'HYFS' seminars!

I'm now doing weekend church seminars based on Healing Your Financial Soul: i.e. Bath, England, and Sarnia and North Bay, Ontario, and they've all asked me back! It's great to be teaching and watching the lights come on for people as we break out of frustrating old beliefs and launch into encouraging new ways of relating to money.

Arranging dates now for this fall and winter. Talk to your church about hosting a weekend!

If you like the book, you'll love the seminar.

 

Tell us what you think!

Readers from around the world have been sending feedback about their impressions of Healing Your Financial Soul.

So I thought it would be fun to share what they're saying. These are all taken from personal e-mails and used with permission...

I only got half way through your book and then the blessings started to just pour out over me.
I feel like Joseph going from the prison to the castle in one day.
I went from disability to a top job on leadership for the entire city of Kristiansand this month!!
(Kristiansand is a city of 70,000 people)

Beate, Norway

I love your book. I'm not done yet -- been reading little by little, there is so much in there! I have been reading bits of it to my women's group. It's not just about money, but so much more! I'll let you know when I am done. It's so good. I am enjoying it so much.

Audrey, Sarnia, Ontario

Thank you so much for this book! It is sooo life-giving. I get excited every time I pick it up to read it and experience it. Also your sense of humour.

I bought 5 books to give away because everyone needs to hear this message! I am very excited to watch God transform my way of thinking and see it played out in finances! I grew up in an atmosphere where money was very scarce and held onto tightly. I am so glad that God is extravagantly generous to His family. I am moving into a posture of receiving.

This book is life-changing in every area of life! Thank you for sharing your inspirations!

Marion, Sarnia, Ontario

So far as I’ve read, I’m really enjoying it – indeed it is a refreshing angle on my relationship towards money. It’s quite risky, but freeing! I got to the page where you get us to repeat: '-title deleted-' That really made me smile – and also gave me a new freedom inside.

Although Becky and I are doing mission work, we do have a pretty good bank balance and some generous supporters back home. God has always blessed my finances, yet I have always found money to be a burdensome responsibility - certainly not a light and easy yoke that Jesus promised. I’m finding your book gives me permission to take finances more lightly and enjoy its blessing, without the heaviness or guilt.

I also loved the story you told of feeling different when you [deleted] – I’ve never noticed that before, but can totally identify. The book is certainly very interactive – it doesn’t let you sit back and observe!! While reading, I often get the feeling I’m in a workshop or seminar … I can imagine that any seminars you’ve done since you wrote this would be a great experience.

Thanks for what you’ve done here. It is a big blessing.
Jonny, Mozambique

I first browsed a bit in your book, then I started to read and work with it.
The first impression: Your style is most refreshing. Yes, this book will not be boring, I will have fun, it will challenge me and I like to be challenged. Working through the first few chapters, and having browsed some of the later chapters, I am starting to understand my own financial difficulties. I urgently needed this book to set my thinking straight.

At the same time I realized how much this negative thinking is engraved in the minds of Christians. While preaching last Sunday I only mentioned the word "money" and someone later objected, "But money corrupts." I answered (wisdom from your book), "No, it only shows what is in your heart." Something similar happened in a recent Bible study which I held.

Thank you for this amazing book,
Peter, Germany

We would highly recommend ‘healing your financial soul’! David’s likeable manner & good humour provide a safe setting in which to engage with this innovative & accessible seminar. In a concise and interactive way he challenges misconceptions, beliefs & expectations surrounding money creating the potential to revolutionize financial situations.

Stewart and Deborah Keiller
Team Leaders, Bath City Church, England

We're only up around page 63 and this is fantastic! Amanda and I are going through it together and we're finding out so much about ourselves! There are a lot of people teaching and preaching about financial breakthrough and what it's supposed to be like, but I haven't seen anyone else actually talk about how to deal with the blocks.

We want you down here to teach about this!

Nuno & Amanda, Australia

I want to say thank you very much for the seminar you held at Bath City Church last Saturday. With the prayer that also went on, my husband wasn't only healed financially but also in many other areas that God has been touching on over the past few weeks.

Brilliant! He is now starting to really dream dreams again and want to see things happen.

Diane, England

Also, here's something that proves your Healing Your Financial Soul exercises work. I worked through a few of them last week as well as when I was stuck in the storm in TO. Yesterday morning my boss had me into her office and told me that they were discussing my performance and previous experience and decided to give me a 10% raise. This does not include an additional increase that I'm told I'm receiving in March. I don't think it's a coincidence. It's exciting when you deal with issues in your life and get tangible results.

Jillian, Alberta

I think the book is brilliant. One of the concepts in the book the Lord told me a year ago in a dream!!!! I could not quite understand the concept in the dream but you have reinforced the concept, so now I "get it."

I am the type of guy who worries on payday and tries to figure out things (especially financial matters and things like bills) way too much. This has more than likely been holding me back in my financial dreams. I am now working on, in conjuction with your book, to enlarge my thinking and capacity and trust about money. I am learning to rest in that, and be much more at ease and confident about money.

Thanks for your book. Love it, I love the concepts in it and that my thinking patterns are being shaken up, rattled and challenged. This book is helping me immensely.

Arie, Australia

... More feedback: After years of dabbling on eBay and selling goods for a small profit or a loss, I've just sold a couple of items at healthy profits. I have been studying and applying your book and I attribute this success directly to it. I am now learning it is okay, in fact good, to make a profit. Thanks to the book, I am getting rid of a lot of emotional and religious clutter. I am very excited, a lot more confident and sure about money now, and this can still only get better.
Arie, Australia

I read your book, thank-you for writing it. The back cover exactly described my position regarding money. You want to have (more than) enough but at the same time feel guilty for anything that faintly smells like ‘love of money’.

I must say, reading the book and doing the exercises (not all of them), made me feel a bit ambivalent. I totally agree with the parts where you deal with misconceptions about money and several bible interpretations. I prayed through several situations of my past that imprinted wrong ideas and feelings about money and wealth. But [on a couple of issues] I hesitate ...

Having said that ... I always thought that my struggle with money came from not trusting God enough or not being surrendered enough to actually live this out. But in 2001, God surprised me by saying: “I will make you rich,” and I knew He was not talking about ‘spiritual riches’. I could not handle such a promise and began to argue with Him about being a Christian and being rich and these two being incompatible, but He insisted.
Later, in a meeting in Holland when I sensed His presence, I asked again, "Lord, why would you make me rich?" The answer I got: "To show you the abundance of my grace."

Apparently, the way I see God and understand grace has a lot to do with the way I deal with money ...
My feeling is that the 'true riches'are still to come and somehow I think that your book is helping me to cope with this promise and to heal up my financial heart to be able to receive these riches.

So, I am not ready with this book yet. I plan to start again and work through it until I feel that my heart is light and not burdened anymore when I think of money.

Blessings to you, even financial ones!
Ton, Netherlands

Okay. I'm not even through chapter 2 and I am finding it to be a very stretching book. It's definitely not your "name it and claim it" workbook (thank God)! This is definitely about your heart, and what's in it and what's not. I appreciate that already; there's way too much superficiality in our culture and in our churches.

Beth, New York

We knew there would be ructions when we started to read your book! We have taken a copy each and are working our way through them in tandem. The notebooks are out, scribbled in, the exercises are taking place…

Did you not hear us yell ‘-title deleted-’ with oomph as we swam in the Atlantic ocean today?! We stopped off in a new hotel en route and had coffee ‘in style’... and we’re only about pg 93!!!!!

This is fun and yes our attitudes are being tweeked over and over!

William & Charmian, Northern Ireland

[Your book] has opened a lot for me. I am only on chapter 4 but it is really blowing my mind. I really appreciate how you have written this book. The format is really enjoyable for me because I am visually oriented.
I also have appreciated your no-nonsense approach. It is as if you are talking to me like a good friend.

Thanks so much for being willing to write this book. It's already made a difference in my life and I'm telling a lot of people about my experience and encouraging them to read it too.

Christa, Ontario

I like your "-title deleted-" poem. Read that chapter yesterday. Translated the poem [into German] and stuck it on my door.
Today when I got cash back in the supermarket I caught myself thinking "-title deleted-", putting it into the wallet, slowly and with ease... Never done and thought that way before...

Go for it, you've done a great job.

Timon, Germany

A very refreshing read with lots of practical tasks that keep you on your toes! I am loving the book but am torn between wanting to read it all and taking time to work through the exercises, some of which I find fun and the others... mmmm, I am definitely finding I have more 'issues' with money than I ever realised.

Caroline, England

I can hardly put the book down... it was just what I needed!
So now I smile on the phone and keep saying, " -phrase deleted- !!" And I really enjoy the emotional state it brings to me!

For a while the Lord has [been] giving me scriptures ... about getting out of poverty, getting justice, leading the world's finances to me (without strife), etc. etc..... so I feel like "my cup runneth over with blessings" even before they appear in my reality. I do believe in a change very soon.

Beate, Norway

Your book certainly stirred things up for me. How challenging. It’s rather annoying that you really want to change people instead of just giving a nice easy book to read! Isn’t it easier just to be religious and say nice things instead of challenging people’s beliefs? I still haven’t swallowed the whole meal, I’m still chewing on some of the tougher meat...

I haven't reached many conclusions. I do feel rather put out by the whole thing, a bit uncomfortable that I just might be so wrong about such an important issue. Your book is something that I could not digest easily, primarily because it was so challenging; challenging in its thesis, but also challenging in its method to put the thesis into practise.

On the other hand, Cheryl and I are turning a corner in our financial situation and I have to give credit to your book for some of that. So thank-you!

Jeff, Guelph, Ontario

Hey, I am getting ready to start chapter 6 of your book. I am having blast!

GREAT book! I have so many thing to say, ask & talk to you about.

Matthew, South Carolina

This makes total sense: if you don't emotionally and "physically" agree with what you want to happen, you aren't "at peace". Now I understand why the Greek word eirene that Jesus used in John 14 means "to set at one again". My emotions were staying in the past, my mind was trying to do what the Word says, and they weren't at one at all.

This book is a real lifeline for the body of Christ, I'm telling you.

Gwen, Ontario

Many Christians, myself included, have taken lots of financial training courses and stuff, and know the basics, like don't live in debt, and consult God about how to spend, be a good steward, etc. They might think they don't need to read a book like yours. For all those people: I would ask them to read out loud the "-title deleted-" thing on page 64 with conviction and sincerity. If nothing but peace and good, warm fuzzies and "Of course!" comes up, then maybe they don't need to read this book.

Very interesting that I know daily that I serve an incredibly generous God in my life, but somehow I have disqualified money from that statement.

Shelley, Ontario

I have to say, the [title deleted] section was quite an experience. It took me 2 days. My first sitting I thought I was doing so well, then checked... I was dying! The second seating I was stuck with [deleted]... and I was scraping for those. But I kept going... I wasn't about to give up so quickly.

It wasn't until the last sitting that the desires started to flow out of me. I realized I was asking for all of these huge and abstract desires (ie. travelling places, giving big gifts to people) that I kind of forgot the everyday practical things I needed right now. I just moved into my condo last month and don't have everything I need to function normally yet. I heard God asking me to look around my condo and ask for what was missing.

That unlocked a door and I topped the assignment! It became more personal to me and I was able to remember what I dreamed about years before - dreams that were really mine. I finished three days ago and I already have two things from it. (For one thing, my window coverings are finally in and installed!)

Who knew that was all locked up somewhere in me?

Jill, Alberta

I have read the introduction and am working through Chapter One. It linguistically keeps me on my toes and the content is like being on a canoe ride down a river, you are curious what is around the next bend! Will keep you posted on my progress.

Andy, Indiana