Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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Jenni, I love being with you. Every time I’m with you. You lift me up to a higher level. I think I’m pretty well in charge. You know, I’m kind of excited about sharing my faith, but then I meet you, and it’s like, whoa. I gotta get my act together here, you challenge me. Love it. And it’s great fun. We have a lot of fun. Give me a face sharing story right quick. One. Do you have a recent one? Something happened recently? Yes, just yesterday. Okay, okay, that’s recent enough. I go into Walmart. Day before yesterday. I go into Walmart and I’m, I’m just walking my cart around, looking around, and this guy is standing there in Walmart. He’s looking at, at this air mattress, and he looks at it and he puts it back, and he walks and he comes back, he looks at it again. And again. He puts it back and he walks. He comes back again. He looks at a cheaper one, puts it back and walks. I could not get away from this guy. I walked up to the guy and I said, Hey, who you buying that air mattress for? Wow. He said, My son. He said, My son is a drug addict and, and, and he, when he’s not on the streets, he comes and he sleeps at my house and on an air mattress. And the last one I bought him is, is, it blew out. And I just, I just can’t keep doing it. I can’t afford it. Yeah, I said, Brother, I can get you an air mattress. I can make it happen, if you’re willing to put your faith and walk away right now, give me your phone number, and if you can wait till Monday, I’ll make sure that you get an air mattress. Can you wait that long? He said, absolutely. He gave me his number right there on the spot. Gave me his number. Now, see, he trusted you. He trusts you because he saw your genuine. Yep, some good. That’s a spiritual feeling. Jesus. You just don’t just give out your number. Who is this crazy lady? But he trusted that quick. Yes, he saw you are sincere. That’s a Holy Spirit thing. And he opened up to me. And he opened up to you. There was a bonding. There was something supernatural going on there. He knew he could trust you that quickly, that quickly, he knew he could trust you. Exactly. He gives you his number, and he gives me his number. Two days later, yesterday, I go get my, get the air mattress. Sure enough, call him up. Hey, I got your air mattress. I can bring it to you tonight. By the time I’m able to bring this guy the air mattress, he gives me his address. Now, who does that? He gives me his address. It’s dark outside. And you’re a scary person. You know, really intimidating. Yeah, and His address is in a pretty scary side of town, really. Couple my friends are a little scared. And hey, Jenni, I don’t know if you should do this. This is, you know your, I said, No, this is my people. God’s got this. And when you’re on God’s mission, yes, you have guardian angels already. You do anyway, but particularly, then you’re pretty safe, absolutely. So I go to the guy’s house. He’s sitting on the front porch waiting for me,

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and there you showed up. And there I showed up. And he is, he’s, he’s just like, I cannot believe this is happening. His wife comes out to meet me. They open up, they start sharing. I didn’t tell him about church. I didn’t tell nothing with that. I just said, you know, I’ll tell you something about my life. There has been a time in my life when I was in need, and God sent somebody to take care of me, and now he’s sending me to take care of you. Yeah. And then the questions start flowing. And they start, where do you go to Church? What are you about? They want to know. How can you help our son, who is a drug addict, the doors open wide. Oh, my God. He gives me his card and says, if there is anything you need, I just made a friend for life. Just made a friend for life. The relationship is there now, it’s established. I just God opens doors. And what propelled you to do that, what compelled you do that, the love of God, yeah, the love of God manifested through you, manifested, materialize right there. It’s not hard, Barry, you can, you can spot a hungry soul from miles away. You can, you can spot, they’re around us. They’re everywhere, and you, all you got to do is pay attention and take time. Yeah, take time, and God always gives you the time back. Yeah, what a powerful story. Take your eyes off yourself. Look out there. Wow, everything changes. It’s always so much fun being with you. Hear your heart. Let’s, let’s keep doing this. Absolutely.