Faith for the Impossible

It gathers books on taking God at His word — Müller's orphans fed by prayer alone, the grace of waiting on Him, and the bank of faith that never breaks. Its keynote is Mark 9:23, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth": the shelf holds out a faith that dares to trust God for what cannot be managed or foreseen.

Among them are George Müller's "Answers to Prayer" and "The Life of Trust," Andrew Murray's "Waiting on God," Spurgeon's "The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith," and A. B. Simpson's "Days of Heaven Upon Earth" — works that press the reader to believe God's promises and prove them in practice.

"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth" is the word under the whole collection — Christ's answer to a desperate father, and the shelf's summons to a faith that reckons with God's power rather than the size of the problem. It sets believing prayer as the doorway through which the impossible becomes possible.

George Müller ran orphanages for thousands of children in Bristol without ever asking a human being for money — praying in the day's needs and recording, in "Answers to Prayer" and "The Life of Trust," how God met them again and again, often at the last hour. He is the shelf's great case study in faith for the impossible, and he set out to prove, on purpose, that God still hears prayer.

Spurgeon's daily book of God's promises, treating each as a cheque to be endorsed by faith and presented at the bank of heaven — a promise for every day, pressing the reader to take God at His word. It brings to the shelf the note of confident, promise-claiming prayer: the bank of faith, Spurgeon insists, never breaks.

That faith for the impossible is not impatience but its opposite — a settled waiting on God for His time and His way. Andrew Murray's "Waiting on God" turns the reader from anxious striving to quiet dependence, teaching that the God who answers prayer is to be waited on, and that the waiting itself is part of the faith He honours.

George Müller's "Answers to Prayer" is the clearest place to start — a plain record of faith proved in practice; Spurgeon's "Cheque Book" turns each day toward a promise to claim; and Andrew Murray's "Waiting on God" teaches the patience that faith requires. Together they build a confidence that God can be taken at His word.

Because faith easily shrinks to the size of what we can manage, and these writers keep enlarging it to the size of God's promises. Tested in orphanages fed without an appeal and in ordinary believers' daily needs, they press Christ's own word on the reader: if you can believe, all things are possible — and the bank of faith never breaks.