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  TURN YOUR WHOLE HEART TO GOD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: To live a life of peace and purpose, we must turn our whole
heart to God, breaking off sin and dedicating our actions to His
presence.

Topics: "Surrender To God", "Sanctification"
Scripture References: Psalm 34:17, Psalm 37:4, Proverbs 16:3, Acts 20:32, James 4:8

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of surrendering to God
and living a life dedicated to pleasing Him. She highlights the power of
God's grace to build us up and grant us an inheritance among the
sanctified. Tileston urges believers to turn their whole hearts to God,
seeking His presence in all their actions and offering everything to
Him. By making God the center of our lives, we can experience His love,
increase our desire for Him, and ultimately find and possess Him both in
grace and in glory.

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And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace,
which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all
them that are sanctified.

ACTS 20:32

ONLY the rays of God can cure the heart,

Purge it of evil; there's no other way

Except to turn with the whole heart to God.

In heavenly sunlight live no shades of fear;

The soul there, busy or at rest, hath peace;

And music floweth from the various world.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

BREAK off things which displease God, and, whatever ye do, do it to
please Him. Dedicate, morning by morning, the actions of the day to God;
live in His Presence; offer to Him your acts beforehand; recall
yourself, if the case admits, into His Presence, in the midst of them;
give Him the glory with thy whole heart, if they be well done, since
nothing good is our own; if they be amiss, grieve to Him. If we make God
our end, He who gave us the grace thus to seek Him, will give us His
love; He will increase our longing desire for Him; and whom in all we
seek, whom in all we would please, whom in all we would love, Him shall
we find, Him possess, here in grace and veiled, hereafter, in glory.

EDWARD B. PUSEY

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