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In this book, I'm going to show you how to make money obey you. Did you know that you can talk to money, and money will have to turn and come your way?

God has shown me personally how to master money. There was a time when my wife Carolyn and I couldn't give $10 in an offering over and beyond our tithes. But now we can give thousands, and it's because

of some of the principles from God's Word that I'm going to teach you in this book.

And when they [Jesus and the disciples] were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?

He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?

Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

MATTHEW 17:24-27

Look at verse 27. Jesus told Peter to do something out of the ordinary. Jesus told him, "... go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and

take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee."

Now Peter was a professional fisherman, yet I'm sure he'd never heard of doing anything like that before! But when you hook your money up with Jesus, anything can happen! When you hook your finances up with Jesus, your finances move out of the ordinary into the extraordinary! God will grant you divine favor and open up certain opportunities to you—doors of opportunity. Someone else may have tried to go through those same doors but couldn't get through. Yet you come along—in the plan and will of God—and the doors swing wide

open for you!

The Bible says, "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of

the land" (Isa. 1:19). If you are willing and obedient to God, He will

open a channel for you to get through. God will find favor for you when you take authority over your giving by sowing finances into the Kingdom of God in obedience to Him. When you take authority over your giving, God must help you take authority over your receiving!

God wants to work supernaturally in our finances. He wants us to be out of debt. He does not want us ever to be broke another day in our life. God wants us to have all the finances we need to get the job done of preaching the Gospel across the world. Then He wants us to have enough left over to enjoy life. Living from paycheck to paycheck is "hell" on earth! God did not mean for His children to live from paycheck to paycheck. He wants us to have an abundant supply—more and morel He wants to increase us financially.

We've already seen that money in itself is neither evil nor good. Some people like to "quote" that text in First Timothy, saying, "Money is the root of all evil." But they are misquoting that verse, because First Timothy 6:10 says, "For the LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil..."! It is the love of money that's evil, not money itself. (And the lack of money is evil, too, because it's not of God!)

First Timothy 6:10 doesn't apply to those who are taking authority over their giving. Those people who are putting God first in every area, including their finances, don't love money. One of the signs of someone who loves money is, he is not a tither and a giver. He loves money more than he loves God.

Look again at Matthew 17:27: "...go thou to the sea, and cast an hook,

mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee."

Once as I was studying this passage of Scripture in Matthew 17, God brought something else to my attention: God can change a nonproductive business into a productive one supernaturally if the proprietor will give Him first priority!

As I said, Peter was a professional fisherman. Yet he'd never opened a fish's mouth to get money to pay taxes until Jesus told him to do it. Jesus even told him where to find the fish! That incident was not ordinary—it was extraordinary! God supernaturally prospered Peter because Peter put God first and gave Him first priority in his life.

So you see, even if a business is failing, if the owner will get God to moving in his finances, things will turn around and happen for him supernaturally. And the way he gets God involved in his finances is by giving.