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  INWARD HOME
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of experiencing God's
presence as our inward home, where we find fulness of joy and peace.

Topics: "Gods Presence", "Inner Peace"
Scripture References: Exodus 33:14, Psalm 16:11, Psalm 27:4, Psalm 84:10, Matthew 11:28

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the profound joy and rest found in
the presence of God, emphasizing that true fulfillment and peace come
from dwelling in His presence. She highlights the concept of God's
unchanging nature and the eternal joy that comes from being close to
Him, contrasting it with the emptiness felt when distant from God.
Tileston encourages believers to seek and abide in God's presence as the
ultimate goal and source of contentment and rest.

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In Thy presence is fulness of joy.

PSALMS 16:11

My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.,br> EXODUS
33:14

O REST of rests! O peace serene, eternal!

Thou ever livest, and Thou changest never;

And in the secret of Thy presence dwelleth

Fulness of joy, for ever and for ever.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

I HAVE no home, until I am in the realized pres-ence of God. This holy
presence is my inward home, and, until I experience it, I am a homeless
wanderer, a straying sheep in a waste howling wilderness.

ANONYMOUS, 1841

Heaven consists in nothing else than walking, abid-ing, resting in the
Divine Presence. There are souls who enter into this heaven before
leaving the body. If thou believest that thy God, found, felt, and
rested in, is heaven, why not, under the gracious help which He
vouchsafes to thee in His Son, begin at once to discipline and qualify
thy soul for this heaven? If this be thy chief good, why turn away from
it, as though it were a thing not to be desired? If it be the very end
of thy being, the only right, good, and blessed end, why postpone thy
qualification for it, as though it were a bitter necessity? Suffer thy
soul, so noble in its origin, to be withdrawn from dust, noise,
multitudes, vain treasures, and vain pleasures, to find its sweetness
and fulness in God.

JOHN PULSFORD

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