Keesee - Money mysteries from the master: time-honored financial truths from Jesus himself

Money Mysteries
from the Master

Time-Honored Financial Truths From Jesus Himself

Gary Keesee

Copyright 2011Gary Keesee

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With all of the media madness and spin on the human understanding of finances, it is critical to have a book that unlocks the irrefutable principles of God for peace, protection, and provision regarding our God-given assets. This book propels Garys passion in revealing to the world the inheritance we have in the financial plan of God.

Dr. Dean R. Radtke
Founder & CEO
The Ministry Institute

Sadly, the Church today is filled with get rich quick schemes, prosperity theology, and too many television evangelists looking for a handout. But Gary Keesee is the real thing. When he talks about money, I listen. He has the credibility, the experience, and the expertise that will change the way you think about money. Money Mysteries of the Master is the book you need to readnow. You wont regret it. Unless you have all the money you need for the rest of your life, then you need to get it today.

Phil Cooke,
Filmmaker, Media consultant,
Author, Jolt! Get the Jump on a World Thats Constantly Changing

In his new book, Money Mysteries of the Master, Pastor Gary Keesee lays a solid foundation addressing the important issues of getting out of debt and moving into financial blessings. All the while he places top priority on staying faithful to the kingdom principles of faith and stewardship. Pastor Keesee provides Biblical and common-sense tools that break the bondages of debt and lack and enable people to walk in Gods spiritual laws of blessing.

Marcus D. Lamb
Founder President
Daystar Television Network

Together, Gary and I have discovered and lived these mysteries, experiencing their powerful impact in our finances and family, for the past thirty years. Gary shares these principles in a powerfully simple, yet life-transforming revelation, and I can attest he has lived them daily. We have measured our life and success by these timeless teachings from the Master Himself; I challenge you to do the same for real, measurable fulfillment and lasting achievement.

Drenda Keesee
Author, speaker and host of television Talk Show Drenda

M OST people enjoy a good mystery. I am sure I am not the only one who has watched a well-written mystery that presents evidence indicating one outcome, only to discover that I have been fooled over and over again because I dont have all the facts. Once all the evidence is revealed, a completely different conclusion becomes obvious. The twists and turns fool us because, again, we do not have all the evidence. The more twists and turns the writer of the mystery takes, the more we love it. We like the suspense of whodunit as long as it is just a story. But when it comes to living life, we cant afford to live with incomplete evidence. Our wrong conclusions can take us down a wrong turn for weeks, months, or years.

I know the frustration and pain of living in a mystery with no apparent solution, year after year. Although I worked hard, I just couldnt seem to make enough money to pay all my bills and get ahead. I was working in the financial industry, mainly selling life insurance and investments on commissions. I had mentors who were making hundreds of thousands a year doing the same, but no matter how hard I tried, I just barely made it through each month. As a month came up short, I would borrow against a VISA card to make ends meet, hoping that the next month I would find some great clients and be able to pay the money back.

My intentions were noble, but misled, as I found out. As I was unable to pay back the money on one VISA card, I was forced to open new accounts to borrow from. After a few years of living like this, I found myself in a financial pit, owing on ten maxed out VISA cards, three finance company loans, two car payments, back taxes, judgments and liens, and a $26,000 loan owed to relatives. Those were dark days. The pawnshop became a place for survival cashwe sold anything we had of value. Our cars were old, rusted, worn-out miracles. They were miracles because it was by the grace of God that they even ranboth had over 200,000 miles on them. Morning phone calls from bill collectors and attorneys came daily, since every bill we had stayed in the 120-day-late category.

We lived in a small farmhouse that was built in the middle 1800s, and it looked like it. Our family of seven barely fit in the house, with its dirt cellar, broken windows, one bathroom, and no closets. The sad thing was there was nothing on the horizon that indicated things were about to change soon. Bouncing checks was a way of life; going down to the IRS office to work out a payment arrangement was a way of life. Meeting the electric companys employee, who was sent to turn off the power every month, with a plea for mercy was also a way of life. But the greatest pain for me was being forced to say no to my wife and children: no to the braces they desperately needed, no to the lessons they desired, no to the new clothes that they would have loved, and no to about everything they wanted to do.

One of the most frustrating things to me at the time was that, as a Christian, I believed that God really wanted better for my family. We were faithful to our church, and we loved God. We were generous people and had a heart to give, not only to our local church, but to other people we saw in financial need as well. But for some reason, nothing ever changednothing, that is, until the day the van burned up.

Before I tell you that story, I want to be sure that you have a proper perspective of how long we had lived like this. The answer is almost nine years. I wish I could have said it was a little dip of a week or a month, but we had lived in financial crisis for almost nine years before the van burned up. So let me tell you what happened.

Like any given day at the Keesee home, we had our normal creditor calls asking if we had any money to pay toward the outstanding debt we owed them. Of course, all the credit cards had been canceled months before and now had been placed in collections. This one particular day was not out of the ordinary, except this time the call was not the average bill collector. It was an attorney who stated matter-of-factly that they were filing a lawsuit against us for the outstanding balance of one of the credit cards we had been trying to stall for several months. There was no mercy, no leeway, and no trying to talk this guy out of anything. After my usual plea for more time, he simply said, Have the money to me in three days or the suit is filed, and he hung up.