George Mueller (1805-1898) was a native German (Prussian) who was greatly used of God. He spent most of his life in Bristol, England, and was a faithful elder of the same church in Bristol for over sixty-six years. During that time he built five large orphan houses and cared for 10,024 orphans. When he turned 70 he fulfilled a life-long desire to go out as a missionary which he pursued diligently for the next 17 years until he was 87 years old. He traveled to 42 countries, preaching on average once a day, and addressing some three million people. He went to be with the Lord aged 92.
The principle of his whole life was that he never made known his financial needs to anyone or asked for money. He took no salary during the last 68 years of his ministry, but trusted God to put in people’s hearts to send him what he needed when he needed it. He never took out a loan or went into debt and his orphans never went hungry. At an early stage he set his heart to prove to God’s people everywhere that the Lord would faithfully provide for them if they would trust Him.
“It seemed to me best done, by the establishing of an Orphan-House. It needed to be something which could be seen, even by the natural eye. Now, 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 reality of the things of God. This,
then, was the primary reason, for establishing the Orphan-House…The first and primary 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 any one being asked by me or my fellow-laborers, whereby it may be seen, that God is FAITHFUL STILL, and HEARS PRAYER STILL.”
The principle of his whole life was that he never made known his financial needs to anyone or asked for money. He took no salary during the last 68 years of his ministry, but trusted God to put in people’s hearts to send him what he needed when he needed it. He never took out a loan or went into debt and his orphans never went hungry. At an early stage he set his heart to prove to God’s people everywhere that the Lord would faithfully provide for them if they would trust Him.
“It seemed to me best done, by the establishing of an Orphan-House. It needed to be something which could be seen, even by the natural eye. Now, 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 reality of the things of God. This,
then, was the primary reason, for establishing the Orphan-House…The first and primary 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 any one being asked by me or my fellow-laborers, whereby it may be seen, that God is FAITHFUL STILL, and HEARS PRAYER STILL.”
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