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  THE STRONGEST POWER
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the power of the Holy Spirit within
believers to overcome weakness and evil through faith and action.

Topics: "Spiritual Warfare", "Holy Spirit"
Scripture References: Luke 10:19, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 3:20, 2 Timothy 1:7

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the power and authority given to
believers by Jesus to overcome the enemy's attacks without harm. She
challenges listeners to tap into the unseen spiritual forces available
to them, particularly the Spirit of power and the life of Jesus within
each believer, urging them to actively engage with these resources
through faith and meditation. Tileston highlights the need to stir up
the gift within, drawing upon the strength and guidance of the Holy
Spirit to experience the transformative truth that Christ lives within
us.

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CONTENT
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Behold, I give unto you power to tread on ser.pents and scorpions, and
over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt
you.

--LUKE 10:19

SHED down on me Thy mighty power,

To strengthen for each coming hour;

And then, through flood, through fire and sword,

I'll follow Thee, my Lord, my Lord!

--JOHANN RAMBACH

WHY do we grow so little in grace? It is because we do not use our
intellect to meditate upon the forces of the unseen world amidst which
we live, or our will to draw upon them. We know that we are weak, and
sin and Satan are strong, and we know the truth. But there is a third
power stronger than either our weakness or the forces of evil, which we
com.monly forget, and which will never disclose itself except in our
using of it. We must stir up the gift within us. Within us we have the
Spirit of power, the Spirit of Jesus, the life of Jesus. It remains to
us to appeal to it; in constant acts of faith to draw upon it and to use
it. Thus it will become to each of us as much a truth of experience as
it was to St. Paul, and no vague language of metaphor, that "it is no
longer merely I that live, but Christ that liveth in me."

--CHARLES GORE

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