Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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It’s always great to be with Emman, and I’m reminded how those of us are part of the body of Christ, we’re all the same. We’re family. You know, yes, people might look at us, but just say, those two guys pray, don’t even know each other. You know, he’s an old guy.

00:20
But when we’re together, sharing, it’s just, it’s so much fun sharing stories. I love your heart, yeah? Yeah. Well, Jesus is upon us, right? And in us, and so that’s the thing we reflect. It’s love and His joy. Yeah, amen. Have you always, I mean, how, how far back were you sharing your faith? It seems like you’ve been doing you. You didn’t just start. You’ve been sharing your faith for a long time. Yeah. How far back does it go for you? You know what? I was trying to share my faith because I was like a teenager, a young boy, as well. But I do remember there was a shifting point in my life that really motivated even more and realigned me to why I share my faith. And I was in high school, I had a friend. His name is Brent, and we had a guitar class together, and the Lord put it in my heart, share my love with him, but he was one of those cool, popular guys that everyone loved, the part of, the party guy. And I kept making excuses. I don’t

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want to Yeah, I’ll do it tomorrow, but it was so heavily. It was like it was in God’s voice, in your heart, it was like in your belly. It was that strong. But I kept making excuses. I didn’t do it. We call that the nudge, the nudge, you get this nudge, oh, man, I always have to follow the nudge. You know, you should do this. I don’t want to do this, but you should do this. When you follow the nudge, you live in the fog. You live in the favor of God, yeah. And I would love to say that it was like I was obedient, but I was kind of disobedient. I kept pushing back one of our biggest, you’re speaking about 99% of people that are watching us, right? And I think a lot of us, we would deal with this thing that I like, spiritual procrastination. There’s no accountability to it with your prayer life, your biblical life for sharing. So I think sometimes, spiritual procrastination, something that pushes us away from the will of God, I wonder, right? We don’t have to imagine very hard to understand what you’re talking about. There’s no accountability. But anyway, so I felt nudged to share Jesus, but I had just approached him and asked him a question, and I’m like, hey, Brent, why is it that you party and do all this stuff? And he said, his face, his tone changed. He’s like, you know, what can I be honest with you, Emman? And I was like, Sure, he’s like, I actually don’t like partying. I don’t like drinking. I don’t like doing alcohol. The only reason why is because I’m known as a party guy, and they accept me, but I honestly hate it. And at that moment, my everything that I thought about him just changed. The bell rang. I went home. I didn’t share Jesus with him, and so but in my mind, I was determined, God, on Monday, when I go back to school, I’m gonna share your love with him. I’m gonna share how good you are. There’s a facade in front of many people, yes. Could say most it’s a persona that they’ve created, yeah, as a protection for themselves. Get people to like them, yeah. And it’s amazing how fast you can pierce through that, oh my god, persona, if you see it there, beyond that, that’s not the real them. Yeah, hard. There’s person that God’s dealing with convicting, yeah, yeah. So you saw that kind of and so in that season. So I wanted on Monday, I was determining to share Jesus with him. So I get to school that next Monday, I walked into school and everybody was crying. And I’m like, what’s going on? They told me, didn’t you hear? I’m like, hear what? Brent, he passed away this weekend. And I’m like, what? Brent red hair, Brent guitar player, we played soccer together. He’s like, Yeah, he passed away. He was at a party, got drunk, they were boxing, and he fell, hit his head, and didn’t, didn’t make it. And I was heartbroken, and everybody was crying because he passed away, but I was crying because I was broken, because I had the opportunity to share Jesus with him, and I just kept procrastinating it. And so I was broken hearted. Oh, man, I had the opportunity, and I didn’t do it, and, and I went to my youth pastor, and he just kind of encouraged me say, Hey, man, well, take this as a lesson. You know, I’m pretty sure number one, somebody shared Jesus with him, so he had that opportunity. But secondly, make sure to never miss an opportunity, because God is tugging at your heart. And from that moment on, I committed myself to say, I will share Jesus no matter where I go. I’m not going to have another brand in my life. And we preach the gospel, because somebody we preach Jesus. And people say, well, you only preach Jesus because you might die today or die tomorrow. No, we preach Jesus because you might live today, or you might live tomorrow. And so from that moment on, it just encouraged me of the why. It’s not just sharing Jesus, but it’s also, like you said, a nudge or a timely manner. We have to be obedient to that. So ever since then, that pushed me forward to be more, more enthusiastic, more of this is my purpose. This is the reason why I’m here to share the love of God. We don’t know God’s timing, but when you get that nudge, God’s serious. Yes, once you learn that lesson, you know that you can’t depend on people, that you’re going to have many other opportunities. We don’t know, yeah, and there’s a timely thing that God just puts in our heart, and we have to be obedient to that because.

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When we procrastinate or push it later. Man, you never know you’re putting your own agenda into the situation. Boy, I really are Emman. I love your heart, man. Love you too.

05:09
fun hanging out with you and man, think of what we have ahead of us right now, right at this moment. I mean, every day it gets darker and darker and the darker it gets, the easier it is, and do exactly what you’re talking about. Thank you, Emman. God bless you.