{"id":1101,"date":"2023-08-19T05:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T05:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2023-08-19T05:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T05:42:44","slug":"pay-up-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPay Up, Or Else\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDo not say, \u201cI\u2019ll pay you back for this wrong! Wait for the\u00a0Lord, and he will avenge you.\u201d Proverbs 20:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently I was blocked from reserving vacation weeks with my time-shares for non-payment of the annual maintenance fees. Honestly, I have never failed to pay those fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After inquiring, I was told \u00a0I was delinquent on the fees, owed additional money for late fees and needed to pay up or else face foreclosure on the properties I own. Grrrr! \u00a0There was no warning letter, email or phone call to inform me of this supposedly unpaid bill. I was frustrated but remained calm, confident that God was in my corner.\u00a0I quickly wired the money to stop foreclosure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next few weeks and numerous calls to multiple people who didn\u2019t seem to care, I discovered that the bill went to an address I lived at eight years ago. Thankfully,\u00a0God led me to Barbara, the Customer Advocacy Manager for my timeshare group. After reviewing the situation, she apologized, reimbursed the late fees and unblocked my account. She said, \u201cMr. McCall, you have been very kind and pleasant throughout this ordeal, and it was a pleasure to assist you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s unfortunate, but I\u2019m bumping into more and more service issues these days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I patient when I am wronged or do I wait for the Lord to avenge me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cDo not say, \u201cI\u2019ll pay you back for this wrong! Wait for the\u00a0Lord, and he will avenge you.\u201d Proverbs 20:22 Applying God\u2019s Word Recently I was blocked from reserving vacation weeks with my time-shares for non-payment of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}