The Midas Touch:A Balanced Approach To Biblical Prosperity

This book is hands down the best teaching on finances that we've ever seen. Finally someone in the body of Christ examines some of these mainstream Christian doctines that are getting a little out of hand. Dr. Hagin closely examines the most well known doctrines on money according to the Bible and makes the excellent point that if its not in the Bible----why would you accept it as scriptural?

What makes this book so powerful is that Dr. Hagin really finds the balance between the two extremes that we often see in the church. There are those who believe that Jesus was poor and having financial resources is sinful and then there are those that get into the ditch on the other side of the road by pursuing money instead of the more important things. What God wants for us is somewhere in the middle---we all need financial resources and God is not against us having money, God just doesn't want the money to have us. This book should be required reading in every seminary as it will really help all ministers and congregations to find the balance of what God really wants to do with our resources.

There are many great quote in this book---here's one:
"Then Jesus talked to me about the last church I had pastored, saying that at that time, February 1949, I had entered into the first phase of my ministry. He said that some ministers he had called to the ministry live and die without getting into even the first phase He has for them. Jesus added that is one reason why many ministers die prematurely —they are living only in His permissive will! For fifteen years I had been only in His permissive will. I had been a pastor for twelve years and had been in evangelistic work for three. During those years God permitted me to do it, but it wasn’t His perfect will for my life. And He said that, I hadn’t been waiting on Him; He had been waiting for ME to obey Him."