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SOUL DANCE (excerpt): God is Faithful to Help Protect Us From Scams!

by Tonja Taylor
5/24/2024 / Internet

Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him. - Psalm 91:14, Berean Standard Bible

It's very important that, in our active Zoe lives (I don't use the term "busy" for my life any more, for the LORD showed me to say "Zoe", which is a Heavenly term, and I truly want Heaven on earth, and have had more since I started changing my words and attitude about that and more! Hallelujah! You can too!), we pay a little more attention to matters of personal information.

Even if we aren't conscious we're making a mistake, the LORD is faithful to help and protect us! Hallelujah! Not only has He delivered me from potential wrecks (plural!) lately--with no way I could see, except His miraculous goodness, that a wreck in very busy, big-city downtown traffic did NOT happen--but from an internet scam!

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods. His loving devotion endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His loving devotion endures forever.…--Psalm 136:1-3, Berean Standard Bible

The dear Holy Spirit (the Third Person of the Holy Trinity) and His holy angels are monitoring us 24/7! Hallelujah!

As the LORD revealed to me years ago, we trust God totally when we go to sleep--or we'd never sleep! He watches over us always, and His Spirit and angels are constantly working to help us hear and obey His ways, to protect us from harm, and to deliver us when we miss it--like I missed it yesterday!

I had finally found the place the LORD wanted us to move to (a door He opened, and a wonderful one!) in the new city we'd move to in a month, so I decided to update my address and get things going. I searched online for the USPS, and chose the link to update for moving.

Having moved less than a year before, I knew the United States Postal Service requires $1 or so, to validate my personal info, via my debit card. Not a problem--I thought.

I completed the information, and hit the button to send it. After several seconds, the spinner was still spinning, and there was an instruction to not hit the back button, etc., because it might interrupt the process.

I continued to edit some documents, and looked again. It was still spinning.

I knew this was definitely a God-move, a big step of obedience for my husband and myself, for God had called us to go to Bible college in another state. So, I rebuked the hindering spirits in Jesus' name, and asked the LORD for help.

He certainly gave it! A couple minutes later, I lost my peace, and shut down the site. I'd just do the address change in person next week, I thought.

I looked at my phone, and realized that the fraud company associated with my bank had called! (The ringer usually is off, because I write and teach online, and don't want to be distracted.)

Aha! It was surely a scam; a phishing site, to get my information.

I stayed calm, for my Father God knows all things, and, as He told me a few years ago, has always "got my back".

Yes, they'd tried to charge me $179! Anyway, I called the bank and the fraud team, and validated that it wasn't me doing that.

I bragged on God's faithfulness to the people I talked to (so that was a witness, and maybe they needed that God-boost that day!), and got things settled. The card had been blocked because of suspicious activity, and nothing was deducted from my account.

Great is the faithfulness of the LORD my Daddy God!!

So, He delivers us, even when we miss it. Hallelujah! What a faithful God He is! Upright and just is He!

My eyes are continually toward the LORD, For He will rescue my feet from the net. - Psalm 25:15, NASB

I praise Him for teaching us His ways, and that includes pleading the Blood of Jesus upon waking, first thing, every day, in addition to tithing off the gross that we make, and claiming our tithers' rights.

However, way before my husband and I knew to do these things, the LORD was protecting us from as much mess as He could!

He is faithful forever, and good all the time!

So, another thing we do is to ask the Holy Spirit to help us be sensitive to His will. He has protected me many times before I've done something, by taking away my peace, or, when I've stopped to ask Him before I decide, to help it not be there.

He is so good. Ask Him on any new site (and He will help me remember, too), to make sure it's the "official" (the REAL "official"!) thing before you proceed. He will help you!

Even when we miss it, He knows our hearts--to do only good--and He will help us.

Blessed be the Name of the LORD!

Tonja and her husband live to exalt God through service and creativity. Her P.O.W.E.R. GIRL ADVENTURES books 1-5 are out, along with VISIONS OF THE KING, YOUR HOLY HEALTH; LEGACY - CRAFTING YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE WITH WORDS, and more. Also, she is a member of CIPA--Christian Indie Publishers Assn.

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