Are You Ignoring God's Divine Appointments?

And as I'm going through the line I step up to the checker and she says to me man I'm sorry for the wait. No problem. As I'm talking with her where you find all this stuff I'm able to share with her just about my church and what I'm doing whether it's junior high or some event I'm doing and before I leave there I say listen I'd love to invite you to come to church sometime. Well this particular checker her name was Andra and I would look for Andra every time I went in Walmart. For seven years I looked for Andra. 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. Today I just want to be able to share with you the great opportunity and the importance of every Christian being able to share their faith. Matthew tells us that we are the light of the world a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. So if you can hide it you don't have it and it's something that lives in us every day everywhere we go and God wants to use this in that way. I want to share one story with you today that happened in Walmart. So we all shop we all go around I call that my ministry my shopping ministry and when I go in Walmart when I get out of the truck I've learned over the years to say Lord here's my list but what mission do you have me on today. I may walk in and I may have nothing but there are times that there's divine appointments and divine interruptions I want to share one of those with you today as I'm standing in line in Walmart I will look for the longest line at times because it's become my mission field and I'm smiling I'm already doing something that most people are not doing in Walmart because I prayed before I went in but as I'm standing in line and talking with people in the line there just becomes something that happens in that line with everybody but that checker that's at that that cash register she's under pressure when people are in line so I'm smiling and talking and I'm usually buying product that has something to do with ministry and as I'm going through the line I step up to the checker and she says to me man I'm sorry for the wait no problem as I'm talking with her well where you buying all this stuff I'm able to share with her just about my church and what I'm doing whether it's junior high or some event I'm doing and before I leave there I say listen I'd love to invite you to come to church sometime well this particular checker her name was Andra and I would look for Andra every time I went in Walmart for seven years I looked for Andra and so one day I'm coming in the garden department and Andra was at that that check out register and she came over to me and she said would you pray with me I don't know how she knew I was a pastor I have no idea but I told her yes I'd pray we prayed in the plants I've prayed with people in the towel aisle but is this went on with Andra about two years ago I'm walking across my campus to walk over to the next building and I'm in the crosswalk and there's Andra I'm like Andra what are you doing here she said I came to church I want she didn't go to Andra gave her heart to Christ she started coming to church to this day Andra not only attends one of our campuses but she's involved in ministry I show up in an outreach and Andra's there can you imagine if I had not smile in the line if I hadn't allowed Jesus to be the light of the world I didn't have to get on the loudspeaker and say we're having revival in aisle three all I had to do was show the love of Christ and I want to encourage you today to know that wherever you're at wherever you go there are divine appointments and divine interruptions that God has called you to you are the light of the world he says that he knows the plans he has for us Ephesians 210 for you are God's masterpiece creating Christ Jesus to do good works that he already planned in advance for you to do don't miss one of those divine appointments that God already has scheduled for you in your day if you enjoyed today's episode let us know and don't forget to subscribe rate and review to help us reach more listeners remember sharing your faith ignites your faith see you next time on the ignite with Barry McGuire podcast