My loving skill; The veiled work of grace, From day to day progressing still, It is not thin ...read

Let God Have His Way
      Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. PSALMS 105:8 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. LUKE 12:82 I KNOW not what it is to doubt, My heart is ever gay; I run no risk, for come what will, Thou always hast Thy way. FREDERICK WM. FABER Thi ...read

Let Jesus In
      That ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe. EPHESIANS 1:18,19 THOU dost well, And my heaven is here and now, Day-star of my soul, if Thou Wilt but deign in me to dwell. WOLFGANG C. DESSLER T ...read

Life in Heaven
      For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain ... having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better. PHILIPPIANS 1:21,23 IF I were annihilated this moment, I should bless God for having been allowed to live. Far more, if I were to have to toil and suffer in this sorrowful but glorious earth-life through unnumbered ages, a ...read

Life of the Chosen
      Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. --JOHN 15:16 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. --JOHN 15:14 0WE have not chosen Thee, But us Thou deign'st to choose,-- Not servants, but Thy friends to be, Whom Thou wilt never lose: For never wilt Thou change Who art all change above: Nor life nor death shall u ...read

Life Transformed by the Spirit
      Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. ROMANS 8:9 THAT life is carnal in which our spirit, meant for God, is dragged at the chariot-wheels of our lower life; and that is spiritual which is ruled and mastered by the Spirit. Secular business is spiritual if it is ruled by the divine Spirit acco ...read