Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's NarrativesMüller, George
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Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives
Müller, George
Prayer -- Christianity
"Sept 6, 1854.--Received from Clerkenwell £50 to be used one-half for
missions, and the other half as I thought best. I took the one-half for
the support of the Orphans, and find the following remark in my journal
respecting this donation: 'What a precious answer to prayer!' Since Aug.
26th we have been day by day coming to the Lord for our daily supplies.
Precious, also, on account of Missionary brethren, whom I seek to help,
for whom there was nothing in hand when this donation was received."
Mr. Müller adds a few remarks to this part of the Narrative:--
"1. Should anyone suppose, on account of its having been stated in the
previous pages that we were repeatedly brought low as to means, that the
Orphans have not had all that was needful for them; we reply that
_never_, since the work has been in existence, has there a meal-time
come, but the Orphans have had good nourishing food in sufficient
quantity: and never have they needed clothes, but I have had the means
to provide them with all they required.
"2. Never since the Orphan work has been in existence have I asked one
single human being for any help for this work; and yet, unasked for,
simply in answer to prayer, from so many parts of the world, as has been
stated, the donations have come in, and that very frequently at a time
of the greatest need."
Mr. Müller writes under date, 1859:--
"Every Wednesday evening I meet with my helpers for united prayer; and
day by day I have stated seasons, when I seek to bring the work with its
great variety of spiritual and temporal necessities, before the Lord in
prayer, having perhaps each day 50 or more matters to bring before Him,
and thus I obtain the blessing. I ask no human being for help concerning
the work. Nay, if I could obtain £10,000 through each application for
help; by God's grace, I would not ask. And why not? Because I have
dedicated my whole life cheerfully to the precious service of giving to
the world and to the church, a clear, distinct, and undeniable
demonstration, that it is a blessed thing to trust in, and to wait upon,
God; that He is now, as He ever was, the Living God, the same as
revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and that if we know and are reconciled
to Him through faith in the Lord Jesus, and ask Him in His name for that
which is according to His mind, He will surely give it to us, in His
own time, provided that we believe that He will. * * * * *
"Nor has God failed me at any time. Forty years have I proved His
faithfulness, in this work."
IN THE LORD JEHOVAH IS EVERLASTING STRENGTH.
Under date Nov. 9, 1861, Mr. Müller wrote:--
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