In the Future Leaders Program we read several missionary biographies throughout the year. We read Hudson Taylor, Amy Charmichael, Adoniram Judson and we just finished reading about George Müller.

Seriously, if you don’t know about him, you should really learn about him.

He’s probably my favorite one that we’ve read so far. To give you the short version, he started a series of orphanages that saved over 10,000 children from the streets, and he did it with almost no money. He simply felt the call of God to do this, and he trusted God to provide the resources every step of the way.

The book is filled with examples of the orphanage having absolutely no money to operate, even to provide food for that day, and Müller would pray and ask God to provide, and sure enough, He would.

The centrality of prayer in Müller’s ministry was what struck me. At first it seemed like he had super-powers or something, or that his prayers were extra-special.

But then I realized that it was simply that he believed that God could provide. He had a simple faith that God would come through, and he prayed to that effect.

How often do we pray thinking that God can’t really do it? Imagine if we prayed like George Müller.