O Ye of Little Faith

"O Ye of Little Faith". Jesus used this phrase several times, for the Pharisees, for the people, even for the disciples. It was a rebuke for what He saw was lacking. Did 'little faith" mean at least they had some? Interesting thought.

George Muller was a man who had much faith. Muller had five orphanages in Bristol in the UK in the 1800s. The number of children under the care of him and his wife grew from 30 to over 2,000. Muller built these five homes, costing over 100,000 British pounds even back then(5.8 million British pounds today), without ever asking for financial support or going into debt. Many times he received unsolicited food just hours or minutes before they needed to feed the children. Muller prayed, faith believing, that God would provide.

Just think, building a church, or an orphanage, or going on a missions trip, without asking for money or going into debt. Where are the men and women of Muller's faith today? Imagine a principle of seeking money and provision through prayer instead of fund-raising. Do we have that kind of faith?

Mullers's diaries show that life was hard at times, and he had to learn to be persistent, and felt that God had given him a task to demonstrate the faithfulness of God in prayer. His diaries stated he had documented proof of 50,000 answered prayers, many answered within 24 hours.

Don't we look like those of "little faith" compared to Muller? We need persistence, we need to ask boldly and believe. But we need to keep knocking.

Muller's diaries stated that "without the trust in God through Jesus Christ and in His provision in answer to prayer, our activity will be ill founded. The ways in which we do things may change but this godly pattern remains unchanged. "