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  PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING TO GOD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: In this sermon, Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance
of praise and thanksgiving in our prayers, highlighting its role in
bringing joy, spiritual growth, and a deeper connection with God.

Topics: "Praise And Worship", "Thanksgiving To God"
Scripture References: Psalm 97:12

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of incorporating praise
into prayers, highlighting the distinction between thanksgiving and
praise. She encourages believers to not only thank God for His blessings
but also to praise Him for His glorious excellences and perfections.
Tileston illustrates how praising God for who He is can thaw a numb and
torpid heart, leading to a warm and genial outpouring of worship.

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Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name.

1 CHRONICLES 29:13

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of
His holiness.

PSALMS 97:12

AND now the wants are told, that brought

Thy children to Thy knee;

Here, lingering still, we ask for nought,

But simply worship Thee.

The hope of heaven's eternal days

Absorbs not all the heart

That gives Thee glory, love, and praise

For being what Thou art.

WILLIAM BRIGHT

LET praise--I say not merely thanksgiving, but praise--always form an
ingredient of thy prayers. We thank God for what He is to us; for the
benefits which He confers, and the blessings with which He visits us.
But we praise Him for what He is in Himself,--for His glorious
excellences and perfections, independently of their bearing on the
welfare of the creature. And it shall often happen that when thy heart
is numb and torpid, and yields not to the action of prayer, it shall
begin to thaw, and at last burst, like streams under the breath of
spring, from their icy prison, with the warm and genial exercise of
praise.

EDWARD M. GOULBURN

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