George Müller
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hence it is that more or less even as believers we have the same shrinking from standing with god alone from depending upon him alone from looking to him alone and yet this is the very position in which we ought to be if we wish our faith to be strengthened
the more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance, and every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will tend towards the increase of my faith.
On this account, therefore, the believer should not shrink from situations, positions, circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities where he may see the hand of God stretched out on his behalf, to help and deliver him, and whereby he may thus have his faith strengthened.
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The last important point for the strengthening of our faith is that we let God work for us when the hour of the trial of our faith comes, and do not work a deliverance of our own.
Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
yea however weak our faith may be god will try it only with this restriction that as in every way he leads us gently gradually patiently so also with reference to the trial of our faith at first our faith will be tried very little in comparison with what it may be afterwards for god never lays more upon us than he is willing to enable us to bear
Now when the trial of faith comes, we are naturally inclined to distrust God and to trust rather in ourselves or in our friends or in circumstances.
We will rather work a deliverance of our own somehow or other than simply look to God and wait for His help.
but if we do not patiently wait for god's help if we work a deliverance of our own then at the next trial of our faith it will be thus again we shall be again inclined to deliver ourselves and thus with every fresh instance of that kind our faith will decrease
Whilst on the contrary, were we to stand still, in order to see the salvation of God, to see his hand stretched out on our behalf, trusting in him alone, then our faith would be increased.
And with every fresh case in which the hand of God is stretched out on our behalf, in the hour of the trial of our faith, our faith would be increased yet more.
Would the believer, therefore, have his faith strengthened?
He must especially give time to God, who tries his faith in order to prove to his child in the end how willing he is to help and deliver him the moment it is good for him.
in the early years of the institution mr mller and his fellow labourers had to endure many severe trials of faith as some of these instances show mr mller when writing of this period says though now july eighteen forty five
for about seven years our funds have been so exhausted that it has been a rare case that there have been means in hand to meet the necessities of more than a hundred persons for three days together yet i have been only once tried in spirit and that was on september eighteenth eighteen thirty eight when for the first time the lord seemed not to regard our prayer
But when he did send help at that time, and I saw that it was only for the trial of our faith, and not because he had forsaken the work, that we were brought so low, my soul was so strengthened and encouraged, that I have not only not been allowed to distrust the Lord, but I have not been even cast down when in the deepest poverty since that time.
A gift of twelve pounds.
August 20th, 1838.
The five pounds which I had received on the 18th had been given for housekeeping, so that today I was again penniless.
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