Tuesday Week 12

George Muller is best known for the orphan ministry he began. During his life he cared for more than ten thousand orphans. Remarkable, and intentionally, he never asked for money or other resources to provide for those orphans. Instead, he simply prayed and trusted God to provide.

This is an excerpt from his journal:

If I, a poor man, simply by prayer and faith, obtained without asking any individual, the means for establishing and carrying on an Orphan-House, there would be something which, with the Lord's blessing, might be instrumental in strengthening the faith of the children of God, besides being a testimony to the consciences of the unconverted, of the realities of the things of God. This, then, was the primary reason for establishing the Orphan-House.... The first and primary reason object of the work was (and still is:) that God might be magnified by the fact, that the orphans under my care are provided with all they need, only by prayer and faith without anyone being asked by me or my fellow-laborers whereby it may be seen, that God is faithful still, and hears prayer still.

George Muller, quoted by David Platt in his book Radical