GEORGE MULLER Documentary | A Cloud of Witnesses | FULL

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is George Muller George mullahs life was an inspiration to people worldwide his life is seen as a demonstration of what can be accomplished through prayer and trusting in God mullahs life has inspired so many such as a revivalist Evan Roberts the great preachers of the days such as Charles Spurgeon the evangelists such as DL Moody and that great missionary Hudson Taylor Muller on one occasion preached in Charles Spurgeon's assembly and it said that Spurgeon was greatly impressed by mullahs humility Spurgeon said that mullah was like a modern-day Enoch he'd never met such a man that walked with God well Mahler certainly didn't like to be known as a great man of faith he preferred to be addressed as the servant of God in his youth he was certainly far from being a saint as a young boy growing up in Germany in the early 1800s he was quite the rabble [Music] [Music] [Music] the London society for promoting Christianity among the Jews sent George Muller from the smog of London to fresher of a small fishing village in Devon to rest in a sense it was like a fresh start for moolah but I'm in Devon with Peter Ellis to discover the remarkable changes that took place here in George Wallace early life this is a beautiful place to be and I'm not quite sure if we pronounce it Tenma or time map what's the right way Peter well it depends if you're a local if you're a local they usually call it teen month but if you're officially its teen max okay and misses the place what mullah came to rest it's also the place where he had two most profound spiritual experiences tell us a bit about the first experience he had was he called it here his second conversion he knew about the Bible but he hadn't actually read the Bible for himself and he was here in Timnath but he really did begin to study the Bible it was one dear lady who talked to him about being rebaptised and yet he'd been baptized as a child healthy that's right he was a child he had been baptized in the church and then he had been confirmed at about the age of 14 a lady did challenging baptism she said look have you been baptized and he said well yes I have when I was a child I was baptized and she said that is not what the scriptures say go and read the scriptures see what it says for yourself and he went and he he read the relevant scriptures and he realized that he did need to be baptized by full immersion as the scripture states and that became the foundation for all of his life from this point on right time and time again in every aspect of his life he would go back and he'd say well what was the Bible sake for the first 4 years after my conversion I made no progress because I neglected the Bible God began to show me that the Word of God alone is our standard of judgment and spiritual things that it can be explained only by the Holy Spirit and that in our day as well as in former times he is the teacher of his people the Lord enabled me to put it to the test of experience by laying aside commentaries on almost every other book simply reading the Word of God and studying it the first evening that I shut myself into my room to give myself to prayer and meditation over the Scriptures I learned more in a few hours and I had done during a period of several months previously but the particular difference was that I received real strength for my soul in doing so when I regularly read with reference to my heart and soul I directly made progress my life and walk became very different and though ever since that I have very much fallen short of what I might and ought to be yet by the grace of God I have been enabled to live much nearer to him than before [Music] Mulla went walking in a park just like this every morning joined the time that he was in pain muff he wasn't in the best of health and he felt physical exercise and spiritual exercise were important for him that's right he came to a lovely part of the country like this and recuperation and I'm sure you've heard a lot better for it of course he used to come with his Bible when used to come on his own and he would spend a great deal of time in prayer and reading his Bible out in the open there to get his mind and his thoughts settle them but one of the interesting things he says is but he used to get out of bed in the morning and he'd try and get focused the prayer and it just wouldn't work for him and so it was this getting out of the house going walking and praying and reading my Bible at same time you know but what for him was the means of really spending time with God that's right he released to enjoy that time I think just alone with the Lord in a garden somewhere which is walking along the beach maybe but just being with the Lord who's was so important to him one of the fascinating things about Mahler is here is a man who preached three times every Sunday and yet he never studied theological commentaries and and and doctrines in order to preach he purely spent time with the Lord asking the Lord to speak to his own heart yes that's right he didn't use commentaries he just let the Spirit of the Lord just guide him in what he should do and I think on scenarios such as going for a walk that's where he really got close to the Lord and I think the Lord must have spoken to him how different when the soul is refreshed amid happy early in the morning from what it is when without spiritual preparation the service the trials and the temptations of the day come upon one now I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditate on it for the profit of my own inner man it is not enough to have prayerful reading only we must also meditate on the word pondering over what has been read this is deeply important I find it very beneficial to my health to walk thus for meditation before breakfast and I'm now so in the habit of using the time for that purpose since God has taught me this point it is as planned to me as anything that the first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for the inner man as the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time except we take food and as this is one of the first things we do in the morning so it should be with the inner man what is the food for the inner man not prayer but the Word of God and here again not the simple reading of the Word of God so that it only passes through our minds just as water runs through a pipe but considering what we read pondering over it and applying it to our hearts it was in Tama where mullah met his wife Mary groves and of course through meeting his wife Mary groves he also met Mary Grows brother and it was a brother who had the profound effect upon them as a couple wasn't it yes that's right Anthony her brother was a dentist a practicing dentist in Exeter and he gave it all up to to go out as a missionary a missionary in faith so he was totally reliant on God for all his needs and fact that really did affect mullah and his new wife Mary they actually had a verse and it says sell what you have and give arms provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old a treasure in the heavens that does not fail where no thief approaches nor moth destroys for where your treasure is there your heart will be also I'm sure they must have spent hours discussing talking but at the end of the day they decided that was for them sell everything they had and just be totally reliant upon absolutely totally out in faith Wow but I mean they they met within three months they were married even though they were sold out for God life was tough for fun wasn't it and as a couple they didn't have life easy they didn't no no of course not just for the financial the they ought to have their faith was tested on many times because personally as a family and particularly with children they suffered didn't they they did they did in total they had four children they had a daughter and they Lydia and they also have a son Elijah and two children that were born stillborn they lost Elijah at the age of 1 so faith really was put to the test and there was early days of their marriage and and yet God supplied all they need God supplied all the comfort that they needed during that time and it's a wonderful story to think as a young married couple they went through so much and yet their faith didn't fail I was willing to carry out into my life whatever I should find in the scriptures I could say I will do his will I give myself fully to the Lord honor pleasure money my physical powers my mental powers all led down at the feet of Jesus and I became a great lover of the Word of God God does expect us to be obedient children and we'll have us practice what he has taught us the Lord Jesus Christ says if ye know these things happy are ye if you do them as in John 13 verse 17 in the measure in which we carry out what our Lord Jesus taught so much in measure are we happy children if there is one single point I would wish to have spread all over this country and over the whole world it is just this that we should seek beloved Christian friends not to be hearers of the word only but doers of the word as in James 1:22 via Bernie's a chapel is now known as four gospel hall and misses a place where Mahler had his very first pastor at he was aged only about 2425 a time just a young lad really wasn't it at that time he came here for the reopening of the church there were many there that said oh please be our pastor and he was waiting of course on the will of God to know what he wanted in his life so eventually he became the pastor here he felt the need to move away from the legalistic way that passed his rancher chose one of the big issues of the day concerned something but we don't understand today but it was the idea of renting pews it seems so foreign to us now but tell us about it renting pews was the idea that families would come in and depending on their social status how much money they had depending upon which shoe they could sit on obviously the more wealthy they were then they were the front they sat he didn't like this idea he realized that from Scripture this was wrong and he abolished that whole idea of few rents now the problem was then of course is that the church didn't know how then to pay him so he said don't bother about my payment we put a box at the back of the of the church and any donations that would be put into the box that will be what my wages effectively would be so it was the very early stages of him going out in faith it was a very early signs of him being totally dependent on his Lord and he just wanted to wanted to live by faith if anyone desires to live a life of faith and trust in God he must follow these principles firstly do not merely say that you trust in God but you must really do so often individuals profess to trust in God but they embrace every opportunity where they may directly or indirectly tell someone about their need I do not say it is wrong to make known our financial situation but it hardly displays trust in God to expose our needs for the sake of getting other people to help us if we do trust in Him we must be satisfied to stand with him alone secondly you must be content whether you be rich or poor you must be willing to live in abundance or in poverty thirdly you must be willing to take the money in God's Way not merrily in large sums but in small many times I've had a single shilling given to me to have refused such tokens of Christian love would have been on gracious finally you must be willing to live as the Lord's Stuart if anyone does not give out of the blessing that the Lord gives to him then the Lord who influences the hearts of his children to give which soon ceased those channels to be dried up my good income increased even more when I determined that by God's help his poor and his work would be helped by my money from that time on the Lord was pleased to entrust me with more Peter we have a big change that came over George mother during his time in Timnath was his understanding of the work of the whole spirit can you just share with us a little bit yes he was he grew to know and to appreciate the work of the Holy Spirit in so much as that historically the church here had always had a pastor for all their meetings but he threw the leading of the Holy Spirit decided that the morning meetings or the communion service should be spirit-led and since then really the church here has done that practice of spirit led morning worship and remembrance service and the worship service and that still goes on today so if I understand you right what you're saying is you don't have a person at the front of the church with an order of service and and leads for congregation through it but you really opened a meeting up and say a Holy Spirit come you lead a new direct what happens that's right there is no formality it really is spirit led from from the choosing of the hymns to the worshiping to the giving thanks to the breaking of bread it's supposed to be a letter prayer the Word of God and his spirit should be united together we should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer and ask him to teach us by his Spirit through his word if I'd look to the spirit alone without the word I lay myself open to great delusions also if the Holy Spirit Guides us he will do it according to the scriptures and never contrary to them after two years in Tenma Fuller moved of his friend Henry Craig to pastor in Bristol now what happened in Bristol not only transformed the lives of a society but also transformed a city a country and lives worldwide I'm in Bristol now with Julian Marsh to discover the remarkable events that took place through prayer and faith in God so Julian some 80 years ago bombs were raining down upon Bristol and the building that was on this site was destroyed yes I'm not what we're here to talk about tell us about it well it seems somewhat ironic that George Muller who was born in German he if the building was actually demolished during the Second World War but he was the pastor here of this particular building that was on this site for getting on for 70 years there must be thousands of churches in the Bristol and and the surrounding areas that were in and we're here talking about a church was demolished some 80 years ago what was so significant about what Mulla did and the church that he was establishing on this site George Muller was in the vanguard of some of the early brethren type churches and this movement have been sweeping the country in Plymouth and in Dublin and and other places in the country to try and return to some sort of basic New Testament type Christianity for church organization it was a group of like-minded churches that were seeking to revive things that were lost the regularity of the celebration of the Lord's Supper the abolition of pew rents where was what the amount that people paid to sit in the seat that they had it was about body ministry it wasn't about a denominational structure there was no paid Minister there was no single person in authority in the church it was about a team ministry of various leaders who sought to actually lead the church and it had a particular characteristic and that characteristic was to seek to seek to reach out to unbelievers and and to see people saved people started to be attracted to the church people got saved in fact during the lifetime of the church here six churches were planted around the city as a result of the ministry that took place here I longed to have something to point my brethren to as a visible proof that our God and Father is the same faithful God as ever he was as willing as ever to prove himself to be the Living God in our day as formerly to all who put that trust in him surely we've talked a lot about Mullis church and his work pastoring that but he had a much bigger vision than that 28 was he 29 when the whole vision of the Institute began to be formed in his mind where he had a worldview tell us about it he set up what's become known as the description knowledge institution or SK I sky in 1834 and it had originally four objects one was to establish day school Sunday schools and Christian schools around the area secondly to assist pupils from poorer families to actually access those schools thirdly to distribute tracts and copies of the Bible and and other Christian literature and fortunately to support missionaries all around the and people started just to give him sons of money in order to fund those various activities but there was a fifth object that was added the following year in 1835 and that was to establish an orphan house and that institution still exists today I think there's about a million and a quarter pounds each year is given to support overseas missionary activities but people that he got involved with for people like Hudson Taylor yes who was the founder of the China Inland Mission now called the overseas missionary fellowship and was still the ledgers on there which correspond between Taylor and and Mahler and Mahler really wanted to encourage Hudson Taylor in the work that he was doing in China and just development of missions that's right a stimulus to live by face that James Hudson Taylor actually had came directly from the mentoring of George Muller in many ways my dear Hudson Taylor my chief object is to tell you that I love you in the Lord that I feel deeply interested about the Lord's work in China and that I pray daily for you I thought it might be a little encouragement to hear one more who felt for you and who remembered you before the Lord but where it otherwise had you even no one to Kerr for you or did you at least seem to be in a position as if no one cared for you you will always have the Lord to be with you remember Paul's kiss and wrong as in 2 Timothy 4:16 2:18 at my first defense no one stood with me but all for suit me may it not be charged against them but the Lord stood with me and strengthened me so that the message might be preached fully through me and that all the Gentiles might hear also I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom to him be glory for ever and ever amen My dear Hudson on him then reckoned to him loot on him depend and be assured if you walk with him and look to him and expect help from him he will never fail you an older brother who has known the Lord for 44 years who writes this says to you for your encouragement that he has never failed him in the greatest difficulties in the heaviest trials in the deepest poverty and necessities he has never failed me but because I was enabled by his grace to trust in him he has always appeared from my help I delight in speaking well of his name with great affection George Mueller [Music] so this is Wilson Street Gordon that the houses on this side of the road are original but the houses on the other side are not and it was actually on the other side of the road that those first orphaned houses were were occupied so the very first house that he he took was number one Wilson's comes with one Wilson Street number six it was followed by number one followed by number three and number four just an amazing thing really just to do that he lived in number six and he opened the door of number six to allow the young people to have some food and and he would also read the Bible to them and and teach them about Christian activities but it became very clear to him because of the social conditions of the time in Bristol that they needed somewhere to actually live they needed somebody to care for them 24/7 I mean following the Napoleonic Wars that they introduced something called the Corn Laws which were like tariffs on food and so food was very expensive people were hungry there were food riots in Bristol and together with the fact that disease was rife was prevalent in Bristol in it every major city at that time but in Bristol at the time when George Muller came here there was a very serious cholera epidemic many many people died not just parents but children as well and as a result of the poor conditions as a result of the food problems there were many children who are on the street and George Muller decided that he would convert his home into an orphanage thousands of children literally lived on the streets up sort of saying I saw one figure which said as many as two hundred and fifty thousand children that's right word dependent just on begging and stealing just amazing and of course the alternative was the workhouse or was prison I mean those were the only secure places were that were very unpleasant places for children or adults to actually go when they were suffering such poverty George Muller saw the social conditions wanted to do something about it but he also wanted to demonstrate that God still answers prayer and so what he wanted very clearly to do was to establish a work where he was totally dependent upon God for all the supplies everything so he would pray daily for a long periods of time in order that God actually provide all that was needed he would not tell anyone if he had any financial needs he would just tell God and no one else so the work here was both a social care type work but it was also a demonstration of God still answering prayer today by taking those children in and and relying on God and just sensing what God was saying all the time there were all sorts of amazing answers to prayer I mean during his lifetime George Muller claimed to have had fifty thousand prayers answered of which thirty thousand were answered within 24 hours just an amazing thing this was the sight of all sorts of answers to prayer there was one instance where George Muller was praying for a sum of money I think it was three pounds to feed the children for the following day and as a result of that he was waiting on the post in those days there were about nine posts a day not just one and the last post produced the three pounds that he was waiting for and of course it was also here that the famous story of the milk float breaking down that the Baker and so tell us a go it's a wonderful story really the children had nothing for breakfast on one particular day and George will have prayed a prayer simple grace Lord we thank you for your gracious provision for us today and the children looked around of course there was nothing on the table but at that moment the door knocked and it was a local Baker who said that God had woken him up at two o'clock the previous morning and told him that there was a need at the orphan house here in Wilson Street and that he should bake bread so he put it in a wheelbarrow wheeled it down Ashley Hilda found the corner here into this road and knocked at the very moment that George Millar said grace and then just at that moment the milk float that was delivering milks of the houses broke down outside his house and the milkman had to do something with the milk and just gave it to the orphanage amazing stories and that just proves God that's right and so he literally into number six was that you said he took in a number of girls thirty girls that again the first girl was Charlotte Hill and she was the first of 10,000 care for during his lifetime and then came number one and number one and then that was for boys and then number three was for girls and number four was for boys but of course by then but the neighbors were beginning to get upset oh yes he didn't like it because there were so many ruffians scruffy and children all around the place well I think we would all complain if there were one hundred and thirteen hundred and forty children in our road playing football or whatever they were that they were doing so he then started to look for land in the Bristol area that he could actually build purpose-built orphanages the idea of this young 30 year old master building an orphanage I mean the money must have been out of his world that he needed in inver times that he lived in that's right and so this really was gonna prove god it was gonna prove God and I think the interesting thing too is that he grew stronger in his faith as he saw God answering prayer but as he saw God answering prayer so it emboldened him to ask for more and more and more by the grace of God my heart says Lord if I could be sure that it is thy will that I should go forward in this matter I would do so cheerfully and on the other hand if I could be sure that these are vain foolish pride thoughts that they are not from thee I would by thy grace hid them and entirely put them aside while the prospect before me would have been overwhelmingly had I looked at it naturally I was never even for once permitted to question how it would end for us from the beginning I was sure it was a will of God that I should go to the work of building for him this large orphan Hall so also from the beginning I was a certain that the hole would be finished as if the home had been already filled we left four-story in Wilson Street where Muller was beginning to question whether God was saying something else because he was facing the difficulties of not enough space about the neighbors complaining about the children playing in the street and he was beginning to feel that nuts from the Lord but it was time to move on and to move out but what - and that's where we need to start our story Julien great things began to happen and you tell us a story well you're quite right Gordon in saying that it was an important decision for him to make and it wasn't a natural decision for him to make he wasn't particularly in favor of purpose-built buildings was that a wise use of money and so on so he prayed and prayed that God would would clearly direct him and even after he had all the money he still spent six weeks earnestly praying that God would show him and eventually God did show him very clearly that this was the right thing to do and there's a remarkable story of when he that that's recounted by man called Benjamin Perry and this story is the fact that Mullah was looking for land he wanted seven acres of land the prevailing price in those days for an acre of land was 200 pounds an acre and he looked he found this plot of land that was standing on now and he went to the home of the person who owned the land he was out he went to his workplace he was out the following day he went to visit him again and as soon as he met the owner of the land the landowner actually said well I've been praying about this and God has spoken to me through the night and I should sell this land to you for 120 pounds an acre instead of 200 pounds an acre within 10 minutes the deal was done all was signed and immediately then work took place with three architects free builders provision and all the money in place and number one house that house 300 children was built and within a year that was full and so number two house was built that house 400 children number three that is in our backdrop here house 450 children four and five over there how's 450 children eat so by 1870 there was actually room for 2050 orphans at any one time all maintained all clothed all fed all educated all cared for through the prayers of one man he was heavily criticised in some quarters for preventing factories and mines and and other places of heavy employment from having children because he was accused of educating children beyond their status but actually what he wanted to do was to provide every single one of them with a hope for the future that involved a job and also Christian faith my chief object was the glory of God by giving a practical demonstration as to what could be accomplished simply through prayer and fear in order thus to benefit the church at large or to lead a Ternes world to see the reality of the things of God by showing them in this work oh it is good to trust in the Living God for he has said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee be assured if you walk with God and look to him and expect help from him he will never fail you expect great things from God and great things you will have there is no limit to what he is able to do praises forever to his glorious name it was a huge step of faith for mother to step out and to really believe God for the finances through these homes but scriptures were what supported him Psalm 34:8 was one such verse o taste and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man but trusts in him and again in verse 10 the Young Lions do lack and suffer hunger but they even seek the Lord shall not want for any good thing and we'll they've just stood on that word and it came true one of the things that I like Julien about reading mother's story is he didn't simply expect other people to give but he used every resource as possible so once the homes were open the children tilled the landings were knitted and sold people who gave the goods he tried to get the best price he sought to raise money by every means possible he wanted the children to be busy he wanted the children to be engaged and involved to learn things about life and of course he also wanted him to learn things about God and how God provided as well so he was always very open in sharing with the children how God had provided in all sorts of ways in films orphanages are often depicted as places where the doors are shut and strange things go on behind but one of mother's strengths was that he encouraged visitors to come and some of those visitors are well known people yes one example of that is Charles Dickens and he actually visited one day and George Millar allegedly said well I haven't really got time to show you around but I'll have a boy and a girl orphan to actually show you around and as a result of showing Charles Dickens around the homes Charles Dickens n was one of the leading advocates for the work of Muller in helping to support and encourage and provide for needy children I was very touched when I read about the kind of sending out ceremony but took place for every boy and every girl as they left he put a Bible into one hand and a coin into the other hand and he said to them make sure that the Bible in that hand never leaves you sighs that's right but the coin will go but the Bible mustn't absolutely yes and and this was a very very strong element in everything that actually happened here there were daily reading of the Bible daily teaching about the Bible and how it might apply there's two verses in proverbs chapter 3 which I think are very very important and summarize what we've been talking about trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understand in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight many have asked me how I sought to know the will of God in trivial matters and in transactions involving most important issues I have found the following method always effective first I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regards to a given matter nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will whatever it may be having done this I do not lead the result of feeling or simple impressions if so I make myself liable to great delusions then I seek the will of the Spirit of God through or in connection with the Word of God the spirit and the word must be combined if I look to the spirit alone without the word I lay myself open to great delusions also next I take into account providential circumstances these plainly indicate God's will in connection with his word and spirit then I ask God in prayer to reveal his will to me thus through prayer to God the study of the word and reflection I come to a deliberate judgment according to the best of my ability and knowledge and if my mind is thus apiece and continued so after two or three petitions I proceed accordingly the bullet organization looks after and cares for more orphans today for me edited in George Wallace time it's an amazing fact Julian and the work is just blossoming all over the world yes it is and the scripture knowledge institution of course was central to what George Muller was was actually seeking to do and the support that he was able to give to missionaries all over the world continues today and I think each year about one and a quarter million pounds is sent out to support missionaries and many of them were working amongst poor people in Africa and other parts of the world and you're quite right in saying that there are more orphans today who were being cared for through the faith and the finances of mullahs than perhaps in George Mullis day which is an amazing thing George Miller also was a man who believed that God had a plan and a purpose for church and in the same way that the all this work that we've talked about flowed out of a division for the Bethesda Church in in Bristol so - he wants to support and encourage churches in order to reach out today to their communities so there are many people are involved in schools work in children's work in adult work in parenting and all sorts that were actually giving some practical support and help these days but prayer and seeking God seeing God provide and being able to say God still provides today is crucial it's key to all that is done there are four principles for Christians to follow by which they might be strengthened in their faith the first principle is to read the Bible and meditate upon it law becomes known to us through prayer and meditation upon his word secondly seek to maintain an upright heart and a good conscience the third principle is this if you desire your faith to be strengthened you should not shrink from opportunities where your faith may be tried trials obstacles difficulties and sometimes defeats are the very food of fear remember the beginning of anxiety is the end of fear at the beginning of true fear is the end of anxiety the last important principle for strengthening your faith is to let God work for you when the hour of trial comes did not work a deliverance of your own the greater the difficulty to be overcome the more it would be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith through the Lord's orphanage Mulla had achieved his goal to give a visible proof that God is real at the age of 70 mullah showed no signs of slowing down he wanted to do more to glorify God I'm visiting the mullah Museum in Bristol to meet Sarah McFadden to learn more of the miraculous events that occurred in mullahs later life welcome this is the George Muller Museum in Bristol fantastic isn't it and look at this timeline that's up here and I think the amazing thing I find about Mahler is he's done all these things and then you get to 70 when most people thinking about retiring and he suddenly begins a new ministry yes so George Muller travelled 200 thousand miles over a period of 17 years he did all of this before aviation so he traveled by boat and even by rickshaw when he was in India he went as far afield as Australia and New Zealand and also when he was in the u.s. he was actually invited to meet the sitting president at the time President Hayes at the White House quite amazing is that I mean really transport was very very base it wasn't it be by horse and cart majority of time yeah absolutely George Miller would be away from Bristol for up to two years at a time on his preaching tour particular story isn't where he was desperate to get to some where he was due to preach and fog descended and the captain said there's nothing we can do yeah absolutely say where the captain tells the story that he was heading to Quebec and he'd been on the bridge of the ship for 22 hours straight and he was quite startled when he got a tap on his shoulder and it was George Miller and George Miller let the captain know that he needed to be in Quebec in a few days time for a speaking engagement and the captain said it's impossible there's no way George Miller said maybe we should pray about it so George Miller and the captain went down to their chart room and the captain Tilly was a bit bruh grudging in doing it and wondered what lunatic asylum this person was from and but George Miller prayed and asked God to lift the fog so that he could get to Quebec in time and it's really an interesting PS on that story the captain then thought I'd better pray ya and mother said no and he stopped him what we did George Miller said that no he didn't need to pray because he felt that God had already answered his prayer and invited the captain to go outside and look and indeed when they went outside the fog had indeed been lifted and he got to his meeting in time and he did absolutely and the captain was actually an unbeliever before this happened and and he attributes' his coming to faith to this encounter with George Miller maybe that's what mother's life was all about wasn't it and seeing the miraculous in order that people then would be attracted to the faith and become believers absolutely yeah just a part of his everyday life in seeking to understand the conditions of successful prayer we must compare Scripture with Scripture let us begin with 1 John 5:14 15 now this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of him here is the first condition to be attended to we have to ask God for the things which are according to his will and should we be little acquainted with the will of God about any matter we must first ask him to teach and instruct us secondly the Lord Jesus said we should ask in his name if we wish our petitions granted as in John 14 13 14 another point is that if we exercise faith in the power of God and in his willingness to hear us as in mark 11:24 we must be looking out for the answer there are few children of God who died his ability to give but many died his willingness there is another point as in Sam 66:18 which is an important one if I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me there remains one thing more that we continue to wait on God - the answer comes then let us set afresh with renewed earnestness and faith to all our petitions if there have been according to the will of God and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and with faith and the willingness of God to give what we have asked the answers must come I have myself had to wait for a long time to get certain blessings in many instances the answer has come instantaneously or in the same hour or the same day yet in other things I have had to wait years 10 years 15 years 20 years and upwards yet invariably at the last the answer has come I said to encourage you my brethren and sisters in Christ begin afresh to bring your petitions before God he will hear you it said for join George Wallace lifetime he received donations and gifts to a value of about 1.5 million pound anyone worked out how much that is in today's money yeah that's just over a hundred million pounds in today's money and you've given me a copy of a receipt CT stat and a donation of five thousand pound yeah absolutely so he was at the founder of work and actually it was some funds that he gave away and we've managed to kind of marry up at this receipt and the story of the funds that he'd given away and you've got a copy in your records and I've just been given it of a letter George Muller on the 12th of April 1887 wrote to that study says my dear mr. Sturt he says after a long missionary tour that I've had in New South Wales and Queensland and China and Japan he discovered the letter from CT studies replying to him and he's talking just about the great interest that he's got in missionary work in China and Japan and he says I've heard of the lord's grace bestowed upon you and how God has wrought through you I pray that you may have spiritual increase and abound yet more and more to the end of your course it's great records are all here won't they yeah everything but mullah did was based upon this book this is one of his actual Bibles he read the Bible all the way through about two hundred times yeah and even a hundred of them were on his knees just seeking the Lord you're gonna read for us just a couple of verses that had significance for him what have you got yeah so Philippians 4 verse 6 do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving present your requests to God that must have been a profound one for him if you've got a thousand orphans on all these houses he must have had so many things coming at him all the time learning not to be anxious but trusting God was key for him yeah he lifted everything he needed in prayer to God and the next verse I've got is James 1 verse 2 consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance the real danger isn't it when we look at someone like George Mahler to think that he was the great man of God and life was absolutely wonderful for him and all these amazing things happen the reality was his life had got great pain and trials and troubles in it it did yeah life certainly wasn't always easy and straightforward for George Miller his wife and his son passing away as well and his son Elijah was very young when he died I mean he married twice and both wives died before him they did yeah and his oldest daughter Lydia as well actually passed away before him as well so he certainly faced quite a bit of loss in his life but all that went on was based on this book and what he would say is a childlike faith take it at his word believe it and act honest psalm 119 verse 68 thou Lord are good and doest good during the six days that my beloved wife was on her deathbed my soul was sustained by these words on account of what I had found out about the action of my dear wife's heart when I felt her pulse but though my heart was nigh to be broken on account of the depth of my affection I said to myself the Lord is good and doeth good all will be according to his own blessed character nothing but that which is good like himself can't proceed from him I prayed if it may be rise up yet again my precious wife thou art able to do it though she is so ill but howsoever thou dealest with me only helped me to continue to be perfectly satisfied but thy holy will what I have to do as his child is to be satisfied with what my father does that I made Laura fie him the Lord was good and did good in giving her to me she was a truly devoted Christian he was good and did good in so long leaving her to me who was God's only gift to me as a companion and joy and sorrow and service for 39 years at 4 months the Lord is good and doing good in taking my beloved wife because she had worked long very long and very much on earth and he was now pleased to appoint her to other service he was most of all good and doing good and giving to my dearest wife what had been long the desire of her heart ever to be with Jesus I now rejoice as I realize how far happier she is and beholding her Lord and she loved so well than in any joy she has known or food know here her happiness gives joy to me God himself has done it I am satisfied with him server in the 1800s majority of people didn't live to 92 today which is what George Muller did was an average age it was about 40 that people live - in Bristol at that time okay so here he is 92 he dies the per Bristol time says the whole city came to a standstill it did absolutely we've got some pictures of it up on the wall here you can see the streets are lined with people and it was one of the few days actually that shops and factories in Bristol just came to a stop and the city itself came to a standstill I love the the headline deep for Bristol Times which presumably was a secular newspaper it actually said at the time he Mahler was raised up for a purpose of showing that the age of miracles had not passed absolutely the idea that he you know would have thousands of people lining the streets on his deathbed but he just wouldn't understand it because his whole life I mean the idea of being in a museum like this it just would be strange to him wouldn't this yeah George Miller wanted all of the glory to go to God for all that he had accomplished and he would say that it was through at the grace of God and that it all happened [Music] the Christians in mother's day really believed that he was some kind of superhero some kind of great miracle worker a level that they would never be able to reach Muller was at pains to say that's not the case what I have achieved any Christian can who really puts her trust in God he says her a free principles trusting in God living by faith and absolute belief in the Word of God on one occasion Muller was asked well are you a special kind of miracle worker and this is a reply that he gave let not sit and deceive you in making you think you could not have the same faith but that it is only for persons situated as I am I live in the spirit of prayer I pray as I walk when I lie down and when I rise when I lose such a thing as a key I asked the Lord to direct me to it and I look for an answer to my prayer when a person with whom I have an appointment does not come I ask the Lord to be pleased to hasten him to me and I look for an answer thus in all my temporal and spiritual concerns I pray to the Lord and expect an answer to my requests and may you do the same [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed May 01 2019