Always Be Ready

I was in Detroit mission and I went to a conference it was a seriously hectic wonderful conference and I got to Detroit late in the evening on Friday and I thought so I was asleep before the before I hit the bill I mean I was out and it's 12.30 in the morning okay got this 12.30 a.m. to huge black guys he busting through my door I had the latch you know broke right through that welcome to the ignite with Barry McGuire podcast where Barry's book and passion for spreading God's love are guaranteed to ignite your life now listen in and prepare to have your life ignited hi everybody welcome back to ignite I have a great story for you there's a scripture that we all know that I practice that I have for many years and and that is from first period three nineteen I think it is always be ready to give a clear presentation of the hope that's within you always be ready at any moment of course the theme of our ministry is move everybody every day closer to Jesus that's everybody not just one a day some ministry say find somebody today to share your faith with okay how do I pick one out of all the people gonna be with today that are and 80% of people run us or lost out of all the going to be with today that are lost and headed for hell how am I going to pick one and and how do I pick the right one and what about all the others I don't pick we just forget about them I mean just nothing go to hell I mean seriously it doesn't make any sense at all there's nothing scriptural about that even though we've heard that all our lives then they'll move everyone every day closer to Jesus I just think it was saved that that that happens on regular occasion for the most part it's a team sport and and you just want to move everybody every day closer to Jesus that I often tell you people who are in crisis don't waste it don't waste it what do you say about I'm in crisis here don't waste it if you are a follower of Jesus Christ and you share your faith he promises everything in life work together for good and you know my stories I have all kinds of stories about I went to hell but I never lost my faith that I use every one of those experiences to share my faith okay and so it's it's a big point I want to make it I have a great story for you I'm going to show you a fraud-free quick because I just walking by to come to my studio right now Bill Federer is a great author he's a great friend of mine Carl guy we see each other often events all over the United States and boy he chronicles from Bill Bible time to now how Satan does the same thing over and over and over and over again like creating the problem getting you to give up your freedoms and then solving the problem he created and then he owns you more it's but the scriptures he uses and the the life accounts of the bad guys the other side throughout the ages is spellbinding his so much information but in the midst of what do we do and he just brought this book the silence of consent okay he didn't know I'm doing this I this is not a better god damn but it is I love everything Bill's written but the silence of consent is basically saying would you don't say something and you know you should that's this it it equals consent it's it's basically I endorse what you're saying if I say quiet and you're saying something wrong and I don't say anything about it that it really endorses it it really does there's a there's a great scripture of course it says when you know what you should do you don't do it it's him so anyway I that's the long way around to go and say when when you least expect it expect it and I have one of those moments I got to tell you I was in Detroit mission last Friday okay and I've been through a conference and it was it was it was a seriously hectic wonderful conference and I got to to to Detroit late in the evening on Friday and I got tonight I'm gonna get a good night's sleep and I'll be out where it goes I have a really big weekend coming up so I was asleep before the before I hit the pillow I mean that was out and it's 12.30 in the morning okay got this 12.30 a.m. to huge I'm not being racist here just anywhere there two huge black guys came busting through my door I had the latch you know broke right through that and came rushing in at the foot of my head I wasn't laughing at the moment okay and looking back now it's kind of funny at the moment I was in shock I wasn't you know I did think about this I I care and I have not had fear for decades we don't fear anything because we know what when you live for God's purpose this is important when you live for God's purpose robots a 20 gives us this I think it's the second most luxurious promise in the Bible after John 316 he says for now until you get to heaven I ain't gonna make everything in your life work together for good wow that's the end of fear I don't have to fear and so when I was dying in the hospital when I had to join bench support against you I mean you know the stories I've had somebody to the wall to the to the brink several times and I've never had fear and I've just always wanted how God was going to get me out this fast scared I have to say okay God what do you have to now here we go again so I tell when things go wrong you start looking around at this time I didn't have a chance but it did look back really just a couple of days ago I was thinking in this experience I didn't have fear they could have killed me in an instant it certainly looked like they were going to but they're right in my right in the foot of my bed what do I do I said what are you guys doing as I happened I had care and I were in Dallas and she went back to Arizona and I went to Detroit and both our bags went to Arizona so they shipped it back and arrived like 11 o'clock at night and my driver said I will go and get it for you and bring it to the hotel and tell him to wait for you to come the next morning that's all they started talking about my bag and I said my bag well why would you they didn't call me they didn't knock on the door they tried their key and when it was lights they just barred right door and they didn't have my bag I said where's my bag oh it's downstairs nothing about it makes sense at all and they were flustered and mad and yelling at me and I'm saying why go and just bring me my bag so then I get a then I get a call from the desk manager from her home she calls me to tell me it was all my fault what it's 1 o'clock in the morning I'm 82 years old I just had two guys break into my room and she's telling me it's your fault because your driver told us to bring him that bag up to your room immediately well he didn't say that obviously that was not true and what I tried to tell her was it true she started yelling yelling at me oh my goodness this is so bizarre so I try to go back to sleep and kind of didn't and finally talk to the manager that it's morning and then she was wonderful and she was horrified and she moved me to another room give me to a different environment she's your room to pay for anything I can do for you and I said I that's all it takes is a sorry and you know the things happen it's really a matter of how you respond to what you do what you do in the afternoon you're doing everything honestly I just love what you're doing I appreciate you in fact can I give you a hug and yeah it's my hunger it was not what she was expecting okay now there's three options there one I'm 82 years old if I'd had a bad heart attack I got to tell you I couldn't easily had a heart attack and died that would have been a problem for them to to explain right if I was one of my friends who has a permit to carry keeps a gun by the side of the bed there's no question you got two big guys coming to write that shit 12 or you're gonna shoot him dead that could have been femo like that third option is I got attorneys if I want to make an issue that I can sue them for a whole lot of money they have no defense they broke in to a residence guest who was 80 years old at 12 30 I think I got some legal top ability there so that's going to be going through this manager's mind and everything instead I'm hugging her and say God bless her and when I got up at 5 30 I was leaving my room at 5 30 money more to fly home I got me because she said this I said it's not your fault she said it is my fault she's these people work for me there's gonna be consequences and you know for the time she told me that on on Saturday morning it bothered me and and I just think and I know that this is not right so when I left her message on Monday morning I said thank you I had a wonderful stay and because you all even come back and and and please don't fire anybody in my behalf please please don't do that now I feel terrible that it was a learning experience fair by so let's just take this for what it is okay and I love you and I got bless you bye bye now that was a just a natural reaction we want to move everybody you seize the opportunity to move everybody every day close to Jesus now here's and then I'll quit but just think of the turmoil when I talked to the operator at 5 30 she answered Brighton Sherry I think everybody's so treat him really good she was Brighton Sherry and when I told her I want to say thank you I don't know I'm gonna come back oh Mr. Roy you're gonna come back I mean from all she heard she'd never guessed that I would be saying that the point being throughout that hotel I suspect there was a lot of commotion about how they made such a horrible mistake and and how this Christmas a Christian and he loved on them and said God bless you and don't let anybody be fired you know what the testimony of that is I'm thinking about it now I didn't do it for that reason at the time but thinking about it the days since I think I everybody in that equation I moved everyone up closer to Jesus praise God take the bad stuff whatever is in use it to move everybody every day close to Jesus I mean that's what we get to do and look at which one it is all 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