Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Barry Meguiar 00:00
Hey, Dave, great to have a few minutes with you. We were both laymen, but we’re both in full time ministry, right, right? I mean, isn’t that amazing, if you ever think that God would be using you every day to lead people to him, I mean, and things weren’t always great in your life. I mean, you had, you’ve come through some tough stuff, right, right?

Speaker 1 00:22
Yeah, you know, being raised a pastor’s kid, I knew the way to go, and for a few years, I chose to go the other way, and ended up in a horrible situation, almost took my own life. Lord pulled me out of that in a miraculous way, saved me. And now I told him, you know, because my next breath doesn’t belong to me, so I said it belongs to you. I’m gonna live my life for you, the rest of my days, yeah? And so that’s that’s

Barry Meguiar 00:47
for different set of reasons, same way, right? I owe everything to you. I’m all in. I shouldn’t be here, right? So I’m going to use every opportunity, yeah, that’s

Speaker 1 00:58
the truth, yeah. And to get to share the love of Christ, you know, the privilege? Yeah, I was telling you when I was telling you earlier, I was at this put in floors for a living. I was in this guy’s house, and he was over there, and I he, you know, just in the process of talking to him, I started witnessing to him, and he said, Don’t Save your breath. I’m already a member of hell. He said, I’m just not in yet. Why goodness? And, and I just kind of looked at him, and I was like, wow. And so I began sharing my testimony with him, you know. And, long story short, you know, God brought him a Bible and give to him, and he started reading his you came back with the Bible? Yeah, the very next

Barry Meguiar 01:36
day I came. So obviously, that first conversation, you made some progress, right him right where he was starting to listen,

Speaker 1 01:42
right? And the next day, I was finishing his job, and he came and brought me a tip, and he said, Here you go. And I said, Will you keep that and promise me you’ll read this book? Oh, and so he said, I will. And so I gave him that Bible. But, you know, a lot of his family had got to him and told him that he was, he was done, because, you see, the desperateness of where he was at. And so I just told him what, what he did for me, you know? I mean, I was gone, I mean, just in that same situation, yeah. And I just told him, Hey, man, this is what God did for me. There’s no respecter of persons. What he did for me. He’ll do for you. And he said, No, he wasn’t receiving it, you know. And, and I just said, Man, there is nothing that you have done that the blood of Christ will not cover, you know. And other and what you’ve been told by family members or whoever is not the truth. And I said, you’re living and believing a lie that you are already in hell, when the truth of the matter is that there’s no sin that you’ve committed that Christ cannot cover with his blood. And you can be brand new, you know, and, and sharing with him like that, and I could see the lights. Oh, man, he hadn’t heard that. Beginning to come on, because people can’t even comprehend that, right? It’s easy for us to right, for granted, right? They don’t realize that there’s a God who loves them. It’s true. I’m beyond God. Could never love me, right, right, right? And that’s the exact state he was in. It was just, it was already decided. And I said, Man, if you’re breathing, yeah, you know, and you can, if you’re still breathing, then Christ can save you.

Barry Meguiar 03:15
We’re so like, we could keep on sharing stories for hours and hours, but thanks for this little time we’ve had with you. Anyway, it’s been great.