Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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Renee, I love being with you every time we get together. I mean, it’s like nuns,

00:07
you talk about our favorite subject, yeah, exactly, and, and it just goes on and on. I mean, sometimes we’re together for quite long periods of time, and we’re still sharing these stories back and forth. I I often say the the most fun conversations any you put any two faith shares together, and it’s it’s not one upping each other, but that reminds you, I was in a store like that once, and you just have all these stories, and it’s so fun to share them, right? It’s just amazing. Tell me some of your most recent experiences, some that I haven’t heard before.

00:40
I worked with a woman that we had a lot of conversations and work exchange via phone and computer, and

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we didn’t work but 150 miles away from each other, but every day, we were working on projects together. Yeah, and she was known in our company as being the tyrant. She can make you cry. Everybody was afraid of her. And so I thought, Well, Lord, why you have me working with she really made people cry.

01:10
She’d been in the company the longest, you know, she, she was, she was a, you know, tyrant and and people. I mean, when I came into the company, I was warned about her and and so I just started praying for her before I even started working with her. And lo and behold, we had to have some days together face to face, working on a project. And I had been praying for her for months, and maybe even a year at that point. And do you know that, as God would have it, we had to drive out. We were in oil, we had to drive out to several locations in the field, and hours and hours of driving together. And so we began to share. Couldn’t escape, yeah, she was trapped in my car, you know? So as we were traveling, she started sharing with me some of the hurt in her life, and at one point she even said, I don’t know why I’m telling you all of this, but you know, the Holy Spirit had prepared her and me, and she felt God’s presence in that car, because I asked for God’s presence to Be there, knowing she would be in the car, and God in His faithfulness through our days together. At the end of that time, there had been many tears and candid conversation with her, and at the end of that time, she did accept Christ. And you know, I got a call from a co worker at her corporate office where she worked and who was a believer, and she said she called me, she’s after that. She said, What happened with you and so and so? She said, She’s totally different. Everybody the office is talking about it, he’s changed a new creation, a new creation. It’s notable, right? When somebody is transformed by the power of Christ, it’s just like instantaneous these are divine appointments when God’s sovereignty moves in two lives, not just yours. He’s divinely bringing you to that moment, but she’s that her life’s a totally different life for her to get to that encounter God’s just at the perfect time comes in when she was vulnerable and open. Yeah, it just, you know, he’s you gotta remember, he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should have eternal life. And so those people that we have in our sphere of influence, those people are included, those people that we meet when we’re doing life, and, you know, we’re getting an Uber or we’re at the store, wherever we are, and look what he does. The payback is

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he gets have fun. We get to have fun every day. Yeah, it’s promise of joy every day. I mean, every day is an adventure. Every things couldn’t be darker, and yet it doesn’t really matter. In fact, the darker it gets, the easier it gets, yes, and almost the more fun it gets. The light shining. People are angry for what we have. Yeah, never. People don’t, ever turn away from God conversations now they want to know. They want to know, they want what we have. It’s the opposite this life and Satanism. We’re going to offend people all the all those excuses. You know, it’s incredible opportunity. You exhibit that so well. Every time I’m with you, I get you do too stories. It’s so much fun. And God bless you, my daughter, my my dear friend, you’re just very special. Thank you.