Review: Answers to Prayer

"A scared world needs a fearless church" - A. W. Tozer

We live in a world where we need faith. We live in a time where God has been dismissed as irrelevant, a distant deity, a hard-hearted judge, a when-I-die-fire-insurance-but-not-applicable-to-my-daily-life, a god who abandoned me and let horrible things happen to me. We live in a world that needs to see God in new ways, in new light, in new revelations. Our neighbors need to see God acting in our lives.

What are you willing to undertake to show God to the world? To build people’s faith? To make the glory of God known?

What are you willing to do to have the faith that shows God big?

 

George Muller took that challenge, and chronicles it in his timeless classic, Answers to Prayer. We know George Muller as an avid supporter of missions and a man who cared for an incredible number of orphans. But why did he start his orphan houses?

The answer may surprise you: Yes, to help orphans both physically and spiritually, but after noting these, in Muller’s words: “…but still, the first and primary object of the work was (and still is:) that God might be magnified by the fact that the orphans under my care are provided with all they need, only by PRAYER and FAITH without anyone being asked…. Whereby it may be seen that God is FAITHFUL STILL and HEARS PRAYERS STILL…. My Spirit longed to be instrumental in strengthening [other Christian’s] faith, [by showing] them proofs, that He is the same in our day.” He started orphan houses to SHOW GOD ANSWERS PRAYER.

To show a world in their time of need the timeless God.

His book, Answers to Prayer, is a collection of journal entries chronicling God’s faithfulness. Never once did he ask for money, even when things were pressing. Even when there was no food on the table. Do you want to be motivated to pray? Do you want to see God answering real prayers? Inspired? Faith built? Answers to Prayer is fodder for the fire.

Our world still has the same need.

Our God is still the same God.

Lord, let me believe you for such things! Let me prevail in prayer! Let me show the world how you answer prayer!

Are we scared of what that faith may demand? But oh, listen to Muller’s journal of how precious it was to believe! Of how God was always faithful! More than that, look to our Lord, who came all the way from heaven to earth, who gave his own life, who conquered death and the greatest enemies, who is now reigning on high. Good. Powerful. Faithful. This is our God that the world needs to see; this is the God who will empower us to live by faith.

See my full review here.

Disclaimer: B & H provided me with a copy for review but did not require a positive review. The ideas presented here are the author’s own.