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Somebody Died So I Could Live · 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: I'm on the road today, friends, in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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Ron Meyers: My guest is alive because somebody died.
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Ron Meyers: A double lung transplant, a second chance, and today the clearest picture of grace you'll ever hear.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends, and welcome to Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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Ron Meyers: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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Ron Meyers: This show is for people who may not go to church.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe you've been hurt by religion, disappointed by Christians, or you simply wonder if God still works in broken places.
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Ron Meyers: My personal goal is simple to brag on Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: To share real raw redemption outside of a building.
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Ron Meyers: And today's conversation carries the weight of life itself.
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Ron Meyers: What happens when somebody dies so you can live?
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Ron Meyers: Our guest today, Lisa, knows the answer to that question in a deeply personal way.
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Ron Meyers: After a terminal diagnosis and years of struggle, she found herself living on oxygen, barely breathing, hanging between hope and heartbreak.
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Ron Meyers: Then the call came a donor match, a double lung transplant.
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Ron Meyers: Somebody else's death became the doorway to her survival.
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Ron Meyers: And as powerful as that story is physically, it points us toward an even deeper spiritual truth.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus came to earth, lived among us, died on a cross, and rose from the dead so that we could truly live not just someday in heaven, but spiritually, alive right now, free, forgiven, restored, breathing again on the inside.
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Ron Meyers: Today's episode is also about recovery, addiction, trauma, broken families, absent fathers, shame, and the pain that silently drives people toward destructive choices.
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Ron Meyers: And if you're hanging on by a thread today, there's a phrase in this interview that may help you breathe again one event at a time.
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Ron Meyers: So settle in because this conversation might be the miracle you have been I'm on the road today in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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Ron Meyers: I'm at Stillwaters, a transitional home, and I'll be talking with the owners, Ricky and Lisa Charlton.
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Ron Meyers: Lisa, I love this place.
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Ron Meyers: Will you tell the listeners what Still Waters is?
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Lisa Charlton: Still Waters is a 501c3 nonprofit charity, and we are a transitional house for individuals coming out of treatment or jail or in drug court.
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Lisa Charlton: We have people coming out of prison that are here, and we've been doing it since 2006, is when we first started.
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Lisa Charlton: I had Joanne Bird from Drug Court call me and wanted to know she had a client who had nowhere to go.
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Lisa Charlton: And I actually knew the girl.
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Lisa Charlton: I used to buy drugs from her.
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Lisa Charlton: And I had been clean.
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Lisa Charlton: So she called me.
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Lisa Charlton: And of course, Ricky is a licensed commercial contractor, and this was right after Hurricane Katrina.
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Lisa Charlton: And so we were doing a lot of construction work.
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Lisa Charlton: And so this whole upstairs, I said, Ricky, let's let's open up a teening salon.
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Lisa Charlton: So he built all those little individual rooms up here.
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Lisa Charlton: And this had been going on for about a year, and we had started getting overwhelmed with construction work.
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Lisa Charlton: And when I got that call from Joanne, we had already started an aftercare group over here at Riverside Baptist Church for the drug court people because they were having to go all the way to Green County for their aftercare.
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Lisa Charlton: And so, you know, we had already made that connection, and Ricky and I talked about it, and I said, let's just why don't we just get rid of this tanning salon and make these rooms for women?
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Lisa Charlton: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: And that's what we did.
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Ron Meyers: I mean, you've been doing it for 20 years.
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Lisa Charlton: Yes.
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ron Meyers: So it's dear to your heart because you said a minute ago you've dealt with addiction.
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Lisa Charlton: Both Ricky and I both have.
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Lisa Charlton: Mine started fairly young, had an alcoholic father who was absent.
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Lisa Charlton: He worked overseas.
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Lisa Charlton: When we traveled, there were seven of us, and we would go, you know, we've lived all over the world.
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Lisa Charlton: My mother would give us volume.
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Lisa Charlton: Alcoholics Anonymous, and I I understand it now.
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Lisa Charlton: It's taken many years to get a grasp on, you know, to reconcile this condition with what I knew physically and mentally, what I was bound with, with my spiritual life.
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Lisa Charlton: It's been a long journey from, you know, under coming out of the confines of the Catholic Church.
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Lisa Charlton: And there were so many good things I took from that, but there was also a lot of questions I was left with.
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Lisa Charlton: And so at the age of 17, I ended up first treatment center, was the East Mississippi State Hospital.
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Lisa Charlton: And I had a spiritual experience there that completely revolutionized me.
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Lisa Charlton: I just surrendered my life to God.
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Ron Meyers: You met Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Lisa Charlton: I mean, I was literally flooded with a light that I could not explain.
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Lisa Charlton: And that same day, my mother came to pick me up from there.
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Lisa Charlton: It was horrible.
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Lisa Charlton: I mean, you want to talk about a demonic place.
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Lisa Charlton: Things started falling into place.
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Ron Meyers: So when you have this spiritual experience and God just Jesus comes into your life.
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Ron Meyers: Yes.
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Lisa Charlton: So there are some things that I think are so embedded in us as human beings that it takes a lifetime to purify for whatever God has consecrated us for.
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Lisa Charlton: And I I never under, I hate, I did not like that we are to be holy.
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Lisa Charlton: You know, we say that in scripture.
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Lisa Charlton: And I just shy, I just it left such a bad taste in my mouth because I knew I could never achieve that.
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Ron Meyers: But you know, when you talk to people now, it seemed like every family, every person, you know, has somebody that is addiction.
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Ron Meyers: Even beyond that, is it just so much pressure in the world?
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Ron Meyers: What's your thoughts of what leads person to addiction?
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Lisa Charlton: I think it is there's no family.
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Lisa Charlton: No family, I think it's certainly no fathers.
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Lisa Charlton: You know, and you've got children.
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Lisa Charlton: I know when I worked at the home of grace, the level of dysfunction in some of those, I mean, we had girls that came there that were prostituted by their mothers at the age of 13, 14 years old for their own drug money, drug hack hack.
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Lisa Charlton: You know, I think that there is value in redemption, that God recycles it and it has a per there's a purpose for it.
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Lisa Charlton: You know, it's like that word holy.
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Lisa Charlton: I was talking about, you know, there there are things that I have learned in doing this where God has healed me as I'm healing other people.
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Lisa Charlton: That holy does not mean I'm perfect, it does not mean I'm this, it does not mean I'm that.
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Lisa Charlton: Anything that is pulled and consecrated for the purposes of God becomes holy.
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Lisa Charlton: He told Moses, take off your shoes because you're standing on holy ground.
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Lisa Charlton: That ground was consecrated for the purposes of God, and so therefore it's holy.
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Ron Meyers: So you're living out what is your purpose, you feel your purpose, your destiny.
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Ron Meyers: I agree too.
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Ron Meyers: But to somebody listening, maybe their child or their family members dealing with addiction, and they haven't hit, you know, the freedom yet that you have, what would you tell that person?
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Lisa Charlton: I would tell that person to never give up, to reach out, to to go where the light is.
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Lisa Charlton: Wherever you're you find the light of God, you go there and you you pray.
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Lisa Charlton: You don't give up because God does not abandon his children.
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Lisa Charlton: And I know, you know, I know for me, and I I believe for Ricky as well, that there is a legacy of faith that God honors.
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Lisa Charlton: Yeah, I had praying parents, I had to pray as for as dysfunctional as they were, they lifted their hearts up on my behalf.
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Ron Meyers: I've had many guests tell me that they know they are alive today because of the prayers of their mothers or grandmothers.
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Ron Meyers: And so prayer is very important, isn't it?
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Lisa Charlton: I remember at my mother's funeral, there was a nun that taught me she knew in elementary school, and she was so glad to see me doing well, you know, and she said, I have calluses on my knees praying for you.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: That your mother asked me to pray for you.
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Lisa Charlton: And I believe that.
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Lisa Charlton: I believe God honors that.
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Lisa Charlton: He doesn't see religion, he does, he's not Baptist, he's not Catholic, he's not, but he searches the hearts of people, and you know, the pure prayers get answered.
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Lisa Charlton: And so I would say to somebody, you know, reach out for help and know that there's hope.
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Lisa Charlton: This is not a, you know, I was not a bad person trying to get good, I was a sick person trying to get well, you know, and Jesus said, I did not come for the well, I came for the sick.
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Lisa Charlton: And so there's a lot of comfort in that.
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Lisa Charlton: There's a lot of where I can just drop my guard and and say, Okay, here I am.
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Lisa Charlton: I need all the help I can get from you.
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Lisa Charlton: And he really is the only one who can bring that about.
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Lisa Charlton: However, he does it.
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Lisa Charlton: God uses, he's got people tucked all over the place doing his will, and they're the most random people.
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, I agree.
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Ron Meyers: Well, you did a good job.
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Lisa Charlton: I think it's wonderful what you're doing.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, you're a happy person.
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Ron Meyers: I like that.
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Lisa Charlton: I am very happy.
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Lisa Charlton: I actually had a double lung transplant two years ago.
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Lisa Charlton: You had a double lung transplant?
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Lisa Charlton: Yes, two years ago.
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Lisa Charlton: I was still working at the home of graves.
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Lisa Charlton: My goodness.
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Lisa Charlton: And I I told Shaleen something's not right, and I had to find out what was wrong, and I was diagnosed with the terminal illness in 2020 and was put in on Oshner's program.
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Lisa Charlton: I wasn't expecting that.
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Lisa Charlton: You know, it brought me a level of wow dependence on God that I've never had to have before.
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Lisa Charlton: You know, I've always been a fighter, I'm a survivor, but there was no relying on myself in this.
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Lisa Charlton: You've got to be sick enough to be put on the list, but you've got to be well enough to survive the surgery.
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Ron Meyers: And the transplant can only come from somebody else that had died, right?
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Ron Meyers: Yes.
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Lisa Charlton: I was you've got to, you know, there, you've got to go through a whole battery of tests and and you've got to stay monitored.
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Lisa Charlton: And so my blood match, they do a what's called a panoreactive antibody test, and they put that into their donor thing and see who you're compatible with.
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Lisa Charlton: And I was only compatible, I would only be compatible with 8% of the lungs available nationwide.
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Lisa Charlton: I got put on their list in October, and by December, I was on 10 liters of oxygen continuously.
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Lisa Charlton: And so she told me, we're gonna send you out to Baylor St.
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Lisa Charlton: Luke's in Texas, or you're not gonna make it.
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Lisa Charlton: And so I went out there, and you know, you gotta do tests and get put on their list.
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Lisa Charlton: Within seven days, they called me for lungs.
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Lisa Charlton: And we went to the hospital, and you know, they immediately start, the family all started coming in, and the doctor came in and he said, I just want to tell you that we got your lungs this morning.
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Lisa Charlton: And he said, because they measure your cavity, chest cavity, they all day long they're doing stuff.
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Lisa Charlton: And he said, I just want to let you know size-wise, it's a perfect fit.
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Lisa Charlton: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: And he said, the blood type matching is virtually a perfect match.
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Lisa Charlton: And he said, What I'm saying to you is this is nothing less than a miracle.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: And he said, We're gonna, you know, we're gonna get you transplanted today.
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Lisa Charlton: So I was like, What?
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Lisa Charlton: All I kept saying was.
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Ron Meyers: So you're you're on oxygen because you could hardly breathe, and now you hear that you're gonna have a whole new life.
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Lisa Charlton: I mean they take you to a little room and the doctors come up and get you.
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Lisa Charlton: And when I sat down in the chair, and I've got a picture of it.
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Lisa Charlton: When I sat down in that chair, a silver cross popped up.
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Lisa Charlton: It must have fallen.
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Lisa Charlton: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: A silver cross popped up and literally leaned it on my leg.
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Lisa Charlton: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: And my brother-in-law took me because my sister had just flown out that morning for her daughter's baby shower in upstate New York.
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Lisa Charlton: And so my poor brother-in-law had to take me.
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Lisa Charlton: And he said, What is that?
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Lisa Charlton: I said, Phil, it's a cross.
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Speaker 4: It's a cross.
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Lisa Charlton: And I started crying.
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Lisa Charlton: He said, I he said, What does it say?
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Lisa Charlton: And it said, God loves you.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Lisa Charlton: And so through the whole thing, I was he was with you.
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Lisa Charlton: Oh, I didn't know if I was gonna survive it.
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Lisa Charlton: I didn't you are in such a state, not to mention the overwhelming that you've got somebody else's who just died.
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Ron Meyers: Who just died?
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Ron Meyers: Do they tell you anything about the donor?
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Lisa Charlton: You can write their family and they pass it on.
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Lisa Charlton: And if their family wants to get in touch with you, they will.
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Lisa Charlton: And I've done that and I've not heard back.
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Lisa Charlton: And so I'm just gonna, you know, respect that.
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Lisa Charlton: Sometimes, you know, they said sometimes it's too painful.
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Ron Meyers: Do you ever just sometimes think when you you know, drinking a cup of coffee just by yourself?
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Ron Meyers: That I have somebody else.
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Lisa Charlton: Oh, it's constant.
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Ron Meyers: It's constant.
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Ron Meyers: Probably never wow.
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Lisa Charlton: And I had, you know, before this happened, I knew that somebody, you know, somebody was gonna have to die so that I could live.
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Lisa Charlton: Yeah, I don't know if it was my was making it up or what.
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Lisa Charlton: But I just had this vision of this girl with long blonde hair on the top of a hill, and there was nothing but white in front of her.
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Lisa Charlton: And she just would look back at me with a look.
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Lisa Charlton: And I felt in my heart that that was my donor.
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Lisa Charlton: I just felt, and I knew, you know, that's what I was saying.
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Lisa Charlton: You can't, this is a whole nother level of surrender.
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Ron Meyers: So when you talk to people about God, you can go to a deeper level that none of us understand because you are a miracle.
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Ron Meyers: Because you are literally a walking living miracle.
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Ron Meyers: I really am.
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Ron Meyers: Wow, no wonder you have such good faith.
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Ron Meyers: What a story.
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Lisa Charlton: Well, you ever think, ask yourself, Lord, why me?
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Lisa Charlton: Yes, I have over and over, and I've just come to the conclusion, and this is why this is why you can give somebody hope.
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Lisa Charlton: Is because when I look back on how hard it's been for me to be healed of all the things that have made me me, all the bad choices, all the bad decisions, you know, many of them were just out of desperation, jumping from one mess I made to another mess I made.
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Lisa Charlton: And somehow or another, God has been faithful to my prayers.
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Lisa Charlton: And my prayers were just, God, please help me.
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Lisa Charlton: Please don't give up on me.
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Lisa Charlton: And when I look back on all that, you know, there's nothing that makes sense other than the fact that God loves me.
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Lisa Charlton: That's it.
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Lisa Charlton: Because I did everything I could to mess it up over and over and over, just out of my own brokenness, out of my own, just like I said, I'm none of us are bad people trying to get good.
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Lisa Charlton: We're sick people trying to get well.
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Lisa Charlton: And that's the good news is that Jesus said, I did not come for the well, I came for the sick.
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Ron Meyers: So now someone listening, they just need hope.
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Ron Meyers: Give them some hope.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, there's hope.
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Lisa Charlton: I mean, I'm sitting here, you know, as like I said, we have this morning, Ricky and I were talking, and I said, you know, the bottom line is by God's grace and mercy, I have outran and outlived all of my vices, all the sins that would destroy me.
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Lisa Charlton: No, none of the weapons that have been formed against me have been able to prosper.
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Lisa Charlton: And that's only all I did was pray.
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Lisa Charlton: That's all I did was pray and show up wherever God led me.
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Ron Meyers: Well, the title of my show is called Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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Ron Meyers: So I'm gonna ask you how does a person get the hell out of their life?
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Lisa Charlton: One event at a time.
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Ron Meyers: One event at a time.
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Lisa Charlton: And you offer the best that you have to God, and that is enough.
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Lisa Charlton: He will take that and he will mold you, and he will, you know, like it says, the great refiner, he sits over our lives like a refiner, and he'll turn the heat up a little bit and pull some of that dross off and let it cool down, and then he'll put the fire back up again.
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Lisa Charlton: And then, you know, the the saying that when when he's done, he can look in the and see his reflection.
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ron Meyers: And before we go, will you pray for the listeners out there?
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Lisa Charlton: You bet, you bet.
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Lisa Charlton: Well, Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for every ear that is coming under our voice.
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Lisa Charlton: And God, I thank you that your grace and your love and your mercy would pour through and speak to those who are lost, who are confused, who are hurting, who feel alone, who are desperate, God.
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Lisa Charlton: I thank you for the wonderfulness of your Son Jesus Christ and the story of redemption that he brings to all of our lives.
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Lisa Charlton: And Father, what a beautiful journey it is.
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Lisa Charlton: That suffering does not have to be an ugly thing.
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Lisa Charlton: It doesn't have to end ugly, that there is a wonderful beauty that comes from it when we surrender our lives to you and our hearts to you.
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Lisa Charlton: And so, Father, I thank you that you would touch the hearts of those listening and that somehow your message of hope and love and restoration gets sent forth in Jesus' holy name.
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Lisa Charlton: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ron Meyers: You know there are interviews you enjoy, and then there are interviews that stay with you long after the microphones are turned off.
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Ron Meyers: This is one of those conversations.
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Ron Meyers: Lisa's story forces us to stop and think about something most of us avoid.
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Ron Meyers: Life is fragile.
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Ron Meyers: Every breath is a gift, and sometimes we don't recognize the value of breath until we're struggling to take one.
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Ron Meyers: What struck me the most was the emotional tension she carries, gratitude that she's alive while also knowing someone else lost their life so she could receive those lungs.
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Ron Meyers: That's heavy.
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Ron Meyers: That changes you.
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Ron Meyers: But isn't that also the gospel?
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Ron Meyers: Jesus willingly laid down his life so we could live eternally.
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Ron Meyers: Not because we earn it, not because we are perfect, but because love stepped into our brokenness and made a way.
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Ron Meyers: And maybe today you feel spiritually out of breath.
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Ron Meyers: Addiction, fear, shame, anxiety, regret.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe life has knocked the wind out of you.
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Ron Meyers: Friend, hear me clearly.
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Ron Meyers: There is still hope for you.
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Ron Meyers: Hope is spelled J E S U S.
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Ron Meyers: Lisa also reminded us that recovery is rarely instant.
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Ron Meyers: Healing usually happens one event at a time, one decision at a time, one prayer at a time, one surrender at a time.
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Ron Meyers: And if someone you love is struggling right now, don't give up on them.
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Ron Meyers: Keep reaching, keep praying, keep shining light into dark places.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes people survive because somebody refused to stop believing in them.
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Ron Meyers: That's what this show is all about.
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Ron Meyers: Encouraging and empowering people to believe that with God, your worst chapter does not have to be your final chapter.
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Ron Meyers: I will be back in a minute.
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Ron Meyers: And close out today's show.
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Announcer: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of Your Life with your host, Ron Myers.
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Announcer: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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Speaker 3: Here's a refreshing word just for you today from Matthew 6.33.
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Speaker 3: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Speaker 3: A refreshing word for you from God's Word.
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Speaker 4: Jesus, Jesus.
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Speaker 4: What do you think of when you hear that name?
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Speaker 4: Jesus, Jesus.
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Speaker 4: Love, life, hope, joy, joy, peace, friend, companion, confident, savior.
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Speaker 4: The God of the universe lives.
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Speaker 4: And he lives in the form of a man.
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Speaker 4: That man is Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 4: For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him shall have eternal life.
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Speaker 4: Jesus.
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Speaker 4: What will you do with him?
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Speaker 4: He knocks on the door of your heart.
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Speaker 4: When you open that door, your life will change.
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Speaker 4: Forever.
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Speaker 4: It came that the world may have life and may have it more abundantly.
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Speaker 4: Ask Jesus into your heart and discover what living is all about.
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Speaker 2: Get the hell out of your life.
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Speaker 2: Get the hell out of your life.
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Ron Meyers: My friend, before we leave today, I want you to think about this.
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Ron Meyers: You and I are only one heartbeat away from eternity.
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Ron Meyers: That's not meant to scare you.
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Ron Meyers: It's meant to wake you up.
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Ron Meyers: Lisa's story reminds us how precious life really is.
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Ron Meyers: Every breath matters.
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Ron Meyers: Every day matters.
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Ron Meyers: Every decision matters.
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Ron Meyers: Every person listening matters.
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Ron Meyers: And maybe today you've been spiritually suffocating, trying to carry pain by yourself, trying to outrun your past, trying to numb the hurt, trying to be strong while falling apart inside.
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Ron Meyers: My friend, listen to this.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus did not come to condemn you.
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Ron Meyers: He came to save you so you could live.
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Ron Meyers: The cross was not the end of the story.
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Ron Meyers: The resurrection power proved that death, addiction, shame, fear, and hopelessness do not get the final word.
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Ron Meyers: Here are a few action steps you can take away from today's show.
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Ron Meyers: One, if you need help, ask for it today.
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Ron Meyers: Not next week, but today.
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Ron Meyers: Number two, if someone you love is struggling, reach out again and again.
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Ron Meyers: Don't stop believing.
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Ron Meyers: Number three, go where the light is, stay in the light, stay around healthy people, healthy places, healthy voices.
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Ron Meyers: Number four, stop letting your past define your future.
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Ron Meyers: God has an awesome plan for those who follow Him.
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Ron Meyers: Number five, remember holy doesn't mean perfect.
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Ron Meyers: It means set apart for a purpose.
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Ron Meyers: God can use broken people.
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Ron Meyers: I know that for a fact because I was a broken individual living on Misfit Island, and he came and he rescued me.
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Ron Meyers: In fact, most of the people he uses in Scripture were broken first.
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Ron Meyers: And maybe that's why you're listening right now.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe this isn't random.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe God is reminding you that you still have a purpose, and there's still breath in your lungs for a reason.
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Ron Meyers: I say this often because I believe with all my heart.
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Ron Meyers: Don't live on the island of regrets.
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Ron Meyers: You know what villages called should have, would have, and could have, because it's never too late for a new beginning.
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Ron Meyers: You know, this show is produced especially for non-churchgoers, for people who have been hurt, disappointed, or pushed away from faith.
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Ron Meyers: My goal is simple to brag on Jesus and remind you that grace is bigger than your past.
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Ron Meyers: Grace is bigger than all your mistakes.
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Ron Meyers: And remember this someone died so you could live, both physically in Lisa's story and spiritually through Jesus Christ.
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Ron Meyers: If today's episode has touched you, share it with someone that needs some encouragement, some hope.
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Ron Meyers: I will be back next week with another grace-filled episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life, available wherever you listen to podcast.
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Ron Meyers: Until next time, this is Ron Myers reminding you keep breathing in grace.
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Ron Meyers: And remember, life with Jesus is pretty cool.
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Ron Meyers: Try it.
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