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  TRIBULATION WITH JOY
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Mary Wilder Tileston's sermon 'Tribulation With Joy' encourages
listeners to accept and face daily challenges with courage and faith,
trusting in God's guidance and strength.

Topics: "The Cross", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Matthew 16:24, Luke 9:23, Romans 8:17, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Philippians 3:10

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of daily taking up
our cross to follow Jesus, emphasizing the need to deny ourselves and
embrace the path of pain for His sake. She highlights that accepting
daily crosses with peace and simplicity is essential for our spiritual
and physical well-being, as fretting and worry can be detrimental.
Tileston reminds believers to bear their crosses meekly, cheerfully, and
joyfully, finding comfort in the fact that even in tribulations, they
are in the hands of the Father and following the example of our Savior.

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And He said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

LUKE 9:23

WE pray Thee, grant us strength to take

Our daily cross, whate'er it be,

And gladly for Thine own dear sake

In paths of pain to follow Thee.

W. W. HOW

THE more you accept daily crosses as daily bread, in peace and
simplicity, the less they will injure your frail, delicate health; but
forebodings and frettings would soon kill you.

FRANCOIS DE LA MOTHE FÉNELON

We speak of the crosses of daily life, and forget that our very language
is a witness against us, how meekly we ought to bear them, in the
blessed steps of our holy Lord; how in "every cross and care," we ought
not to acquiesce simply, but to take them cheer-fully,--not cheerfully
only but joyfully; yea, if they should even deserve the name of
"tribulation," to "joy in tribulation" also, as seeing in them our
Father's hand, our Saviour's cross.

E. B. PUSEY

Take kindly and heartsomely with His cross, who never yet slew a child
with the cross.

SAMUEL RUTHERFORD

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/tribulation-with-joy/
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