The Autobiography of George Müller

by George Müller

Have I really permission to commit all my little affairs to a God of infinite wisdom, believing that he will take charge of them and direct them according to the promptings of boundless love and absolute omniscience?

Our difficulty seems to be this: the promise is so “exceeding great” that we cannot conceive God really to mean what he clearly appears to have revealed. The blessing seems too vast for our comprehension; we “stagger at the promises, through unbelief,” and thus fail to secure the treasure which was purchased for us by Christ Jesus.

understand the passage, prevalence in prayer is conditioned by the conformity of our souls to the will of God;

as the number of applicants increased, the means for their support was provided, in answer, as he firmly believed, to fervent and unceasing prayer.

A young German Christian, friendless and unknown, is conscious of what he believes to be a call from the Lord to attempt something

In answer to prayer, funds are received as they are needed, and the attempt succeeds beyond his expectation. After a few years he is led to believe that God has called him to establish a house for the maintenance and education of orphans.

Mr. Müller was led to undertake this work in such a manner that aid could not be expected from any being but God. He did not of course expect God to create gold and silver and put them into his hands. He knew, however, that God could incline the hearts of men

to aid him, and he believed, if the thing that he attempted was of Him, that he would so incline them, in answer to prayer, as his necessities should require.

As necessities arose he simply laid his case before God and asked of him all that he needed, and the supply has always been seasonable and

unfailing.

A single man, wholly destitute of funds, is supporting and educating seven hundred orphans, providing everything needful for their education, is in himself an extensive Bible and Tract and Missionary Society, the work is daily increasing in magnitude, and the means for carrying it on are abundantly supplied, while

he is connected with no particular denomination, is aided by no voluntary association, and he has asked the assistance of not a single individual. He has asked no one but God, and all his wants have been regularly supplied.

When sacrifices are to be made, they are all prompt to make them, and they do not expect an answer to prayer until they have contributed, from their own scanty wages, whatever can be spared after providing for their actual necessities.

No Christian, though the poorest and humblest, ever need despair of doing a noble work for God. He need never wait until he can obtain the co-operation of the multitude or the wealthy. Let him undertake what he believes to be his duty, on ever so small a scale, and look directly to God for aid and direction.

“It is better to trust in God than to put confidence in man; it is better to trust in God than to put confidence in princes.”

I was born at Kroppenstaedt, near Halberstadt, in the kingdom of Prussia, September 27, 1805.

When I was between ten and eleven years of age I was sent to Halberstadt, there to be prepared for the university;

continued till I was fourteen years old, when my mother was suddenly removed.

I was in prison from Dec. 18, 1821,

1822, when the keeper told me to go with him to the

The time was now come when God would have mercy upon me. At a time when I was as careless about him as ever, he sent his Spirit into my heart. I had no Bible, and had not read in it for years. I went to church but seldom; but, from custom, I took the Lord’s Supper twice a year. I had never heard the gospel preached. I had never met with a person who

told me that he meant, by the help of God, to live according to the Holy Scriptures. In short, I had not the least idea that there were any persons really different from myself, except in degree.

was happy; though, if I had been asked why I was happy, I could not have clearly explained it.

This shows that the Lord may begin his work in different ways. For I have not the least doubt that on that evening he began a work of grace in me, though I obtained joy without any deep sorrow of heart, and with scarcely any knowledge. But that evening was the turning-point in my life.

Now my life became very different, though not so that all sins were given up at once. My wicked companions were given up; the going to taverns was entirely discontinued; the habitual practice of telling falsehoods was no longer indulged in;

My heart was burning with a desire to tell of the Lord’s goodness to my soul. Being,

I spoke on the difference between

being a Christian and a happy Christian, and showed whence it generally comes that we rej...

Twelve weeks I stood in this same position, whilst the Lord graciously supplied my temporal wants, through two brethren, unasked for. After this time, the whole little church, eighteen in number, unanimously gave me an invitation to become their pastor.

They offered to supply my temporal wants by giving me fifty-five pounds a year, which sum was afterwards somewhat

increased, on account of the increase ...

The preacher cannot know the particular state of the various individuals who compose the congregation, nor what they require, but the Lord knows it; and if the preacher renounces his own wisdom, he will be assisted by the Lord; but if he will choose in his own wisdom, then let him not be surprised if he should see little benefit result from his labors.

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This I most firmly believe, that no one ought to expect to see much good resulting from his labors in word and doctrine, if he is not much given to prayer and meditation.

prayers and meditation

Becoming convinced, after a prayerful examination of the Scriptures, that baptism should be administered only by immersion,

Mr. Müller was then baptized in the spring of 1830.

On October 7, 1830, I was united by marriage to Miss Mary Groves,

And is it not the case now that you begin the work of the day after having had only a few hurried moments for prayer; and when you leave off your work in the evening, and mean then to read a little of the word of God, are you not too much worn out in body and mind to enjoy it, and do you not often fall asleep whilst reading the

Scriptures, or whilst on your knees in prayer?”

I well knew that the word of God ought to be enough;

This, then, was the primary reason for establishing the orphan house. I certainly did from my heart desire to be used by God to benefit the bodies of poor children, bereaved of both parents, and seek in other respects, with the help of God, to do them good for this life. I also particularly longed to be used by God in getting the dear orphans trained up in the fear of God; but still, the first and primary object of the work was, and still is, that God might be magnified by the fact that the orphans under my care are provided

with all they need, only by prayer and faith, without any one being asked by me or my fellow-laborers, whereby it may be seen that God is faithful still, and hears prayer still.

provisions, half-worn clothing, and money (varying from one hundred pounds to a halfpenny). Encouraged by these unsolicited offerings, Mr. Müller determined to open the Orphan House.

1837

Any one need but make the experiment of spending one, two, or three hours in prayer and meditation before breakfast, either in his room, or with his Bible in his hand in the fields, and he will soon find out the beneficial effect which early rising has upon the outward and inward man. I

Duerme menos......ora mas...meditas mas. Aprovecha Mejor tu tiempo....Te debilita ... Duerme solo lo necesario . Me parece que lo ha dicho antes.

Lee la palabra.. medita en ella.....fortalece tu fe.