George Mueller
1805-1898

      George Mueller was simply another Elijah! ... God meant that George Mueller, wherever his work was witnessed or his story is read, should be a standing rebuke, to the practical impotence of the average disciple. While men are asking whether prayer can accomplish similar wonders as of old, here is a man who answers the question by the indisputable logic of facts. Powerlessness always means prayerlessness. It is not necessary for us to be sinlessly perfect, or to be raised to a special dignity of privilege and endowment, in order to wield this wondrous weapon of power with God; but it is necessary that we be men and women of prayer-habitual, believing, importunate prayer.

      George Mueller considered nothing too small to be a subject of prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care. If He numbers our hairs, and notes a sparrow's fall, and clothes the grass in the field, nothing about His children is beneath His tender thought. In every emergency, his one resort was to carry his want to his Father. When, in 1858, a legacy of five hundred pounds was, after fourteen months in chancery, still unpaid, the Lord was besought to cause this money soon to be placed in his hands; and he prayed that legacy out of the bonds of chancery as prayer, long before, brought Peter out of prison. The money was paid contrary to all human likelihood, and with interest at four per cent. When large gifts were proffered, prayer was offered for grace to know whether to accept or decline, that no money might be greedily grasped at for its own sake; and he prayed that, if it could not be accepted without submitting to conditions which were dishonoring to God, it might be declined so graciously, lovingly, humbly, and yet firmly, that the manner of its refusal and return might show that he was acting, not in his own behalf, but as a servant under the authority of a higher Master.
      

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1.) My Heavenly Friend
      The precious Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. Oh, let us seek to realize this! It is not merely a religious phrase or statement, but truly He is our friend. He is the Brother " born for adversity," the one who "sticks closer than a brother." Who will never leave and never forsake us. How precious even on earth to have a heavenly friend, for th ...read more

2.) Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller. Part I
      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PART. It was only after the consideration of many months, and after much self-examination as to my motives, and after much earnest prayer, that I came to the conclusion to write this little work. I have not taken one single step in the Lord's service, concerning which I have prayed so much. My gr ...read more

3.) Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller. Part II
      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND PART. THROUGH grace I am, in some measure, conscious of my many weaknesses and deficiencies; but, with all this, I know that I am a member of the body of Christ, and that, as such, I have a place of service in the body. The realization of this has laid upon me the responsibility of serving the church ...read more

4.) Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller. Part III
      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE THIRD PART. THE reasons which induced me to publish this third part of the Lord's dealings with me are the same which led me to the publication of the second part, and which are stated in the preface to the first edition of the second part. In addition to those reasons it appeared to me desirable to ...read more

5.) Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller. Part IV
      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOURTH PART Twelve years have elapsed since the period at which the third part of the Narrative of the Lord's dealings with me closes. It has not been for want of matter, that this fourth part has not appeared sooner; but the increased and ever increasing variety of other occupations has kept me hithert ...read more

6.) Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller. Part V
      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIFTH PART The reasons which have led me to write this volume, and the order of the book, are state in the introduction. GEORGE MULLER INTRODUCTION. ------ For more than ten years I have asked the Lord daily, and often repeatedly in the course of a day, to allow me the honour and priv ...read more

7.) Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller. Part VI
      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE SIXTH PART THE introduction to the third volume of this Narrative, gives also in part the reason for publishing this fourth volume. Besides what has been stated there, I have to add, that, during the last ten years and nine months, my life and service have been completely different from what they were b ...read more

8.) Prayer Tips
      Two "Prayer Tips" from George Müller: 1. Open Bible Before Him, and His Finger Upon That Promise, He would Plead That Promise, and So He Received What He Asked 2. Müller's Discovery Was That After Meditating On Scripture He Was More Able to Experience a Meaningful Prayertime ____________________________________________ 1. Open ...read more

9.) Real Faith
      TEXT: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (Hebrews 11:1). FIRST: WHAT IS FAITH? In the simplest manner in which I am able to express it, I answer: Faith is the ...read more

10.) The Conditions of Prevailing Prayer
      1. Entire dependence upon the merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ as the only ground of any claim of blessing. "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do" (John 14:13,14). 2. Separation from all known sin. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me" (Psalm 66:18). 3. Faith in God's Word of promise as ...read more