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Start your day with prayer.

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Say, Lord, open my eyes and how you

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want to use me.

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Show me the way you want me to

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go.

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And then when you have a little idea,

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even if it seems silly and you think

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they're gonna reject you, you're like, just do

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it.

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Consider it from the Lord.

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It's love, it's kindness.

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And don't let opportunities pass you by.

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Welcome to the Ignite with Barry Meguiar podcast,

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where Barry's book and passion for spreading God's

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love are guaranteed to ignite your life.

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Now listen in and prepare to have your

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life ignited.

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I'm here with Christi Sanchez-Cochran and Christi,

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we were talking off camera.

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I love your passion.

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I love your passion.

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I mean, you love sharing your faith, don't

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you?

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I do, I do a lot.

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How about when you're out and about and

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it's just, when you least expect it, expect

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it, right?

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Yeah, there was the post office lady.

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So she, and this was like around our

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neighborhood and she was, you know, and it

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started to get pretty dark in the evening

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and she was still loading up the mailboxes.

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And me and my kids were out for

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a little walk.

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And so just happily ending the day and

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I could just see as we're walking by

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her, she was, yeah, not too thrilled.

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And so when I walked by, hi, good

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evening, how are you?

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How are you doing?

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Okay, are you cold?

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Oh no, I'm just really just tired.

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Okay, and so we kept walking and the

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Lord said she needs, she needs just to

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know I'm loving on her.

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And so actually what we did, I said,

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you know what, it's kind of cold kids.

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Let's go get some hot tea.

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That's an idea from the Lord, some hot

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tea and just deliver it to her, right?

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And hopefully she'll accept it.

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But that, when we came back with the

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tea and I was like, you want herbal

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tea or an open glass tea?

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We just wanted to love on you and

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just show you that God loves you.

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She had some tears in her eyes and

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she's like, I'm just, it's been a bad

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day.

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And there we had this little conversation about

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what her life was like.

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She will remember that the rest of her

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life.

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And you know, most people don't see Christians

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as loving.

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And so when we, it's not just giving

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the cup of cold water.

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It's giving the cup of cold water in

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Jesus' name.

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And they see that and all of a

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sudden it's like, that's a Christian.

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I didn't think Christians were loving.

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And here's a Christian that cared enough to

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go to all that work to bring me

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some hot tea into my hard day out

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here in the cold.

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Right, and at first I thought this was

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kind of silly.

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I'm like, this is kind of like a

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silly idea.

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She doesn't know me.

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What if she says no thank you?

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See, that's sharing faith.

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That's sharing faith.

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What we think of sharing faith is getting

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down on their knees and getting the sinner's

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prayer.

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And we think we got to do that

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every time.

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That rarely happens.

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Sharing your faith is moving everybody every day

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close to Jesus and loving on everybody.

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And when they see that love is authentic

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and they know it's from God, you've just

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moved them closer to Jesus.

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And you don't know where you were in

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that progression of her life of 14 or

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15 or 20 people, but you were definitely

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one of those.

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And you moved her closer to Jesus by

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your love.

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A central act of kindness in Jesus' name,

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right?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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That's pretty cool.

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What would you say to somebody who's not

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thought about on a personal basis being making

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a difference in people's lives?

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What would you say?

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I would say, number one, start your day

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with prayer.

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Say, Lord, open my eyes and how you

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want to use me.

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Show me the way you want me to

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go.

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And then when you have a little idea,

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even if it seems silly and you think

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they're going to reject you, you're like, just

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do it.

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Consider it from the Lord.

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It's love, it's kindness.

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And don't let opportunities pass you by.

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Because we know for every one time we

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thought, I should love on this stranger or

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text this person or whatever, there's probably so

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many where we said, someone else will help

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that person.

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They're all around us.

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Right, or I don't want to seem silly.

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When you realize that 90% of the

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people around us are lost.

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And he says, love them all as your

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neighbor.

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I mean, we have responsibility.

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Our responsibility to get as many people into

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heaven as possible before the Lord returned.

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Absolutely.

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That is our, not just our number one

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calling, that is our life, right?

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From this day forward.

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Yes, because there's a lot at stake.

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That's the thing.

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If you realize how much is at stake

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here, then you're moved.

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You can't help it.

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It's a team sport.

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You help that postal lady.

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Did you lead the Lord?

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No, he didn't.

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But you moved her closer to Jesus.

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I'll tell you.

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And God will bring other people.

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Yeah, and when she sees me now, there's

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been times where she's just like, would you

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mind praying for me?

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Wow.

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And so we've gotta be, I think, really

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excited to be utterly amazed with how God

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is moving.

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In the grocery store, on the sidewalks, in

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our own personal circle of friends and family,

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because he will.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, the joy of the Lord is all

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over you.

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Oh, thank you.

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And you're a busy mom.

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You have a busy life, you know, but

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your number one calling is let that light

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shine and move everybody every day closer to

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Jesus.

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You're doing that so well.

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Great to hear you.

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Thank you for joining us.

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You're welcome.

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