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George was pretty wild when he first came to college.
I didn’t know him personally, but he was described as “wicked to the extreme.”
But things changed for George when one of his friends invited him to a prayer meeting.
The Holy Spirit began to work on His heart that night, and he surrendered his life to Christ.
As he began to study his Bible, he saw how God could be trusted to provide for every need, so long as he was doing God’s work.
He made it a rule of his life that he would do whatever God led him to, and present his needs to God alone in prayer, and trust God to provide.
After graduating college, he moved to Bristol England to pastor a church.
While he was there, he saw a great need for orphan homes, where children could be cared for both physically and also spiritually.
As he prayed, God provided the funds to purchase a house big enough for 30 orphans.
Then, God provided for another 3 houses.
For ten years, George cared for 120 children, often with many trials, but God always provided for their needs.
I have four kids, and people often think I’m crazy.
George cared for 120, but that was just the beginning.
God was preparing him for more.
George sensed God leading him to ask for the funds to buy a house for another 300 children.
God provided for that.
9 years later, God provided for another house to fit 950 more orphans.
about 12 years after that, God provided two more houses for another 850 orphans, totalling around 2,100 children that were under his care at one time.
Over his lifetime, George Muller was able to provide a home for somewhere around 120k children in need.
He made it his goal to prove God through prayer.
His trail of miraculous answers to prayer are astounding.
Have David read a story:
“One morning, all the plates and cups and bowls on the table were empty.
There was no food in the larder and no money to buy food.
The children were standing, waiting for their morning meal, when Müller said, “Children, you know we must be in time for school.”
Then lifting up his hands he prayed, “Dear Father, we thank Thee for what Thou art going to give us to eat.”
There was a knock at the door.
The baker stood there, and said, “Mr.
Müller, I couldn’t sleep last night.
Somehow I felt you didn’t have bread for breakfast, and the Lord wanted me to send you some.
So I got up at 2 a.m. and baked some fresh bread, and have brought it.”
Mr. Müller thanked the baker, and no sooner had he left, when there was a second knock at the door.
It was the milkman.
He announced that his milk cart had broken down right in front of the orphanage, and he would like to give the children his cans of fresh milk so he could empty his wagon and repair it.”
George Muller’s life did end up proving God.
He had the joy of encountering God’s provision.
George got to experience the adventure of living by faith.
It was risky, it was bold, it was difficult.
But it was simple, it was miraculous, it was profound and it was so worth it.
Project:
(groups of 3-4) For this project, you get to be God.
You have infinite power and resources.
You have chosen to execute your plan in the world.
What would you be looking for in a person in order to provide resources for them?
1. Seek God's Kingdom above all else
Matthew 6:33 (NLT)
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else...
Culture: “You only live once, therefore _________”
People fill in the blank in many different ways
Experiences
“Live!
Live the wonderful life that is in you!
Let nothing be lost upon you.
Be always searching for new sensations.
Be afraid of nothing!”
- Oscar Wilde
Utopia/happiness
“After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.”
- Karl Marx.
Live your way
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking...And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs.
Dreams
“Follow your dreams, they know the way.”
– Kobe Yamada
These things sound really nice, don’t they?
Money: After college, what you will find is that if you work hard enough, you can pretty much make enough money to fill in the blank however you want.
If you want to follow Jesus though, things are gonna be different.
He fills that blank in for you.
Jesus: “You only live once, therefore live for the Kingdom of God.”
Store up heavenly treasures.
(Matt.
6:19-21)
Christians don’t live for a bucket list.
That’s silly in light of heaven.
Money, your degree, your experiences, your notoriety will all vanish.
You can’t take it with you.
But what you did for Christ will last forever.
Guard your desires, they dictate who you are.
(Matt.
6:22-23)
When it’s talking about “the eye” here, it is using an idiom.
It represented what one was looking for in life, what one desired, what one was searching for.
If a person was greedy, desiring money at the cost of others well-being… He would have been said to have a “bad-eye.”
We have a similar saying today: “His sight is set on ______”
What is your eye set on?
You must choose your master.
You choose primarily with your actions, not your words.
(Matt.
6:24)
Less like a quiz with a multiple choice question.
More like you are driving on the freeway and there is a fork in the road.
You make the choice in real time based on the direction you steer the car.
Put anything else there in place of money.
The point is, we make a choice about who we will serve.
Let me make this really practical for you, this starts now with how you prioritize living for the Kingdom right now.
The biggest choice for most of you, is going to be whether or not you really plug in to Christian community and grow, or if you put school/job first.
You have an incredible opportunity to grow here and get training.
Worship, Word, Witness
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