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  ACCEPT OUR DAILY BREAD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Mary Wilder Tileston encourages listeners to cultivate
contentment and trust in God's provision, accepting each day's
challenges as opportunities for spiritual growth.

Topics: "Contentment", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Psalm 23:1, Matthew 6:11, Philippians 4:11, 1 Timothy 6:6, Hebrews 13:5

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches on the importance of contentment in all
circumstances, drawing inspiration from Philippians 4:11. She emphasizes
the need to trust in God's provision and to accept with a spirit of
self-sacrifice whatever He ordains, whether it be external challenges or
internal struggles. Tileston encourages the congregation to find true
rest in God by learning to be content in every state, recognizing that
God's wisdom and love provide exactly what is necessary for our
spiritual growth.

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I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

PHILIPPIANS 4:11 (R. V.)

FORGIVE us, Lord, our little faith;

And help us all, from morn till e'en,

Still to believe that lot the best

Which is,--not that which might have been.

GEORGE ZABRISKIE GRAY

THOU givest within and without precisely what the soul needs for its
advancement in a life of faith and self-renunciation. I have then only
to receive this bread, and to accept, in the spirit of self-sacrifice,
whatever Thou shalt ordain, of bitterness in my external circumstances,
or within my heart. For whatever happens to me each day is my daily
bread, provided I do not refuse to take it from Thy hand, and to feed
upon it.

FRANCOIS DE LA MOTHE FÉNELON

Judge that only necessary which God, in His eternal wisdom and love,
proportions out unto us. And when thou comest hither, thou wilt come to
thy rest; and as thou abidest here, thou wilt abide in thy soul's true
rest, and know the preciousness of that lesson, and of whom thou art to
learn it, even, in every state to be content.

ISAAC PENINGTON

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