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  TURN TRIALS TO OPPORTUNITY
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: By trusting in God's sovereignty and goodness, we can transform
our trials into opportunities for growth and transformation.

Topics: "Suffering And Glory", "Trusting God"
Scripture References: Genesis 50:20, Psalm 46:10, Matthew 6:26, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:17

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the transformative power of
surrendering to God's will, emphasizing how our temporary afflictions
lead to an eternal weight of glory when we trust in Him. She encourages
believers to be still, have cheerful hope, and accept whatever God
allows in their lives, knowing that He understands their deepest needs
and has chosen them as His own. Tileston highlights that when we make it
our priority to do the Father's will, even the most challenging
circumstances become opportunities for growth and conforming to the
image of Christ.

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Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

--2 CORINTHIANS 4:17

ONLY be still, and wait His leisure

In cheerful hope, with heart content

To take whate'er thy Father's pleasure,

And all-discerning love hath sent;

Nor doubt our inmost wants are known

To Him who chose us for His own.

--GEORG NEUMARK, 1657

OH, how is the face of life altered, as soon as a man has in earnest
made his first object to do his Father's will! Oh, how do, what before
seemed grievous burdens, bodily sickness, domestic trial, privations,
losses, bereavement, the world's scorn, man's unthankfulness, or
whatever grief his Father may put upon him, how do these things change!
To those, whose hope is in heaven, everything becomes a means of
discipline, an instrument of strengthening their cheerful acceptance of
their Father's will. Their irksome tasks, privations, sickness,
heaviness of heart, unkindness of others, and all the sorrows which
their Father allots them in this world, are so many means of conforming
them to their Saviour's image. Then doth everything which God doeth with
them seem to them "very good," even because He doth it. --EDWARD B.
PUSEY

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/turn-trials-to-opportunity/
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