FROM GEORGE MULLER…HIS GLEANINGS ON PRAYER
Get your heart in a state that “it has no will of its own in a matter.”
Don’t leave yourself to feelings or impressions…so you won’t be filled with delusion.
Seek the “will of the Spirit of God…in connection with the Word of God”
God will never lead you contrary to His Word.
Take into account “providential circumstances.”
These clearly indicate God’s will in connection with His Word & Spirit.
Then ask Him to “reveal His will to you.”
We can’t know His will unless He reveals it to us. My words…
After study of His Word & meditation/reflection on what He gives me.
If my mind is at peace, as best I know from what I’ve read & meditated from His Word to the best of my ability, I lay my petitions before God two or three times. If my mind is still at peace, I proceed accordingly to the best of my knowledge & ability
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
- Read your Bible & medicate upon it
- Seek to maintain an upright heart & good conscience
- If you desire to have your faith strengthened, you should not shrink from opportunities where your faith may be tried
Trials, obstacles, difficulties & sometimes defeats are the very “food of faith”
REMEMBER: the beginning of anxiety is the end of faith…and…. the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
- Let God work for you. When the hour of trial comes, do not work a deliverance of your own. The greater the difficulty to overcome, the more to be seen to the glory of God. And much can be done by PRAYER & FAITH.
George Muller’s life was lived in a way to prove that God is real!”
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I listened on YouTube about the story of this wonderful man of God who came before the Lord with His cares and needs. He never shared his needs with others…. He just brought them before his Lord Jesus. Through his prayers, God responded and he was instrumental on building many orphanages for poor children on the street. What I’ve written is just a brief “introduction” to his gleanings on prayer and his walk with the Lord.
It isn’t the amount of faith we have, but in the “object of our faith….the goodness and character of God.”
I wrote down all I could from his testimony and gleanings on what he learned about prayer and waiting upon God in his journey of faith and obedience. It was so helpful that I typed them for myself so I could reflect and learn from his life. I’m sharing them on my blog for your own reflection.
I long that my life is lived in such a way that proves God is real!
Isn’t that what we all should long for…that God should LOOK GOOD in our lives. Let’s live to “make God look good!”
Published by Dianne Horne
I can’t think of anything I enjoy more than to see lives changed! There’s nothing more that puts “oxygen and joy” into my life than to bring the application of Scripture into the “shoe leather” of our lives and to share it with others.
I feel awkward speaking about myself, but I understand it can be helpful to enable others to relate to and enjoy the work of our Lord does in other people. Another down-to-earth way of sharing who I am, is that I love to eat, laugh and to talk about the Lord. I’m not a very exciting individual, but my Savior sure is!
I’ve been happily married for many years, and I now reside in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. God has transplanted my husband and I 28 times in our years together; and it is only when in His presence that you can ask the “why questions” as to the adjustments He’s brought us “to” and “through” in the numerous locations and countries we have lived.
God’s care, love, forgiveness, faithfulness and moment-by-moment presence has not only carried me (when I had every reason to fall apart), but lifted me to a joy I’ve never known. There’s one thing to have joy when things are going great, and quite another dimension of joy and peace when everything in your world is crumbling and unknown. Most of our lives will appear like “ordinary oatmeal living”, but when we allow Him to “establish our steps”, He alone takes our mundane acts of kindness or aid and makes them “extraordinary” for His purpose in the lives of others.
The seasons of caring for my parents and the associated grieving process has forever changed me. It was my honor, joy and privilege to participate with my Lord in what He was accomplishing in their lives, as they both gave their lives to Jesus Christ just days before they were escorted into His presence in heaven. The medical challenges and decisions that needed to be made for a number of those years thrust me into a trust and dependence upon the Lord that I had never known up to that point in my life.
In my journey, I’ve come to realize that our “weakness” is our greatest “strength”, because real power, provision, and His purpose being carried out in and through our lives, depends on Him orchestrating such through His sovereignty.
My “heartbeat of fulfillment” lies in sharing with women, in various settings, helping them to enjoy, study and apply the principles of God’s Word in a down-to-earth fashion. I thrive interacting with women and encouraging them to put their trust in the One Who knows them best and loves them extravagantly; and to prioritize “spending time alone with God each day” developing their relationship with Him. Our lives aren’t designed to just get answers to prayer….but to know and love a very personal Savior, and to surrender daily to “His plans, His agenda and purpose” for our lives.
Several years ago I was challenged to respond to a critical question I had never considered: Why do you exist? What’s your purpose in life?
I live to bring an expression of God in the ordinary events of life, seizing every opportunity of serving and delighting in others. I want my life to be an infectious expression of His love for others, and for them to know how special “they are” to Him; and thus be contagious with His grace.
My life compass is: After people spend time with me, what do they think of Jesus Christ?
The stories that will appear in my blog, are true events that have taken place in my journey. They’re all “very ordinary” circumstances that have occurred through sharing them with Jesus and watching Him orchestrate and demonstrate what He can do when we yield “our ordinary” to the Extraordinary One.
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