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  ACCEPTANCE OF GOD'S DISPENSATIONS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Accepting God's dispensations allows us to rejoice in all
circumstances and trust in His love.

Topics: "Trusting God", "Spiritual Joy"
Scripture References: Colossians 1:11

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of rejoicing in
Christ always, even in the midst of trials and challenges, finding joy
and peace in His presence. She emphasizes the need to accept the
circumstances appointed by God, trusting in His love and wisdom, and
finding strength in patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. Tileston
highlights that mental discomfort arises when our minds are not aligned
with God's will, and encourages accepting all events with the knowledge
that God is love, even when they seem contradictory to our
understanding.

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Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all
patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

--COLOSSIANS 1:11

REJOICE in Christ always!

When earth looks heavenly bright,

When joy makes glad the livelong day,

And peace shuts in the night.

Rejoice, when care and woe

The fainting soul oppress,

When tears at wakeful midnight flow,

And morn brings heaviness.

--JOHN MOULTRIE

A GREAT point is gained when we have learned not to struggle against the
circumstances God has appointed for us.

--H. L. SIDNEY LEAR

All mental discomfort comes from our minds being in divergence from
God's; when the two are agreed no warfare occurs, for they work
together, and man's mind accepts God's rule, but reason tells us that
disagreement must bring conflicts. He will have His way, and would have
us accept all events with the knowledge that He is love, whatever and
however contradictory those events may be to our comprehension of Him.

--CHARLES GEORGE GORDON

Something is wrong, when the Christian cannot rejoice in all the dear
dispensations of his Father's providence.

--ISABELLA CAMPBELL, 1825

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/acceptance-of-gods-dispensations/
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