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  JOY OF THE LORD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of prayer as a privilege
and a secret to experiencing joy, love, and peace in our lives.

Topics: "Power Of Prayer", "Christian Joy"
Scripture References: Psalm 145:18, John 16:24, Philippians 4:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:16, James 4:3

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the power of prayer in the Christian
life, emphasizing the privilege and blessing of being able to ask God
for our needs and desires in Jesus' name, promising that we will receive
and our joy will be full. She highlights the misconception of prayer as
a task rather than a gift of access to God's fullness and grace, urging
believers to embrace prayer as a means to experience love, trust,
serenity, peace, and joy in their walk with God.

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Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name, ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy may be full.

JOHN 16:24

GOD'S "ask"

Meaneth all fulness and all grace,

Access in every time and place;

Yet we

To whom this mercy is so free,

This privilege of light to bask

In the full sunshine of His face,

Regard prayer even as a task.

ANNA E. HAMILTON

THERE is some power we have not yet discovered, some secret as yet
unknown--but oh! what a marvelous power! what a blessed secret! that can
make the Christian life a life of love, and trust, and bright serenity;
something different from the duty-life, which, though real, does not
satisfy; having all the activity and earnestness of the duty-life, but
having with it the peace and joy which many and many a soul is craving.

WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON

We do not value as we ought our inestimable privilege of being allowed
to worship God. We do not prize our heavenly prerogative of being
permitted to keep His commandments. We look at that as an obligation
which is more properly a boon.

FREDERICK W. FABER

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