Thanksgiving Day

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
We hope everyone else did too.

~Girl Time~

It was just four girls when

Dad and Mom took Clark and Jill with them to Montana.

Guess where we were going?

Have A Happy Thanksgiving!

Go down to the bottom of the page and turn off the music first before playing.

Company

We have some very nice friends who came over to dinner last week

Lots of fun with thirteen people.

A Life Of Faith, Prayer & Surrender: George Müller

"If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time."

(b. September 27, 1805 – d. March 10, 1898)

“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 Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.”
~George Muller~

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
~Romans 10:17~

"According to your faith be it unto you"
~Matthew 9:29~

"If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it."
~John 14:14~

"There was a day when I died;
died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will;
died to the world, its approval or censure;
died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends;
and since then I have studied only
to show myself approved unto God . . ."

"To learn strong faith is to endure great trials.
I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings."
~George Mueller~

In a speech given shortly after his ninetieth birthday, addressed to ministers and workers, George Mueller had this to say about himself:

"I was converted in November, 1825, but I only came into the full surrender of the heart four years later, in July, 1829. The love of money was gone, the love of place was gone, the love of position was gone, the love of worldly pleasures and engagements was gone. God, God alone became my portion. I found my all in Him; I wanted nothing else. And by the grace of God this has remained, and has made me a happy man, an exceedingly happy man, and it led me to care only about the things of God. I ask affectionately, my beloved brethren, have you fully surrendered the heart to God, or is there this thing or that thing with which you are taken up irrespective of God? I read a little of the Scriptures before, but preferred other books; but since that time the revelation He has made of Himself has become unspeakably blessed to me, and I can say from my heart, God is an infinitely lovely Being. Oh, be not satisfied until in your own inmost soul you can say, God is an infinitely lovely Being!"


Mr. Mueller truly believed of God that . . .


"He is Altogether Lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend"
~Song of Solomon 5:16~


R.A Torrey said of George Mueller . . .

"One of the mightiest men of prayer of the last generation was George Mueller of Bristol, England, who in the last sixty years of his life obtained the English equivalent of $7,200,000.00 by prayer.

"Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him"
~Hebrews 11:6~


Through prayer, George Mueller, in his 63 years of ministry, had faith that God would provide means and money in his lifetime to:

• Build 5 large orphan houses. (All orphanages had mammoth buildings).
• Start 117 schools which educated over 120,000 young people and orphans. (The schools collectively had 121,683 students).
• House and accommodate the needs of over 10,000 orphans, (a third of whom came to love the LORD. It is believed that 2,813 orphans left the institution as believers, and they in turn led thousands more to Christ. At the time Mr. Muller closed his diary, of the 2,000 students in the orphanage, 609 of them were believers).
• Receive over 7.5 million dollars. (1800's).
• Receive over 50,000 specific answers to prayer in his ministry, including the support of hundreds of missionaries, Christian publishing and distribution, and supporting educational and religious schools for all ages.
• Send out 63 foreign missionaries to the mission field from the church where he preached .
• Build 10 other churches.
• Print and distribute over 281,000 Bibles. (Nearly 1.5 million New Testaments, and over 111 million tracts).
• Travel, over 200,000 miles from the age of seventy to eighty-seven, in 42 countries, spreading the Gospel to 3 million people.
• Read the Bible over 200 times.
• Preach over 10,000 sermons.
  
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George Muller believed reading the Bible was crucial . . .

"The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray."

And . . .

“It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer."


What was Mr. Mueller's secret?

“If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.”

George Muller prayed, continually, believing what God says in His Holy Word . . .


"And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us"
~I John 5:14~

"But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus"
~Philippians 4:19~

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne Of Grace, that we may obtain Mercy, and find Grace to help in time of need"
~Hebrews 4:16~

In his later years, George Muller said of his faith . . .

“I have never been permitted to doubt during the last sixty-nine years that my sins were forgiven, that I am a child of God, that I am beloved of God, and that I shall be finally saved; because I am enabled, by the grace of God to exercise faith upon the word of God, and I believe what God says in those passages which settle these matters.”

Light In Darkness

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.

“Wherever the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that one point.”

-Martin Luther-

There is no counsel, nor understanding nor wisdom against the LORD.

Proverbs 21:30

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end from the heaven, and His circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof . . .

Psalm 19:1-6

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness:
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalm 112:4

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

His work is honorable and glorious: and His righteousness endureth for ever.

He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered:
the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

Psalm 111:2-4

You are Near, Here, There and Everywhere

O LORD, . . .

Thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;

Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down,
and art acquainted with all my ways.


For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, Thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?


If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there:
if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.

If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

even there shall Thy hand lead me,
and Thy right hand shall hold me.


I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me;
even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee;
but the night shineth as the day:
the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.

For Thou hast possessed my reins:
Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvelous are Thy works;
and that my soul knoweth right well.


My substance was not hid from Thee
when I was made in secret,
and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;
and in Thy book all my members were written,
which in continuance were fashioned,
when as yet there was none of them.


How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
when I awake, I am still with Thee.

Surely Thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:
depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

For they speak against Thee wickedly,
and Thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate Thee?
And am not I grieved with those that rise up against Thee?

I hate them with perfect hatred:
I count them mine enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart:
try me, and know my thoughts:

and see if there be any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

~Psalm 139~