John Avanzini
"While on earth Jesus was wealthy. He lived in a big house, had a great deal of money, and wore the finest clothes"
(John Avanzini, TBN broadcasts, "Christianity in Crisis," Hank Hanegraaff, page 381-82)
"Jesus was handling big money"
(John Avanzini, Praise The LORD, TBN, September 15, 1988)
"Jesus had a nice house, a big house, big enough to have company stay the night with him at the house"
(John Avanzini, Believer's Voice of Victory, TBN, January 20, 1991)
"Jesus had an expensive ministry."
(John Avanzini, Praise the Lord, TBN, September 15, 1988)
"Paul had the kind of money that could stop up justice."
(John Avanzini, Believer's Voice of Victory, TBN, January 20, 1991)
"If you have a treasurer, that means you have a lot of money."
(John Avanzini, Praise the Lord, TBN, September 15, 1988)
"John 19 tells us that Jesus wore designer clothes. Well, what else you gonna call it? Designer clothes - that's blasphemy. No, that's what we call them today. I mean, you didn't get the stuff He wore off the rack. It wasn't a one-size-fits-all deal. No, this was custom stuff. It was the kind of garment that kings and rich merchants wore. Kings and rich merchants wore that garment."
(John Avanzini, "Believer's Voice of Victory" TBN January 20, 1991).
"Jesus was handling big money because that treasurer He had was a thief. Now you can't tell me that a ministry with a treasurer that's a thief can operate on a few pennies. It took big money to operate that ministry because Judas was stealing out of that bag."
(John Avanzini, "Believer's Voice of Victory" TBN January 20, 1991)
"I don't know where these goofy traditions creep in at, but one of the goofiest ones is that Jesus and His disciples were poor. Now there's no Bible to substantiate that."
"Credit card debt just strangles you, it just keeps moving against you, moving against you. Put that $100 on a credit card! Make it a seed to see what God does. He'll break that debt right out of your life."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"But as surely as I live, God said today two things to me about the gift that would become the seed to break you out of debt as we prayed the prayer of agreement to get you debt free. There would be a seed of $100, but He said put it on the credit card, the very credit card that has been getting you in trouble. Put it on that credit card, you used it to get into trouble now you're going to use it to get out."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"And if you called and gave nothing I'll pray for your debt, but nothing is going to happen. I want a seed planted! Brother John, what should it be, a $1,000? If you wanna give $1,000 that's fine. This is what God spoke in my spirit, '$100, A $100 seed and you're going to be totally, completely debt free,' by the power of God."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"The power of the spirit of debt will be broken if you will believe the prophet."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"You say brother John, do you really think speaking to the debt will do anything? It absolutely will! You can speak to a demon and it will do something. You can speak to a disease and it will do something. You can speak to a sinner and it will do something. You can speak to debt, if you do it in the name of Jesus and it will break it. I need you, right now if you're going to be a part of this; I want you on the phone, I want you to say, 'I'm believing the prophet. I'm going to be debt free.'"
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Those of you that have the ability to just believe the prophet right now and go and just put it on the credit card."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"I'm telling you if you'll believe the prophet you will prosper. Don't wait till u hear something that makes sense to you. But if you will right now, right now hear the prophet go to the phone; get on the line and say, 'I'm believing for miracle debt cancellation. I'm believing the man of God, I want to be a part of this. I'm giving the $100 seed, I'm planting a $100 seed and with that $100 seed I'm believing it's going to bring forth a harvest to get me totally, completely out of debt.'"
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"I'm asking you now and take the credit card and put it right on that credit card and just put on there that $100. Brother John, I owe millions, I owe thousands, should'nt it be $10,000? Make it $10,000 if you want, Make it a $1,000 if you want. Here's what I'm saying, Make it a $100 and just put it on that credit card abd say, 'I want to be debt free!'"
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Child of God, right now, I want you to go to the telephone. I want you to get on the phone and make contact with me. Make that $100 gift right now! You're making that $100 seed that you're sowing as a seed to get you totally debt free, debt free."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"That's what I want you to do tonight. I want you to join with me with a gift of $100 and we are going to be in agreement with you that the power of the spirit of debt will be broken out of your life."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"And you know most of the time I have been on LeSea and spoken about being debt free. I've talked about giving $1,000, one time gift $1,000, one time gift."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"I need you to go right now to the telephone. I need you to make the call and I need you just to state, 'I'm making a pledge. I'm putting this seed in the good ground of LeSea Broadcasting and It'll be a seed to get me totally out of debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"I want you to plant a seed. I want you to do it in a unique way...Take one of those credit cards that helped you get in trouble and give a $100 on that card. You need to attach a seed to it."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Use that credit card one more time and attach a $100 seed to it. Put it on that card, you used it for the Devil. Now use it for a seed for a harvest."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Those of you that have the ability believe the prophet and put that $100 seed on that credit card."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"God said to me for you to plant a seed of $100. Put it on that credit card that has been getting you into trouble. It will be used to get you out."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Take that credit card and put $100 seed on it and say, 'I wanna be debt free.'"
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Listen to the man of God and put that seed on the credit card."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"God is saying if you plant a $100 seed on that card that it will be a slap in the face to the Devil."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Use that credit card one more time. Use it to slap the Devil in the face. Plant a $100 seed on that card."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"You are strangled with credit card debt...Put that $100 on that credit card and make it a seed and see what God does. Your debt will be canceled."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"The man of God is speaking to you right now to put a $100 seed on that credit card."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"This is what God said to my spirit, 'sow a $100 seed and you will be totally debt free by the power of God.'"
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Call right now! Right now! I am going to come in agreement that you will have a series of miracles to get out of debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"How did Nehemiah get the nation out of debt? He spoke to the debt...You can speak to sickness and it will leave...You can speak to disease and it will leave."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Join me as I speak to break the power of debt in your life."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Nehemiah spoke a word and it broke the spirit of debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"It has been awhile since I have been on LeSea Broadcasting with the permission of the Holy Ghost to speak on debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Unless you plant a seed nothing will come out of it."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Call the number on the screen and make contact with me. Use the $100 seed to get debt free."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Chapter to chapter, chapter to chapter it [Bible] is filled with miracle debt cancellation."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"The theme of the Bible is giving and receiving...Our God is a debt cancelling God...The same thing that God did for Onesimus [cancelling out his debt] He will do for you...From cover to cover there is miracle debt cancellation in the Bible."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Dial that phone number on the screen and say, 'I am believing the prophet that I will be debt free."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"The power of the spirit of debt will be broken if you believe the prophet."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"The man of God speaks to debt. The prophet speaks to debt. That's all I'm asking you to do. Let me speak to your debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"You need to say, 'I'm believing the prophet that I'm going to be debt free."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"If you believe the prophet you will prosper."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Believe the man of God and plant the $100 seed. I'm believing the seed will bring a harvest to get me out of debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Child of God I want to break the power of the spirit of debt in your life. I am not doing witchcraft, you need to place a seed in the ground to get your harvest."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"A seed has to be planted for there to be a harvest of money. For a miracle of money to fall in your lap."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"How else will you get out of debt? There has to be a miracle! A miracle is cooking right here!"
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"Well, brother John that does not sound orthodox. Orthodoxy has about put christianity out."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"God used His Son as a seed to save the world."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"We will never reach the world while the church is in debt."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
"A rich God would not want poor children."
(John Avanzini, LeSea Miracle Telethon, May 3, 2004. Direct T.V)
John Avanzini claims that the Spirit of God "declared in the earth today what the eternal purpose of God has been through the ages…that He is duplicating Himself on earth."
(John Avanzini with Morris Cerullo, The Endtime Manifestation of the Sons of God, (San Diego: Morris Cerullo World Evangelism)
"A greater than the lottery has come. His name is Jesus!"
"I'm not impressed with the apologists any longer, and I may as well get it out---I used to be one, and God forgave me, and I promised not to ever do it again."
Avanzini is quick to point out that "Theologians don't get their prayers answered" and that "they deal with an impersonal God."
"You know what the problem is with all those heresy hunters? They don't believe in a personal God. They believe in a general God that laid down some rules, then went on vacation and said, 'You operate these rules.'"
John Avanzini claimed that CRI founder Walter Martin was struck dead because he dared to speak against God's anointed.
John Avanzini complains that some people will not even allow their man of God "To have a copy of [their] complete financial statement."
"When the widow went to Elisha for help with her back-breaking debt, the first thing the prophet asked for was a financial statement. He asked, 'What do you have in your house?' Thank God this widow was able to trust her man of God...Her relationship of trust with him set her free from debt as well as funded her retirement!"
"The event I am about to share with you is the most sacred experience I have ever had. I never thought God would have me write about it. However, I have received definite instructions from Him. He said the hundredfold release must now come to more people than ever before. He told me it was time to write the MIRACLE MONEY booklet. His words of release were these,'Go ahead and write the MIRACLE MONEY booklet. The opposition can no longer stop your message....Again and again I approached the throne of God. My request was the same each time. 'Oh God! Give me a breakthrough ministry! I must have signs and wonders following the words you give me to speak.'...God visibly manifested Himself to me. Out of a bright, concentrated light, He began to speak with an audible voice, With clear, distinct words, He said, 'John, I have heard your prayer, and I am going to give you the breakthrough ministry you have asked for.'..then He said, 'I have set you apart for the purpose of bringing the end-time message of biblical economics to my church...'
(John Avanzini, Miracle Money booklet, page 7, 13)
"The moment you know the amount God wants you to give, start thanking Him for hearing your prayer. Immediately write the amount you are to give on the flap of the envelope in the space marked, 'God told me to give $_______ for the hundredfold release.' Don't hesitate even one minute. Write the amount down immediately. You know that Satan usually moves when you hesitate to do what God says.
The next thing to do is make out your check, money order, or credit card information. Now, enclose your offering and seal the envelope. Place the appropiate postage stamp on it, and immediately mail it to me so I can pray the hundredfold prayer over your offering. Don't delay. Remember, hesitation gives rise to unbelief, and unbelief always stops the hundredfold release."
(John Avanzini, Miracle Money booklet, page 31)
"Say It Out Loud. Oh, say it out loud. "The power of the spirit of debt is broken from my life!" Say in until it rings in the devil's ears. Debt has controlled your finances for the last day! If you are married, go immediately and tell your spouse that the spirit of debt has been broken from your lives. If you are single, tell the next person you meet that the spirit of debt has been broken off your life. Join together in proclaiming your financial victory."
(John Avanzini, "God's Solution to Debt-Ridden Families," Article C-Faith)
"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me" (Job 3:25)...It is evident that the primary cause of Job's misery was the devil. However, note that Job opened the door of opportunity for Satan to enter. Scripture tells us that every evil which befell Job came to him through fear."
(John Avanzini, "The Word vs. Worldly Fear," Article C-Faith)
"If you want to put another measure of biblical power behind your out-of-debt program start talking about the debt-free life you are headed toward. Boldly begin to say, "We will not take thirty years to pay off our mortgage. Our plan is to have it paid in full in six years." Go right ahead and boldly say, "The automobile we are now driving will be the last one we will ever put on time payments. Our next car will be a new one and we will be paying for it with cash." When you begin to state your intention of becoming debt free, it will do to definite things for you. You will be establishing a spiritual principle that will put the energy of God's Word to work in your out-of-debt plan (Mark 11:23)...Scripture tells us the words we speak and firmly believe are powerful. These faith-filled words are so strong they can bring forth life or death. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue..." (Prov. 18:21). Just think about it. Your Bible says the faith-filled words you speak about your debt will cause it either to live or to die...Start this very day to speak words of death to your debt, and words of life to your out-of-debt program."
(John Avanzini, "Confession Works," Article C-Faith)
"Debt is a spirit, and all spirits must leave when believers command them to in Jesus' mighty name! You must bind the spirit of debt from your finances before you can make any significant changes."
(John Avanzini, "Getting Out of Debt," Article C-Faith)
"Does such a miracle exist? Can we actually go forward in some financial healing line, have someone lay hands on us, and walk away with all of our bills marked paid in full? Before I answer that question, let us get one thing straight. No man has the ability to miraculously release people from their debts. Miracles are not from men. Miracles are given by God and received, through faith, by men. I have laid hands on many people and seen them healed; however, I have never healed anyone. Each time someone has been miraculously healed, that person had to receive the miracle from God. The same biblical principle applies to the miraculous release from debt. Each time the miracle of debt cancellation takes place, it comes directly from God to those who receive it through faith. Make no mistake about it. The miracle of canceled debt is taught in God's Word."
(John Avanzini, "Breaking the Power of Debt," Article C-Faith)
