The Especial Mercy of God

George Muller, as is well known, was a man of prayer. The orphanages that he began were in daily need of necessities and provisions: Muller's answer was to pray. And God answered his prayers daily, and often in the most unexpected ways. Following is what Muller had to say about a particularly difficult period in 1841:

“Indeed, so sharp were the trials of our faith for more than six months after [September, 1841]; so long the seasons when, day after day, only daily supplies were granted to us, and when even from meal to meal we had to look up to the Lord; so long had we to continue in prayer, and yet help seemed to fail; that it can be only ascribed to the especial mercy of God, that the faith of those who were engaged in this work did not altogether fail, and that they did not entirely grow weary of this way of carrying on the Lord’s work, and go, in despair of help from God, back again to the habits and maxims of this evil world…In the midst of the trial I was fully assured that the Lord would lighten His hand in His own good time, and that, whilst it lasted, it was only in order that in a small measure, for the benefit of the Church of Christ generally, that word might be fulfilled in us – ‘Whether we be afflicted it is for you consolation.’”

Submitted by JD