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God Loves You Even When You're High · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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  Speaker 1: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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  Speaker 1: A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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  Speaker 1: 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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  Speaker 1: Now let's join our host, ron Myers.
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  Ron Meyers: Welcome listeners host, ron Myers.
• 0:28
  Ron Meyers: Welcome listeners.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow, are you getting a little tired of all this isolation?
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  Ron Meyers: And you know, I'm ready.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm ready to get back to a normal life, whatever that will be in the future.
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  Ron Meyers: You know one thing, though it has shown me that God has always created you and I to be free, free to dream, free to become the person that he created us to be.
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  Ron Meyers: And when we get into a situation that we are restricted, we are isolated, we cannot become fully who we are intended to be.
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  Ron Meyers: We've kind of just on a lockdown in our mind that it can really drive us goofy.
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  Ron Meyers: It really can, and unfortunately, some people can be open to the lies of the enemy, which I call Satan, the anti-God, and he wants to take moments like this and have enticements like drugs and alcohol to poison our mind, poison our destiny and poison our relationship with God.
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  Ron Meyers: Today's guest is a friend of mine I've known for a few years.
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  Ron Meyers: His name is Nathan Ladner.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, nathan was a person that knows a lot about drugs and alcohol.
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  Ron Meyers: He started when he was a teenager, a young teenager, and spent about 15 years into drugs, sex drugs and rock and roll.
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  Ron Meyers: That was his middle name, but one day he had to stop.
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  Ron Meyers: He had to stop or lose his wife and his children, and he's got an incredible story.
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  Ron Meyers: You are going to be blessed by this man's story, and I've also will be asking him some ideas and some thoughts of what he would do in a situation like this.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, if he was tempted and perhaps he is, I don't know.
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  Ron Meyers: I haven't asked him yet If he was tempted with drugs and alcohol, as he is also part of the lockdown.
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  Ron Meyers: So let me introduce my guest and welcome him to the show.
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  Ron Meyers: Get the Hell Out of your Life.
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  Ron Meyers: Nathan Ladner, are you on the phone?
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  Nathan Ladner: I am.
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  Nathan Ladner: I am Ron.
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  Nathan Ladner: It's good to be here.
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  Nathan Ladner: I just want to say get the hell out of your life.
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  Nathan Ladner: I mean, that's exactly what happened to my life, ron.
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  Nathan Ladner: I think that's the perfect title.
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  Nathan Ladner: I hadn't had a chance to tell you how much I love that name of the show, man, but I just really love it.
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  Nathan Ladner: I think it's perfect for what we're trying to do, what you're trying to do and what you're trying to allow God to use you for man.
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  Nathan Ladner: I'm excited to be here, brother.
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  Ron Meyers: I appreciate that, Nathan.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, Nathan, let's tell the listeners a little bit about yourself.
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  Nathan Ladner: Where are you from, How'd you grow up and how'd you begin your little journey escapades of drugs, alcohol and sex.
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  Nathan Ladner: Well, it's kind of interesting, especially during these times when we talk about isolation, and oftentimes a key word with isolation would be called boredom.
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  Nathan Ladner: And I grew up in a small town of Socher and, you know, liked to play sports as a young kid and kind of experimented with some, you know, recreational marijuana.
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  Nathan Ladner: And oftentimes I tell people it's really out of boredom, running out of things to do, and obviously the people you're around you'll eventually try some things that you hang around.
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  Nathan Ladner: I believe that wholeheartedly, If you're out there listening, you really got to be mindful of who you hang around and what they're doing.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so when I was a teenager, I started using a lot out of boredom and people I hung around.
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  Nathan Ladner: So in this time of isolation, I think we really got to maintain focus.
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  Nathan Ladner: And you know, for me it's funny you mentioned the norm.
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  Nathan Ladner: For a long time, Ron the norm was getting high, Wake up in the morning, get high.
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  Nathan Ladner: That's all I thought about, that's all that was on my mind, and just thankful that Jesus one day showed me that there's more to life than just getting high and wasting my life.
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  Nathan Ladner: That's what it was.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so I try to really stay focused on what I'm doing, day in and day out, that I don't waste any more years.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, and you started in your original story when I first read it, if I remember right, it was around 14 or 15 years old you were, and it started with marijuana and then it led into some more drugs and you dabbled in a lot of different things, didn't you?
• 4:34
  Nathan Ladner: Oh, yes, and something I really you know I want to let the listeners know.
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  Nathan Ladner: First of all, I'm not bragging or proud of it but yes, ecstasy, cocaine, meth, pain medications, whether prescribed or unprescribed, when you've got to have some pain medicine or you're sick, you'll do whatever you've got to do and oftentimes then you can get cocaine or meth, whatever to get those.
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  Nathan Ladner: Nobody wants to hurt Ron and nobody wants to go through pain, but oftentimes I've found in life that God wants to use that pain to grow you, you know.
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  Nathan Ladner: You know a lot of people like to use the faith as like a muscle.
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  Nathan Ladner: Well, that's true, but it's also true that muscle grows when it caters and that can cause pain and soreness.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so I believe God uses pain, whether it's self-inflicted or not.
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  Nathan Ladner: He can use that to glorify Him and to grow you as the man or daughter, son or daughter that he's designed you to be.
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  Nathan Ladner: I think that's the biggest key is understanding who you are and who God made you to be.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, on your journey, you were married at the time.
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  Ron Meyers: You were married, you had some children and you had hit a point.
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  Ron Meyers: What was it that made you stop?
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  Ron Meyers: What was it that you finally had to say enough is enough.
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  Ron Meyers: I can't live this any way anymore.
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  Ron Meyers: I've got to discover my destiny, what God's planned for my life, what happened?
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  Nathan Ladner: Oh, ron, thank you for bringing that up.
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  Nathan Ladner: Sometimes it's been about coming up on six, seven years now I kind of don't remember the exact date because it's just so awesome to be to know who I am and what I'm designed to do.
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  Nathan Ladner: Now, you know the saying of time flies when you're having fun.
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  Nathan Ladner: But yes, the point of that momental, that pivotal point, that I believe with all my heart, ron, that every addict and I'll use the word addict because I used to be one, I'm not one anymore as far as drugs and alcohol and I believe the word addict can be used as self-indulging in any type of way.
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  Nathan Ladner: First, let me just make that clear.
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  Nathan Ladner: Second, the pivotal moment was and like I said, that addiction is, oftentimes we find ourselves in these cycles of life, whatever it was, and I like to say God was opening my eyes slowly and making me aware of some things in my life and seeing that I believe everybody's heart of.
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  Nathan Ladner: When they get high, nobody wants to hurt.
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  Nathan Ladner: Okay, a lot of times we will go and it's crazy.
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  Nathan Ladner: I've talked to other addicts and most of the time you would get higher or more of a rush going to get the drugs than when you actually got to ingest them, however, you would do that, and so for me, that kind of started signaling something, and it was a kind of a hamster wheel cycle, so to speak.
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  Nathan Ladner: I would go and I was like man, I can't keep doing this.
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  Nathan Ladner: Something in me was like Nate, logically, can you keep doing this forever?
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  Nathan Ladner: And so the answer is no.
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  Nathan Ladner: The answer is no to anybody out there.
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  Nathan Ladner: Smoking crack, doing cocaine, smoking meth, doing meth.
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  Nathan Ladner: However you're doing it, the answer is ultimately going to lead to death.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so you know, basically, the question I want to ask, and just be blunt are we that selfish to think that it's not harming anybody?
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  Nathan Ladner: Because that's what most of the addicts will say I'm not hurting anybody.
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  Nathan Ladner: Well, you are, because you're loved by more people than you realize.
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  Nathan Ladner: I just want to speak to somebody right now, ron, that you're loved.
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  Nathan Ladner: I think one of the things that God really changed in my life, man, was how much my wife loved me when I didn't love myself and God was using his love through her.
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  Nathan Ladner: I mean, I hated myself and I couldn't it would make me angry, ron when she loved me, when I wanted her to hate me, I wanted her to be mad at me because I hated myself, man.
• 8:31
  Nathan Ladner: And so I guess, to narrow it down to that pivotal moment, you know, to sum it up would be I can't keep doing this, and I believe it's in the heart of everybody that's going through addiction right now.
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  Nathan Ladner: If they really just take a second and think to themselves, can they keep doing this?
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  Nathan Ladner: Do they want?
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  Nathan Ladner: Are they tired of this lifestyle?
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  Nathan Ladner: I believe the answer is no.
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  Nathan Ladner: I just believe they don't know how to get out of it.
• 8:51
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, yeah, you know that was.
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  Ron Meyers: It was kind of my story years ago.
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  Ron Meyers: I mean, I love to uh, this was years ago Uh, you know, I love to smoke pot and and I always said, well, I'll stop one day.
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  Ron Meyers: And I didn't really do it so much for fun, but I did it because I wanted to escape and numb the pain in my life.
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  Ron Meyers: And you're right, one day I had to ask myself is this going to stop?
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  Ron Meyers: And finally God put me in a position that I not only did I stop, but I'm like you, I'm kind of a wild crazy guy for Jesus ever since Listeners.
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  Ron Meyers: On the phone is Nathan Ladner.
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  Ron Meyers: Nathan Ladner loved drugs more than his wife and his children, but one day, after 14 years of drugs, god put him on a path to help other people now and he has an incredible job and we're going to find out more of what he's doing.
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  Ron Meyers: Some advice for somebody out there right after the break so don't go anywhere.
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  Ron Meyers: Welcome back listeners.
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  Ron Meyers: This is Ron Myers, the show Get the Hell Out of your Life.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm so glad you're with me today because during these times of isolation, things can happen out there.
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  Ron Meyers: We can be tempted to take a little pill, maybe smoke a little this, smoke a little that and take a couple drinks, and next thing you know, your life's out of control.
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  Ron Meyers: My guest today is Nathan Ladner.
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  Ron Meyers: That spent 14, 15 years with drugs and alcohol and today is free, becoming the person God created him to be, and he's sharing his story.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, nathan, before the break, you shared that pivotal moment that your wife loved you.
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  Ron Meyers: I think that's so critical.
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  Ron Meyers: Your wife loved you when you hated yourself.
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  Ron Meyers: So, somebody, when you hate yourself, okay, you have to get up in the morning, you have to look in the mirror, brush your teeth and shave.
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  Ron Meyers: So when you looked in the mirror before your transformation, what did you see?
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  Ron Meyers: When you looked in the mirror?
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  Nathan Ladner: Oh man, that's an incredible question.
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  Nathan Ladner: You know, I think we try to put on this facade and I think you think everything's okay.
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  Nathan Ladner: In the Scriptures, james talks about a man looking in the mirror and forget what he looks, for looks like, don't be that man who's double-minded.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so it's an interesting statement that you asked me, because I've kind of been studying on that and you know, I don't think men spend as much time in the mirror as women do, and that's not downing women at all.
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  Nathan Ladner: But you know, looking back at that, I probably didn't spend much time looking in the mirror, because that mirror would oftentimes make me reflect on who I was and what was going on in my life, ron.
• 12:07
  Nathan Ladner: So I think really I would probably look in there and I wouldn't do too much thinking, to be honest with you, and I think that's a tool of the devil, like we mentioned that pivotal moment, just using rational logic, of can't keep doing this.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so, you know, shame Shame would also keep me down and shame will keep you in a place of serving yourself.
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  Nathan Ladner: Because it is a tool of the devil, because oftentimes we're crucified between yesterday and tomorrow, and so my thoughts oftentimes was you know, I screwed up yesterday and there's shame involved in that.
• 12:46
  Nathan Ladner: Well, tomorrow I'm going to hurt if I don't get my fix.
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  Nathan Ladner: They cause a lot of anxiety and stress, and so what would alleviate that stress Ron is to use again?
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, use again and keep using again and again listeners on the phone, nathan Ladner, who is sharing his story of how he spent 14, 15 years in a drug-addicted world and loved drugs more than his wife and children, but one day he was set free.
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  Ron Meyers: Now you went to was it the Home of Grace that helped you on your recovery path?
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  Nathan Ladner: It was the Home of Grace.
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  Nathan Ladner: And for me, hey, let me just use scripture again, ron, because it's just who I am and who I want to be.
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  Nathan Ladner: But the flesh is weak, but the Spirit is willing, jesus.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so that flesh was weak.
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  Nathan Ladner: I really knew in my heart that I couldn't stay at home and really struggle with that hurting and pain, so I felt it was best.
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  Nathan Ladner: I had a friend of mine, jason, who really recommended that I go.
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  Nathan Ladner: I always tell people I kind of mess people's world up.
• 13:47
  Nathan Ladner: I think I'm pretty open about where I went for a few months.
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  Nathan Ladner: I tell people I had the most fun of my life at rehab and they look at me kind of sideways and they're like you can't say that, but I can.
• 13:58
  Nathan Ladner: I found out who I was.
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  Nathan Ladner: I found out how much God loves me and it was just an incredible time in my life.
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  Nathan Ladner: And who gets three months time out of the proverbial hamster wheel of life?
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  Nathan Ladner: Go to work, come home clean, eat.
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  Nathan Ladner: Go to work, come home clean, eat.
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  Nathan Ladner: And I got to sit down with my maker, my creator, and kind of find my purpose and have hope in this life.
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  Nathan Ladner: It was an amazing time in my life, ron.
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  Ron Meyers: You said you found out listeners on the phone, nathan Ladner, sharing his story of drug addiction over 15 years, and he went to the home of grace and you said, nathan, you found out who you were, who are you?
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  Ron Meyers: What did you find out?
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  Nathan Ladner: Tears coming down my eyes, ron, I just I don't think I get to say this out loud enough.
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  Nathan Ladner: Brother, I'm a child of God, I'm a redeemed child of God and Jesus paid for my iniquities on the cross.
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  Nathan Ladner: He gave me forgiveness.
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  Nathan Ladner: I was reading Mark 2, the man that was carried by some friends through a roof and they carried a paralytic man and the Pharisees and the Sadducees are watching him and he said your sins are forgiven.
• 15:07
  Nathan Ladner: And that's that shame that I held on to so tightly, because in that shame I became bitter and angry at people and excuse after excuse of why I can't do better.
• 15:17
  Nathan Ladner: But in that forgiveness that I found out that how much Jesus loved me, that forgiveness I was able to have mercy new in the morning, brother, I was able to have that freedom that we all think we have, but that freedom that I was truly designed to walk in and love and peace and joy through God.
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  Nathan Ladner: And it's just an incredible walk to know what you're designed for.
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  Nathan Ladner: I think most people don't even understand the meaning of life.
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  Nathan Ladner: Not that I've got to figure it out, ron, but if I can simplify Jesus' words, it's love God and love others.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow Listeners on the phone, nathan Ladner, sharing his story of drug addiction and his freedom.
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  Ron Meyers: He was set free.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, nathan, I can picture someone out there right now, and I can picture this because it was a picture of my house or my room maybe 25 years ago.
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  Ron Meyers: Dark room Curtains are closed, it's dark.
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  Ron Meyers: There's a bottle of Jack Daniels or Crown over there, maybe a little bag of marijuana.
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  Ron Meyers: They divinely tuned into this radio program today and they're wondering why am I even listening to this?
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  Ron Meyers: Why am I not listening to some Led Zeppelin?
• 16:28
  Ron Meyers: But they continue to listen to it.
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  Ron Meyers: Now you have an opportunity to talk to that person.
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  Ron Meyers: Because they don't think they have an identity, they don't like themselves, they don't think they're worth anything in life at all, so they just want to numb the pain and forget about who they aren't instead of who they are.
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell that person?
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  Nathan Ladner: That's very good, ron.
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  Nathan Ladner: First of all, I would say open the windows, open the blinds, go outside for a minute, look at the trees, look at the clouds, look at the sky.
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  Nathan Ladner: Who do you think made that?
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  Nathan Ladner: We had to have a creator.
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  Nathan Ladner: And if we got a creator, then there's a good chance.
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  Nathan Ladner: We've got something striving against us.
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  Nathan Ladner: And a lot of people say Nate, how do you know God is real.
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  Nathan Ladner: Well, to the person sitting in their room with that bottle of Jack or that alcohol or that marijuana or cocaine or meth on their table, I've seen the devil and somebody sitting in that dark room.
• 17:18
  Nathan Ladner: They know there's a devil, because that devil is enticing them, that devil is urging them to keep on going.
• 17:24
  Nathan Ladner: Nobody loves you, nobody likes you.
• 17:27
  Nathan Ladner: You're not worthy.
• 17:28
  Nathan Ladner: Well, I'm here to tell you you're worthy, brother or sister.
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  Nathan Ladner: You're worthy, you're absolutely worthy.
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  Nathan Ladner: Jesus died for you, and that makes you worthy.
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  Nathan Ladner: He shed his blood, he was beat for you.
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  Nathan Ladner: That makes you worthy.
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  Nathan Ladner: And his blood wasn't wasted.
• 17:40
  Nathan Ladner: His blood was not wasted.
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  Nathan Ladner: And so I would say call somebody.
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  Nathan Ladner: I would say get out of the house for a second, take a walk and examine your heart, examine.
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  Nathan Ladner: Is this who I am?
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  Nathan Ladner: Is this who I want to be tomorrow Because, once again, I truly believe with all my heart that God put a divine purpose in our heart to seek Him, and when we start seeking other things idols, selfish, fleshly pleasures that's when we get off track, and I believe this isolation period can be a time to get back on track, ron.
• 18:12
  Nathan Ladner: So it's an opportunity.
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  Nathan Ladner: I believe this is an opportunity to bust out of the darkness and go to the marvelous light.
• 18:18
  Nathan Ladner: Regardless, if you understand it all, let's just break free of some things.
• 18:22
  Ron Meyers: Let's do something different, like Regardless, if you understand it all, let's just break free of some things.
• 18:26
  Ron Meyers: Let's do something different.
• 18:26
  Ron Meyers: Well put.
• 18:27
  Ron Meyers: Well, put Nathan Ladner on the phone, listeners sharing his incredible testimony of being set free of drugs and alcohol.
• 18:33
  Ron Meyers: Well, in the little bit of time that's just left, I got two things for you.
• 18:38
  Ron Meyers: One, Nathan you are a surgery tech now, I believe, at one of the local hospital.
• 18:43
  Ron Meyers: Life has been good for you, so tell us a little bit what's happening in your life in the last six, seven years since you've been free from drugs and alcohol.
• 18:52
  Nathan Ladner: It's been incredible, God just opening up doors here.
• 18:55
  Nathan Ladner: I'll just simplify We've been talking.
• 18:57
  Nathan Ladner: I believe, Ron, also that we're finally talking to somebody who needs help too, and I just want to say this that it's better than I ever could imagine life could be.
• 19:10
  Nathan Ladner: I'm not just talking finances, I'm talking about joy and peace.
• 19:13
  Nathan Ladner: You know, you don't have to find it in a substance, it don't even have to be in a food.
• 19:19
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, you found it in God, and I think it's an important point to make there, nathan, is that when you've experienced the worst, which you have, you said it in your own words, and now you've gotten to the best.
• 19:30
  Ron Meyers: See, your story validates God's love, your story validates God's mercy, your story validates God's forgiveness.
• 19:38
  Ron Meyers: So you're preaching to someone not out of a textbook, but you're preaching to someone out of real life struggle, but real life hope.
• 19:49
  Nathan Ladner: Yes, amen.
• 19:50
  Nathan Ladner: And.
• 19:50
  Nathan Ladner: And you know, if somebody wants to reach out to me on Facebook, I just want to throw that out there.
• 19:55
  Nathan Ladner: Right, I didn't plan to say that, but if you want to message me about needing help about where to go, where's the first step?
• 20:01
  Nathan Ladner: I would?
• 20:04
  Ron Meyers: love to help somebody.
• 20:05
  Ron Meyers: You know, I think that is an excellent, excellent idea.
• 20:07
  Ron Meyers: Thank you for sharing that.
• 20:08
  Ron Meyers: How do they get in touch with you?
• 20:10
  Nathan Ladner: I'm not real tech savvy, ron, but I would assume just search Nathan Ladner and it would come up from Socher, mississippi.
• 20:17
  Nathan Ladner: Heck, if you're in that desperate of help, just message a few of us.
• 20:21
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, message a few of the Ladners.
• 20:22
  Ron Meyers: They all are related.
• 20:24
  Ron Meyers: You'll find each other.
• 20:25
  Ron Meyers: Well, nathan Landon, that's right.
• 20:27
  Ron Meyers: Amen, brother, one thing before I let you go.
• 20:30
  Ron Meyers: I want to first of all just thank you so much.
• 20:33
  Ron Meyers: I can just hear the passion, the love in your heart for Jesus.
• 20:36
  Ron Meyers: The name of the show Get the Hell Out of your Life.
• 20:44
  Nathan Ladner: So how do you get the hell out of your life?
• 20:45
  Nathan Ladner: Take a step.
• 20:46
  Nathan Ladner: Take one step and hear the scripture that God's put on my heart, that I can't get out of Don't worry, don't be anxious about tomorrow.
• 20:51
  Nathan Ladner: Don't seek things that are food and clothing.
• 20:54
  Nathan Ladner: The body is more than that.
• 20:55
  Nathan Ladner: Don't worry about yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow.
• 20:59
  Nathan Ladner: Take a rest in God's control today.
• 21:03
  Nathan Ladner: And taking that step of faith means, like I said, do something different.
• 21:07
  Nathan Ladner: Most of the time, an addiction, it's a cycle that keeps repeating itself.
• 21:11
  Nathan Ladner: And how do you get out of that cycle?
• 21:14
  Nathan Ladner: You've got to do something different.
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  Nathan Ladner: You've got to take a step.
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  Nathan Ladner: You've got to make a phone call, you've got to get out the house, you've got to go visit somebody, you've got to put yourself out there.
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  Nathan Ladner: And it's scary.
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  Nathan Ladner: And it's scary because if people really know who you are, then you feel like you won't be loved, ron.
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  Nathan Ladner: But that's the craziest thing about who God is he fully knows you and fully loves you.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow, so well put, Nathan.
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  Ron Meyers: God bless you, brother.
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  Ron Meyers: What an incredible story.
• 21:38
  Ron Meyers: Nathan Ladner.
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  Ron Meyers: Check him out on Facebook Nathan, Nathan Ladner.
• 21:45
  Ron Meyers: Check him out on Facebook Nathan Ladner.
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  Ron Meyers: L-a-d-n-e-r.
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  Ron Meyers: Nathan.
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  Ron Meyers: God bless your brother and I'll be in touch with you again real soon.
• 21:49
  Nathan Ladner: Thank you again, Sir.
• 21:50
  Nathan Ladner: God bless you.
• 21:50
  Ron Meyers: Listeners, I'll take a break and, when I come back, my monologue for you today.
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  Speaker 4: What's your story?
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  Speaker 4: We're looking for stories of hope and overcoming life's struggles with God's grace.
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  Speaker 4: Your story validates God's love, mercy, restoration and forgiveness.
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  Speaker 4: We want to help you share your story with the world.
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  Speaker 4: Visit our website, thepromoterorg, and click on the Share your Story link and submit your story.
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  Speaker 4: Your testimony of God's amazing grace will change a person's.
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  Speaker 4: Mine is sick.
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  Ron Meyers: The truth is I'm sick.
• 22:45
  Ron Meyers: I pray, nothing happens.
• 22:47
  Ron Meyers: I live in fear and wonder could my dreams for me and my children be over with?
• 22:51
  Ron Meyers: Oh God, please help me, I can't handle this.
• 22:56
  Ron Meyers: Then they look at me and ask why.
• 22:59
  Ron Meyers: You know I've spent years, friends, speaking and promoting the promises of God.
• 23:04
  Ron Meyers: I like to quote Jeremiah 29, 11, for I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans of hope in the future, not of disaster.
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  Ron Meyers: You know it's easy to tell people that when things are good, but what do I tell people who live in fear, people who are basically under house arrest?
• 23:21
  Ron Meyers: Are the person who's issued a citation because they went to the beach alone for some meditation time.
• 23:28
  Ron Meyers: What do I say to the folks that can't visit their loved ones in a nursing home?
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  Ron Meyers: Are the person who is probably going to lose their livelihood, their business?
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  Ron Meyers: What do I say to the people that were given a fine of $500 a piece because they dared gather on their private church property, isolated in their cars, to hear a message of hope from their pastor, charles Hamilton in Greenville, mississippi?
• 23:58
  Ron Meyers: Or what do I say to my wife and daughter and the other school teachers who will not see their students anymore this year Students.
• 24:08
  Ron Meyers: They had grown to love, because the school year now has been canceled.
• 24:11
  Ron Meyers: So I ask God, what do I say Now?
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  Ron Meyers: I don't get any awesome revelations or some powerful message.
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  Ron Meyers: All I hear are three words I am faithful.
• 24:23
  Ron Meyers: So what do we do with those three words?
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  Ron Meyers: Well, we do what we did when our children were learning to walk be patient and wait.
• 24:33
  Ron Meyers: We look over our life and remind ourselves how God has been faithful.
• 24:37
  Ron Meyers: We remember those times when we had no hope, no answers, no solution, and just when we thought we were defeated, god made a way.
• 24:46
  Ron Meyers: It's in times like this that we must go back in our memories and relive the days when divine circumstances placed us in the right place at the right time.
• 24:55
  Ron Meyers: We must hold tight to God's promise of never leaving us, his promise that he is with us, he is for us and he is never against us.
• 25:06
  Ron Meyers: I have discovered that God is never late and he's never early, but he is always on time.
• 25:12
  Ron Meyers: He will reveal his purpose for each of our situations in this time Not our time, but his time.
• 25:20
  Ron Meyers: You and I must keep a good attitude and remind yourself often, my friend, of this promise of power and hope.
• 25:29
  Ron Meyers: God is faithful.
• 25:31
  Ron Meyers: God is with me Because he loves me.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation.
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  Speaker 5: We want to encourage you today with God's promise to you.
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  Speaker 5: It comes from the book of Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11.
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  Speaker 5: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 5: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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  Speaker 5: Plans to give you hope and the future.
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  Speaker 5: That's God's promise to you when you choose to commit your plans and future to him.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Now back to Ron.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, my time is up, friends, and I'm so glad I was able to spend some time with you today.
• 26:17
  Ron Meyers: I am really praying for you as much as myself, to see what it is that God needs us to see.
• 26:24
  Ron Meyers: I think sometimes we're never really going to know for a while, but we go through walk by faith and not by sight.
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  Ron Meyers: I do feel like I want to.
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  Ron Meyers: I do this every week now is just ask somebody if you're ready to make a commitment to Jesus.
• 26:40
  Ron Meyers: Just repeat this simple prayer Dear Jesus, come into my heart, forgive my sins and give me your spirit of peace, hope and purpose.
• 26:51
  Ron Meyers: I will commit my life to you.
• 26:54
  Ron Meyers: Today, I want to discover my divine destiny Amen.
• 26:59
  Ron Meyers: If you prayed that prayer with me, me congratulations.
• 27:03
  Ron Meyers: Your life will never be the same.
• 27:04
  Ron Meyers: Start reading the bible.
• 27:06
  Ron Meyers: I recommend starting with the book of john, and then, if you would email me, ron, at the promoterorg, I want to send you some material to begin your journey.
• 27:15
  Ron Meyers: I am committed to help you in your walk.
• 27:18
  Ron Meyers: Well, until next week, hang in, because he who hung up there on the cross for us is always with us.
• 27:25
  Ron Meyers: This is your time to discover your destiny by getting the hell out of your life.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Today's show was produced by Ron Myers Ministries, a listener-supported ministry.
• 27:39
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• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And join us next week for another broadcast of Get the Hell Out of your Life.
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  Speaker 1: Real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.