Mary Wilder Tileston

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Listening For God's Voice
      I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for He will speak peace unto His people. PSALMS 85:8 Now, 0 my God, My comfort, portion, rest! Thou, none but Thou, shalt reign within my breast. Call me to Thee! call me Thyself--oh, speak, And bind my heart to Thee, whom most I seek! GERHARD TERSTEEGEN JUST as in prayer it is not we who m ...read

Little Things
      Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Thy commandments are my delights. PSALMS 119:143 WHEN black despair beats down my wings, And heavenly visions fade away-- Lord, let me bend to common things, The tasks of every day; As, when th' aurora is denied, And blinding blizzards round him beat, The Samoyed bends, and takes for guide ...read

Live in Peace
      We command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work. 2 THESSALONIANS 3:12 THERE is an order in our daily life, Like that the holy angels constant keep; And though its outward show seems but a strife, There dwells within a peace like oceans deep. JONES VERY THE enemy of that grand central habit of interio ...read

Living for a Purpose
      He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. EPHESIANS 1:4 O LOVE, who formedst me to wear The image of Thy Godhead here; Who soughtest me with tender care Through all my wanderings wild and drear; O Love! I give myself to Thee, Thine ever, only Thine to be. JO ...read

Living in God's Presence
       He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. PSALMS 91:1 The upright shall dwell in Thy presence. PSALMS 111:13 My soul and all its powers Thine, wholly Thine shall be; All, all my happy hours I consecrate to Thee: Me to Thine image now restore, And I shall praise Thee evermo ...read

Look for Reasons to Praise
      I will mention the lovingkindness of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us. --ISAIAH 63:7 Be content with such things as ye have. --HEBREWS 13:5 My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. --PHILIPPIANS 4:19 BEGIN with thanking Him for s ...read

Look to Jesus
       That ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. COLOSSIANS 1:9,10 SOMETHING for Thee! Lord, let this be Thy choice for me from day to day; The life I live it is not mine, Thy will, my will, have made it Thine! Oh, let me do ...read

Look to the Source
      When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. --PSALMS 56:9 SOUL! wouldst thou from the battle shrink, And flee before the foe? Dost thou beneath the burden sink, And in the dust lie low? Oh! waste not there vain tears and sighs: The trumpet soundeth clear; O'ercome, and to My glory rise! ...read

Looking for Opportunities
      Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord. --PSALMS 27:14 I ASK not that my course be calm and still; No, here too, Lord, be done Thy holy will: 1 ask but for a quiet childlike heart; Though thronging cares and restless toil be mine, Yet may my heart remain forever Thine; Draw ...read

Looking Forward in Trust
      What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee. PSALMS 56:3 They commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. ACTS 14:23 A CONSTANT anticipation of evils which perhaps never will come, a foreboding which takes away life and energy from the present, will simply hinder and cloud the soul, and make it timid and sad. If troublous thoughts as ...read

Looking to God
      Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. --PROVERBS 16:20 THIS world of ours is a happy world, so that God is our end, so that we can say to Him, "Thou art my God." Then everything takes new hues of joy and love. Our daily comforts have a soul in them, for they abound in thanksgiving; our daily infirmities or crosses have a special joy in ...read

Looking to Jesus
      Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen. 2 PETER 3:18 Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the Scriptures? LUKE 24:32 NOTHING could make the period of Lent so much of a reality as to employ it in a sy ...read

Looking Up To Jesus
      These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. JOHN 15:11 THOU bringest all again; with Thee Is light, is space, is breadth and room For each thing fair, beloved, and free, To have its hour of life and bloom. Each heart's deep instinct unconfessed; Each lowly wish, each daring ...read

Love Comes From Action
      If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. --JOHN 15:10 THIS did not once so trouble me, That better I could not love Thee; But now I feel and know That only when we love, we find How far our hearts remain behind The love they should bestow. --RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH OUR Lord gives the answer to a difficulty continual ...read

Love of Life
      We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 1 JOHN 3:14 FOR who has aught to love and loves aright, Will never in the darkest strait despair, For out of love exhales a living light, The light of love, that spends itself in prayer. HARTLEY COLERIDGE LOV ...read

Love One Another
      Be kindly affectioned one to another with broth-erly love. ROMANS 12:10 Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. I PETER 3:8 LET your religion make you more considerate, more loving and attractive, more able to think of and enter into the pleasure and interests of others. ARTHUR C. A. HALL LOVE one another in spite of your diff ...read

Love the Daily Tasks
      And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. --2 CHRONICLES 31:21 HELP me in Christ to learn to do Thy will, That I may have from Him eternal life; And here on earth Thy perfect love fulfil, Then home return vic ...read

Loving Another
      A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. JOHN 13:34 ONE with our brethren here in love, And one with saints that are at rest, And one with angel hosts above, And one with God for ever blest. ISAAC WILLIAMS ALL extreme sensitiveness, fastidiousness, suspicion, read ...read

Loving Every One
      As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. --EZEKIEL 34:12 The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Hims ...read