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  YOUR HEART GOD'S HOME
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Making your heart a place where God dwells requires heartfelt
simplicity, love, and reverence, and becomes a beautiful and helpful
part of your life.

Topics: "Heartfelt Prayer", "Spiritual Intimacy"
Scripture References: Psalm 42:1, Ephesians 5:19

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of continually conversing
with God in heartfelt simplicity, reflecting on Him with love and
reverence, and offering up our hearts and all that we are to Him
sincerely. She encourages starting this practice again if we falter,
promising that it will become like a heaven on earth with patience and
courage. Tileston assures that this way of life is not hard but easy and
pleasant to the spirit, leading to a deep connection with God and a
heavenly experience.

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As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after
Thee, 0 God.

PSALMS 42:1

Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

EPHESIANS 5:19

LORD, make my heart a place where angels sing!

For surely thoughts low--breathed by Thee

Are angels gliding near on noiseless wings;

And where a home they see

Swept clean, and garnished with adoring joy,

They enter in and dwell,

And teach that heart to swell

With heavenly melody, their own untired employ.

JOHN KEBLE

LET your heart and desires continually hold converse with God, in
heartfelt simplicity. Reflect on Him with feelings of love and
reverence, and often offer up your heart, with all that you have and
are, to Him, in spirit and in truth, as cordially and sincerely as
possible. if through weakness or unfaithfulness you forsake this
exercise, which is so incredibly helpful and beautiful, all you have to
do is, meekly and heartily to begin again; and do not be weary of it,
although in the beginning you may not find any great advantage from it,
or make any rapid progress in it. It is not true that such a mode of
life is hard; it is easy and pleasant to the spirit, and becomes in due
time like a heaven upon earth. A little patience and courage alone are
needed.

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN

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