Principle 7: As a Faithful Trustee, Your Trust Account Is Guaranteed Never to Be Declared “Bankrupt.”
The good news is that you will always have something in your Trust Account that you can share with someone around you:
But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:19 KJV)
The Lord will give you abundance of good things in the land, just as he promised: many children, many cattle, and abundant crops. He will open to you his wonderful treasury of rain in the heavens, to give you fine crops every season. He will bless everything you do; and you shall lend to many nations . . . (Deuteronomy 28:11-13 TLB)
Those who love and follow me are indeed wealthy. I fill their treasuries. (Prov. 8:21TLB)
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so that there will be food enough in my Temple; if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing so great you won’t have room enough to take it in! “Try it! Let me prove it to you! Your crops will be large, for I will guard them from insects and plagues. Your grapes won’t shrivel away before they ripen,” says the Lord of Hosts. “And all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land sparkling with happiness. These are the promises of the Lord of Hosts.” (Malachi 3:10-12 TLB)
Principle 8: Deposited into Your Trust Account Is Exactly What Someone Around You Needs.
Tell those who are rich not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone, but their pride and trust should be in the living God who always richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and should give happily to those in need, always being ready to share with others whatever God has given them. (I Timothy 6:17-18 TLB)
. . . but you should divide with them. Right now, you have plenty and can help them; then at some other time they can share with you when you need it. In this way each will have as much as he needs. (2 Corinth. 8:14 TLB)
How is your sensitivity level to God’s will as it relates to the needs of those around you?
Principle 9: If You Try to Selfishly Hoard That Which Has Been Deposited into Your Trust Account, It Will Become “Miser’s Manna” and Will Turn into Rot!
For unless you are honest in small matters, you won’t be in large ones. If you cheat even a little, you won’t be honest in greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? (Luke 16:10-11 TLB)
Do you remember the interesting episode that occurred during the exodus of Moses and the children of Israel? God had promised that He would provide for His people. When they needed direction, He sent a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to guide them. When they were thirsty, God had Moses strike a rock with that humble rod, and water poured out. When people became hungry, God produced a phenomenal product called “manna” which looked a lot like early morning frost and tasted like honey bread. God instructed them that they did not need to be apprehensive about the sufficiency of the Source or greedy in their gathering. God assured them that there would always be enough to meet their needs.
However, taking God at His word doesn’t always seem to be the natural course for mankind. Sure enough, their fears found them fetching and hoarding more than they needed. And when they went back to their hoarded treasure, they found not “manna” but only mildew and maggots!
WHAT A SURPRISE -- WHAT AN AWESOME TRUTH!
Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself, it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others. (Oswald Chambers)
Next Week: Principle #10