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Life of Faith, Prayer, and Trust“Without Faith It Is Impossible To Please Him,” Hebrews 11:6
George Mueller was born and raised in Prussia, had previously lived a life of sin and crime even while studying for the State Church Ministry. His life was changed when he was converted at a prayer meeting in a private home. Moving to England, he applied as a missionary to the Orient at The London Missionary Society but was rejected. He began to preach and to minister wherever The Lord opened the door. In Bristol in 1834, he founded the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad. A year later without financial assistance, he opened his first orphans’ home. By 1870, he had built 5 homes. Soliciting no one, telling only The Lord of daily needs by prayer and faith. Mueller was feeding over two thousand orphans daily. The Scriptural Knowledge Institution also sent Missionaries, Bibles, and Gospel Literature around the world. They distributed almost three hundred thousand Bibles in many different languages and one and half million copies of the New Testament. They sent and supported one hundred and sixty-three Missionaries and distributed over one hundred and eleven million tracts. Institutional schools matriculated more than one hundred and twenty thousand students, with thousands of them receiving Christ while in attendance. In response to Mueller's Faith and prayers, in the span of sixty-three years, God poured out over $7,500,000 into the Ministry, all wisely and prayerfully distributed in spreading The Gospel. In his life, Mueller read his Bible in entirety over two hundred times, half of that on his knees, claiming the promise, "Open wide thy mouth and I will fill it.” He spent his last seventeen years touring the world, telling of the blessing of a life of Faith. When he died at the age of ninety-three, he left an estate valued at less than one thousand dollars. He had given back to the institute almost half a million dollars’ worth of personal gifts he had received during his seventy years of Ministry.
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