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The Life of Trust (For Teens)
George Müller · 1805–1898
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About this book
George Müller lied, stole, and sat in jail before he was seventeen — then bet his whole life on a God he couldn’t see. He fed thousands of orphans in Bristol by asking no one but God for money, and wrote down every answer. This teen edition tells it straight: money worries, wanting proof, and waiting on answers that come late.
Before George Müller was a man anyone admired, he was a liar and a thief, and he wants you to know it. He doesn’t clean up his own past in this book. He lays it out. His father, an official in Prussia, gave his boys plenty of money and few limits. That was the whole problem.
Contents
- 1 The Way That Is Hard 3 min
- 2 House and Heart Are Open to You 3 min
- 3 Counting the Cost with His Own Father 3 min
- 4 Giving Up the Salary 3 min
- 5 Bread for the Evening 3 min
- 6 Open Your Mouth Wide 3 min
- 7 Built on Ten Shillings 3 min
- 8 The Seamstress Who Gave It All 3 min
- 9 Almost by the Hour 3 min
- 10 The Money Next Door 3 min
- 11 A Bank That Cannot Break 3 min
- 12 The Best Part of the Day 3 min
Questions and Answers
- Was George Müller always religious?
- Far from it. By sixteen he was a habitual liar and thief who had stolen from his own father and landed in prison. He didn’t clean himself up first — God met him while he was still living that way.
- Why wouldn’t Müller ask anyone for money?
- He wanted a visible proof that God still answers prayer in real life. If he only ever asked God — never people — then every pound that arrived would point to God, not to his own fundraising.
- Did the money always come on time?
- It came when it was needed, not a day early. For weeks in 1838 God supplied the orphan houses almost by the hour, and Müller learned that a late-feeling answer is still an answer.
- Is the famous story about the milkman at the door true?
- Müller’s own account records prayers answered by a knock at the door — a poor woman bringing part of her own dinner and a loaf of bread. The popular milk-cart legend isn’t in what he wrote, so this retelling sticks to what is.
- Did trusting God ever cost Müller anything?
- Yes. His father wept and threatened to disown him, and Müller still refused to take his money again. Following God cost him family peace, a salary, and the safety of a savings account.
- How many orphans did he care for?
- It began with seventeen children in one rented house in 1836 and grew, over his lifetime, to thousands — all funded by prayer, without a single fundraising appeal.
- What is the one habit Müller credited most?
- Getting up early to give the first, freshest part of the day to prayer and the Bible before anything else could crowd it out.
