Would you pray with me?

Father, it would be my heart's desire and I know I speak for everyone.

If on the day when we are 59 backwards, we could say from the bottom of our heart,

I'd rather have Jesus than anything.

And so I pray that the effect of that testimony and song and these remaining minutes tonight would be that we cherish Christ

more and that we rely more fully upon him in his name I pray. Amen.

George Mueller was born in Germany in 1805 and he died a follow-up, in 1898 in Germany.

He was a follow-up specialist for D.L. Moody and he preached in Spurgeon's Tabernacle and he

inspired Hudson Taylor in his missionary dreams and he preached in the same church for 66 years

and lived out his life mainly in Bristol, England. When he was 28, he founded

what he called the Scripture Knowledge Institute. It had five five what he called objects. One was to found schools

schools abroad, two, Bible distribution, three missionary support, four, track

distribution, and five, the one we know him for best, to use his own words, to board and clothe and

scripturally educate destitute children who have lost both parents by death.

And so he built five orphanages

and by the time he had died,

he had cared for 10,024 orphans.

And he did all of this while preaching three times a week.

And when he turned 70, he fulfilled a dream, and became a missionary.

And for the next 17 years, traveled to 42 countries,

preaching on an average once a day to about 3 million people total.

And when he was 92, he led a prayer meeting on a Wednesday evening at his church

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