From Prison to Purpose

Jesus set this moment up in time for me to tell you about his love and he sent me to help you. It wasn't me. It was God and how much he loves you. He sent me to help you. Ain't that amazing, man? I just want to tell you that Jesus loves you and the guy began to cry. I began to minister to him and tell him about my life as a gang member and how God changed my life when I had no hope and I didn't think I was ever going to get out of this life. He changed my life. 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, my name is Dante Heath. I'm a my career. I'm a well I'm a well inspector in the oil fields but my major career the one that I love the one that I'm so doubt to is I'm a Christian. I follow Jesus. I love Jesus. I want to tell everybody about Jesus. Like when I met my wife, I told everyone about her and that's how I feel about Jesus or even more. I tell everywhere I go, I try to tell somebody about the love of Christ and what he done for me. Amen. And I want to share a couple of stories with you guys. Wanted to stop by the store when we were driving down the street. We saw a store on the side of the road. So we stopped. Got out. I got out the car. Went in to get me a drink because I was thirsty as I come out. This guy asked me for some change. And I was like, whoa, yes. Thank you, Jesus. An opportunity to tell someone about your love. So I I set there. I listened to the God. I don't give them the money right away because that's like a little bait just hanging there. Just we know that's I hate to say it like that but that's what it was. It was bait. Baked for Jesus is what I call it. And so I'm talking to the guy and I'm listening to his story. He just stuck here. He met a girl and and she kicked him out in the week. He's from Los Angeles and he's been stranded in Vegas for like a year and a half. And so I told him, you know what? I want to help you but I want to tell you something. Jesus set this moment up in time for me to tell you about his love and he sent me to help you. It wasn't me. It was God and how much he loves you. He sent me to help you. Ain't that amazing man? I just want to tell you that Jesus loves you and the guy began to cry. And I began to minister to him and tell him about my life as a gang member and being in prison and how God changed my life when I had no hope and I didn't think I was ever going to get out of this life. And when I called on the name of Jesus, he changed my life. He changed my way of thinking. He changed my heart. He changed my situation. He changed my circumstance. I'll begin to tell this guy and his eyes lit up and he just grabbed me and struck crying. And he said, and I told him, I said, do you want today for your life to be different? And he said, he was crying. He said, yes, yes. I wanted to. I want what you got. And so I said, say this prayer with me. And we begin to say the prayer. I don't remember exactly who I told him because I do it different every time. But he gave his life to Jesus. He gave his life to Jesus. And I said, you know what, man? God would put it on my heart. I said, you meet me at the Greyhound bus station tomorrow and I'll send you back. So all night, this guy called me. I gave him a number all night. He's calling me. He's calling me all night. So all night, I'm giving him scripts for I'm ministering to him. So I'm not lying to you. I'm not lying. I'll be there. He called me again. Are you going to be there? Are you going to be there? I said, I'm going to be there. Guess what? I was running a little late. I was running a little late. The Greyhound bus station. This guy almost went to jail. They wouldn't let him in. He was they thought he was just hanging around. Lorda. And so I got there. I could see his face. He lost hope. I said, man, I'm sorry. I'm here. I'm here. I gave him the money. I prayed with him. Me and my wife and my children prayed with him. He got his ticket, got on the bus and he's back in Los Angeles with his family. And that just wore my heart so much. And that's all it takes. It's that easy. One of my one of my two of my favorite people in the Bible is Elijah and Stephen. The results are not us. We can't get mad when people rejected. They rejected Stephen. They beat him and they stone them. But he said, Father, do not hold this against them. Do not hold this against them, Lord. Forgive them. And that's all we got to do. All we got to do is we we get mad over just a simple rejection. He got stone. All we got to know that God has a final say and he plans the seeds. So I just want to tell you guys, go for it and give God glory and everything you do. And don't be scared to say, hey, Jesus loves you.