E-text prepared by A. Folland, the Bookworm <bookworm.librivox AT gmail.com>, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) ANSWERS TO PRAYER From George Müller's Narratives Compiled by A. E. C. Brooks. The Moody Press 153 Institute Place Chicago "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. Printed in United States of America [Illustration: Fac simile of Mr. Müller's permission for the compilation of this book.] PREFACE Mr. Brooks, in this compilation, has endeavored to select those incidents and practical remarks from Mr. Müller's Narratives, that show in an unmistakeable way, both to believers and unbelievers, the secret of believing prayer, the manifest hand of a living God, and His unfailing response, in His own time and way, to every petition which is according to His will. The careful perusal of these extracts will thus further the great object which Mr. Müller had in view, without the necessity of reading through the various details of his "Narratives," details which Mr. Müller felt bound to give when writing periodically the account of God's dealings with him. For those who have the opportunity, an examination of the "Autobiography of George Müller, or, a Million and a Half in Answer to Prayer" will richly repay the time spent upon it. Mr. Müller's permission for the compilation of this volume is shown in the accompanying facsimile, (see p. 2), in the following words: "If the extracts are given exactly as printed, and the punctuation exactly as in the book and in the connection in which the facts stand, I have no objection." 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.--Having done this, I do not leave the result to feeling or simple impression. If so, I make myself liable to great delusions.