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By Dan Reany, The 700 Club

CBN.com – Ed Choong got out of business school and went straight to Wall Street, where he specialized in financial derivatives.

“My career is great. My lifestyle is great,” Ed says. “I have my apartment in Manhattan. You are in kind of a place where you are self-sufficient. You don’t need God.”

He took a lucrative job in Malaysia, where he made even more money. He met his wife Christine there. They married and had a baby. Ed was so successful that he took a few years to enjoy life in Asia. He and his family lived off his savings and investments.

Christine recalls, “When we got married, he was a Christian already, but he didn’t go to church every Sunday.”

“I was making a good income, but I didn’t really tithe,” Ed says.

When Ed moved back to the States with his new family, he was surprised to find he had a tough time getting work.

“I started getting very insecure and very fearful about the future. I now have a wife and two kids. We just bought the house, and I thought it would be a slam dunk getting a job back on track on Wall Street, but it wasn’t so.”

That got Ed reading the Bible.

“In Malachi 3:10, God says to ‘bring all of your tithes to the storehouse and prove me, test me. I will open all the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so great that there’s no room to contain it.’ And Malachi says 10 percent. So I started calculating the last few years that I was under-tithing.”

Ed figured he owed God a whopping $80,000.

“When I saw the figure I was like, ‘That is a big amount. Whoa, that’s how much I owe God?’”

Ed stuck to his numbers and started to pay off his back tithe. After watching a CBN telethon, he decided to become a 1000 Club member, too.

“I chose CBN because of what they’re doing all over the world. They’re spreading the gospel. They feed the hungry,” Ed says. “They help the Katrina victims. They’re in the orphanages in the Ukraine. In China they perform cleft lip surgery for children.

“First time I visited CBN headquarters, I was walking around the campus, and I saw all the satellite dishes. I was almost in tears, because the gospel is being spread from that spot throughout the world.”

Ed still needed a job, but stayed faithful to his promise to God.

“Not long after that the idea came to me about starting my own business.”

He became a fund manager and invests in everything from stocks to gold. He handles millions of dollars for a small handful of clients, but Christine says her husband has one main business partner.

Christine says, “His major partner, he always says, is God. He’s his biggest partner, because God only always asks 10 percent back. Ninety percent is yours to keep? Where can you get such a good deal?”

Ed and Christine are now part of CBN’s Chairman’s Circle.

“After I paid back everything, the blessing just flows. It’s just unbelievable,” Ed says. “This is all because of God’s blessing. I think Malachi 3:10 is like a key that opens the secret treasure. When you tithe, you’ve got the key in your hands. All you have to do is put it into the treasure box, turn it, open it up. You see all the treasure, because it’s been promised. It’s in the Scripture.”

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