By George Müller
Thus the Lord has not only given us enough for today, but also a little to begin the next week with.
After I had left my father, though I wanted more money than at any previous period of my life, as I had to remain two years longer in the university, I determined, never to take any more from him.
I magnify Him for this honour!
Before this time my practice had been, at least for ten years previously, as an habitual thing, to give myself to prayer, after having dressed myself in the morning.
It was a blessed time, I continued about half an hour in prayer.
How precious it is, even for this life, to act according to the word of God!
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.
I delight in showing, both to the world and to the church, how kind a Master I have served.
I believe He will help, though I knew not how.
I seek to believe more and more what God says about Himself in His holy word, and it is this which gives this rest and peace to my heart.
Our need had not been greater for a long time, dear reader, join me in admiring and adoring Him.
The Lord knows better, and cares for His work more than I do or can.
Is it not precious, under such circumstances, to have the living God as a father to go to, who is ever able and ever willing to help as it may be really needed?
Thus the Lord has been pleased to answer our prayers in this respect also.
The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.
Though I was punished on this and other occasions, yet I do not remember that at any time, when my sins were found out, it made any other impression upon me than to make me think how I might do the thing the next time more cleverly, so as not to be detected.
The poverty has been greater than ever; the Lord, however, has not confounded us, but has strengthened our faith, and always given us necessaries.
But the Lord gave me grace to remain steadfast.
As the weeks pass on, and I go on Saturday evenings to the prayer meetings at the Orphan-Houses, I praise the Lord for having sustained me one more week in this service.
It would be sinful ingratitude, after all the Lord has been doing for me in this work, not to rely upon Him.
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