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  WEARINESS INTO JOY
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon encourages transforming weariness into joy through
faith, prayer, and community support.

Topics: "Prayer Life", "Christian Joy"
Scripture References: Psalm 40:16, Psalm 43:4, Matthew 6:11, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 18:3

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the transformation of prayer from a
burden to a source of boundless joy, emphasizing the importance of
rejoicing in seeking God and His salvation continually. She highlights
the shift from viewing prayer as a wearisome task to a simple act of
asking from our Heavenly Father and receiving His daily sustenance with
gratitude, akin to a child receiving a gift from God.

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Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let such as
love Thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

PSALMS 40:16

Then will I go unto the altar of God; unto God, my exceeding joy.

PSALMS 43:4

WE doubt the word that tells us: Ask,

And ye shall have your prayer;

We turn our thoughts as to a task,

With will constrained and rare.

And yet we have; these scanty prayers

Yield gold without alloy;

0 God, but he who trusts and dares

Must have a boundless joy!

GEORGE MACDONALD

TELL them that, until religion cease to be a burden, it is nothing,--
until prayer cease to be a weariness, it is nothing. However difficult
and however imperfect, the spirit must still rejoice in it.

EDWARD IRVING

From a weary laborer, worn with slavish and ineffectual toil, I had
become as a little child receiving from God the free gift of eternal
life and of daily sustenance; and prayer, from a weary spiritual
exercise, had become the simple asking from the Heavenly Father of daily
bread, and thanking Him.

ELIZABETH RUNDLE CHARLES

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/weariness-into-joy/
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