Mary Wilder Tileston

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21.) Belief Through the Darkness
      When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. MICAH 7:8 WHEN doubts disturb my troubled breast, And all is dark as night to me, Here, as on solid rock, I rest-- That so it seemeth good to Thee. RAY PALMER WHEN trouble, restless fears, anxious fretfulness, strive to overpower the soul, our safety is in saying, "My God, I ...read more

22.) Beyond Your Faults
      Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing. --PSALMS 37:8 (R. V.) To anxious, prying thought, And weary, fretting care, The Highest yieldeth nought; He giveth all to prayer. --PAUL GERHARDT DO not be disquieted about your faults. Love with.out ceasing, and much will be forgiven you, because you have loved much. Faults perceive ...read more

23.) Blessed Trust
      Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. JEREMIAH 17:7 THUS will I live and walk from day to day, Contented, trustful, satisfied, and still; What life so shielded, or what life so free, As that within the centre of Thy will! JANE WOODFALL FOLLOW Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then ...read more

24.) By His Side
      Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:57 KEEP close to Christ, if conflict sore betide; Stand fast, remembering He is at your side To give you strength In battle, and the victor's palm at length. German, tr. by FRANCES E.COX IF we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand i ...read more

25.) Called to Be Sons
      Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. I JOHN 3:1 DOST think thy prayers He doth not heed? He knows full well what thou dost need, And heaven and earth are His; My Father and my God, who still Is with my soul in every ill. HANS SACHS BEHOLD and see thy Lord thy ...read more

26.) Cast Every Day on Him
      All things are possible to him that believeth. MARK 9:23 My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 IT is possible, I dare to say, for those who will in-deed draw on their Lord's power for deliverance and victory, to live a life in which His promises are taken as they stand, and found ...read more

27.) Caused by God
      That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. DEUTERONOMY 14:29 FIRM against every doubt of Thee For all my future way,-- To walk in heaven's eternal light Throughout the changing day. Ah! such a day as Thou shalt own When suns have ceased to shine! A day of burdens borne by Thee, And work that ...read more

28.) Center of the Soul
      Behold, I will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. JEREMIAH 33:6 Glory, honor, and peace, to every man that work-eth good. ROMANS 2:10 TRUE peace is when the soul revolves around its centre, Almighty God, craving for nothing but what God continually supplies, its passions subdued to it-self, itself lovingly loyal to God, ...read more

29.) Changing Discontent to Delight
       I delight to do Thy will, 0 my God; yea, Thy law is within my heart. PSALMS 40:8 CROWN us with love, and so with peace; Transfigure duty to delight; Our lips inspire, our faith increase, Brighten with hope our darkest night. Bring us from earthly bondage free To find our heaven in serving Thee. HENRY WILDER FOOTE WE oft ...read more

30.) Chariots to Carry
      Even to your old age, I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. --ISAIAH 46:4 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels; the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. --PSALMS 68:17 I HAVE not a shadow of doubt that if all ...read more

31.) Check Those Unkind Words and Thoughts
       These things I command you, that ye love one another. JOHN 15:17 YET habits linger in the soul; More grace, O Lord! more grace! More sweetness from Thy loving heart, More sunshine from Thy face! FREDERICK W. FABER IF thy disturbance of mind proceeds from a person who is so disagreeable to thee, that every little action of his annoys ...read more

32.) Check Your Grumbling
      Do all things without murmurings and disputings! PHILIPPIANS 2:14 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. PROVERBS 25:28 BEHOLD, the paths of life are ours,--we see Our blest inheritance where'er we tread; Sorrow and danger our security, And disappointment lifting up our head ...read more

33.) Childlikeness
      Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. LUKE 18:17 DEAR Soul, couldst thou become a child While yet on earth, meek, undefiled, Then God Himself were ever near, And Paradise around thee here. GERHARD TERSTEEGEN CHILDLIKENESS, in its Scripture sense, is a ...read more

34.) Choosing Happiness
      In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day. PSALMS 89:16 Now first to souls who thus awake Seems earth a fatherland: A new and endless life they take With rapture from His hand. The fears of death and of the grave Are whelmed beneath the sea, And every heart, now light and brave, May face the things to be. FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG ...read more

35.) Choosing Sin
      And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. 1 JOHN 3:5 TO choose sin is to reject Christ; to be ashamed, for fear of man, to do what Christ commands, is to deny Christ; to do, for fear of man, what Christ forbids, what is it but, with Pilate, to condemn Christ? for a Christian to be guilty of wilful deadly ...read more

36.) Christ is All
      Who is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30 CHRIST with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ at my right hand, Christ at my left. Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man wh ...read more

37.) Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life
       I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. JOHN 14:6 Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. JOHN 20:29 THE Way, the Truth, the Life Thou art, This, this I know; to this I cleave; The sweet new language of my heart, "Lord, I believe." I have no doubts to bring to Thee; ...read more

38.) Comfort in Spirit
      In God I will praise His word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. PSALMS 56:4 DO not fear circumstances. They cannot hurt us, if we hold fast by God and use them as the voices and ministries of His will. Trust Him about every one and everything, for all times and all needs, earth and heaven, friends and chi ...read more

39.) Common Faithfulness
      He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. LUKE 16:10 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. MATTHEW 5:48 PERFECTION in outward conduct consists not in extraordinary things; but in doing common things extraordinarily ...read more