Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Barry Meguiar 00:03
Well, Joseph, thanks for spending a little time with us this morning. And I talked to you about you, you, you entered into this relationship, this personal relationship, with Jesus. So how did what did that do for you, and how did it impact the people around you?

Speaker 1 00:17
Yeah, definitely. So I would begin to do the things that I knew that I should have been doing okay. So I would pray. I’d read my word and it, it tended to, it began to impact more now that I had a personal relationship, it wasn’t just deeds and doings of things. And I remember going in and, and being able to share those experiences and the things that I’ve been experiencing with others. And I remember I ever so vaguely, there was a girl that I worked with, and I remember I had a Bible, and I’d always write in it, and I had it there, and I was just like, the Holy Spirit told me, Hey, you’re gonna give this Bible to her. And I was like, Well, I just bought this Bible. Why would I give you know, and, but it was obedience, obedience, and, and so I said, okay, so I remember I had it. And shift started, walked in, handed it to her, and she was like, Oh, well, thank you, you know. And I remember reading. I was reading. I was sitting there reading a couple times that she asked about it, and so I read it to her, and she said, well, that doesn’t sound like, that doesn’t sound complicated. She’s like, I’ve always heard that the Bible was like, you know, very, you know, like, it’s in this range where you have to reach up for, you know, to get it. And I said, no, and I read her some. I read her it was the Gospels, and I remember reading it was in John. So, I read it to her, and she said, that sounds very like simple, you know. And I said, Well, now this is yours, so go ahead and read it. And I remember she started reading it, and she came back the next day, and she was excited. She was like, wow, that it was very enjoyable. And this coming from, she was Asian, and so she didn’t have any Christianity thrown onto her. It was new. It was new, yeah, you know. And she was, she was interested. And then she said, well, what church do you go to? So I share, I share with her. And she said, well, you know, maybe I’ll go with you. And I said, Okay. And so, I always had Saturdays off, and I said, come on down. Come with me. There’s a service on Saturday. There’s a service on Sunday. Check it out. And so we went, and I remember experiencing that with her, and not having to force anything with her, and just and her sitting there in that same presence, getting her into God’s presence, and then God doing the changing, you know, he touched her, yeah, you know. And even to this day, I still, I still think about her, and she’ll call and she knows me and my wife very closely. And, you know, just to see a change like that, just to see a change like that, and to know that I had that God chose me, yeah, God chose me, yeah, He said, hey, yeah, you’re gonna impact this individual’s life. You know, no one, maybe somebody else fancier or special could do it. But no, I’m gonna choose you and, and to see that happen. That’s that, right? There is where the

Barry Meguiar 03:23
impact, there’s no greater experience, yeah, in the human experience, you know, 100 years from now, if we’re Christian, the only thing will matter, 100 years from now, how many people will be in heaven because of our influence? Yeah, you know, for eternity, she’s gonna be in heaven. Yeah, you’re gonna, you’re gonna celebrate that for, yeah, for eternity, exactly, exactly, return. Yeah, thank you, Joseph, this was very special time. Thanks for being with us. My pleasure.