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He was convinced that there were many people who were perfectly genuine in their desire to be right with God, but who lacked peace because they relied upon their feelings. After more than half a century of daily, systematic and consecutive study of the Bible,
He first of all gets a message from the Lord: that is he waits upon the Lord, by reading the Scriptures, meditation and prayer, till he realises that he has the mind of the Spirit as
He strongly advocates and practises expository preaching. Instead of a solitary text detached from its context, he
This is done sentence by sentence, so that it is definition, illustration, and application all the way through. Yet there is no uncertainty to his hearers as to when he is coming to a close, as he intimates at the outset how many verses he purposes to consider.
Asking aright has three elements: 1. Desiring God’s glory. 2. Confessing our unworthiness and pleading the merits of Jesus. 3. Believing that we do receive the things for which we ask.’
but he found that the passengers were ‘chiefly worldly people, who amused themselves with music, singing, dancing and card playing, from which there was no escape, as from our cabin we could see and hear all that was going on’.
The response of those who were already Christians had often been to commit themselves more whole heartedly to lives of prayer and service to God.
The fourth condition was that ‘we have to continue patiently waiting on God till the blessing we seek is granted. For observe, nothing is said in the
‘In November 1844, I began to pray for the conversion of five individuals. I prayed every day without one single intermission, whether sick or in health, on the land or on the sea, and whatever the pressure of my engagements might be. Eighteen months elapsed before the first of the five was converted.
you must put your trust in the blessed Lord Jesus Christ who was punished instead of us; for His blood alone can cleanse us from our sins.’
Charles Haddon Spurgeon – the most popular English preacher of the nineteenth century. On several occasions that spring, the Müllers drove out in an open carriage with Spurgeon.
the simple, childlike, holy trust of Müller was overpowering.
‘You have always found the Lord faithful to His promise?’ Parsons asked.
‘Always,’ replied Müller. ‘He has never failed me! For
Hundreds of times we have commenced the day without a penny in hand, but our Heavenly Father has sent supplies by the
moment they were actually required. There
One million four hundred thousand pounds have been sent to me in answer to prayer. We have wanted as much as fifty thousand
‘How could I pray if I had reserves?
I dare not save; it would be dishonouring to my loving, gracious, all-bountiful Father.’
“George Müller never gives up!”’
‘Thousands of souls have been saved in answer to the prayers of George Müller. He will meet thousands, yea, tens of thousands in Heaven!’
He has used me as the means of bringing tens of thousands into the way of truth.
‘There is only one thing George Müller deserves, and that is – hell! I tell you, my brother, that is the only thing I deserve. I am indeed a hell-deserving sinner saved by the grace of God. Though I am by nature a sinner, I do not live in sin; I hate sin; I hate it more and more; and I love holiness; yes, I love holiness more and more.’
who claimed in a letter to the British and Foreign Bible Society to have read the Bible through well over one hundred times.
‘There was a day when I died, utterly died,’ he replied, and as he spoke he bent lower and lower until he almost touched the floor, ‘died to George Müller, his opinions, preferences, tastes and will – died to the world, its approval or censure
to glorify Him is the object of my life.’
‘Learning itself gives no happiness – no real, true happiness. Christ, and Christ alone, gives real, true happiness. I know seven
‘Honour, pleasure, money,’ he wrote, ‘my physical powers, my mental powers, all was laid down at the feet of Jesus.’
He wasn’t therefore a selfish individualist.
Important distinction
The evidence corroborates his testimony that there was a day when he died, ‘died to George Müller, his opinions, preferences, tastes and will’. His energ...
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Some will say he was narrow-minded. He certainly seems to have thought of ‘the world’ as disordered and in the grip of the evil one –
Narrow-minded or single-minded?
discourage sectarian attitudes amongst
Müller’s uniqueness lies not in his exercise of faith, or in the importance he attached to prayer, but in his announcement, as he embarked on the undertaking,
‘but because He delights in the prayers of His children, He had allowed us to pray so long; also to try our faith, and to make the answer so much the sweeter’.
‘for fifty-two years, there has never been a single day that I have failed to get an audience with the King’. This, surely, was the confidence
man in the habit of seeing his prayers answered.
Müller wasn’t of course, a political reformer and didn’t like Lord Shaftesbury, seek to improve social conditions by influencing legislation in Parliament. Nor did he strive to awaken the social conscience
But his main concern was to do what he could by direct action to offer children a better start in life rather than seeking to reform the existing Poor Law Institutions. His
‘My faith,’ he said, ‘is the same faith which is found in every believer. Try it for yourself and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him.’
‘First,’ he would reply, ‘read the Bible carefully and thoughtfully. Then you will learn more and more about God’s character –
Don’t make a habit of doing things which are displeasing to God. Otherwise
‘Third, don’t try to avoid situations where your faith may be tested.
patient, and He will prove to you how willing He is to help and
‘There is life,’ he wrote, ‘and power, and reality in our holy faith. If you have never yet known this, then come and taste for yourself.’
George Müller said that he could prove with evidence that he had received 50,000 answers to prayer in his lifetime, of which 30,000 had been within 24 hours. It is still true today that the Trust
has seen many answers to prayer. Whilst
‘The first and primary object of the Institution is that God might be magnified by the fact that the children under my care are provided with all they need, only by prayer and faith, without anyone being asked by me, or my fellow labourers, whereby it might be seen that God is faithful still, and hears and answers prayer’
