Guest Host Jonathan Gilliam shares a story about a $20 bill and how God changed his life with a simple gift..
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Uh, this is back in I don't know, Like I'd had a motorcycle crash when I was living with my sister and she had to move and I had nowhere to live, basically, so I moved in the gym where I was working, and I lived upstairs in the gym, twenty four hour gym. I don't even know if they knew. I'll just go through a blanket down up there on some mats and go to sleep every night and get up and do my shift. And I was in uh the office one day, and and a guy comes in and says, hey, I'm a marine from Camp Pendleton. I um had a big breakup with my girlfriend and I lost all my money this weekend and I need to get back down to Camp Penpton. Can somebody give me twenty dollars? Well, I just gone back to work and all I had in my pocket was twenty dollars. A kid, you not, that was all I had was a twenty dollar bill. And I watched everybody in that office, who I knew they had money, They you know, said no, sorry, we don't have any money. We can't help you out. He went from person to person and they were kind of wanting to get him out of the gym. And this voice kept telling me giving your twenty dollars. I kept saying to myself, No, I'm not gonna give me that twenty dollars. It's all I got left, and I'm not gonna get paid for another week. I'm tired eating beanie wheenies and chili every day at the bar next door. So I followed the guy outside. I knew who was talking to me, and I walked up to the guy and said, hey, listen, here's twenty bucks, and uh god, bless you and thank you for service. He said, well, give me your dress. I'll send it back and said, no, no, no no, that's God's money. God told me to give you that money. Have a have a good trip. I hope everything works out with your fiance, your girlfriend. I never saw the guy again. About five minutes later, I'm sitting in the gym sweating because I don't know where I'm gonna get money to eat, and I don't wanna have to ask people for money. And but I I followed what God had told me. I followed that that's that whisper in your mind of what to do. And a few minutes later, this guy walks by. He's got this T shirt it's gonna cross on. It's about a music group. And I said, hey, I like your your T shirt there, brother, and uh, we started talking. I walked outside talking to him, and I mentioned to him, you know how important it is to listen to that voice, because this is a new lesson that had been pumped back into my brain. And um, I told him I gave this guy twenty dollars. I didn't tell him that I didn't have any more money. I just told him about giving this guy twenty dollars and we talked a little bit more and I said, nice to meet you. I hope to talk to again. He goes to walk off. He turns around, he says, you know what. He reaches his back pocket. He pulls out forty dollars and he hands me forty dollars and I said, what's that for. I said, God told me to give that to you, and I don't question God. I was shocked. I was shocked because I don't expect that to happen to people all the time. But in an instant, God had taught me a lesson, and that lesson carried forward my entire career, my entire life, all to steal training. When things were terrible and men were having to look at their souls and quit right there, I knew that God had told me to be there, and then if I persisted that I would be what he wanted me to be. Now, I'm no way shape or form the man that he wants me to be. I have my faults and I still have a long ways to go. But that lesson that I learned in an instant, because I list into that small voice, is a lesson that can pay off bigger than any college degree. Bigger than any going to performance of Hamilton and thinking that you know everything. Trust me, folks, Trust me. If you listen to God this Christmas, if somebody says they need something, help him out. If you have faith, he'll restore what you have, and in some