Answers To Prayer: A Review

The author George Muller was an English Christian Evangelist in the nineteenth century. He devoted his life to directing the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. In his lifetime he cared for more than 10,000 orphans. This alone is a great feat of faith, but what makes him a pillar of prayer in Christian history is that he never once requested financial support for the orphanage nor did he go into debt. He prayed for what was needed, and God provided-many times just hours before funds or provisions were needed. His story and journals stand as the picture of God’s faithfulness.

Prayer is vital to the Christian life, and no author of Christian literature has exemplified this more than George Muller. In Answers to Prayer, Muller shows how powerful prayer and God’s provision can be when it is fully relied on. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter help the reader to take the inspiring lessons Muller’s life presents and apply them to their own life.

Muller states that not only was he concerned for the orphans he also desired to demonstrate that God is faithful. Muller wrote:

I desire that all the children of God, who may read these details,              (details of answered prayer and God providing) may thereby be lead to increased and more simple confidence in God for everything which they may need under any circumstances, and that these many answers to prayer may encourage them to pray, particularly as it regards the conversion of their friends and relatives, their own progress in grace and knowledge, the state of the saints whom they may know personally, the state of the church of God at large, and the success of the preaching of the Gospel. Especially I affectionately warn them against being led away by the device of Satan, to think that these things are peculiar to me, and cannot be enjoyed by all the children of God…All believers are called upon in the simple confidence of faith, to cast all their burdens upon Him, to trust in Him for everything, and not only make everything a subject of prayer, but to expect answers to their petitions which they have asked according to His will, and in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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We can all definitely be blessed by the message in this book.