Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Barry Meguiar 00:00
Hey, Dave, great to have a few minutes with you. We, we’re both laymen, but we’re both in full time ministry, right?

Speaker 1:
Absolutely.

Barry Meguiar:
And so your flooring business puts you in opportunity, the opportunity you have every day, right?

Speaker 1 00:14
It’s an inside job. I mean, I look at it that way, the Lord has given me an opportunity to walk right into the home, oh, my, right into the homes, and talk to him about the Lord, you know, just a man that was, he was dying of cancer, and he was very sick, you know? And his wife says: “well, this is Ron”, and, you know? And he said, “Yeah, I’m the invalid”. And it turned, he was turned the other way. And I said when I got talking to him, I said, “Ron, can I pray for you? I believe the Lord’s a healer. He can heal you”. And he said, he was just standing there and trying to decide if he wanted to let me pray for him or not, you know? Well, I did. I prayed for him and put my hands on him and started praying over him right there. And when I opened my eyes, he had tears coming down his face, both sides. And he said, when he was praying for me, he said: “I felt something in my body that I’ve never felt before in my entire life”. And he said: “I’m not sure what that was, but that was incredible”. And I said: “Man, that’s the prince of the Lord, you know?” And right then I asked him “hey, Ron, do you want to receive the Lord in your heart?” And he said no. He said: “No, I don’t” and, and he said, “I’m not ready”. And I said: “Ron, this is my phone number” because I was finishing his job. But a week later, I get a text from his wife says, Ron is ready. So I turn around, I go back over there, get in there, and I’m getting ready to pray with Ron, lead him to the Lord right there in his kitchen and, and so we’re getting ready to pray, and his wife’s standing over there in the corner, and I said “Why don’t you come on over here too?” She comes over there. We grab hands, you know, and led them both to the Lord right there. One month goes by, that lady calls me and she says, “I want to tell you and say, Thank you for, you know, listening to the Lord”, because she said, “Ron has gone home to be with the Lord”, you know. And it’s just, it’s just a way of so many times we may feel insecure, we don’t have the right whatever you step out there in faith and let the Lord, you know, and, and Ron is in heaven today, because, you know…

Barry Meguiar 02:23
Can you match that with anything in life? Is there anything more exciting in life? No. Iran’s in heaven right now.

Speaker 1:
It don’t get no better, you know

Barry Meguiar:
He doesn’t get any better now. There’s his greatest experience in all of human experience. There’s nothing that matches that. So you’re you have a daily experience. You get to go into people’s homes. Do you see stuff, right?

Speaker 1 02:49
Oh yeah, just recently, I was at a job, and I was talking with this guy on the phone, and I was trying to witness to him and lead him to the Lord. I was, is an old friend of mine. I was talking to him, and he was so shooting me down every time, I would say, massive blessings of the Lord, he’d say, “That’s karma. That’s, that’s what you call as karma”.

Barry Meguiar 03:06
So this has been going on for a while?

Speaker 1 03:09
Yeah. Well, I was at a job, and I was trying to talk to him, and he wasn’t receiving and

Barry Meguiar 03:13
obviously this was at the job, right? Yeah, he was blowing it off as karma, right?

Speaker 1 03:18
Karma and all this stuff, you know? Okay, and, and so I’m trying. And I said, Lord, I’m not getting through, you know, I’m not this. I want to say something that penetrates, I wasn’t feeling, yeah, well, in the meantime, I’m at this job, and the painters are there, and this guy’s walking back and forth, and he’s walking right by and comes back. And when I get off the phone, he says, “Where do you go to church at?” and I said, “I go to, you know, international Worship Center”. And he says, “Well, that’s interesting”. He said, I said, “How’d you know I go to church?” And he said, “I was over listening to your conversation”. And he said, “you said something in that conversation that I’ve been praying for two weeks”. He said, “I’ve been asking the Lord, I don’t want to make any decisions in my life without asking you first”. And he said, “You told that guy on the phone that you didn’t want to make any decisions without asking God first”. And he goes, “I feel like that’s some kind of a sign”. And I said,

Barry Meguiar 04:12
Do you think?

Speaker 1 04:14
Yeah. And so, you know, met him at the job. He has been coming to the church. He’s plugged in. He’s in the discipleship classes. He brings his wife and his children. They’re growing in the things of God. That’s just been a month ago right now. And I just to see him growing.

Barry Meguiar 04:33
And so you’re focused on your old friend here, not even realizing you’re being listened to by some over here who respond.

Speaker 1:
Had no idea,

Barry Meguiar:
and you get to go right into their homes. Yeah. See them firsthand. Absolutely. What an opportunity. You’re not there by accident. No. Praise God. Yeah, great to be with you. Yeah? So much.