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 peace that transcends all understanding

Taken From: GEORGE MULLER
A Study of the Principles
of His Prayer-Life -
Steve Bray



Mr. Muller specifically set out to prove the faithfulness of our prayer-answering God. He therefore did not seek help from anyone other than God. The glory and honor that God received through this yielded vessel, as he lived by dependent and trusting faith, is beyond measure. Truth-seeking Christians all over the world now have a much deeper understanding of their loving Father in heaven because of the lessons they have learned through Mr. Muller’s example of “living faith.” He has revealed the true meaning of living by faith and not by the sight of human wisdom and sufficiency. Mr. Muller was not opposed to Christians seeking help from other believers. He simply felt called to provide a clear example of how God is able to meet our needs when we truly depend on Him. He specifically avoided making public appeals for the needs of his ministry to the orphans, even to other Christians, for the purpose of demonstrating how God is able to work out everything that is needed through secret prayer alone. His childlike faith revealed an unchanging faithfulness from his loving Father. The needs associated with providing for two thousand orphans were stretched to the limit, but never was there a time when he did not receive the needed help. Every difficulty was met by divine supply. By the time the need actually arrived, the supply was always provided. These trials and tests, which were used to stretch his patience and trust in God, enabled him to live more and more by God’s power. Mr. Muller found that as these trials brought him to the end of his own strength and made him more dependent upon God, he was able to perfect God’s power through his life. (2 Cor. 12:9) When his patience was complete, and he was living by a trusting faith in God alone, he found that he lacked nothing. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work {so that you may learn to depend wholly on God}, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
(Jam. 1:2-4)
Those who fret and worry about the future can know they are still living by the strength of their own flesh. And, of course, everyone who depends on their own sufficiency, or places their hope in other people, should expect to have many things to be worried and upset about. There is always a potential for failure. Since there are so many things that can interfere with these human plans, there is never a sense of real security. Those who work in their own strength will not be able to enjoy the peace of God that transcends all understanding. This heavenly peace can only be known after we have entered the sabbath-rest of God where we “cease” from our own works and begin living by complete trust in God. Those who live by childlike faith in Him, which includes always responding to the leading of His Spirit, will discover how He is able to work out all things for their good. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works… Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest…
Heb. 4:9-11)

 2007/8/6 12:23





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