The other day, I gave some sats to a stacker who said they were homeless and starving: #786504

As my first post indicated, I had some suspicions, but in praying about the matter, the Lord directed me to give the sats to the person as they asked.

I did so, and it appears the person outed themselves as some kind of fraudster.

The question becomes, however, had I not done as I was told whether or not that would have happened? Notice some of the other responses on there about it "being some kind of lesson for me". I mentioned that the lesson was not for me. This is the lesson.

If a person claims to be serving God, then they cannot also serve their wallet because there are bad financial moves that one might be asked to do on behalf of spirit. These are matters of faith and not business. If a person on Thanksgiving says they are starving and homeless and the spirit moves you to assist that person, EVEN IF THEY ARE A FRAUD, it becomes your spiritual duty to do so.

Why? Because as I mentioned in the post, the sats were not mine, they were Gods and I just happened to be holding on to them at that point in time. Within approximately two days, all my sats that had taken six months to glean before are nearly replenished to where they started before I donated to the person in question. Why? Because I wasn't paying for the content, God was.

But let us assume that God had not refilled my wallet. Would it be any less of a testimony? No. Sometimes it takes quite awhile before a person sees any fruit from the actions they are taking. You notice one person on that thread goes so far as to state they are not going to give me any sats because next time around I won't be so trusting and naive. If it was the case that God was pushing on their heart to be a part of the solution and they refused to do so because they felt they understood my motives, then the person has not stolen anything from me, but they have stolen from God.

God will simply find some other way to accomplish what He has in store for me. On the other hand, there is a good chance that the "thieves" will be defrauded in one way or another.

Financial glory goes to God for a testimony, along with any other mortal kinds of glory. In a very real sense "I" never pay for anything. The Messiah paid for the ultimate price, and God sent Him as a kind of loan reconciliation to atone for sin. What else is there for me to pay for then? Everything is paid. I simply have to conduct myself such that the conditions of the atonement apply.

If people want or expect Bitcoin to change the world, and they think it is some kind of "Jesus money" they are first going to have to learn who pays the bills and who owns the bank. No other money revolution is going to make up for human deficiency and greed. The community here was done a service which I happened to participate within. The thanks goes to God as it was He who directed my course. Perhaps He wanted the corruption rooted out, or perhaps He wanted a testimony such as this and knew that the course of events would produce it.

Either way, all the good produced from the action was His idea. I just happened to be holding the resources and asked.