Charis

I’m continuing to read George Müller’s Answers to Prayer, and I find myself encouraged and challenged at every turn. I’m encouraged because Müller’s story is such an incredible testimony of God’s faithfulness, not once or twice but over decades. And I’m challenged because I realize how far I have to go in learning to pray and trust as Müller did.

Müller tells how, in the 1860s, he needed workers for his third new orphan home that he had built. He had already been praying daily for several years, while the home was built, that God would provide the right people to serve in all the various positions required to run the home. That’s lesson number 1: Müller didn’t wait until the need was at crisis level to pray; as soon as he recognized the need, he brought it before God, and he continued to bring it before God every day. Yet, as the opening approached, and he considered the applicants, he came up short. He writes: Continue reading »