PRAYER

I live in the spirit of prayer.  I pray as I walk, when I lie down, and when I rise.  And the answers are always coming.  Tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered.  When once I am persuaded that a thing is right, I go on praying for it.  The great point is never to give up till the answer comes.  The great fault of the children of God is, they do not continue in prayer; they do not persevere.  If they desire anything for God’s glory, they should pray until they get it.

                                                                                                                                  - George Muller

  God Did It

A well known evangelist relates the following incident:  I first went to America many years ago, with the captain of a steamer who was one of the most devoted men I ever knew.

When off the coast of Newfoundland he said to me, “Mr. Inglis, the last time I crossed here five weeks ago, something happened which revolutionized the whole of my Christian life.

“We had George Muller of Bristol on board.  I had been on the bridge for twenty-four hours and never left it.  George Muller came to me and said, ‘Captain, I have come to tell you I must be in Quebec Saturday afternoon’. ‘It is impossible,’ I said.  ‘Very well, if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way – I have not broken an engagement in fifty-seven years.  Let us go down into the chartroom and pray.’

“I looked at that man of God and thought to myself, ‘What lunatic asylum can that man have come from?  I never heard such a thing as this!’

“Mr. Muller”, I said, “Do you know how dense this fog is?”

‘No’, he replied, ‘My eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God, who controls every circumstance of my life.’

“He knelt down and he prayed one of the most simple prayers.  When he finished I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray.  ‘First, you do not believe He will; and second, I BELIEVE HE HAS and there is no need whatever for you to pray about it.’

“I looked at him and George Muller said, ‘Captain, I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years and there has never been a single day that I have failed to get an audience with the King.  Get up, Captain, and open the door and you will find the fog is gone.’

“I got up and the fog was indeed gone.  On Saturday afternoon George Muller was in Quebec for his engagement.”