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  RECEIVING SUFFERING
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Mary Wilder Tileston teaches that receiving suffering is a way
to offer it as a sacrifice to God, bringing dignity and purpose to what
might otherwise be painful and annoying.

Topics: "Suffering And Trials", "Surrender To God"
Scripture References: Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 7:4, Matthew 16:24, Philippians 4:6, 1 Peter 5:7

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of maintaining a calm and
unwavering spirit in the face of trials and suffering, finding delight
in God's presence and His will. She encourages offering up daily
struggles as sacrifices to God, embracing them with dignity and purpose
rather than resisting them. By surrendering to God and accepting
suffering willingly, one can find that the burden becomes lighter and
more bearable.

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Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint.hearted.

--ISAIAH 7:4

THOUGH everything without fall into confusion, and though thy body be in
pain and suffering, and thy soul in desolation and distress, yet let thy
spirit be unmoved by it all, placid and serene, delighted in and with
its God inwardly, and with His good pleas.ure outwardly.

--GERHARD TERSTEEGEN

To say each morning, "I must have things weariful, painful, to bear
to.day, and they shall all be offered up beforehand as my heart's
sacrifice; they shall be, not fought against, but received calmly and as
welcome, for His sake who suffers them to come," gives a dignity, a
purpose, nay, a very joy to what otherwise is all cheerless annoyance.

--H. L. SIDNEY LEAR

As soon as anything presents itself to your mind as a suffering, and you
feel a repugnance to it, resign yourself immediately to God with respect
to it; give yourself up to Him in sacrifice, and you will find that,
when the cross arrives, it will not be so very burden.some, because you
had disposed yourself to a willing reception of it.

--MADAME GUYON

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/receiving-suffering/
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