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  RISING IN HIS CONFIDENCE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: When we turn to God with loving confidence and say 'Thy will be
done', we rise in His confidence and attain perfect liberty, free from
the power of pain and its tendency to dull our sensibilities.

Topics: "Gods Protection", "Spiritual Freedom"
Scripture References: Psalm 34:17, Isaiah 43:2, Luke 10:19, Romans 8:37, Philippians 4:13

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the assurance of God's protection
and presence in the midst of trials, drawing from Luke 10:19 and Isaiah
43:2. She emphasizes that when we surrender to God's will and trust in
His care, He enables us to overcome the negative effects of pain,
poverty, criticism, disappointment, and other challenges. True freedom
is found in rising above difficult circumstances, disease, earthly
setbacks, and negative emotions, by embracing moral courage,
contentment, trust, and calmness in God's wisdom and love.

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Nothing shall by any means hurt you.

LUKE 10:19 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame
kindle upon thee.

ISAIAH 43:2

JUST as soon as we turn toward Him with loving confidence, and say, "Thy
will be done," whatever chills or cripples or enslaves our spirits,
clogs their powers, or hinders their development, melts away in the
sunshine of His sympathy. He does not free us from the pain, but from
its power to dull the sensibilities; not from poverty and care, but from
their tendency to narrow and harden; not from calumny, but from the
maddening poison in its sting; not from disappointment, but from the
hoplessness and bitterness of thought which it so often engenders. We
attain unto this perfect liberty when we rise superior to untoward
circumstances, triumph over the pain and weakness of disease, over
unjust criticism, the wreck of earthly hopes, over promptings to envy,
every sordid and selfish desire, every unhallowed longing, every doubt
of God's wisdom and love and kindly care, when we rise into an
atmosphere of undaunted moral courage, of restful content, of child-like
trust, of holy, all-conquering calm.

WILLIAM W. KINSLEY

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/rising-in-his-confidence/
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