I have been meaning to tell you this story for some time and was finally moved to do it after receiving your kind personal note of appreciation to my wife, Tina, and me. When I first heard your teachings in late 2000, I was a nearly 56-year-old division sales manager for a corporation with an “acceptable” compensation package but wondering how I would ever be able to retire, even if the corporation with a history of “bringing in new blood” allowed me to work until Social Security kicked in.

As I listened to you tell of calling for and then writing on your check “a six-point buck” or “a doe or button buck” and how the principle of your words transformed your life and released the power of God, I was convicted of the truth of the message and the power of God that was constrained by my words and thinking. I remember vividly wishing that I had gotten hold of the principles earlier in my life—back when they could have been effective for me. AND I remember you saying there were people listening to your voice that would soon be set free from their slavery and would be working for themselves. 

With only the expectation of “more” and the ability to “survive” until retirement, Tina and I began to send Faith Life Now checks with “Abundance” and “Prosperity” in the memo line. We called for the same for our children. Long story made short, at the end of 2013 and only three months shy of my 62nd birthday, I walked out to start my own business with the small and narrow expectation of having enough to live on for the next five years or so. Today, there are 210 employees spread over three companies whose combined one month's operating income surpasses what I made in total over the last seven years working for the corporation.

—Anna A.