This testimony came from an
insurance agent, Gino Ward, in Louisville, Colorado:
I received a copy of The Storehouse Principle
from a friend, Russ Minary, sometime in August
2004. He so highly recommended the book that
I felt I should read it right away. I am so
glad I did!
Over the years, I have been a guy who has had
excellent cash flow and also had times where
I was making nothing, yet even when I was making
a great living, I have really never been able
to put anything away for my family or our future.
When I read that Pastor Jandl’s wife thought
they would never own a house because he said
they would never borrow money, I could really
relate.
However, after reading The Storehouse Principle,
I decided to go out and start a storehouse for
both our home and our business. I got together
with my wife and told her that we would take
any checks that came in other then my regular
monthly commission check and put them into the
storehouses. We have always tithed to our church
and then given to other ministries and missionaries
beyond that, so we also continued doing that.
If I received an extra commission check from
work, I tithed and gave and then put the rest
into the storehouse for our L.L.C., and if it
were something personal, then we tithed and
gave and put the rest into our family storehouse.
Now these were normally checks I would just
put into our regular business or home accounts
and one way or another they would get spent,
so I didn’t really think they were much.
However, once I knew that I should have a storehouse
so that God could bless it, I thought this would
be a great way to start, even if it wasn’t
very fast.
I opened those accounts on September 1, 2004.
About that time, my wife started a part-time
job—just a handful of hours a week and
not more than a couple hundred dollars a month—and
since it was extra, we just put those checks
into our home storehouse. We had an extra car
so we sold that and put the money in our storehouse.
As an insurance agent, I get some extra commission
checks from time to time for sales outside of
my normal ones and also get some commissions
from investment packages I sell to people every
once in a while, so I also put those into our
storehouses. A little here, a little there,
but by Christmas time I was surprised to learn
that I had five figures in each of our storehouses,
and we had also added two new missionaries to
our giving list!
In the meantime I had shared the book with a
business partner and this month (January 2005)
we decided to start a storehouse together. We
are not sure what God wants us to do with the
money, but we know that if we start saving it
in obedience to the storehouse principle, then
He will show us and it will be a great blessing!
God has really taught me that He wants us all
to be better stewards of what He gives us—and
through reading this book and putting its principles
into action, now, for the first time in my life,
I know how to do that more effectively.
