Guest Host Jonathan Gilliam shares a story about a $20 bill and how God changed his life with a simple gift.. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| I want to share with everybody, because we're close to Christmas. | |
| The uh a story about the small silent voice or whisper of God that's in our heads all the time that uh we tend to ignore because of our busy lives, because of our jobs or our drama that's going on in our families. | |
| Because we've heard Lena Dunham say something that's absolutely stupid. | |
| But here's what I want you all to hear, because I know we all have these stories. | |
| Maybe you didn't know who was talking to you in your mind. | |
| I was working at a gym in in uh Pasadena, California. | |
| Uh this is back in, I don't know, like 88, 1988. | |
| 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, 24-hour gym. | |
| I don't even know if they knew. | |
| I'll just go throw 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 a guy comes in and says, Hey, I'm a Marine from Camp Pendleton. | |
| Uh 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 Pimps, and can somebody give me $20? | |
| Well, I just gone back to work, and all I had in my pocket was $20. | |
| I kid you not, I 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, nah, 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, give him your twenty dollars. | |
| I kept saying to myself, no, I'm not gonna give him that twenty dollars, it's all I got left. | |
| And I'm not gonna get paid for another week. | |
| I'm tired eating beanie weenies and chili every day at the 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 I said, Hey, listen, here's 20 bucks. | |
| And uh God bless you, and thank you for your service. | |
| He said, Well, give me your address, I'll send it back. | |
| I said, 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. | |
| 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 want to 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 on, it's got a cross on it. | |
| 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'd gave this guy twenty dollars. | |
| I didn't tell him that I didn't have any more money. | |
| I just told him I'd give him this guy twenty dollars. | |
| And we talked a little bit more, and I said, nice to meet you, hope to talk to you again. | |
| He he goes to walk off. | |
| He turns around, he says, You know what? | |
| He reaches his back pocket, he pulls out 40 dollars, and he hands me 40 dollars. | |
| And I said, What's that for? | |
| 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 through SEAL 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 that 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 listened to 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 them out. | |
| If you have faith, he'll restore what you have and end some. | |
| You want smart political talk without the meltdowns? | |
| We got you. | |
| I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently. | |
| Normally is about real conversations. | |
| Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic. | |
| We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day. | |
| Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |