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Who Do You Belong To? · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Announcer: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends.
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Ron Meyers: It is so good to be with you today.
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Ron Meyers: Let me ask you a question.
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Ron Meyers: Who are you?
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Ron Meyers: Now most people answer that by talking about their job, their accomplishments, their failures, or even their past.
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Ron Meyers: But what if we've been asking the wrong question all along?
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Ron Meyers: Maybe the real question isn't who am I?
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Ron Meyers: Maybe it's whose am I?
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Ron Meyers: Today's guest, Benny, spent years chasing success, performing in a rock band and searching for something that always seemed just out of reach.
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Ron Meyers: He knew about Jesus, but like so many people, he hadn't experienced a personal relationship with him.
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Ron Meyers: Then one invitation, one encounter, one decision changed everything.
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Ron Meyers: As you listen today, I want to encourage you to do more than hear Benny's story.
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Ron Meyers: Listen for how God may be speaking to your own heart.
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Ron Meyers: Because the same Jesus who transformed Benny's life is still transforming lives today, including yours.
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Ron Meyers: Here's my conversation with Benny.
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Benny Dichara: So my dad, God bless him, and he was he grew up Roman Catholic because we're very Sicilian, right?
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Benny Dichara: My last name's Dicchiata in Italian.
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Benny Dichara: So that's it.
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Benny Dichara: And so he married my mother, who's not.
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Benny Dichara: And so the Roman Catholic Church back in the day, they said, Well, if you marry her, we're gonna excommunicate you.
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Benny Dichara: You do not marry out of the religion.
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Benny Dichara: So I was like, I don't get that, Ron.
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Benny Dichara: But so he's like, Well, enough of this.
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Benny Dichara: So my mom was Lutheran, so my dad went through adult catechism and they became Lutheran.
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Benny Dichara: So I was raised Lutheran in church every single Sunday with my parents, early service, like 6:37, kind of just crazy.
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Benny Dichara: And so if I would have died on Monday, I cannot sit in front of you and tell you I'd be in heaven.
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Benny Dichara: And this is being in church every single Sunday.
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Benny Dichara: I knew who Jesus was, but I did not know Jesus.
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, if that makes sense.
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Benny Dichara: That's how I was.
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Ron Meyers: Same way.
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Ron Meyers: People ask me, what was the change in your life?
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Ron Meyers: I went from a knowledge to a relationship.
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Ron Meyers: Absolutely.
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Ron Meyers: It really is different.
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Ron Meyers: It's that simple.
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Ron Meyers: There's always a point, Benny, that I talk to people that something drove them to ask who this Jesus was, whether it was drugs or alcohol or abuse.
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Ron Meyers: What drove you to find out who this Jesus was?
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Ron Meyers: All right.
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Benny Dichara: Well, here's the thing.
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Benny Dichara: It just this will be real.
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Benny Dichara: This will be real.
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Benny Dichara: So I got married at an early age.
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Benny Dichara: Got her confirmed because I thought that was important.
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Benny Dichara: We get married.
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Benny Dichara: You cannot change someone.
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Benny Dichara: I said it.
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Benny Dichara: You cannot change someone.
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Benny Dichara: Only God can do that.
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Benny Dichara: And so we were married for 10 and a half years.
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Benny Dichara: I had two beautiful children out of it.
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Benny Dichara: It was the craziest relationship, especially toward the end.
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Benny Dichara: And it it got ugly and mean.
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Benny Dichara: And that it's just, it was it was horrible.
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Benny Dichara: And so I'm trying to defend the kids and hide them from things.
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Benny Dichara: And you know there's an issue when that happens.
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Benny Dichara: Anyway, so we split, and it became everything that you hear the antithesis of split.
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Benny Dichara: You know, it's all about the money and this, that, and the other, and the kids, and it's a power thing.
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Benny Dichara: And I don't know if any of your listeners are going through that, but it is a real thing, right?
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Benny Dichara: And the devil is in complete control of that.
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Benny Dichara: His number one deal is division.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah.
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Benny Dichara: Divide and conquer.
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Benny Dichara: Divide and conquer.
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Benny Dichara: And then for me, I'm in church every Sunday with my family and children.
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Benny Dichara: And I still don't have enough to dial it up to God and just say, Jesus, can you please step in us and fix it?
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Benny Dichara: And so we wind up splitting back at that time when I had hair.
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Benny Dichara: I had a lot of it.
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Benny Dichara: And we did the, we did the rock tour circuit.
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Benny Dichara: I had a secular rock band.
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Benny Dichara: It was all original stuff.
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Benny Dichara: And we played like the coast and New Orleans all over the place and stuff, and saw things I never want my kids to see.
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Benny Dichara: And all of these things, and then some things went on with the band and in this relationship, it all kind of morphed together.
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Benny Dichara: And I was like, this is this is horrible.
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Benny Dichara: So so after we split, because I was stationed in Memphis, I moved back to Memphis and it was some distance away.
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Benny Dichara: In 1992, I moved back to Louisiana and I moved to Baton Rouge.
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Benny Dichara: Once I was there, just did a whole bunch of management type jobs, everything.
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Benny Dichara: I got invited one day to this business function that were run by very serious Christian people.
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Benny Dichara: Not Christian in the sense of the word Christian, but they had the Holy Spirit fire in them.
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Benny Dichara: Like I've never seen that in business people.
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Benny Dichara: And they started quoting things that I'd never heard before.
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Benny Dichara: And I've been in church every Sunday, right?
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Benny Dichara: As a matter of fact, if it wasn't in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, I didn't know about it, basically.
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Benny Dichara: So we're we're we're talking at this thing, and they do a little altar call at the end because they like in business, the only way you succeed in business is if you succeed in him.
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Benny Dichara: I mean, that's one of the things, right?
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Benny Dichara: And so, and I'm like, I don't, so I go down and I get a little, I get a little paperback Bible from him because I didn't have one in the house.
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Benny Dichara: And God just compelled me to go down and get one.
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Benny Dichara: And I didn't, I did not get saved.
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Benny Dichara: I did not do an altar call thing.
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Benny Dichara: I'm wicked at the Bible and went back and I sat down.
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Benny Dichara: So, but at that point, you cannot overlook the power that God has in his timing.
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Benny Dichara: And that business meeting was a preordained.
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Ron Meyers: So it planted a seed.
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Benny Dichara: Oh, like not a mustard seed.
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Benny Dichara: This thing was like an avocado seed, right?
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Benny Dichara: And so it's just like our relationship and us meeting, that's a preordained thing eons ago.
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Benny Dichara: And if you know, you know.
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Benny Dichara: And so, so I had dispressed.
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Benny Dichara: Well, it was this, I was a floor manager for a Toyota dealership at the time.
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Benny Dichara: And this lady, Miss Linda, love me some Miss Linda.
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Benny Dichara: And so I sold her a car, her husband a truck, her daughter a car.
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Benny Dichara: So I was familiar, I knew their family.
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Benny Dichara: They knew I did music.
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Benny Dichara: She says, Hey, don't you have a rock band?
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Benny Dichara: Didn't you have a rock band?
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Benny Dichara: And I said, I did.
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Benny Dichara: Not anymore, but I did.
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Benny Dichara: And she says, You should come to our church because you would love the music.
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Benny Dichara: So I said, Well, what are you?
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Benny Dichara: And she's like, What do you mean?
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Benny Dichara: I'm like, Well, like I grew up Lutheran.
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Benny Dichara: So what are you?
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Benny Dichara: Methodists, Baptist, what are you?
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Benny Dichara: She goes, Uh-uh, we're just straight out the Bible, Bible-based church.
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Benny Dichara: And I'm thinking, I've heard about you people.
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Benny Dichara: But I'm like, no.
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Benny Dichara: So I'm telling you, in all honesty, I know your listeners, I don't know if anybody's gonna relate to, I lied to her for three months because she would call me every Monday.
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Benny Dichara: I didn't see you in church.
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Benny Dichara: And I said, I was busy.
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Benny Dichara: And back then I was just watching the Saints lose because I thought they did.
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Benny Dichara: So all of that to be said, this meeting I went to, this business meeting I went to was like a week toward the end of these three months where I was fibbing to her.
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Benny Dichara: And she calls me and she says, Listen, I didn't see you in church again.
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Benny Dichara: I'm gonna come and get you this Sunday.
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Benny Dichara: Like I'm coming to get you.
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Benny Dichara: And I said, No, ma'am, you're not.
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Benny Dichara: And she says, Why?
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Benny Dichara: I said, I'm gonna meet you there.
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Benny Dichara: And she goes, Seriously?
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Benny Dichara: Because I know you've been lying to me for and I said, Yes, Miss Linda, I've been lying to you.
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Benny Dichara: I said, But I heard some things and I need to know more.
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Benny Dichara: So I'm coming.
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Benny Dichara: So I walk up to the church, and you know what she did, Ron?
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Benny Dichara: Big old smile on her face.
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Benny Dichara: She gives me a big old hug.
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Benny Dichara: Her husband, Max, gives me a big old hug.
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Benny Dichara: Come on in.
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Benny Dichara: The music was incredible.
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Benny Dichara: And then they do an altar call.
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Benny Dichara: So I go down for it because just the Holy Spirit is working on me like crazy at this moment.
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Benny Dichara: And I broke.
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Benny Dichara: I mean, broke.
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Benny Dichara: And I went to step back from the altar and I couldn't move.
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Benny Dichara: And I looked behind me, and it was a mountain of days where I was going, whoo, got past that one.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I want to take a minute and you can finish your story.
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Ron Meyers: But I've always said, Benny, there's people out there listening that they can relate and connect to everything you just said.
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Ron Meyers: And I know the same thing happened to me.
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Ron Meyers: There was something that I could feel tangible inside of me.
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Ron Meyers: Absolutely.
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Ron Meyers: And there really is.
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Ron Meyers: It wasn't just reciting a prayer.
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Ron Meyers: Nope.
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Ron Meyers: I felt God.
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Ron Meyers: And I think that's important because you and I, you're out in the public all the time with your rock group, Christian Rock, and I'm on the radio and podcast.
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Ron Meyers: But this stuff that we talk about about Jesus is because it really transformed our lives.
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Ron Meyers: It changed us, it changed the trajectory of where we're going in life.
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Ron Meyers: And I think if I wouldn't have had that encounter I had in Atlanta, or if you didn't have that encounter that you had, your life would be totally different to this day.
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, speak that.
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Benny Dichara: And that's all, hey, Miss Linda had one job to get you into church and get Jesus in you.
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Benny Dichara: Just not even to get me, just to invite me.
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Benny Dichara: To invite.
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Benny Dichara: That's the good word.
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Benny Dichara: Right.
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Benny Dichara: And so, and so and so I'm down, and I broke in that mountain of days.
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Benny Dichara: I couldn't even move.
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Benny Dichara: And so all of a sudden, I cried like I've never cried before.
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Benny Dichara: Amen.
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Benny Dichara: And it wasn't pain, it was a good cry.
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Benny Dichara: It was release.
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Benny Dichara: It was release of all the sin that had piled up in my life, right?
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Benny Dichara: And it was release from the really horrible divorce thing.
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Benny Dichara: It was a complete really I was dating somebody.
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Benny Dichara: I went the next day, told her what happened to me, and we split.
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Benny Dichara: And she's go, she's like, What are you doing?
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Benny Dichara: And I'm like, This isn't cool, and I'm done.
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Benny Dichara: I'm married.
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Benny Dichara: I'm married to Jesus.
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Benny Dichara: Well, you know what she told me?
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Benny Dichara: She said, she says, I've never been dropped for Jesus before.
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Benny Dichara: And I'm like, well, if you're gonna lose to somebody, that's the one to lose to.
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Ron Meyers: But you said the word release.
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Ron Meyers: I think that is so real because I tell people it's like I lost a hundred pounds of this dead weight of baggage, of fear, of guilt, of shame, of sin.
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Ron Meyers: And I was free to become who Christ created me to be.
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Ron Meyers: 100%.
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, I know we're gonna get into this in a little bit, but this coming October makes eight years that I've had a traumatic brain injury.
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Benny Dichara: So, but yet we're two records in since you and I shouldn't even be having this discussion because they weren't sure if I was gonna come out of that.
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Benny Dichara: But God had a plan.
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Benny Dichara: He had a plan.
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Benny Dichara: Had a plan.
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Benny Dichara: So, so the new record is Yahweh Nisi.
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Benny Dichara: So Mikey Howard, seven time down, love journey music, he's our producer, and he and I co-wrote on the radio single from Yahweh Nisi, which is Jesus Can Heal the World.
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Benny Dichara: And do you need a title?
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Benny Dichara: Do you need anything but the title, I should say, to get it?
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Benny Dichara: Jesus can heal the world.
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Benny Dichara: I'm going through addiction of some sort, and it doesn't matter what kind, Jesus can heal that.
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Benny Dichara: I've gone through a divorce, all that kind of stuff with all these crazy family issues.
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Benny Dichara: Jesus can heal that.
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Benny Dichara: I've gone through who I think I am, Jesus can heal that.
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Benny Dichara: For me, I had a lot of things that Jesus needed to heal because of who I thought I was.
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Benny Dichara: I was so hung up, Ron, on who I thought I was.
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Benny Dichara: I had a band that was me.
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Benny Dichara: I'm the front man for that band, for this band, that was me.
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Ron Meyers: So who did you think you were?
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Ron Meyers: Some big shot rock and roll band star?
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Ron Meyers: I'm not saying that, but you know what it is.
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Benny Dichara: You know what it is.
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Benny Dichara: It's like what I thought was these, I'm creating these opportunities, which I had no idea at the time in my BC life that God was lining things up or whatever, right?
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Benny Dichara: I mean, so when I have my secular band, you'll find this interesting.
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Benny Dichara: So my keyboard, because I would bounce back and forth off of keys, and I had a ramp off the front that my my brother-in-law was my guitar player, and he would run up the ramp with high five.
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Benny Dichara: It's a whole show thing.
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Benny Dichara: It's nonsense.
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Benny Dichara: But we would do that, and on the ramp portion was a star painted, and I had like a cross painted in the star with the tail of the cross coming at the bottom.
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Benny Dichara: And I had people, I am not saved at this point, Ron.
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Benny Dichara: And I've got people at shows going, what is your design?
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Benny Dichara: What's that logo thing?
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Benny Dichara: I was like, hey, a star is what I want to be.
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Benny Dichara: The cross is who's gonna get me there?
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Benny Dichara: I'm not saved, and God is speaking through my face, and I didn't get it because you know, we were pretty well known and all over everybody's blowing smoke up your pant leg, and y'all are so fantastic, and oh my god.
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Benny Dichara: Oh, the it and all those things that we get wrapped up in.
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Ron Meyers: So you were a star in your own mind.
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Benny Dichara: Hello, and guess what?
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Benny Dichara: And guess what?
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Benny Dichara: And for most people, aren't we all?
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, for that's so you know what it changed for me?
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Benny Dichara: I had to realize it wasn't about who I was, but it was about whose I was.
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Benny Dichara: Yeah.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: And and you know, and since I've met you years ago and I run into you at some conventions, you're a happy guy, aren't you?
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Ron Meyers: Life is good.
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, I don't care.
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, if that makes sense.
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Benny Dichara: You know, because here's the thing when when the Holy Spirit, like you said, like when I got saved, and you just you notice the difference, all that weight is off of you.
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Benny Dichara: When when boy, I hope some of you listeners can relate to this.
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Benny Dichara: When we walk in the preordained, planned purposes of Christ, you really don't care about much because you know it's handled.
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Benny Dichara: God is the answer.
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Benny Dichara: Jesus is the answer.
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Benny Dichara: Point people to him.
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Benny Dichara: That's all.
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Benny Dichara: I mean, because I look at my pastor or whatever, but I mean, we're on stage and I'm talking in between songs and I'm telling them this is how this happened, this is how that happened.
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Benny Dichara: And if Jesus can do it for me, guess what?
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Benny Dichara: He can do it.
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Ron Meyers: Well, you know, I call myself the promoter.
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Ron Meyers: The most often asked question to me is what do you promote?
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Ron Meyers: Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: I promote Jesus, and that opens up a dialogue.
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Ron Meyers: But right now, Benny, there are people out there that maybe they have a band, maybe they're doing something and they are going to be a star in their own mind, but yet they feel something missing.
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Ron Meyers: And through your wisdom and through your experience, you can give them a little Benny encouragement, a little pep talk.
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Ron Meyers: What would you tell that person?
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Ron Meyers: Like a Bennyism.
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Benny Dichara: Here's what I've learned.
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Benny Dichara: Let me say it this way: this is what I learned.
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Benny Dichara: I think the name of Jesus is a J, which is shaped like a hook.
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Benny Dichara: And once you get that hook in you, you don't do anything the same.
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Benny Dichara: The way you perform is not the same.
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Benny Dichara: The way you talk to people is not the same because you're pointing them to them.
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Benny Dichara: For me, it's a stage, musicians, lights, sound, all that all that stuff is groovy and it's fine.
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Benny Dichara: And guess what?
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Benny Dichara: It's fun.
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Benny Dichara: It's a party for Jesus from the stage, right?
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Benny Dichara: But the but the point is it's a party for Jesus.
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Benny Dichara: Because if you don't feel the love of Jesus, come across the footlights when we perform.
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Benny Dichara: If you don't feel the love of Jesus in our discussion today, then I need to quit and do something different.
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Ron Meyers: Well, let me ask you, Benny.
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Ron Meyers: You and I both agree that Jesus is the healer.
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Ron Meyers: Yes.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus is the answer.
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Ron Meyers: Yes.
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Ron Meyers: So what have we done wrong?
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Ron Meyers: What have the churches or the people done wrong?
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Ron Meyers: There are churches on every corner, Christian radio stations, television stations, and people are hurting.
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Ron Meyers: And you talk to them about Jesus, and it's like, I don't want to hear that.
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Ron Meyers: But you and I know Jesus is the answer, in your opinion.
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Ron Meyers: What have we done wrong?
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Benny Dichara: Yeah, this is coming from me.
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Benny Dichara: So I've discovered the center, and you may have heard this before, right?
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Benny Dichara: The center of the word pride is the letter I.
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Benny Dichara: I don't feel like doing that.
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Benny Dichara: I don't think I can talk to people about Jesus.
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Benny Dichara: I don't think this is working out the way that I I had a dream and it's not working out the way that I can.
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Benny Dichara: We're talking right now about this record, this new record, and it's on radio across the country.
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Benny Dichara: We're doing amazing things.
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Benny Dichara: We're booking shows and everything.
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Benny Dichara: They don't want to talk to me about 1997 when I founded the band.
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Benny Dichara: I just said 1997.
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Benny Dichara: People have asked me over all that time, you ever thought about quitting?
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Benny Dichara: And I'm like, as surely as I heard the Lord say, I've chosen you for this, do this.
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Benny Dichara: I've never heard him clearly come back to me and say, I'm so sorry, I made a mistake.
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Benny Dichara: It's not happened.
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Benny Dichara: He's never told me, stop.
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Benny Dichara: It's a mistake.
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Benny Dichara: Never, ever, ever.
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Benny Dichara: Even the rocks will cry out, right?
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Benny Dichara: Well, call me a rock star in that way because I'm crying out that people need to know him, that he can fix everything that they're going through.
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Benny Dichara: For me, it's a stage.
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Benny Dichara: For you, it's your podcast radio.
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Benny Dichara: For a doctor, it could be a surgical suite or a hospital.
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Benny Dichara: For a boss, it could be a business setting or a set of office.
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Benny Dichara: Everybody has a stage.
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Benny Dichara: It's our gift from God.
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Benny Dichara: What we do at that stage is our gift back to Him.
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Ron Meyers: And I would encourage someone out there right now, if this has even intrigued you, maybe you're thinking, maybe I should give Jesus a try.
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Ron Meyers: When nothing else is working in your life, your friends leave, you get terminated, the wife leaves, the bank account is low, you get a bad doctor's report.
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Ron Meyers: I would say it's time to try Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Because you know what?
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Ron Meyers: If it doesn't work for you, you can go back to your old life.
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Ron Meyers: But I've never found anybody out of all the hundreds and hundreds of people I've talked to.
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Ron Meyers: I've never met anybody that went back to their old life.
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Ron Meyers: You know what they say, Benny?
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Ron Meyers: They say, I can't believe I waited so long.
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Ron Meyers: But then my response is but sometimes we have to go through a lot of hell in our life before we cry out to Jesus to take the hell out of our life.
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Ron Meyers: That's right.
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Ron Meyers: It's his timing.
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Ron Meyers: And now look at your knowledge that you have.
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Ron Meyers: You were in a secular rock band.
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Ron Meyers: You got to learn a lot of the business practices and how to deal with people because God knew one day you're going to proclaim his name of his son Jesus with a rock band.
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Ron Meyers: So you got to learn a lot of the world tricks, and and now you're up there and you are as uh what do they say, as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.
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Ron Meyers: And well, listen, we're almost out of time.
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Ron Meyers: How do people find out about you in your music?
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Benny Dichara: So the name of our band is Empowered.
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Benny Dichara: And what it stands for, I think it's important for people to know, is God's empowered us with the gift of music so that we can empower others with his message, so you're ready for it, so that they can then go and empower others.
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Benny Dichara: Amen.
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Benny Dichara: With his word.
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Benny Dichara: That's all it's about, right?
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Benny Dichara: So, so look at that poster right behind you.
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Benny Dichara: It's the word, it's in the studio, folks.
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Benny Dichara: Empower.
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Benny Dichara: Big big letters.
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Benny Dichara: So the so the website, and we we wanted to do this, and and it actually worked out because when we signed stuff, we put this on there and it worked out.
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Benny Dichara: So it's it's rock with no g, it's ro-c-k-in-the-number four, Jesus.com.
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Benny Dichara: So rockingforjesus.com is really easy.
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Benny Dichara: I love it.
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Benny Dichara: It's real easy.
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Benny Dichara: We have a contact page if anybody wants to get in touch with us that way.
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Benny Dichara: We're on Facebook, Empowered Rocks, Instagram, Empowered Official, YouTube channel, same.
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Benny Dichara: We're on 40 streaming platforms with not only the new record, but all of them.
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Benny Dichara: And and it's on there.
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Benny Dichara: And we're just we're just our prayer is that people are changed by what they hear.
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Ron Meyers: One last thing.
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Ron Meyers: The title of the show is Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Ron Meyers: So, Benny, how do you get the hell out of your life?
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Benny Dichara: Just say Jesus.
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Benny Dichara: Just say Jesus.
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Benny Dichara: Jesus literally, when he died and rose again, he got the hell out of the world.
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Benny Dichara: Yep.
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Benny Dichara: Right?
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Benny Dichara: So, what are we gonna do with that, folks?
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Hey, before we go, will you pray for our listeners?
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Ron Meyers: I certainly will.
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Benny Dichara: You ready?
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Benny Dichara: Yep.
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Benny Dichara: Here we go.
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Benny Dichara: Father God, we just thank you for this time today.
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Benny Dichara: And thank you from our brother Ron and that we were able to reconnect for this.
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Benny Dichara: Lord God, and I my prayer, Father, is just that in our discussion today, there's somebody out there who's listening right now.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Benny Dichara: And they're going through stuff, and stuff is all inclusive, it can be anything.
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Benny Dichara: But God, but you, Lord.
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Benny Dichara: And if they would just press into you, you've got the answers.
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Benny Dichara: Jesus can heal the world.
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Benny Dichara: And it's a fact.
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Benny Dichara: He gave his life to heal the world.
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Benny Dichara: And God gave his only son to heal the world.
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Benny Dichara: And just, Father God, if anyone is going through a struggle, I just pray, Father, just right now that the Holy Spirit just come on them, that the Holy Spirit touch them.
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Benny Dichara: The way Ron and I experienced when we were saved, Father, just that that weight of what they're going through is lifted from their shoulders, Lord God, and that their life be forever and eternally changed.
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Benny Dichara: We just we believe in that.
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Benny Dichara: We thank you in advance for it in Jesus' name.
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Benny Dichara: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Wow, what an encouraging conversation.
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Ron Meyers: One statement Benny made has stayed with me.
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Ron Meyers: It wasn't about who I was, it was about whose I was.
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Ron Meyers: Think about that.
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Ron Meyers: So many people spend their lives trying to become somebody, a better career, a bigger paycheck, more followers, more success, and more approval.
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Ron Meyers: But none of those things can give you the peace your heart is searching for.
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Ron Meyers: Only Jesus can.
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Ron Meyers: The moment we discover that our identity isn't found in what we do, but in who we belong to, everything begins to change.
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Ron Meyers: Fear loses its grip, shame begins to fade, hope comes alive, purpose becomes clearer, and suddenly you're no longer trying to prove yourself.
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Ron Meyers: Simply learning to trust the one who created you.
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Ron Meyers: That's the freedom Jesus offers every one of us.
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Ron Meyers: Before we leave today, here's your next step.
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Ron Meyers: I want you to spend just five quiet minutes with God this week.
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Ron Meyers: Turn off the television, put down the phone, find a quiet place, and ask him one simple question.
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Ron Meyers: Lord, what do you want me to know about who I am in you?
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Ron Meyers: Then listen.
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Ron Meyers: Open your Bible, read a chapter from the Gospel of John, write down what stands out to you.
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Ron Meyers: You may be surprised by what God wants to show you.
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Ron Meyers: And here's one more challenge.
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Ron Meyers: Think of one person who encouraged you in your faith, just like Miss Linda encouraged Benny.
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Ron Meyers: This week, send them a thank you note.
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Ron Meyers: Or better yet, become a Miss Linda for someone else.
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Ron Meyers: Invite them to church.
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Ron Meyers: Invite them to listen to this podcast.
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Ron Meyers: Invite them to coffee.
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Ron Meyers: You never know how one simple invitation can change someone's eternity.
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Ron Meyers: I'll be back in just a minute to close out today's show.
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Ron Meyers: Your circumstances do not determine your destiny, and your past does not define your future.
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Ron Meyers: And your failures are never the final chapter of your story.
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Ron Meyers: You see, Jesus specializes in new beginnings.
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Ron Meyers: So don't spend another day trying to become someone you're not.
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Ron Meyers: Become the person God created you to be.
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Ron Meyers: Walk in his grace, live in his freedom, share his love, and wherever God has placed you, that's your stage.
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