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  LIFE TRANSFORMED BY THE SPIRIT
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: We are called to cultivate our faculties and live a life
transformed by the Spirit, allowing us to become instruments of
usefulness for God.

Topics: "Holy Spirit", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Proverbs 3:5, Romans 8:9, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:23

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the distinction between a carnal
life, where our spirit is controlled by our lower desires, and a
spiritual life, where our spirit is guided by the Spirit of God. She
emphasizes that all aspects of life can be spiritual if they are
governed by the divine Spirit according to righteousness, including
secular activities like business, politics, art, and science. Tileston
encourages cultivating every faculty given by God to become instruments
for His use, leading to a deeper experience of His joy and fulfillment.

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Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of
God dwell in you.

ROMANS 8:9

THAT life is carnal in which our spirit, meant for God, is dragged at
the chariot-wheels of our lower life; and that is spiritual which is
ruled and mastered by the Spirit. Secular business is spiritual if it is
ruled by the divine Spirit according to the law of righteousness.
Politics are spiritual, commercial and municipal life are spiritual, art
and science are spiritual, and everything that develops our faculties is
spiritual, if we will allow the divine Spirit to rule in all according
to the law of righteousness, truth, and beauty. For the whole of our
being, with all its sum of faculties, is made by God and meant for God.

CHARLES GORE

It is the very business of your life to cultivate every faculty you have
(the highest most, and most in the highest directions), in the belief
that He has given them to you that you may become His instruments for
usefulness; and that He asks this of you, because, if you grant it, you
enable Him to give you more of His own happiness than you can otherwise
receive, and far more than you can imagine.

THEOPHILUS PARSONS

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