Everyday Encounters: Ministry in Action

About a week later I get a text from my wife says Ron is ready so I turn around I go back over there Get in there. I'm getting ready to pray with Ron Lead him to the Lord right there in this kitchen and and so we're getting ready to pray in his wife stand over there And look what and I said why don't you come on over here, too? She comes over there. We grab hands, you know, and and let them both the Lord right there 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 They great to have a few minutes with you. We were both layman or both in full-time ministry, right? Absolutely. It's for your foreign business for you and opportunity to Opportunity you have every day, right? It's an inside job. I mean, I Look it at that way the Lord's giving me an opportunity to walk right into the home. Oh my god Into the homes and talked to him about the Lord, you know, just Man that was he was dying of a cancer and he was very sick, you know, and his wife says well This is Ron and you know, and he said yeah, I'm the invalid He was turned he was turned the other way and I said when I got talking to him I said wrong can I pray for you? I believe the Lord's the healer. He can heal you and and he said He was just standing there and trying to decide if he wanted to let me pray for him or not, you know What did I pray for him and put my hands on him and started praying over him right there and When I opened my eyes he had tears coming down his face both sides and he said When you was praying for me, he said I felt something in my body that I've never felt before in my entire life And he said I'm not sure what that was, but that was incredible And I said, man, that's a principal Lord, you know, and right then I asked him Hey, Ron, do you want to receive the Lord in your heart? And he said no He said no, I don't and and he said I'm not ready and I said wrong This is my phone number because I was finishing his job About a week later, I get a text from his wife says Ron is ready So I turn around I go back over there Get in there and I'm getting ready to pray with Ron lead him to the Lord right there in his kitchen and and so we're getting ready to pray in his wife Stand over there in the corner and I said why don't you come on over here, too? She comes over there. We grab hands You know and and lead them both to the Lord right there One month goes by and that lady calls me and she says I want to tell you And say thank you for you know listening to the Lord because she said Ron has gone home to be with the Lord You know and it's just it's just a way of So many times we may feel insecure. We don't have the right whatever you step out there in faith and let the Lord You know and and Ron is in heaven today because You know, can you can you can you match that with anything in life? Is there anything more exciting in life? No the noise runs and they haven't right now. You don't get no better You know, he doesn't get any better There's the greatest experience in all of human experience. There's just a thing that matches that So you're you have a daily experience you get to go to people's homes. Oh man, and the boy do you see stuff, right? Oh, yeah, just Recently I was at a job and I was talking with this guy on the phone and I was trying to witness to him and lead him to the Lord I was he is an old friend of mine. I was talking to him and he was so Shooting me down every time. I would say that's a blessing to the Lord. He'd say that's karma That's that's what you call that karma. So this has been going on for a while. Yeah, well, I was at a job and I was Trying to talk to him and he wasn't receiving it. I was here. This was at the job right yeah He was blowing it off his karma right karma and all this stuff You know, okay, and and so I'm trying and I said Lord. I'm not getting through you know I'm not I have this I want to say something that penetrates. I wasn't feeling Yeah, well in the meantime I'm at this job and the painters are there and this guy's walking back and forth and He's walking right by and comes back and when I get off the phone. He says where do you go to church at? And I said I go to you know International worship center and he says well that's interesting. He said and I said how do you know I go to church? And he said I was over listening to your conversation and he said you said something in that conversation That I've been praying for two weeks He said I've been asking the Lord. I don't want to make any decisions in my life without asking you first and he said You told that guy on the phone that you didn't want to make any decisions without asking God first and he goes I feel like that's some kind of a sign and I said Do you think yeah, and so I wow you know met him at the job He has been coming to the church. Oh my goodness. He's plugged in. He's in the discipleship classes Oh my he brings his wife and his children They're growing in the things of God That's just been a month ago right now and I just to see him growing and You're focused on your old friend here not even realizing Correct you're being listened to you by some over here who responds had no idea and you get to go right into their homes Yeah, see them firsthand. Absolutely. What a lot of people. Yeah, you're not there by accident. No Yeah, great to be with you. 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