Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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I have a different perspective about the kingdom. You know, there is a lot of times we think that we have to be learned scholars in order to share our faith, but I just think of it differently. I think of the kingdom as my dad owns the company. I think about it as company business, and so my dad owns a company. I am not a hireling, I am not a poor pauper. I’m not on the outside. I’m on the inside because I’m born again. I’m I’m in the kingdom of God, and I need to go about My Father’s business. And the one thing that you have to realize is salvation is a gift. It’s not anything that anybody can earn. They can’t they can’t buy it. They can’t study it enough and get it. It’s a freebie. And so what I realize is, as as going about my Father’s business, he’s made salvation available to everyone. The only reason people don’t have that gift yet is because nobody’s offered it to them, or nobody has told them about it. And so I like to go around and and with this, with just the understanding that I’m just going to go give somebody their free gift and and they can’t earn it. They can’t, they can’t buy it. They can just, they can receive it, or they can reject it, but it’s available to them. And what happens to me a lot of times is when I see somebody in need, I feel a prompting by the Holy Spirit. I know it’s the Holy Spirit, because the first thing I want to do is, I want to run. I want to get out of there. I am too busy for this. I see a need. It’s like, oh, I don’t want to do this, but, but I’ve learned that that’s probably the Holy Spirit prompting me, because, you know, I just naturally don’t want to do it. So I’ll, I’ll sit and I’ll talk with somebody, and then when I hear what’s going on, I have an urgency to pray for them, but as I start, as I get ready to pray for them, I want to tell them, Listen. I will talk to God, and we will go to God with this, with this issue, but I want to tell you something. I know that God will do something for you. I know that God is going to intervene on your behalf. But you know, what’s better than just having God do something for you is, why don’t you come into the kingdom? And if you come into the kingdom, then you get the whole kit and caboodle. You get everything. Everything is available to you, and that relationship can not only help you in this situation, but it can help you for the rest of your life, and I’ve had just great success doing it that way. And again, it’s something that they can’t earn. I can offer it to them and give it to them, and I’ve, I don’t think I’ve ever had anybody turn it down. It surprises me when I’ll be at that point where I’ll say, well, what do you think? Do you think you want to accept Christ in your life? And they always go, yeah, okay, yeah. And so I don’t know why I’m always surprised by it, but I am and and then we’ll, we’ll say a prayer and bring them into the kingdom.