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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"></p><h1 class="western" style="margin-top: 0.01in;">GOLDEN NUGGETS FROM
GEORGE MULLER<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
- 2001-01-13</span></span></h1>
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<h2 class="western" style="margin-top: 0.01in;">HOW TO ASCERTAIN THE
WILL OF GOD</h2>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> One.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Have no preconceived
ideas, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Proverbs
3:5-6. 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. None-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.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Two.
Having done this I do </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>not
</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">leave the result to
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>feeling or simple
impression.</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> If so, I
make myself liable to great delusions, Genesis 27.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Three.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>I seek the will of the
Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the word of God, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Romans
8:14. 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.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Four.
Next, </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>I take into
account providential circumstances, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Revelation
3:7-8. These often plainly indicate God’s Will in connection with
His Word and Spirit.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Five.
I </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>ask </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">God
in prayer to reveal His Will to me aright, Matthew 7:7. </font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Six.
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 </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>if my
mind is thus at peace, and continues so after two or three more
petitions, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">I proceed
accordingly, Colossians 3:15. In trivial matters, and in transactions
involving most important issues, I have found this method always
effective.</font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="margin-top: 0.01in;">FIVE CONDITIONS OF
PREVAILING PRAYER – George Muller</h2>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> It would be most
frustrating to know God’s will with certainty, but not have the
faith and power to bring it to pass. An Old Testament prophet said it
is like a woman coming to the time of birth of her child, and not
having strength to deliver. Just as you can surely know the will of
God from the above, you can see God bring it to pass through the
following.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> One.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Atonement.</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
Entire dependence upon the merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus
Christ, as the only ground of any claim for blessing, Ephesians 1:3;
John 14:13-14; 15:16.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Two.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>No unconfessed sin.
</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="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 66:18.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Three.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Covenant. </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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, John 15:7; Hebrews
11:6: 6:13-20.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Four.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>God’s will. </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Asking
in accordance with His will. Our motives must be godly: we must not
seek any gift of God to consume it upon our lust, 1 John 5:14-15;
James 4:3.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Five.
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Importunity.
</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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;
Luke 11:5-13; 18:1-8; Daniel 10:1-21.</font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="margin-top: 0.01in;">SEVEN MOTIVES FOR
GEORGE MULLER’S TOURS</h2>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Mr. Muller
traveled over 200,000 miles when he was over 70, to make known the
secrets and principles of faith that God had taught him through the
Orphanage in Bristol, and 8 other endeavors of faith. He felt a
divine compulsion to share these truths near and far.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> One.
To </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>preach the gospel
</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">in its simplicity,
especially to show how salvation is based, not upon feelings or even
upon faith, but upon the finished work of Christ; that justification
is ours the moment we believe, and we are to accept and claim our
place as accepted in the Beloved with regard to our inward states of
feeling or emotion.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Two.
To </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>lead believers to
know their saved state, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">and
to realize their standing in Christ. Great numbers not only of
disciples, but even preachers and pastors are themselves destitute of
any real peace and joy in the Lord, and hence unable to lead others
into joy and peace.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Three.
To </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>bring believers
back to the Scriptures, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">to
search the Word and find its hidden treasures; to test everything by
this divine touchstone and hold fast only what will stand this test;
to make it the daily subject of </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b>meditative
(vocal) </b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">and
prayerful examination in order to translate it into daily obedience.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Four.
To </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>promote among all
true believers, brotherly love; </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">to
lead them to make less of those non-essentials in which disciples
differ, and to make more of those great essential and foundation
truths in which all true believers are united; to help all who love
and trust one Lord to rise above narrow sectarian prejudices, and
barriers to fellowship.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Five.
To </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>strengthen the
faith of believers, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">encouraging
a simpler trust, and a more real and unwavering confidence in God,
and particularly in the sure answers to believing prayer, based upon
His definite promises.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Six.
To </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>promote separation
from the world </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">and
deadness to it, and so to increase heavenly-mindedness in children of
God; at the same time warning against fanatical extremes and
extravagances, such as sinless perfection while in the flesh.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Seven.
And finally to </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>fix the
hope of disciples on the blessed coming of our Lord Jesus; </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">and,
in connection therewith, to instruct them as to the true character
and object of the present dispensation, and the relation of the
church to the world in this period of the outgathering of the Bride
of Christ.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Summary:
</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">These seven objects
may be briefly epitomized thus: Mr. Muller’s aim was to lead
sinners to believe on the Name of the Son of God, and so to have</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>
eternal life; </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">to help
those who have thus believed, to </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>know
</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">that they have this
life; to teach them so to </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>build
up</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> themselves on
their most holy faith, by diligent searching into the word of God,
and praying in the Holy Ghost, so that this life shall be more and
more a real possession and a conscious possession; to promote among
all disciples the </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>unity
of the Spirit </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">and the
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>charity </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">which
is the bond of perfectness, and to help them to exhibit that life
before the world; to incite them to cultivate an </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>unworldly
and spiritual type of character </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">such
as conforms to the life of God in them; to lead them to the </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>prayer
of faith </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">which is
both the expression and the expansion of the life of faith; and to
direct their hope to the </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>final
appearance of the Lord, </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">so
that they should purify themselves even as He is pure, and occupy
till He comes. Mr. Muller was thus giving himself to the double work
of evangelization and edification, on a scale commensurate with his
love for a dying world, as opportunity afforded doing good unto all
men, and especially to them who are of the household of faith.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> (Taken
from “George Muller of Bristol,” p. 246, by A. T. Pierson,
Revell, 1899</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">NOTE:
In the Spring of 1944 some unremembered person gave me a copy of
“Answers to Prayer” by George Muller, a 29 cent book at that time
from the Moody Colportage Publishers of Chicago.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
immediately memorized his 6 points “How to Ascertain the Will of
God” and also his “Five Conditions of Prevailing Prayer”.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">For
the past 67 years, Mr. Muller has been one of my chief mentors - he
being dead - </span><u>yet speaks</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">50,000
exact answers to prayer came to pass in his life and ministry,
specifically supplying food, clothing, shelter, education and job
training for 10,000 orphans in Bristol, England, all before 1900 AD.
Eight million dollars came in for this and other projects, all
without even once letting any one know of the needs, - except God
Himself! </span><u>This</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> is
indeed a true faith ministry. Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur, India;
Pandita Ramabai of the Mukti Mission in Poona, India; and Lillian
Trasher, the Nile Mother of Egypt - each of these 3 women had
orphanages of over 1000 children - all inspired by the example of
George Muller.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mr.
Muller carefully applied the 6 methods of ascertaining God's will for
</span><u>every</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> possibility
before engaging in prayer. He </span><u>then</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
pursued the 5 conditions of Prevailing Prayer, and testified that he
never failed to obtain - as long as he followed these two outlines.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
have like George Muller carefully followed these two steps since
1944, and can honestly testify that God is indeed no respecter of
persons: What He did for Muller for over 60 years, he likewise has
done for my wife Marie and myself.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">At
70 years of age, Mr. Muller traveled over 200,000 miles to over 40
countries, sharing the 7 motives for this time of 17 years. He had
wanted to be a missionary following his conversion at the age of 20.
But God in His wisdom delayed answering the desire of his heart for
50 years. He was then able to engage in the double work of
evangelization and edification. The biography on George Muller by Dr.
A.T. Pierson provided the above, and is one of the dozen or so
biographies I have read on him - easily the best for me.</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">May
the above 3 outlines be as great a help and inspiration to you as
they been to me. - Jim Watt</span></b></font></p>
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