Two "Prayer Tips" from George Müller:
1. Open Bible Before Him, and His Finger Upon That Promise, He would Plead That Promise, and So He
Received What He Asked
2. Müller's Discovery Was That After Meditating On Scripture He Was More Able to Experience a Meaningful
Prayertime
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1. Open Bible Before Him, and His Finger Upon That Promise, He would Plead That Promise, and So He
Received What He Asked
One of the mightiest men of prayer of the last generation was George Mueller of Bristol, England, who in the
last sixty years of his life (he lived to be ninety-two or ninety-three) obtained the English equivalent of
$7,200,000.00 by prayer. But George Mueller never prayed for a thing just because he wanted it, or even just
because he felt it was greatly needed for God's work. When it was laid upon George Mueller's heart to pray for
anything, he would search the Scriptures to find if there was some promise that covered the case. Sometimes
he would search the scriptures for days before he presented his petition to God. And then when he found the
promise, with his open Bible before him, and his finger upon that promise, he would plead that promise, and so
he received what he asked. He always prayed with an open Bible before him.
-R. A. Torrey on George Müller; "The Power of Prayer," 1924 (P. 81)
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Note: R. A. Torrey was selected by Dwight L. Moody be in charge of his Chicago Bible Institute (now known as
The Moody Bible Institute). When Dwight Moody died during an evangelistic campaign, R. A. Torrey was
chosen to be his replacement, and thereafter had a ministry of Evangelism.
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Note: In German, when you cannot write an "umlaut" letter "ü" (for instance, on many of the old-style
typewriters), you write "ue" instead. So you may see the name spelled either "Müller," "Mueller," or "Muller"
(the latter is an incorrect spelling from the German standpoint, but often English writers use it)."
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2. Müller's Discovery Was That After Meditating On Scripture He Was More Able to Experience a Meaningful
Prayertime