Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives
1895
Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives
1895
In the mid-1800s, a German-born evangelist in Bristol did something that seemed outright reckless: he built massive orphanages and took in thousands of children without ever once asking anyone for money. Instead, he prayed. And then he waited. This book collects the remarkable narratives of what happened next. George Müller documented decades of incidents where funds arrived exactly when needed, often from unexpected sources, sometimes minutes before despair would have forced him to close the doors. But these aren't triumphalist success stories. Müller was honest about his struggles, his seasons of doubt, and the patience required when heaven seems silent. The book captures both the joys of witnessed provision and the grinding trials of faith when nothing seemed to be happening. What makes these accounts endure isn't just the extraordinary answered prayers, it's the witness to a way of living that most people only talk about. Müller actually did it. He proved, at least to himself and his readers, that radical trust in God could sustain a mission that should have been impossible. Whether you come to it as a skeptic or a believer, these stories have a way of making you wonder what might happen if you stopped asking and started waiting.
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“HOW TO ASCERTAIN THE WILL OF GOD I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just here. Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is. 2.”
— George Müller
“The Spirit and theWord must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusionsalso. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.””
— George Müller
“Nine-tenths of the difficulties areovercome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be.””
— George Müller
“Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided in the great variety which is to be found in His word.””
— George Müller
“Let me here add a word of Christian counsel. To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made. Neither beauty, nor age, nor money, nor mental powers, should be that which prompt the decision; but 1st, Much waiting upon God for guidance should be used; 2nd, A hearty purpose, to be willing to be guided by Him should be aimed after; 3rd, True godliness without a shadow of doubt, should be the first and absolutely needful qualification, to a Christian, with regard to a companion for life. In addition to this, however, it ought to be, at the same time, calmly and patiently weighed, whether, in other respects, there is a suitableness. For””
— George Müller
“The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.””
— George Müller
“Earthly friends may alter their minds regarding the work in which we are engaged; but if indeed we work for God, whoever may alter His mind regarding our service, He will not. Earthly friends may lose their ability to help us, however much they desire so to do; but He remains throughout eternity the infinitely Rich One.””
— George Müller
“God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.””
— George Müller
“I never remember, in all my Christian course, a period now (in March, 1895) of sixty-nine years and four months, that I ever SINCERELY and PATIENTLY sought to know the will of God by the teaching of the Holy Ghost, through the instrumentality of the Word of God, but I have been ALWAYS directed rightly. But if honesty of heart and uprightness before God were lacking, or if I did not patiently wait upon God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow men to the declarations of the Word of the living God, I made great mistakes." GEORGE MÜLLER.””
— George Müller
