Clouds1.wmf (1922 bytes)A Cloud of Witnesses (Heb. 12:1)

  The Spiritual Secret of George Muller

who received through faith £1,500,000 without asking for one penny


satteliterays-motion2-b.gif (31652 bytes)   Five Conditions of Prevailing Prayer

 

  1. Entire dependence upon the  merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the only ground of any  claim for blessing (See John 14:I3,14; 15:I6, etc.).
  2. Separation from all known sin. If we regard iniquity in our hearts,  the Lord will not hear us, for it would be sanctioning sin (Psalm   66:I8).
  3. Faith in God's word of promise as confirmed by His oath. Not to  believe Him is to make Him both a liar and a perjurer (Hebrews11:6;   6:I3-20).
  4. Asking in accordance with His will. Our motives must be godly: we  must not seek any gift of God to consume it upon our lusts (I John 5:14;   James 4:3).
  5. Importunity in supplication. There must be waiting on God and  waiting for God, as the husbandman has long patience to wait for the   harvest (James 5:7; Luke18:1-8).

 satteliterays-motion2-b.gif (31652 bytes)   How to ascertain the Will of God

 

  1. I seek at the beginning to get  my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a  given matter. Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just  here. Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are  ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in  this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His  will is.
  2. Having done this, I do not leave the result to feeling or simple  impression. If so, I make myself liable to great delusions.
  3. 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. If the Holy Spirit guides us at all, He will do it according to  the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
  4. Next I take into account providential circumstances. These often  plainly indicate God's will in connection with His Word and Spirit.
  5. I ask God in prayer to reveal His will to me aright.
  6. 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 at peace, and continues so after two  or three more petitions, I proceed accordingly. In trivial matters and  in transactions involving most important issues, I have found this  method always effective.

 satteliterays-motion2-b.gif (31652 bytes)  George Muller's Will

 

In the Fifty-ninth Report of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad, Mr. James Wright, the successor of Mr. Muller in the work, writes the following after giving the text of Mr. Muller's last will:

"For the glory of God, whose grace made Mr. Muller what he was, I record the fact that his Personal Estate was sworn at £160 9s. 4d. consisting of books and household furniture valued at £100 6s. and money in his possession on the day of his death £60 3s. 4d. During his life he received by the gifts of God's children and by legacies for his own absolute use, tens of thousands of pounds, but he counted it his joyful privilege to regard the whole as committed to his stewardship, and hence he never laid up any pecuniary provision for the future, either for himself personally, or for any member of his family, but sought to "lay up treasure in heaven" by expending it in spreading in various ways the knowledge of God's truth, or in ministering to the necessities of the poor, 'especially to those of the household of faith'.

By papers which have come into my hands, as his executor, I find that, by acting habitually, through his long Christian course, on the principle of systematic giving as God was pleased to entrust him with means for his personal use, he was enabled to give away up to March 1st, 1898, £81,490 18s. 8d., of which about £64,500 was put to the funds of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, and about £17,000 to the poor, and to relatives when in need.

Accompanying the Will which was signed on March 16th, 1895, was a private letter to myself dated 14 months later, viz., May 13th, 1896, in which he desires me to make known his particular desire that those, who minister the word of God, may be led to bring before their hearers, the deep importance of systematic giving for the work of God, in proportion to the amount with which He is pleased to entrust His children."

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