Answers to Prayer

It is George Müller's record of specific answers to prayer, drawn from his own journals. Müller, who cared for thousands of orphans in Bristol without ever asking anyone but God for support, here sets down particular needs and the particular ways God met them — from the beginning of the orphan work to the great orphan houses — as plain evidence that God still hears and answers prayer.

A German-born Christian who settled in England and spent his long life caring for orphans in Bristol. Converted from a dishonest, worldly youth, he became a man of extraordinary faith, supporting the care of more than ten thousand children over his lifetime entirely through prayer, without appeals for money — that God's faithfulness might be plainly seen.

The Life of Trust is Müller's fuller autobiography and running journal; Answers to Prayer is a more compact selection focused specifically on recorded instances of prayer being answered. It gathers the concrete cases — the needs named and met — into a shorter, faith-building book meant to demonstrate the reality of answered prayer.

Deliberately, as a witness. Müller wanted to prove to a doubting age that God still answers prayer, so he wrote down needs and their answers with care, dates and details included. The records were not for his own memory alone but for others — evidence, plainly set out, that the God who promises to hear can be trusted to do so.

Very concrete ones — money arriving in time to buy the day's food for hundreds of children, sums needed for building given by unknown donors, needs told only to God and met to the day. Müller's record is deliberately plain and specific, a ledger of asking and receiving that lets the facts themselves make the case for prayer.

No — that was the point of his whole enterprise. He made it a fixed rule never to ask any human being for funds and never to go into debt, so that every provision would visibly be an answer to prayer and not to appeals. This book records the results of that rule: God supplying, again and again, in response to prayer alone.

That prayer is real and that God is faithful in concrete, daily matters, not only in spiritual ones. Müller's plain record presses the reader to pray more honestly and to trust God for actual needs. It has strengthened the faith of countless Christians and shaped the modern movement of faith missions built on the same conviction.

At the beginning and forward through the record, since it roughly follows the growth of the orphan work. The entries can also be read a few at a time as devotional, faith-building reading; taken together they form one of the most striking records of answered prayer ever set down, meant to send the reader to prayer with fresh confidence.