Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>Answers to Prayer</h1> <h5>FROM</h5> <h2>GEORGE M&Uuml;LLER'S NARRATIVES</h2> <blockquote><p>"I never remember, in all my Christian course, a period now (in March, 1895) of sixty-nine years and four months, that I ever <span class="smcap">SINCERELY</span> and <span class="smcap">PATIENTLY</span> sought to know the will of God by <i>the teaching of the Holy Ghost</i>, through the instrumentality of the <i>Word of God</i>, but I have been <span class="smcap">ALWAYS</span> directed rightly. But if <i>honesty of heart</i> and <i>uprightness before God</i> were lacking, or if I did not <i>patiently</i> wait upon God for instruction, or if I preferred <i>the counsel of my fellow men</i> to the declarations of <i>the Word of the living God</i>, I made great mistakes."</p> <div class ="myright">GEORGE M&Uuml;LLER.</div> </blockquote> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></SPAN>PREFACE</h2> <p>Mr. Brooks, in this compilation, has endeavored to select those incidents and practical remarks from Mr. M&uuml;ller's Narratives, that show in an unmistakeable way, both to believers and unbelievers, the secret of believing prayer, the manifest hand of a living God, and His unfailing response, in His own time and way, to every petition which is according to His will.</p> <p>The careful perusal of these extracts will thus further the great object which Mr. M&uuml;ller had in view, without the necessity of reading through the various details of his "Narratives," details which Mr. M&uuml;ller felt bound to give when writing periodically the account of God's dealings with him.</p> <p>For those who have the opportunity, an examination of the "Autobiography of George M&uuml;ller, or, a Million and a Half in Answer to Prayer" will richly repay the time spent upon it.</p> <p>Mr. M&uuml;ller's permission for the compilation of this volume is shown in the accompanying facsimile, (see p. 2), in the following words:</p> <p>"If the extracts are given exactly as printed, and the punctuation exactly as in the book and in the connection in which the facts stand, I have no objection."</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="HOW_TO_ASCERTAIN_THE_WILL_OF_GOD" id="HOW_TO_ASCERTAIN_THE_WILL_OF_GOD"></SPAN>HOW TO ASCERTAIN THE WILL OF GOD</h2> <p><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></SPAN></span>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.</p> <p>2.&mdash;Having done this, I do not leave the result to feeling or simple impression. If so, I make myself liable to great delusions.</p> <p>3.&mdash;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 Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.</p> <p>4.&mdash;Next I take into account providential circumstances. These often plainly indicate God's Will in connection with His Word and Spirit.</p> <p>5.&mdash;I ask God in prayer to reveal His Will to me aright.</p> <p>6.&mdash;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.</p> <div class ="myright">GEORGE M&Uuml;LLER.</div> <p><br/></p> <hr style="width: 85%;" /> <p><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></SPAN></span></p> <h1><SPAN name="ANSWERS_TO_PRAYER" id="ANSWERS_TO_PRAYER"></SPAN>ANSWERS TO PRAYER</h1> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />