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  THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of consecrating our
service to the Lord, strengthening our will through faithful obedience,
and forming habits that help us grow in our faith.

Topics: "Consecrated Living", "Obedience To God"
Scripture References: 1 Chronicles 29:5, Psalm 51:10, Proverbs 3:6, Isaiah 1:19, Matthew 16:24, Romans 12:1, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:6, 1 John 1:9

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DESCRIPTION
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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of consecrating our
service to the Lord daily, echoing the call from 1 Chronicles 29:5. She
highlights the significance of obeying God's will humbly and gladly, as
seen in the example of Isaiah. Tileston stresses the need to restore a
weakened will by faithfully obeying even the smallest acts of obedience,
leading to gradual growth in conformity to God's will. She encourages
the congregation to break off evil, uproot sin, and deny self-indulgence
as offerings to God, with the promise of receiving faith, life, and love
from the eternal Source of love.

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CONTENT
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Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?
--1 CHRONICLES 29:5

My blessed task from day to day

Is humbly, gladly, to obey.

--HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL

THE only way to restore a weakened will is by exercising itself in
details of duty, it may be in small.est acts of obedience, regularly
done, "here a little, and there a little," content to grow by slow
degrees into the use of lost powers through repeated acts of observance
however trivial or unobserved. Faithful.ness to every smallest call of
obedience, as it comes, is the means of gaining gradual accessions of
strength, and thus tending more and more to higher degrees of conformity
to the Will of God. Only by such simple practical dutifulness can habits
be formed. --T. T. CARTER

Break off some one evil, seek to uproot some one sin, cut off some one
self-indulgence, deny thyself some one vanity; do it as an offering to
God, for the love of God, in hope once to see God; and some gleam of
faith, and life, and love will stream down upon thy soul from the
everlasting Fount of love. Follow on, and thou shalt never lose that
track of light. --EDWARD B. PUSEY

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