Obedience in Finances by Kenneth Hagin [Summary] 

Main Summary: Obedience in Finances by Kenneth Hagin reveals that financial breakthrough begins with obedience—tithing, giving, and following God’s specific instructions. Through powerful testimonies, the author demonstrates how small acts of financial obedience unlock healing, miracles, and supernatural provision.

Lessons You’ll Learn From This Post 

• Obedience in Finances
• Obedience and Tithing
• Obedience and Healing
• Obedience and Miracles

Also read Faith, Foolishness, or Presumption by Dr. Frederick K.C Price [Summary] 

I’ve concluded that more people fail when it comes to faith for finances than anything else. The reason is that they’re trying to exercise faith for finances, but they haven’t planted any seed!

Obedience in Finances

• Faith fails most often in finances because people try to exercise faith without planting any seed first.
• You must give before you can receive — Jesus teaches in Luke 6:38 that giving activates the return.
• Sowing determines reaping — 2 Corinthians 9:6 makes clear that sparing sowing leads to sparing reaping; bountiful sowing leads to bountiful reaping.
• You cannot reap without sowing — just as you cannot pick tomatoes from a ground you never prepared or planted.
• Two methods release finances — believing and obeying the Bible, or supernatural manifestations of the Holy Spirit (like the widow’s oil in 1 Kings 17).
• Tithing comes first — we haven’t truly given until we’ve paid our tithes.
• Tithing predates the Law — Abraham tithed 500 years before Moses; Jacob tithed 250 years before the Law.
• The New Testament supports tithing — Hebrews 7:8 confirms it.
• Obey what God tells YOU — don’t copy someone else’s experience. 
• Start where you are — obedience begins with nickels, dimes, and quarters, not grand gestures.
• God rewards specific obedience — the author gave away a new Cadillac and a plane when God instructed; later received an unexpected $500,000 gift.

You can’t reap a crop without sowing seed. You can’t go out into your backyard and say, ‘I’m going to pick some tomatoes’ if the ground hasn’t been prepared and the seeds sown.

Obedience and Tithing

• A widow with five children models faithful tithing — despite extreme poverty, she brought her tithe immediately after earning any money, even if only a dime.
• The author takes her tithe with grief — he closes the door and weeps afterward, knowing she desperately needs the money, but also knowing that refusing would rob her of blessing.
• Her daughter suffers severe mental disability — the oldest girl spends seven years in first grade without learning to write her name; authorities eventually ask her to stop attending school.
• The girl acts like a young child — she crawls under pews and sleeps in church, unable to function at her age level.
• A revival night changes everything — she goes to the altar unprompted, gets saved, receives the Holy Spirit, and speaks in tongues.
• Instant transformation occurs — overnight, she begins acting intelligently, dresses nicely, and fixes her hair like any 18-year-old young woman.
• Eternal life increases her mentality 90 percent — the author calls this one of the greatest miracles he has ever witnessed.
• She marries and learns to read — a farm boy proposes; after his deployment, her mother-in-law teaches her to read and write.
• Tragedy strikes, but provision remains — her husband dies in a truck accident, but his heavy insurance leaves her with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• She builds a housing addition — she serves as her own contractor and financier, handling all money personally.
• She remains faithful in church — every Sunday, her tithe envelope sits on the front pew; her children are the best-dressed and best-mannered in the church.
• The author weeps again — this time with gratitude that he obeyed God by accepting her mother’s tithes years before.
• The same Gospel belongs to everyone — God did not single her out as an exception; eternal life and obedience work for all.

Also read Breaking Financial Hardship by David Oyedepo [Summary]

If I had been going by my feelings, I would have had everybody praying for me! But, you know, we don’t walk by feelings; we walk by faith.

Obedience and Healing

• A man with severe ulcers comes for prayer — doctors diagnose a stomach ulcer “as big as a wasps’ nest” and recommend surgery; he has eaten only baby food for two years.
• The Spirit of God moves suddenly upon the author — he had not felt any anointing until this specific moment.
• A supernatural vision reveals the man’s house — the author describes the layout accurately, including a front room and sleeping porch.
• He exposes the man’s midnight struggle — two nights earlier, the man couldn’t sleep, went to the back porch, and lay holding his burning stomach while his conscience tormented him.
• The man’s guilt stems from financial disobedience — though saved and Spirit-filled, he never paid tithes or supported the church.
• The author commands him to eat a T-bone steak — despite two years without solid food, the man obeys and goes home to eat.
• Medical confirmation follows — doctors x-ray his stomach the next day and find nothing wrong; he returns to work within the week.
• A question arises about selectivity — someone asks why the author addressed tithing only to this man and not to others he ministered to that night.
• He explains the gift operates as the Spirit wills — he cannot control or activate it at will.
• He uses a parenting analogy — a 4-year-old gets away with things a 14-year-old cannot because the older child knows more.
• God expects more from some believers — greater knowledge and responsibility bring greater accountability.
• Someone protests this isn’t fair — the author asks if expecting more from a 4-year-old than a 4-month-old is unfair; the answer is no.
• God’s mercy meets people where they are — He condescends to reach individuals at their level of understanding and obedience.

If He can’t trust you with $5 or $10, how is He going to trust you to raise somebody from a deathbed?”

Obedience and Miracles

• A young evangelist visits the author’s church at Christmas 1940 — he has five children and is older in age but younger in ministry than the author.
• The evangelist refuses to preach — he feels embarrassed in front of his relatives, so Hagin preaches instead.
• **God commands Hagin to give $10** — this represents nearly a week’s pay from Hagin’s $43.15 monthly salary.
• Hagin argues with God — he hasn’t even bought his wife a Christmas present yet.
• His head and heart fight during the service — while shaking hands afterward, he struggles internally over the obedience question.
• He finally obeys and gives the $10 — the evangelist leaves, and Hagin doesn’t see him for some time.

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• Another minister arrives unexpectedly by Greyhound bus — he gets off right in front of the author’s church on a Sunday night.
• He recognizes him from conventions — the man agrees to preach that evening.
• During the sermon, God commands Hagin to give $12.50 — again, this exceeds a week’s wages.
• Hagin’s head and heart battle through the entire message — he periodically shouts “Amen” without hearing a word the preacher says.
• He invites the minister to spend the night — after the service, he counts out the money, mostly in nickels, dimes, and pennies.
• God reveals why the man got off the bus — he ran out of money; this was as far as he could go; his wife waits at her parents’ home in East Texas.
• God also reveals the man’s future — next Sunday, he will try out for a pastorate and be elected.
• Hagin places the $12.50 in the minister’s cupped hands — the man puts it in his coat pocket.
• The devil immediately attacks Hagin’s mind — accusing him of making a fool of himself by giving away a week’s pay.
• Hagin questions the minister — the man confirms he had just enough money to reach this town and had none left.
• The bus driver made an exception — he stopped at the church even though he wasn’t supposed to.
• The minister confirms the tryout — he is preaching at a specific church the next Sunday.
• Hagin prophesies his pastorate — he tells the man he will be the next pastor, which proves true.

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• Two years later, Hagin ministers to a dying woman — doctors have sent her home to die from an incurable blood disease.
• The same inward voice speaks — the voice that commanded the $10 and $12.50 gifts now gives new instructions.
• God tells Hagin to stop praying and stand up — he already has his hand on her head; his wife kneels beside him.
• The command comes — “Don’t touch her. Get up and stand up, and say to her, ‘The Lord told me to tell you you’re healed. Get up.'”
• The woman obeys — on Thursday, she rises from her deathbed; by Sunday, she dances and shouts victory in church.
• Driving home, God connects the dots — “I couldn’t have used you today if you hadn’t obeyed Me on that $10 and that $12.50.”
• Hagin had forgotten the connection — he had to stop and think about what God meant.
• Obedience in small things unlocks greater things — learning to hear God’s voice in finances trains you to hear Him for miracles.
• If God cannot trust you with $5 or $10 — how can He trust you to raise someone from a deathbed?
• Obedience is the key — it unlocks receiving from God and being used by God.
• Financial obedience opens doors — it paves the way for God to use you in greater ways to bless mankind.

In conclusion, start where you are—with nickels, dimes, and quarters. Listen for God’s voice in the small financial decisions, then obey quickly. Your faithfulness in little things prepares the way for greater blessings, healing, and miracles in your life.

Also read God’s Will Is Prosperity by Gloria Copeland [Summary]

Finally, here is a question we’d love you to answer.

What small act of giving is God asking you to obey today—even if it doesn’t make sense to your natural mind?

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