Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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always great to be with you, Emman, and I’m reminded how it’s so much fun sharing stories. I love your heart. Tell me some of your most recent experiences, some that I haven’t heard before. Me and my friend were about to go to work, door knocking to sell some products, and right before we left, we said, hey, let’s pray to the Lord to help us impact somebody right before our day started. And I was okay, let’s do this. And so right before we went to a door knocking, we would stop at Starbucks to get something to drink. And out of nowhere, this guy approaches us, out of nowhere, and he’s like, hey, I overheard you guys this conversation. Are you guys Christian? And once again, we just prayed this prayer, God, use us today for your kingdom. And this guy approaches out of nowhere, and we’re like, yes, we actually are Christians. And out of nowhere, I kid you not, he starts bawling, crying hysterically, and we’re like, what’s going on? And he’s like, I just lost, at Starbucks, right? And he’s like, I just lost my job. I lost my wife. She left me everything. She’s going downhill. And you I heard you guys talking about God and church, and this is what I needed in my life. And he starts bawling even more, crying and crying. Once again, people are watching us in Starbucks, and so we decided to pray for him,

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encourage him, lead him to Jesus. He was all happy about it, and so I took him to church on Sunday. Church started at 8:30. Yeah, but he was there at seven o’clock. Oh, I need God. I need God. And the interesting thing about this, it wasn’t that we went to go look for it. We asked the Lord to give us an opportunity, and he came to us. And one of the things that I learned, a couple of things that I’ve learned, this is great. This is great. This is great stuff. Yeah, one of the things that we learned is this, is that the harvest is ready. We know that the scripture says it right. People are ready for the gospel. People are ready to hear about Jesus. They’re hungry. We’re in a pandemic. They’re going through some stuff and more any other time ever they need to hear Jesus. But we have this lie of the enemy that says nobody wants to hear about Jesus. Nobody cares. The reality is that most people do. We believe it, and what the Bible says is true. God’s allowing all this to get our attention. He’s getting our attention. Okay, if, if we weren’t in chaos, we’d be doing business as usual and ignoring God, whatever. Right now he has everybody’s attention. Yeah, it’s never been easier to talk about God loving them and giving the peace that only you, you know, you and I have, yeah, and it’s understanding that there is a harvest out there and people are ready to hear Jesus. And the second thing is that the Bible say, you know, pray to the Lord the harvest. And one of the things that I’ve learned is that, yes, we have to have this mindset and believe that people are ready to hear Jesus, and we have to have discernment, because there’s some fruits that are ready to be picked and harvested and there’s some that are not. And as we have to be obedient to the Holy Spirit and discern which is the fruit to be harvested and which is something that has to be way. Even Paul got redirected his path to a different direction because those people weren’t ready, or whatever it is. So I think it is our job to, number one, believe that there’s a harvest and people are ready, and number two, be LISTEN to the Holy Spirit, to have him discerned which situation to take. And like you said, I’ve heard you say before, move everybody. Every day, move everybody. And sometimes you might lead them to Jesus, sometimes not. But even if you share Jesus and don’t get saved, you planted a seed or you want, you still move them. You’ve advanced the cause. Yeah, it’s a team sport. It’s a team effort, right? Yeah. And what I’ve learned is that God’s already working in them. So this usually people’s response is, like, I’ve been praying about this, or I had this conversation, or somebody told me about God, and you’re just exposing it. You’re just taking it out. And the third thing that I’ve learned is Luke12:12, that the Holy Spirit will give you the right word to say while you’re standing there. And so sometimes we get so caught off like I don’t know if I had the knowledge or the experience, you don’t need it. You just need to be obedient. So understand that the heart is ready. Number two, be sensitive to the Spirit. And number three, God will give you the right words to say there. So when we trust God, and he does every time, yeah, every single time you step out there, he gives you the words every time, yeah, fail, yeah. And what does that do for your faith? I mean, sometimes you even speak stuff you don’t even know where it came from. Oh my gosh. And you’ll bring up verses that you’re like, I haven’t, I didn’t know. I knew this verse. He uses you as amazing and powerful. People don’t know it’s fun. They don’t understand that, yeah, it is fun. It is amazing. And how he directs our steps. The steps of the righteous are direction of the Lord, but He also directs their steps. Of course, he divine encounters. He knew if he could get that guy into that Starbucks right at that moment, close enough to hear you pray, right? Think all God had to do to orchestrate that, that encounter, who did all the work? It was the Lord. He did the work. He did the work. We’re just, yeah, we’re just taking the hardest right. Love your heart. We got to keep talking. I’ll keep checking back with you. Okay? Bless you. God bless you, my friend.