C. Peter Wagner - The Great Transfer of Wealth: Financial Release for Advancing God’s Kingdom

I am absolutely thrilled that The Great Transfer of Wealth has finally been written. God is a God of abundance. To view Him in any other way is a distortion of realitythe greatest reality of all: the nature of God. The very fact that there has been much error in dealing with this subject only shows what the devil fears. He fears the church coming into a proper biblical understanding of prosperity with a purpose . And this book will bring you into that understanding, and, ultimately, into that experience. Peter Wagner has given us great strategies for renewing our hearts and minds to be fully immersed in Gods purposes for planet earth. By implementing these practical strategies, we will be positioned to help facilitate The Great Transfer of Wealth , which will lead to the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen.

Bill Johnson
Senior Pastor, Bethel Church, Redding, California
Author, When Heaven Invades Earth and Hosting the Presence

My friend Peter Wagner always challenges me to think in new ways. He has done it again with his new book The Great Transfer of Wealth. I recommend you read it.

John C. Maxwell
Author and speaker

C. Peter Wagner is one of the greatest and most influential apostolic leaders in kingdom theology and shifting paradigms in the body of Christ. I have had the honor of being mentored by Peter and am proud to call him my spiritual father. He is a man of great integrity and a true apostle. He has written many biblically sound books that have blessed the church and advanced the kingdom of God. Now Peter brings you what I believe to be the most pivotal book of this kingdom age The Great Transfer of Wealth . These pages are filled with godly wisdom, solid biblical teaching, heavenly instruction, and prophetic insight that will prepare and position you to be a participant in the great transfer of wealth, as written in Isaiah 60. You will know Gods ultimate purpose for the transfer, and how it will bring about societal transformation. I highly recommend and exhort every believer to read this book!

Dr. Ch Ahn
Apostle, Harvest Apostolic Center
Apostolic Leader, HRock Church, Pasadena, CA
President, Harvest International Ministry
International Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute

The Bible describes God as the Source of wealth, the Giver of wealth, the Controller of wealth, and the Owner of wealth. God states emphatically, The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine (Haggai 2:8). Wealth is the inheritance of Gods family and is to be used for His kingdom purpose. Purpose-driven wealth is pure power with powerful authority. Peter Wagners book The Great Transfer of Wealth will give you revelation with the practical application to help position you for the manifest outpouring of the glory of wealth with a company of believing and prepared Christians. Like Jesus, let us pray, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your [servants], that Your [servants] also may glorify You (John 17:1), and prepare to be recipients and distributors of The Great Transfer of Wealth . The time is now.

Pat Francis, Ph.D.
Founding pastor, Kingdom Covenant Ministries
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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The Great Transfer of Wealth:
Financial Release for Advancing Gods Kingdom

C. Peter Wagner
peterw@globalspheres.org

ISBN: 978-1-62911-281-7
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62911-282-4
Printed in the United States of America
2015 by C. Peter Wagner

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Wagner, C. Peter.

The great transfer of wealth : financial release for advancing Gods kingdom / by C. Peter Wagner.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Foreword

P eter Wagner is no stranger to controversy; he has never been one to shy away from taking on tough biblical subjects, such as apostles and prophets or spiritual warfare. In fact, whenever he comes under a barrage of fresh criticism, he simply smiles and asks, Did they spell my name right?

The Great Transfer of Wealth boldly approaches the topic of money and the controversial issues surrounding its accumulation for Gods purposes. As a professor of church growth, Peter searches history to identify just when our view of wealth became intertwined with the idea that being poor is a spiritual virtue.

I come from a background in which my church-planting family was affected by people with the false idea that poverty was an attribute that would keep us humble, and yet, we were always in need of more money to build buildings! If only we had understood the concept that Christians should be prosperous.

In order to understand the conflict around this subject, one has to fully realize the scope of the spirit of poverty, which is entrenched in the church. It seems to me this is one of Satans plans to destroy our worldviewkeeping us from having enough money to eliminate systemic poverty! It is the role of the church to feed the poor and work to alleviate suffering. Yet how can we help others when we cannot help ourselves?

At the other end of the spectrum are those who have embraced the idea of name it and claim it, people who are simply waiting for wealth to magically drop into their laps. How can God entrust us with great resources when we have not learned how to become good stewards of what we have and how to position ourselves to receive more?

This book brings timely balance and kingdom perspective to the subject of wealth. There is an abundance of biblical text to support the truth that the Lord desires to prosper us so that we can be a blessing to others. God desires us to have what Peter Wagner calls prosperity with a purpose! The Lord wants His kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth, as it is in heaven, so He offers His people access to lavish supernatural resources.

One of the things I most admire about the pioneering and, dare I say, apostolic work being done by Peter is his ability to be on the cutting edge of what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church today. The Great Transfer of Wealth once again demonstrates his depth of insight, as this message seems to be emerging on the spiritual radars of many Christian leaders today.