George Mueller had loved his wife Mary for 40 years.

When she died, this was his response.

I fell on my knees and thank God for her release

and for having taken her to himself.

How can someone have such a perspective in a crisis?

It's Tuesday, September 20th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

How would you feel if you or your husband walked into the boss's office to give up your salary?

Not because you received an inheritance or won a contest, you just decide to have faith that God will give you what you need. That's what God led

George Mueller to do. And Nancy, yesterday you told us that learning about heroes of the

faith like George Mueller is important. It sure is, Leslie. When we hear

what God did in the life of someone like George Mueller, it encourages our faith. Plus, it helps us

to be thinking, am I living the kind of life that perhaps somebody else could be writing about

someday? Not to make myself look great, but to show how great God is.

That was the desire of George Mueller, who was born 200 years ago this month.

We'll hear his story over the next couple of days.

To give us a quick overview, here's Pastor John Piper.

George Mueller was a native of Germany.

He was born in Kopenstatt, September 27, 1805, and he lived almost the entire 19th century. He died in 1898 at the age of 92.

He saw the Great Awakening in 1859. He did follow-up work for D.L.

Moody. He preached for Charles Spurgeon in his tabernacle and he clearly and explicitly was

the inspiration of Hudson Taylor's way of doing missions.

So that's some of his connectedness in the 19th century.

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