Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Barry Meguiar 00:03
We’re here with Bill Woods Jr, and you talk to me, you’re just off camera about I just love sharing my faith every day. What does that look like?

Speaker 1 00:10
So, it all started for me in Teen Challenge, they sent us to the streets, yes, when Koreatown was burning during the trials, okay, yeah, if I can say Rodney King, yeah, of course. The trials and they were bringing they were rioting, and people were bringing out TVs. They were bringing out all these since gunshots everywhere. Was not scared at all. For some reason I just, I didn’t care if I cover anything. You had a covering. I had a covering. Yeah, and the Spirit of God came on me, and I just started saying, you know, guys, God loves you. And my voice raised, and I said, you know, if you were to die today, what, would the Lord let you in? And for some reason, an audience came to me and my friend, Woody. He was of another color, and here was I, and we walked right in with the boldness of God.

Barry Meguiar 01:06
You say you like to share your faith every day. Let’s in a vacuum of that. What is that? What does that look like for you when you’re walking out on an average day and you’re watching for opportunities,

Speaker 1 01:16
for the needs that people have? Because I remember when I didn’t have anything and I was homeless. So what I do in the morning, I say, Lord, give me an opportunity. So I will put small packages of food, or I’ll put anything inside of my car that, I think, water on the ready, on the ready, in case you meet somebody, and which I do on a regular basis, when you meet somebody, when I do just, you know, I look for an opportunity, yeah. And I’ll say, you know, what’s your story? Yeah, you know.

Barry Meguiar 01:47
So you have a person a particular eye for people that, who shoes you, who walked in, yeah. And I’ll meet you neat you. You find somebody that’s down, maybe struggling with addictions, whatever, tattooed, whatever. And you, right? Does everybody explain this? Right? It happens quite often. And you just look for that kind of that’s, that’s your sweet spot. That is my sweet spot. Wow. And so what do you do when you see a person like that?

Speaker 1 02:13
I meet their need, and I just talk to them where they’re at and I say, hey, can I help you with something? Yeah, and I will meet their need. You love on them. I love on them. That’s it, and it’s happened from the high, from the high of highs to the low of lows. I’ve been able to pray with senators, even senators. I’ve been able to pray with the wholeness, the broken, the prostitutes. It doesn’t matter, and that’s something. It doesn’t matter.

Barry Meguiar 02:43
When you love on people, they don’t have to be like you. They just want your love. They want love, and they don’t care who’s given the love. It really doesn’t matter what we look like. I’m sharing most of the time with people who don’t look like me, and it almost makes the love more powerful, because why are you loving of me? They don’t understand it. It interrupts their lives. It Right?

Speaker 1 03:06
It does interrupt their lives sometimes, like, why are you doing this? But if you show it,

Barry Meguiar 03:12
can you give an example? Can you give, I mean, you got hundreds of can you give an example? What that looks like, something that happened recently, or something that you just think, here’s an example what that would look like.

Speaker 1 03:22
There was gentleman the other day walking across the parking lot, and he was screaming, just screaming out of his head. And I was thinking, what can I do? And the religious part wanted to just go do something, you know, pray over him, but instead, I just walked her and said, hey, can I know your name? And he stopped screaming, Hector, wow. And I said, are you hungry? He said, I am. Walked him over, got him a burger, sat down, and we ate

Barry Meguiar 03:54
you loved on him. We could all love on people.

Speaker 1 03:59
Nothing religious. It’s so simple, nothing religious. Just yeah, sat down and ate.

Barry Meguiar 04:04
Yeah, that’s sharing faith. That’s sharing. Now you want to connect it to God, oh yes, it’s not that. But the fact the matter is, when you love on people, and you’re doing it in the name of the Lord, you’re moving people closer to Jesus. It’s not getting on their knees. You’re not preaching to them. You’re not preaching a sermon to them. You’re just loving on them and building trust, yes, which is lost today, and then they can hear your words, right?

Speaker 1 04:28
Yes, and we’ll see him again, and we’ll see him again, yeah, day by day.

Barry Meguiar 04:33
Now you know his name, right? next time you see him, call out to him, and now you have relationship. You can’t rush it, can you? No, you can’t. I mean, in some ways, yelling the party you’re probably not going to leave. Probably not going to lead him to the Lord in that moment. That’s right. First, you have to build trust and really love on them, and that’s what you’re doing.

04:50
Yeah, that’s powerful. And he made it. That’s powerful.

Barry Meguiar 04:53
Thanks for joining us. Great to talk to you. You are. You’re a blessing. Keep doing what

04:57
you’re doing. Thank you.