Have you ever thought of doing something that seemed impossible?

Not to make yourself look like anything special, but to bring God glory?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's Wednesday, September 21st. Imagine that you're responsible for feeding and clothing to children.

And week to week, you just don't know where the money's going to come from.

Maybe you're thinking, I don't have to imagine. That is my life. Now suppose that you're

not responsible for just two kids. Imagine that you're taking care of thousands, and there's

no obvious source of income except God himself. Today, we'll hear about a man who did have faith

to care for 10,000 orphans in his lifetime.

Nancy, you started to tell us the story yesterday.

That's right, Leslie.

This month we're celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of a great man of God named George Mueller.

Yesterday, we saw that as a young man, George Mueller was overwhelmed by the fact that God would

show him grace.

He so wanted to live a life that demonstrated faith in God.

So he and his wife lived without a salary from the church where he was a pastor, and he

determined never to tell anyone but God about his needs.

It would seem like that kind of a life would be a challenge for any couple.

But what's even more amazing is that they continued that same approach when they started building orphanages.

It was 1834. George Mueller was 28 years old, a German-born pastor who had come to Bristol, England.

Jim Eliff sets the scene.

If you can imagine the days of Dickens Oliver Twist, you get a little picture of what the English world was like at that time.

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