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  SERVE HIS WILL
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon 'Serve His Will' encourages listeners to offer
themselves to God and be disposed of by His will, trusting in His
sovereignty and seeking to develop a mind like Christ's.

Topics: "Surrender To God", "Following Christ"
Scripture References: Romans 12:1, Philippians 2:5, Colossians 3:23, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 5:6

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of wholehearted
dedication to God in all aspects of life, urging believers to offer
their entire day to Him for active service or silent suffering according
to His will. She encourages surrendering personal preferences and
ambitions to align with God's tasks and purposes, being willing to be
forgotten or transformed by His hand. Tileston calls for a prayer to
have the mind of Christ, to be disposed of as He sees fit, whether for
joy or sorrow, esteemed or slighted, surrounded by friends or dwelling
in solitude, serving in familiar or foreign lands, and being willing to
go, do, and suffer as Christ wills.

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And, whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.

COLOSSIANS 3:23

IF you love Him as I want you to do, you will offer Him the whole use of
your day, as you open your eyes to the light of each morning, to be
spent in active service or silent suffering, according to His good
pleasure. You will not select the most agreeable task, but His task,
whatever it may be; you will not disdain humble service, or be ambitious
for distinguished service; you will lie, like a straw, on the current of
His will, to be swept away and be forgotten, if it pleases Him, or to be
caught up by His mighty hand and transformed thereby into a thunderbolt.

ELIZABETH PRENTISS

Let us pray Him, therefore, to shed abroad in us the mind that was in
Christ; that we may offer up our-selves to be disposed of as He sees
best, whether for joy or sorrow; to be slighted, or esteemed; to have
many friends, or to dwell in a lonely home; to be passed by, or called
to serve Him and His kingdom in our own land, or among people of a
strange tongue; to be, to go, to do, to suffer even as He wills, even as
He ordains, even as Christ endured, "who, through the Eternal Spirit,
offered Himself without spot to God."

HENRY EDWARD MANNING

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/serve-his-will/
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