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  ABANDONING SELF
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of completely surrendering
oneself to God to receive His love and guidance.

Topics: "Surrender To God", "Spiritual Obedience"
Scripture References: Psalm 119:94, Matthew 16:24, Romans 12:1, Galatians 2:20, 1 John 2:17

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of surrendering ourselves
entirely to God, allowing Him to do with us as He pleases, renouncing
anything at His call, and asking only for His infinite love and grace in
return. She challenges the congregation to consider if they are willing
to give themselves unreservedly to God, to follow wherever He leads, and
to kneel before Him in complete surrender. Tileston highlights the
strength found in abandoning oneself into God's hands and the eternal
promise for those who do the will of God.

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He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1 JOHN 2:17

I am Thine, save me.

PSALMS 119:94

TAKE, O Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding,
and my will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given it to me; to
Thee, O Lord, I restore it; all is Thine, dispose of it ac-cording to
Thy will. Give me Thy love and Thy grace, for this is enough for me.

Are we willing to give ourselves entirely to God; to let Him do with us
whatever He pleases; to follow anywhere at His bidding; to renounce
anything at His call; asking only, in return, that He will give us Him-
self, with all His infinite love, to be ours from this time forever? If
we are thus willing, let us kneel down this moment and tell Him so.
Alone with God, let us give Him ourselves, all we have and are and shall
be, to be unreservedly His.

WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON

There is no stay so strong as an unreserved aban-donment of self into
God's hand.

H. L. SIDNEY LEAR

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/abandoning-self/
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