Principle 1: The sum total of your “portfolio” (listed back in Part 3 of this study), is the current inventory of Your Trust Account and is there as a Result of a Direct Gift or a Gift Exchange:
Everything we have has come from you, and we only give you what is yours already! (I Chron. 29: 14 TLB)
Principle 2: The inventory in your Trust Account is to be Administrated by You, the Trustee, for the Benefit of Others:
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 Tim. 6:18 TLB)
For God, who gives seed to the farmer to plant, and later on, good crops to harvest and eat, will give you more and more seed to plant and will make it grow SO THAT you can give away more and more fruit from your harvest. (2 Corinth. 9:10 TLB)
Principle 3: As You, the Trustee, Transfer inventory out of your Trust Account into the Trust Accounts of Others, God Makes Compensating Deposits into your Trust Account . . . thus Allowing you to Give Even More into the Trust Accounts of Others:
Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. (I Corinth. 4:2 NIV)
For the man who uses well what he is given shall be given more, and he shall have abundance. (Matt. 25:29 TLB)
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. (Luke 6:38 NIV)
There is no need for God to make a compensating deposit into your Trust Account until you have made a Trust Account Transfer (TAT) into the account of another.
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