I was doing my bible reading for the morning before Jennifer and I head out for our morning session at the SWO Marriage Conference, and was also asking the Lord about the stuff we all seek the Lord about, and this old blog post came to mind and I couldn’t remember all the steps Muller took to discern the Lord’s purpose. So, I looked it up, and it was so helpful.
Hope you will be encouraged by this.
This Sunday we will be in Acts 25 and I’m asking the question: How can we wait, obey and trust like Paul did?
We’ll answer that question with some practices to help us grow, but it also got me to thinking on my hero, George Muller. It’s been a while since I visited ole George, so I grabbed my “Narrative of Some of the Lord’s Dealings with George Muller” and visited my old friend. Of course we’ll be hearing from George Sunday to try to imitate his godly example, bur it was also refreshing to revisit Muller’s counsel on discerning God’s will.
That has been a great need this week. Heck, it should be a daily need, but I get so enamored with my ability to “rescue” myself that I forget I need to wait, trust God, know his purposes and let him be my deliverer in all things small…
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