Money is looking for a master, and for too long, I have been letting it master me. Today, that ends.
I am going to confront the spirit of poverty that has been hiding in my mouth. I am going to move from wishing to decreeing, from begging to commanding. Most believers want the breakthrough, but they don’t know the protocol. They don’t know the laws that govern wealth. They pray sincerely, they fast earnestly, but their bank account remains empty. Why? Because faith is not an accident. It is a spiritual science.
There are specific laws that govern the flow of money, and if you follow them, you’ll get the results. By the grace of God I discover why my tears have not moved heaven. I receive grace to learn why the double confession is destroying my financial harvest before it can even grow, and I receive grace to learn how to take authority over my finances just as Jesus took authority over the wind and the waves.
Here are seven steps to commanding money. According to the word of God I am in command.
Step 1. The first step is the most critical. I must locate the leak in my vessel. Why is the money not staying? Because you have been snared.
Proverbs 6:2 KJV: “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.”
The word “snared” means trapped. It means you built a prison brick by brick with your own vocabulary.
Don Gossett writes about a time in his life when he was working hard, praying hard, and yet he was constantly broke. He and his wife were tithers. They loved God, but they were living in a cycle of lack. Why? Because he engaged in what he called “wailing and failing.” He realized that wailing and failing go hand in hand. He would say things like, “I can’t afford it,” “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” “We’ll never get out of debt,” “This inflation is killing us,” “I guess it’s just not God’s will for us to have money.” Careless speaking is a vicious habit. Your words are the coin of your kingdom; you are rated by your words. Think about that for a moment. If your words are cheap, your life will be cheap. If your words are filled with lack, your bank account will be filled with lack. You cannot talk poverty and have wealth. You cannot talk defeat and have victory. The two cannot coexist in the same house.
An idle word spoken may fall into the soil of someone’s heart and poison his whole life. Every time you speak of lack, you are poisoning your own future. You are commanding your servant, money, to stay away from you. You are actually telling money, “You are not welcome here.”
Job 22:28 KJV: “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.” But if you are decreeing lack, you are establishing poverty. So step 1 is simple but hard. You must stop the loose talking. You must put a watch over your lips. Psalm 141:3 KJV: “Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
If it speaks of lack, do not let it cross your tongue. If it speaks of fear, swallow it before you speak it. You must resolve that your mouth shall not transgress.
Step 2. Once I stop the negative, I must establish the positive. In step 2. I must make a covenant of confession.
Don Gossett shares the secret that changed his financial destiny in chapter 1 of *Faith for Finance*. He calls it the “never again list.” He made a covenant with God and with his own tongue that he would never speak lack again. I want you to listen to this list again, and I want you to make it your own. This is not just positive thinking. This is spiritual law. He said, “Never again will I confess lack, for my God shall supply all my need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:19 KJV: “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Notice he didn’t say God might supply; he stood on the Word: “Never again will I confess poverty, for Jesus became poor that I through his poverty might be rich.”
2 Corinthians 8:9 KJV: “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.”
Poverty is not a blessing; it is a curse that Jesus broke.
“Never again will I say I can’t afford it, for the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” Psalm 23:1. If you say “I can’t afford it,” you’re saying your Shepherd is not providing.
“Never again will I confess fear of the future, for God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7.
“Never again will I confess sickness, for with his stripes I am healed.” 1 Peter 2:24.
Step 3 is where most Christians miss it. They think commanding money is just about magic words, but it is about the hidden man, about using what is in you. There is a gold mine hidden in every life. Every man has success hidden away in his soul, but no one can find it but himself.
God does not rain money down through the chimney. God does not drop gold bars on your front porch.
Deuteronomy 8:18 KJV: “But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.”
God gives you the power to make wealth. That power is located inside of you. It is in your undeveloped talents. It is in your untrained abilities. It is in the ideas you have been ignoring.
Most of us are like wide, undeveloped land. We show signs of real wealth, but it lies underneath roots and stumps, and we refuse to clear the land. We want the harvest, but we refuse the plow.
There is a story of a father who was dying. This father had 10 acres of land that he called the “stump lot.” He had never cleared it. It was full of stumps and rocks. But he told his two sons, “There is gold in the stump lot.” After the funeral, the boys went out and tore up every inch of the land. It was hard work; they sweated, they blistered their hands. They pulled every stump; they moved every rock. They were looking for a pot of gold buried in the dirt, but they found nothing. They were discouraged. But the older brother said, “We have the land in good condition now; let’s put in corn.” They planted the corn, and in the autumn when the harvest came in, they sold it for a high price. They found the gold in the ripened corn. Do you see the revelation? The gold was not in the ground; the gold was in the work. The gold was the seed. The gold was in the development of the resources.
Indecision and wastefulness must be destroyed. Make yourself so valuable that men will hunt after you.
Your brain is a muscle. If you don’t use it, it will atrophy, but if you use it and train it, it will produce millions. So step 3 is this: Command your hidden man to wake up. Command your lazy habits to die. Command your mind to study.
Proverbs 10:4 KJV: “He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”
Dig and dig until you have conquered. You have a stump lot in you; dig it up, clean it; you will find the gold.
**Step 4.** You must deal with the dangerous spirit that blocks financial miracles. It is called the mental hitchhiker. A hitchhiker is someone who stands by the side of the road waiting for a free ride. They want to go somewhere, but they don’t want to pay for the gas; they don’t want to drive the car. Hitchhikers are filling the road today. They want someone else to pay the taxes and give them free passage. They want to ride in someone else’s car. Are you a spiritual hitchhiker? Are you waiting for a rich relative to die? Are you waiting for the government to save you? Are you waiting for luck to strike? Are you waiting for your pastor to pray a breakthrough down for you? That is the spirit of the world; that is not the spirit of faith. A faith man does not hitchhike; a faith man drives.
The road that leads to a good bank account is an uphill road, and most of us have to build the road ourselves. You have the Holy Ghost inside of you; you have the wisdom of God. Stop looking for a handout and start looking for a strategy. Don’t depend on another man’s car; get one of your own. Be self-reliant, be punctual, be diligent. There is a dignity in labor; there is a miracle in movement.
God cannot steer a parked car.
Proverbs 6:6-8 KJV: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.”
God cannot bless a hitchhiker; He blesses the work of your hands.
Psalm 128:2 KJV: “For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.”
If you’re going to command money, you must be in the driver’s seat; you must take responsibility.
- I am not a hitchhiker.
- I am a builder.
- I am not a beggar.
- I am a believer.
Get off the side of the road and drive.
**Step 5.** Now that you are working and digging up your stump lot, you must guide your faith. Step 5 is to eliminate the double confessions. This is the subtle trap that keeps the money away.
I discovered that I have been making two confessions. Here is how it looks:
1. “My God supplies all my need.” This is the Word. You say this at church; you say this when you are feeling good.
2. “I cannot pay my rent. I cannot pay my telephone bills. I don’t know what we’re going to do.”
Do you see the problem? The second confession nullifies the first. You dug a hole with your faith and then you fill it back in with your doubt. You canceled your own prayer.
You said, “By his stripes I am healed,” but then you said, “The pain is still there; it’s getting worse.” You said, “God is my provider,” but then you said, “I am going under.”
Faith holds fast the confession of the Word. Sense knowledge holds fast the confession of physical evidence.
If you only believe you have the money when you see the money, that is sense knowledge, and sense knowledge is always limited. Sense knowledge is a traitor.
Hebrews 10:23 KJV: “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)”
You have to learn to have one confession. When the bill comes, God supplies. When the bank account is low, God supplies. When the bad report comes, God supplies. You must hold fast to your confession in the face of apparent contradictions. God is bound to make it good, but He cannot make it happen if you’re constantly tearing it down with your double talk.
Let your yes be yes. Let your confession be single.
**Step 6.** Now we come to the command step. Step 6 is where you take your place as a king. You must use the authority of the name of Jesus to command the enemy.
Mark 16:17 KJV: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;”
You must understand that Satan is a thief.
John 10:10 KJV: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
He is the one trying to steal your job. He is the one causing those unexpected bills.
Malachi 3:11 calls him the devourer.
You don’t beg a thief to leave; you don’t negotiate with a thief. You command him; you serve him an eviction notice.
We are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians 2:11 KJV: “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
We know what he is doing. He is trying to embarrass you financially; he is trying to ruin your testimony.
You need to stand in your house and speak to the enemy. Say this:
- Satan, take your hands off my money.
- Take your hands off my business.
- I break your assignment against my finances in the name of Jesus.
James 4:7 KJV: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
He has to flee; he has no choice. But he will not flee if you’re passive; he will not flee if you’re begging. He only flees when you command. And then you speak to the money.
- I am in command of money instead of money in command of me.
Job 22:28 KJV: “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”
I decree a thing, and it shall be established. I command flow to start. I command opportunities to open.
I have the power of attorney to use the name of Jesus.
**Step 7.** Finally, you cannot command money if you’re breaking the law of the harvest. Step 7 is the joy of giving.
You cannot command money if you’re stingy, because stinginess is born of fear, and fear kills faith. If you’re afraid to give, it is proof that you do not trust your source.
The most joyous Christians I have ever known are those who know the blessing of giving.
Giving is the proof that you trust God. When you tithe, when you give an offering, you’re looking fear in the face and saying, “You do not control me. God is my source.”
We need to adopt the giver’s creed: I give, and it is given unto me. I sow, and I reap. I am a channel, not a reservoir.
Luke 6:38 KJV: “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
This is not a gamble; this is a law.
2 Corinthians 9:6 KJV: “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
But you must do it with joy. Verse 7 says God loveth a cheerful giver. If you give grudgingly, if you give out of obligation, you block the flow. The scripture says not grudgingly or of necessity, but when you give with excitement or when you release that seed with a shout of praise, you’re activating the law of harvest.
Proverbs 3:9-10 KJV: “Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.”
So step 7 is this: Open your hand, sow your seed, and command the harvest to come in.
So let’s review the steps:
1. Break the snare of negative words.
2. Sign the never-again covenant.
3. Excavate the gold mine in your hidden man.
4. Stop being a mental hitchhiker.
5. Eliminate the double confessions.
6. Command the devil to flee.
7. Sow bountifully, reap bountifully.
The unseen you—the Christ in you—is the master of circumstances. You have the mind of Christ. You have the power of attorney. You’re not a victim of the economy; you’re a victor in Christ.
For the next 7 days, challenge yourself to walk these 7 steps: from negative words, command the flow to start, command the debt to dissolve.
I am not a victim; I am a victor. I am not a poor person trying to get rich. I am a child of the King resisting the thief.
I am in command of money. Money is my servant. I will never speak lack again.
