{"id":1292,"date":"2018-07-28T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beavertales.mindfusion.net\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2024-01-28T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T23:06:41","slug":"george-muller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beavertales.blog\/2018\/07\/28\/george-muller\/","title":{"rendered":"George Muller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People think that the miracle in Abraham and Sarah\u2019s lives was having a child when they were a century old. Maybe so, but that\u2019s not the big one. Tolerating kids 24\/7, at that age, was the miracle. Funny, how we can miss the real things that our Father is about!<\/p>\n<p>The question came up this week in our Bible Investigation Group (it\u2019s not a normal Bible Study!) about measuring our fulfillment of Father\u2019s desires according to His blessings, or lack thereof. In other words if I\u2019m not being blessed is that a clear indication that I\u2019m not being as obedient as I should be?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1293 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/beavertales.mindfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/steppingstone-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Stepping stone\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beavertales.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/steppingstone-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beavertales.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/steppingstone.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>That got me contemplating: \u201cAre blessings a trap or a stepping stone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George Moeller (1805-1898) was a famous preacher who spent years of his life taking care of orphans. He\u2019s remembered for God\u2019s miracles of provision that resulted from his faith prayers. He affected the lives of 10,000 kids plus made an impact on generations of \u2018missios\u2019 who choose his model of \u2018living by faith\u2019. Unfortunately many of his biographers focused on the miracles of his faith walk. Almost none zero in on \u2018why\u2019 he chose that career and next to none mention what happened when he turned his back on the blessing of that career. The real story of George\u2019s life is God\u2019s process in preparing him for his \u2018calling\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>George\u2019s motivational spiritual gift was \u2018prophet\u2019. With that gift came the carnal aspects of being an obnoxious person. He was crude and rough; he was insensitive and relationally clueless. He was ideologically driven and believed that \u2018poverty is spiritual\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>His primary reason for doing the orphanage ministry was to prove to apathetic believers of his era that God still performs miracles without the intervention of human conniving and manipulation. He set out to be a testimony to the world that <u>God could show Himself mighty by hearing and answering prayer<\/u>. His quaint methodology has not always been truly reported by historians but I\u2019ll leave those tidbits of data for anyone who cares to ask me.<\/p>\n<p>The real story about George started a long time before becoming a pastor, or even considered starting orphanages. Originally he wanted to be a missionary. But his opinionated and non-relational characteristics precluded any doors opening in that direction. To appease his passion for mission, and many years before the orphanage ministry, he started the <em>\u201cSpiritual Knowledge Institute for Home and Abroad\u201d<\/em>. Even though he couldn\u2019t go himself, he advocated mission in foreign places by shipping hundreds of thousands of Bibles, New Testaments and Scripture booklets. Plus, he donated over $1 million dollars to missions.<\/p>\n<p>Then it happened! When he was 70 years old, God unblocked the door. All the pastoral work and the orphanage administration had knocked off many rough edges and developed a congenially relational person ready to enter the mission field. At that point he walked away from unparalleled blessings in a ministry that had made him famous for 46 years. For the next 18 years (until he died at 88) George traveled to and ministered in 53 countries around the globe, travelling 200,000 miles by ship, relishing his real fulfilment, the thing he had been born to do: ministering cross-culturally.<\/p>\n<p>George had a vision that was blocked; found a window to persevere; actively engaged in alternate enterprise (and was deeply blessed) but used the intermission as a stepping stone of preparation for finding the niche God had ordained for him. He was a man with a vision who didn\u2019t become trapped by blessing, and never lost sight of his first love and passion.<\/p>\n<p>Is God blessing you? Don\u2019t let the success of His hand of blessing trap you in a season that is over. Exert yourself and possess what you\u2019ve been called to do. <strong>May you be blessed with feet, the least recognized part of you, that will carry you to those who need to hear the message you\u2019ve been given by the Most High. \u2026 john<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah+52%3A7&amp;version=NIV\">Isaiah 52:7<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(original post\u00a0Sept 13 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People think that the miracle in Abraham and Sarah\u2019s lives was having a child when they were a century old. Maybe so, but that\u2019s not the big one. Tolerating kids 24\/7, at that age, was the miracle. Funny, how we can miss the real things that our Father is about! 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