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  WAIT ON THE LORD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Waiting on the Lord means coming into contact with Him and
letting His life and power enter into us, blessing us in the process.

Topics: "Waiting On God", "Divine Presence"
Scripture References: Psalm 27:14, Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25, Romans 8:25, Galatians 5:5, Hebrews 6:15, James 5:7

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Mary Wilder Tileston, inspired by John G. Whittier and Andrew Murray,
preaches about the importance and blessedness of waiting on the Lord.
She emphasizes that God, being full of goodness, power, and joy, blesses
us when we come into His presence, filling us with His life and power.
Tileston encourages believers to wait in God's presence, allowing His
love to warm and transform them, just as the sun's rays work on a feeble
invalid, bringing light and healing.

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Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine
heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

PSALMS 27:14

WITH smile of trust and folded hands,

The passive soul in waiting stands

To feel, as flowers in the sun and dew,

The One true Life its own renew.

JOHN G. WHITTIER

THE whole duty and blessedness of waiting on God has its root in this,
that He is such a blessed Being, full, to overflowing, of goodness and
power and life and joy, that we, however wretched, cannot for any time
come into contact with Him, without that life and power secretly,
silently, beginning to enter into us and blessing us. God is Love! God's
love is just His delight to impart Himself and His blessedness to His
children. Come, and however feeble you feel, just wait in His presence.
As a feeble invalid is brought out into the sunshine to let its warmth
go through him, come with all that is dark and cold in you into the
sunshine of God's holy, omnipotent love, and sit and wait there, with
the one thought: Here I am, in the sunshine of His love. As the sun does
its work in the weak one who seeks its rays, God will do His work in
you.

ANDREW MURRAY

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/wait-on-the-lord/
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