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Last month, I read a biography of George Müller that my dad sent me called George Müller: Delighted in God! (by Roger Steer). In the life of Müller, I discovered an example of the kind of life I would like to imitate.

Müller was German, but spent most of his life in England, where he pastored a large church and founded a group of revolutionary orphan homes (his approach to ministry was revolutionary for his time) and a ministry that published and distributed Christian literature worldwide.
Müller and his wife were moved by God early on to take a risky approach for their ministry. They decided they would never mention their physical or material needs to anyone, except the Lord. They experienced difficult times, but God was faithful. When Mülller died, he had received over a million and a half pounds over the course of his life, all without ever mentioning to anyone his specific needs. He had cared for hundreds of orphans, distributed huge quantities of Christian literature, and traveled extensively to preach the Gospel. And all this without ever having a steady, predictable source of income, without ever asking for money.

The God that I see  through Müller is the One that I want so much to experience on an even deeper level: a God who is deeply interested in the details of our lives, who is close by and ever so willing to help.

The following is a quote from pages 101-102  of George Müller: Delighted in God! (Roger Steer), where Müller describes the way of life God had called him into.

“The chief end for which the Institution was established [he recalled] is that the Church of Christ at large might be benefited by seeing manifestly the hand of God stretched out on our behalf in the hour of need, in answer to prayer. Our desire, therefore, is not that we may be without trials of faith, but that the Lord graciously would be pleased to support us in the trial, that we may not dishonour Him by distrust.
This way of living brings the Lord remarkably near. He is, as it were, morning by morning inspecting our stores, that accordingly He may send help. Greater and more manifest nearness of the Lord’s presence I have never had, than when after breakfast there were no means for dinner, and then the Lord provided the dinner for more than one hundred persons; or when after dinner, there were no means for the tea, and yet the Lord provided the tea; all this without one single human being having been informed about our need…
It has been more than once observed, that such a way of living must lead the mind continually to think whence food, clothes, etc., are to come, and so unfit for spiritual exercises. Now, in the first place, I answer that our minds are very little tried about the necessaries of life, just because the care respecting them is laid upon our Father, who, because we are His children, not only allows us to do so, but will have us to do so.
Secondly, it must be remembered, that, even if our minds were much tried about the supplies for the children, and the means for the other work, yet, because we look to the Lord alone for these things, we should only be brought by our sense of need, into the presence of our Father, for the supply of it; and that is a blessing and no injury to the soul. Thirdly, our souls realise that for the glory of God and for the benefit of the church at large, it is that we have these trials of faith, and that leads again to God, to ask Him for fresh supplies of grace, to be enabled to be faithful in this service.”

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