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  FILLING OUR SOULS WITH GOD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Mary Wilder Tileston's sermon 'Filling Our Souls With God'
emphasizes the importance of creating space in our souls for God's
presence by rooting out selfish desires and making room for His great
love.

Topics: "Spiritual Growth", "Divine Presence"
Scripture References: Psalm 119:11

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of making room for
God in our lives, drawing parallels to the story of Jesus' birth where
there was no room for Him in the inn. She emphasizes that our souls are
designed to be vast capacities for God, but often our selfish desires
and personal interests take up the space meant for His love and
presence. Tileston encourages rooting out these hindrances to create a
chamber in our souls where the Divine Presence can dwell freely and
abundantly.

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There was no room for them in the inn.

LUKE 2:7

GOD often would enrich, but finds not where to place His treasurer,--nor
in hand nor heart a vacant space.

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

THE soul, in its highest sense, is a vast capacity for God. It is like a
curious chamber added on to being, and somehow involving being, a
chamber with elastic and contractile walls, which can be expanded, with
God as its guest, illimitably, but which without God shrinks and
shrivels until every vestige of the Divine is gone.

HENRY DRUMMOND

All that God desires is to give you His great love, so that it may dwell
in you, and be the principle of your life and service; and all that
withstands God's desire and His gift is the want of room for it, and for
its free movement, when that room is taken up with yourselves and your
little personal interests.

WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE

By rooting out our selfish desires, even when they appear to touch no
one but ourselves, we are preparing a chamber of the soul where the
Divine Presence may dwell.

ELLEN WATSON

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/filling-our-souls-with-god/
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