Gary Prothero

Owner and Managing Director of CSI Group of Companies - Benoni, South Africa

Gottfried brings a message, which is both discomforting and challenging. His uncompromising stance is refreshing amongst the buttered up, luke warm messages that are all too common in today’s world. Gottfried does not profess to hold all the answers for the challenges of operating in the financial system of today’s world. However his comprehensively researched message clarifies and directs us through God’s word, enabling us to seek Him with understanding and hopefully inspired revelation.

Roger Ball


UK President of International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC)

Today more than ever we need understanding, wisdom and insight into how God views things, so that we may know how to act in these unprecedented times, both in our personal and business lives. It is therefore timely that this book has been updated and reissued by Gottfried Hetzer. He has proven from experience not only to be prophetic but relevant in the provision of logical and biblical insights in the world of finance, economics and business.



The experience of the current international economic situation reveals it is more than a blip and will impact us and our children for many years to come. Yet the wisdom of the present world G20 governments, their advisors, our economic and business experts seem only concerned to bringing us back, as soon as possible, to the status quo - an economic and financial system that is acknowledged as inherently flawed and unstable, even with new regulatory standards and proposed ethical changes. Why might this be so?



As businessmen and women we have adopted and/or modified practices from the worlds financial and economic understandings to apply into the Christian context and have generally felt comfortable with our approaches to doing business for God.



Gottfried Hetzer challenges these understandings and suggests there are other ways, which at first may seem extremely radical. However, in the Kingdom of God it is essential that we see, hear and understand God’s way of doing things, not that of the world. This book will help to lead you in this, but be prepared in reading it to have your business, financial and economic understandings or prejudices shaken.



Robert Ricciardelli

Founder Visionary Advancement Strategies - Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

“Finances - Who is in Control” is a revolutionary work by Gottfried Hetzer. Revolutionary because we need a revolution in our paradigms so that we may know the truth, and eradicate deception. It is the most thorough book I have seen regarding how we have perceived money, and how we have allowed the mega system of money entrap us. To operate as ambassadors of the King and His Kingdom, it is important to be free from the systems of this world, and the reality that most systems are controlled by the spirit of Mammon. If you desire to know biblical truth on the subject of money, and to see how the systems of this world have influenced us towards the pursuit of mammon, I highly recommend this book.



Peter Cunningham

Owner and Managing Director PT Royal Ostrindo Zimbabwe - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

From the picture on the cover to the last page Gottfried Hetzer’s book and life testimony provide a trumpet call to our generation that God has offered us a massive freedom that we as Christians have replaced with our own plans and schemes. These not only enslave and entrap us but separate us from the tremendous relationship and provision we could know with our Father who loves us and would have so much more for us. In a time where people are facing unprecedented change and pressure it is an essential read to bring us back to the fundamentals on which we should base our lives and decisions. This has been literally a life changing book for those who have read it and been brave enough to hear Gods paradigm on the world view of money and His relationship with us.



Jeff Mills

Final Harvest Ministries - Antigua, Guatemala

Gottfried Hetzer is one of those rare and treasured individuals, an excellent theologian to whom God has revealed much about His Kingdom, and on how we Christians should be living in Kingdom Revelation, especially in the area of finances. This book is probably the most powerful and important book written on this theme this century. I recommend that all leaders should read and implement these Kingdom truths in their ministries and churches, and then see the changes that will happen in their lives. This is a book to be kept beside your Bible.

Francois de Wet

Pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship - Pretoria, South Africa


The message that Gottfried has, for not only believers, but the world as a whole, is a message of deliverance from the power of Satan, which he exerts in the marketplaces of the world today. As I have sat through his seminars and got to know Gottfried personally I have been struck by the directness with which he delivers God’s word and the willingness to live out what he preaches. His openness and transparency about his own life is both refreshing and yet challenging to many. It is one thing to speak about living debt free, but another thing to live by it. I have seen him and his family struggle through difficulty and setbacks, yet through it all, remain true to God’s calling on their lives and the message that God entrusted to him. It takes a man of integrity to deliver a message like this. What he teaches is a prophetic call to come out of the kingdom of Satan, and to break free from it’s traps and deceit. It is a call to start living in the freedom to which Christ has set us free. This book is not just another book about money. It is also not another message about giving, confessing and receiving. It is about a Kingdom which cannot be shaken and how to enter and live by the principles that are required to experience the protection and blessing that God offers to those who will truly be part of His Kingdom. Be prepared to be challenged and convicted as you read, and be willing to make the adjustments needed to walk in the fullness that God has in store for you. I have seen the results in the lives of those who have taken this word seriously, and the dismay on their faces when they realize there is a way out of the mess they are in. This book is the result of years of research and seeking the face of God, and is truly a timely message for our generation.