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Surrender isn’t losing, It’s finally winning the right fight. · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

• 0:01
  Announcer: It's time now to get the How Out of Your Life, a weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
• 0:10
  Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a full 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: What does it take to wake someone up?
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  Ron Meyers: Is it painful, lost, rock bottom?
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  Ron Meyers: Or does it take something so real, so undeniable that you can never go back to who you used to be?
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  Ron Meyers: Because today you're going to hear a story that crosses that line.
• 0:37
  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: My name is Ron Myers, and this is Get the Hell Out of Your Life, where we share real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
• 0:48
  Ron Meyers: And my goal is simple to encourage, inspire, and empower you, and maybe, just maybe, help you take one step closer to the life God created you to live.
• 0:58
  Ron Meyers: And this show is for you.
• 1:00
  Ron Meyers: This show is for the one who doesn't go to church, the one who's been hurt by church, and the one who thinks God might be done with you.
• 1:09
  Ron Meyers: Let me tell you something, my friend.
• 1:12
  Ron Meyers: God is never finished with any of us.
• 1:15
  Ron Meyers: And today I need you to lean in and pay attention to this story.
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  Ron Meyers: Because what if I told you a man sat up in a coffin and started talking about heaven?
• 1:26
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, you heard that right.
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  Ron Meyers: But this isn't about a moment.
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  Ron Meyers: This is about a life, a life that went from childhood faith to drugs, to jail, to homelessness, and somewhere and all that chaos, God didn't just show up.
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  Ron Meyers: He rescued him, not through willpower, not through trying harder, not through religion, but through one word, surrender.
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  Ron Meyers: And today's guest, Scottie McLeod, is living proof that no matter how far you've gone, you're never too far gone.
• 2:00
  Ron Meyers: Let me repeat that.
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  Ron Meyers: You are never too far gone.
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  Ron Meyers: So wherever you are right now, I don't believe you're here by accident.
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  Ron Meyers: I believe this moment is for you.
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  Ron Meyers: It's rigged, my friend.
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  Ron Meyers: So let's get into it.
• 2:15
  Ron Meyers: Scotty, take us back.
• 2:17
  Ron Meyers: How does a life go from faith to brokenness and somehow back again?
• 2:22
  Scotty McLeod: When I was ten years old, I was I gave my heart and life to Jesus.
• 2:27
  Scotty McLeod: I was young, then I got a little bit older, and I got off the path.
• 2:32
  Scotty McLeod: So I come from a long line of preachers.
• 2:35
  Scotty McLeod: Actually, what they were all Southern Baptists, and until my dad, which he was a Southern Baptist too, but he kind of went off in a little bit of a different direction.
• 2:45
  Scotty McLeod: But there and I I got into the world, I got to doing drugs, drinking, and at one time I ended up homeless, and I was on bottom, and there was hell in my life.
• 2:55
  Scotty McLeod: And that hell just kept piling up and piling up and piling up until finally I gave up and surrendered.
• 3:03
  Scotty McLeod: And when I did, it was the greatest thing could have possibly happened.
• 3:07
  Scotty McLeod: So my dad had started a ministry.
• 3:10
  Scotty McLeod: The name of the ministry is uh Broken Stone Ministries.
• 3:14
  Scotty McLeod: And there's been a lot of shootoffs from that.
• 3:16
  Scotty McLeod: And one of those is called Our Father's Arms.
• 3:19
  Scotty McLeod: And we have two homes for men, and we have a free medical clinic located in Jacksonville, Alabama.
• 3:25
  Scotty McLeod: And my dad was building all this up, ended up with a music hall, had Christian martists on there.
• 3:31
  Scotty McLeod: It's called Duggar Mountain Music Hall.
• 3:33
  Scotty McLeod: It played public television and actually, I think, 80 stations across the world.
• 3:38
  Scotty McLeod: And it's just been one thing after another how God has blessed this and kept it all going.
• 3:44
  Scotty McLeod: So in the back of my mind, even when I was living wild and in my sin, I knew God had a plan.
• 3:52
  Scotty McLeod: So I found out my dad had an aneurysm, and they said it was inoperable.
• 3:57
  Scotty McLeod: So I started going to church with him, and then God just started working on me a little bit at a time.
• 4:03
  Scotty McLeod: And when I'd go to family dinner, I'd say I'd say something about Jesus, and I'd see Daddy turn and look at me.
• 4:08
  Scotty McLeod: See, Daddy knew he was about to pass.
• 4:11
  Scotty McLeod: And I had told myself that I he could have had this for years, you know.
• 4:16
  Scotty McLeod: But Daddy knew better than that.
• 4:18
  Scotty McLeod: And he comes to my house and he brings me his Bible and my granddad's Bible.
• 4:23
  Scotty McLeod: And I thought, well, that's cool, you know.
• 4:25
  Scotty McLeod: And then he leaves.
• 4:26
  Scotty McLeod: And within a week, he had a stroke and passed preaching a graveside service.
• 4:32
  Scotty McLeod: He went down right there beside the grave while he was consoling the family.
• 4:36
  Scotty McLeod: And uh and I was thinking, wow, that's amazing, you know, that that God would allow him to go serving.
• 4:44
  Scotty McLeod: And I was sitting, it was hard on me.
• 4:46
  Scotty McLeod: You know, the first week or two I was in a fog, and then it dawned on me that Daddy had told me 15 years before that, that when he passed, a friend of his in Tennessee had some stuff for me.
• 4:59
  Scotty McLeod: So I got in touch with a friend in Tennessee and I drove up there and and the friend gave me a a bunch of teaching tapes, teaching CDs and tapes, and he gave me a DVD.
• 5:10
  Scotty McLeod: And I wasn't sure what the DVD was, but when I got back, I put it in the DVD player.
• 5:15
  Scotty McLeod: And there's a little funeral home close to here.
• 5:17
  Scotty McLeod: It's called K.
• 5:18
  Scotty McLeod: L.
• 5:18
  Scotty McLeod: Brown's funeral home.
• 5:20
  Scotty McLeod: And Daddy would always preach funerals for people that didn't have money.
• 5:23
  Scotty McLeod: They could always call Daddy and he would come in there and do it.
• 5:26
  Scotty McLeod: So all of a sudden the camera comes in the front door at K.L.
• 5:30
  Scotty McLeod: Brown, and there's this music playing like funeral music.
• 5:34
  Scotty McLeod: The camera comes in and it goes to the coffin, and a preacher in a suit opens the coffin, and then Daddy sits up in the coffin and starts talking about how awesome it is to be in heaven.
• 5:47
  unknown: Wow.
• 5:51
  Ron Meyers: Well, I bet you did I bet you did a little two-step.
• 5:54
  Ron Meyers: You all you see that on the TV Dean, you see your dad pop up out of a coffin.
• 6:00
  Scotty McLeod: I did it at first.
• 6:01
  Scotty McLeod: I started crying, and then I started uh shouting, you know, and uh we ended up playing that at his celebration of life.
• 6:08
  Scotty McLeod: And when they first opened, it was during COVID, but there was a lot of people there.
• 6:12
  Scotty McLeod: And when the coffin first opened, everybody went, oh.
• 6:16
  Scotty McLeod: But then when he smiled and started talking about heaven, everybody started cheering.
• 6:21
  Scotty McLeod: And it was amazing.
• 6:22
  Ron Meyers: And I know he hadn't gone too far.
• 6:24
  Ron Meyers: What did he tell the audience about heaven?
• 6:27
  Scotty McLeod: As always, we try to keep our focus completely on Jesus.
• 6:31
  Scotty McLeod: He just started talking about how great it is, we'll see everybody again.
• 6:36
  Scotty McLeod: And he had a song called Christians Never Say Goodbye, just so long for a little while.
• 6:42
  Scotty McLeod: And he was quoting that song and just talking about the love of Jesus.
• 6:46
  Scotty McLeod: And you know, 1 Corinthians 13, 8 tells us love never fails.
• 6:52
  Scotty McLeod: And that's just the motto he lived by, and that's the motto we're living by.
• 6:56
  Scotty McLeod: Amen.
• 6:57
  Scotty McLeod: Now, sometimes sometimes I think he's still here with us.
• 7:00
  Scotty McLeod: You know, I started going to the juvenile detention center close to here and playing and singing songs for the kids down there.
• 7:06
  Scotty McLeod: And Daddy had gone down there and done it years ago, and they called us in at Christmas, and they were gonna give us this little award and certificate, you know.
• 7:16
  Scotty McLeod: And it was all the daytime I go at night, and all the daytime people were the ones giving out the certificates.
• 7:22
  Scotty McLeod: So I'm sitting there and they're calling people up and they're asking their name.
• 7:26
  Scotty McLeod: You know, they're calling the name out, and the person goes up and gets their award, and they call my dad's name out, and I look at my friend, and my friend looks at me, and they call daddy's name out again, and I go get his awards.
• 7:38
  Scotty McLeod: You know, it's those little God winks.
• 7:40
  Scotty McLeod: You know, God talks to you, and if you're looking, you can hear it.
• 7:44
  Ron Meyers: He sure does.
• 7:44
  Ron Meyers: So you've picked up the mantle of his legacy of in my father's arms, your ministry.
• 7:51
  Ron Meyers: So you're running the show now, right?
• 7:54
  Scotty McLeod: I'm one of them.
• 7:55
  Scotty McLeod: My uh mother and my cousin, there's several of us that work with the ministry, and you know, through the years there's been a constant flow of healthy community coming through to work with the guys, the guys who have either been in prison or on drugs or on the streets.
• 8:10
  Scotty McLeod: And God just keeps sending the right people at the right time, and and it's just amazing to watch what he does.
• 8:16
  Scotty McLeod: You know, we've never had a fundraiser or asked for money at all.
• 8:20
  Scotty McLeod: Wow.
• 8:21
  Scotty McLeod: And God's just kept supplying the money and the funds to keep it going.
• 8:25
  Scotty McLeod: And he can close it down anytime he wants to.
• 8:27
  Scotty McLeod: You know, we're not it's not like we're out trying to make money or anything like that.
• 8:32
  Scotty McLeod: Matter of fact, we're all most of us are volunteers, but he just keeps supplying the funds.
• 8:38
  Scotty McLeod: You know, when I first took over the part I'm taking I took over, I was praying to God and I was thinking, Lord, do you want to keep it going without daddy here?
• 8:46
  Scotty McLeod: And I was nervous and I was fearful, and that fear will it'll completely mess you up.
• 8:52
  Scotty McLeod: So the first thing God did, I asked him for a sign.
• 8:56
  Scotty McLeod: And the first thing he did was he almost immediately pulled some resources from us.
• 9:02
  Scotty McLeod: And I was thinking, Lord, I do you want to shut it down?
• 9:05
  Scotty McLeod: But in my heart I knew he didn't.
• 9:07
  Scotty McLeod: And then I went and played and sang up in Tennessee at a retreat.
• 9:11
  Scotty McLeod: And when I got back from the retreat, there was enough money to keep it going for a few more months.
• 9:15
  Scotty McLeod: So it was just God put it on somebody's heart, and there it was.
• 9:20
  Ron Meyers: Wow.
• 9:20
  Ron Meyers: God's never late and he's never early, but he's always on time, isn't he?
• 9:24
  Scotty McLeod: That's right.
• 9:25
  Scotty McLeod: It's it's an uncomfortable piece, you know.
• 9:27
  Scotty McLeod: You you gotta trust him.
• 9:28
  Scotty McLeod: And if you trust him, you can walk in peace and joy.
• 9:32
  Scotty McLeod: But if you're trusting in yourself, it's never gonna work.
• 9:35
  Ron Meyers: Well, Scotty, it is obvious.
• 9:37
  Ron Meyers: Your love, the calling on your life to love the hell out of other people, it is contagious.
• 9:44
  Ron Meyers: Right now, we have a lot of struggling people in this world, don't we?
• 9:50
  Scotty McLeod: It's amazing how many there are.
• 9:52
  Scotty McLeod: You know, used to back in the 90s when we first started the men's homes, you know, there was people that had problems and there were people that were struggling, but now it has touched every family.
• 10:04
  Scotty McLeod: Like every family you talk to, there has been a member of that family that has suffered on account of drugs or, you know, different reasons.
• 10:13
  Scotty McLeod: And God came and he said, Hey, you know, I'll bless you even despite what you've been through or whatever you've done.
• 10:21
  Scotty McLeod: It does not matter.
• 10:23
  Scotty McLeod: I love you and I came to make a way for you.
• 10:26
  Scotty McLeod: And man, when somebody gets a grasp of that, how much Jesus loves them, it turns everything around.
• 10:31
  Ron Meyers: And I'm sure you've seen so many stories and and people's lives change.
• 10:37
  Ron Meyers: Can you give an example of maybe one of your favorite I know they're all your favorite, but is there one that really stands out of somebody that just went from a lot of hell in their life to, you know, whatever?
• 10:48
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, sir.
• 10:49
  Scotty McLeod: I'll tell you, back, you know, in in the very beginning, I was telling myself, you know, well, maybe God doesn't want me to do this.
• 10:56
  Scotty McLeod: You know how the enemy will send out.
• 10:58
  Scotty McLeod: And a fellow walked up to my house on foot, and he was yellow.
• 11:03
  Scotty McLeod: And I had met him years before, twenty-five years before, and he was, you know, a stocky guy.
• 11:09
  Scotty McLeod: And he was shriveled up to nothing.
• 11:11
  Scotty McLeod: He was yellow, his eyes were yellow, he was jaundice.
• 11:14
  Scotty McLeod: And he asked me for a ride, and I gave him a ride, and I went home and I was praying about it.
• 11:19
  Scotty McLeod: And I felt like God was telling me that I was gonna see this fella again.
• 11:24
  Scotty McLeod: So I was coming home away I do not usually come home, maybe a month later.
• 11:29
  Scotty McLeod: And I come around the curve, and there's there's that guy standing on the side of the road.
• 11:34
  Scotty McLeod: And I stopped and I said, Are you doing okay, man?
• 11:36
  Scotty McLeod: And he said, No.
• 11:37
  Scotty McLeod: And I said, Do you need a ride?
• 11:39
  Scotty McLeod: And he said, I do.
• 11:40
  Scotty McLeod: And he got in the car and I started taking him to town, wherever it was, he told me he wanted to go.
• 11:46
  Scotty McLeod: And I asked him, I said, Friend, have you ever decided to try to get help?
• 11:51
  Scotty McLeod: Or have you ever wanted to get help?
• 11:53
  Scotty McLeod: And he started crying and he said, If I only had a chance.
• 11:57
  Scotty McLeod: And I said, Well, God can give you a chance.
• 12:00
  Scotty McLeod: Would you consider coming and staying with us at our father's arms?
• 12:04
  Scotty McLeod: And he teared up and he said, Please.
• 12:06
  Scotty McLeod: And I took him back to the lawnmower shed he had been living in.
• 12:09
  Scotty McLeod: The lawnmower shed didn't have power.
• 12:11
  Scotty McLeod: There was just a bunch of junk in there.
• 12:13
  Scotty McLeod: We got what little bitty had.
• 12:15
  Scotty McLeod: We took him out to our father's arms.
• 12:17
  Scotty McLeod: He was telling me about how his kids told him, told him they didn't want anything to do with him anymore.
• 12:23
  Scotty McLeod: Come to find out, my wife had taught his daughter in Sunday school and newer.
• 12:29
  Scotty McLeod: So this is amazing.
• 12:31
  Scotty McLeod: This is amazing.
• 12:32
  Scotty McLeod: So I go to the house one day and I say, Hey man, you want to go ride with me to my house?
• 12:38
  Scotty McLeod: And he was like, sure.
• 12:39
  Scotty McLeod: But what I didn't tell him was that his daughter knew how good he'd been doing and how he'd put some weight back on and his color had come back.
• 12:47
  Scotty McLeod: And we were riding back to my house, and I seen her van, his daughter's van sitting at the house.
• 12:53
  Scotty McLeod: My wife had lined it up where she was at our house and she was waiting on him to come and see her.
• 12:59
  Scotty McLeod: But I didn't tell him that what was about to happen.
• 13:02
  Scotty McLeod: So we get to the house, I got a split level house.
• 13:05
  Scotty McLeod: He walks up the stairs, they see each other, and they run and hug each other and start crying.
• 13:11
  Scotty McLeod: That's been over two years ago, and they're on the phone 30 minutes to an hour every day.
• 13:16
  Scotty McLeod: Wow.
• 13:17
  Scotty McLeod: I mean, that's what God does.
• 13:18
  Scotty McLeod: He restores families.
• 13:20
  Ron Meyers: You know, I just get goosebumps when you say that story.
• 13:23
  Ron Meyers: You know, obviously you are the man to take over what your father has done.
• 13:28
  Ron Meyers: You have a love and a passion that I can just hear it in your voice, Scotty.
• 13:33
  Ron Meyers: And somebody right now is listening and can relate to the story you just told, but they have no hope.
• 13:40
  Ron Meyers: They don't think it can ever happen to them.
• 13:42
  Ron Meyers: Would you give that listener some hope right now?
• 13:45
  Scotty McLeod: God is bigger than.
• 13:47
  Scotty McLeod: God is bigger than the big bang.
• 13:50
  Scotty McLeod: He's bigger than the big bomb, he's bigger than all our problems.
• 13:55
  Scotty McLeod: God is bigger than.
• 13:57
  Scotty McLeod: And you just gotta let him love you.
• 13:59
  Scotty McLeod: Get yourself out of the way.
• 14:01
  Scotty McLeod: It never was about us anyway.
• 14:03
  Scotty McLeod: It's about him.
• 14:04
  Scotty McLeod: And when we surrender our kingdom over to him and we start living in his kingdom, then he starts speaking to us, and our life starts transforming, and we become a light to other people.
• 14:17
  Scotty McLeod: We're no longer in darkness, and he just loves us.
• 14:20
  Ron Meyers: He loves the hell out of us.
• 14:22
  Ron Meyers: He sure does, he sure does, Scotty.
• 14:24
  Ron Meyers: And while you are, I am excited about your ministry.
• 14:28
  Ron Meyers: I'm excited that I have the pleasure, the honor to talk to someone like you that is in the trenches and you've learned from a legacy of grandfathers, fathers, and your mom, and all these people around you, and you just love the hell out of people.
• 14:43
  Ron Meyers: And isn't that all Jesus wants us to do?
• 14:46
  Ron Meyers: Because if was it, love brings a person to repentance?
• 14:50
  Ron Meyers: It's the love that draws people to Christ.
• 14:53
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, sir.
• 14:53
  Scotty McLeod: And uh actually, you know, you got to be attitudes.
• 14:56
  Scotty McLeod: Blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are the poor, blessed are those when they mourn.
• 15:01
  Scotty McLeod: And that it turns everything the world thinks upside down.
• 15:04
  Scotty McLeod: So God uses the bad, he takes the cross and he makes makes it a plus.
• 15:10
  Scotty McLeod: He takes a minus and he makes it a plus.
• 15:12
  Scotty McLeod: When bad things happen to us, if they bring us back to God, then they're the greatest thing that ever could have happened to us.
• 15:21
  Scotty McLeod: I I never I never would have made it.
• 15:24
  Scotty McLeod: Like I had to go through all that.
• 15:25
  Scotty McLeod: The drugs, the jail, you know, I had to go through that to be able to get to a point to where I was willing to surrender to God.
• 15:35
  Scotty McLeod: Those bad things can can be good.
• 15:37
  Scotty McLeod: He uses them for the good.
• 15:39
  Scotty McLeod: Romans 8 28.
• 15:40
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, he sure does.
• 15:41
  Ron Meyers: For the listeners out there, tell them how they could find some information about our father's arms.
• 15:48
  Scotty McLeod: Our father's arms is in Jacksonville, Alabama.
• 15:51
  Scotty McLeod: We're on Facebook.
• 15:52
  Scotty McLeod: We're actually, we have a website that we're going to be updating pretty soon.
• 15:56
  Scotty McLeod: Or you can write us at 45 Pinewood Street, Jacksonville, Alabama, 36265.
• 16:03
  Scotty McLeod: Or you can write us at 389 Dogwood Lane, Jacksonville, Alabama, 36265.
• 16:10
  Ron Meyers: That's amazing.
• 16:11
  Ron Meyers: And it made me think that there might be somebody out there now that just wants to send a card or some encouragement to some of the folks that are there.
• 16:19
  Ron Meyers: And I'm sure you would love to have things like that, right?
• 16:22
  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 16:23
  Ron Meyers: Well, that's that'd be wonderful.
• 16:25
  Ron Meyers: Hey, Scotty, tell us about your international ministry.
• 16:29
  Ron Meyers: You are doing work all over the world.
• 16:32
  Scotty McLeod: There's a preacher from Southampton, England, named Vic Jacobson.
• 16:36
  Scotty McLeod: And back in the 80s, when my dad first turned his life around, Vic was coming to this little country church once a year by the house.
• 16:44
  Scotty McLeod: And Daddy was fired up for Jesus, you know.
• 16:47
  Scotty McLeod: So he started calling Vic long distance over in England, and Vic was kind of his mentor.
• 16:52
  Scotty McLeod: And anyway, you know, Daddy wrote these songs, and Daddy's songs have played in England, Ukraine, but Vic and Daddy's friendship blossomed, and Vic ran a ministry out of Ukraine in England called Hope Now.
• 17:06
  Scotty McLeod: Well, Vic knows all these people in Ukraine.
• 17:10
  Scotty McLeod: So Daddy starts going over there and sharing and ministering to the people in Ukraine.
• 17:15
  Scotty McLeod: And him and Vic started working together.
• 17:17
  Scotty McLeod: So when Daddy passed away, Vic called me, and Vic became my mentor.
• 17:22
  Scotty McLeod: And we've ended up going to visit Ukraine before the war, visiting the orphanages there, and now we raise money to send the families of wounded soldiers.
• 17:32
  Scotty McLeod: And we still have a hand, a little church here by the house.
• 17:36
  Scotty McLeod: They helped build a church in Ukraine, Cherkassi, Ukraine.
• 17:40
  Scotty McLeod: And we just we just got stuff going all over.
• 17:43
  Ron Meyers: God's hands all in it.
• 17:44
  Ron Meyers: God's on the move.
• 17:45
  Ron Meyers: Scotty, the name of the show is Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
• 17:49
  Ron Meyers: And I want to ask you, how do you get the hell out of your life?
• 17:54
  Scotty McLeod: By surrendering all that you have, all that you are, and all that you hope to be into the arms of our loving Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
• 18:05
  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 18:05
  Ron Meyers: Now, as we conclude our conversation, would you close us out in a prayer to the listeners listening?
• 18:13
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, sir.
• 18:13
  Scotty McLeod: I would.
• 18:14
  Scotty McLeod: Lord, thank you for all you've done for us.
• 18:16
  Scotty McLeod: Thank you for loving us in spite of all we've done.
• 18:20
  Scotty McLeod: Thank you for loving us in spite of the sin that's in us, Lord.
• 18:25
  Scotty McLeod: Thank you for loving the hell out of us.
• 18:27
  Scotty McLeod: Lord, we thank you, we love you, and we praise you.
• 18:30
  Scotty McLeod: In Jesus' name.
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  Scotty McLeod: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow.
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  Ron Meyers: Stories like that just don't inspire.
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  Ron Meyers: They interrupt you.
• 18:43
  Ron Meyers: They make you stop and think.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow, what about me?
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  Ron Meyers: And here are some things I want you to take away from Scotty's story.
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  Ron Meyers: Number one, you can't outrun Grace.
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  Ron Meyers: Scotty didn't clean himself up and then find God.
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  Ron Meyers: He hit bottom hard and God was already there.
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  Ron Meyers: That means your worst moment doesn't disqualify you.
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  Ron Meyers: It might actually be where your story begins.
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  Ron Meyers: Number two, surrender beats willpower.
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  Ron Meyers: We've been taught try harder, do better, fix yourself up.
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  Ron Meyers: But Scotty's life proves something different.
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  Ron Meyers: The breakthrough didn't come when he got stronger.
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  Ron Meyers: It came when he gave up control.
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  Ron Meyers: Surrender isn't losing, it's finally winning the right fight.
• 19:30
  Ron Meyers: Number three, legacy lives on through action.
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  Ron Meyers: His father didn't just talk about faith, he lived it.
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  Ron Meyers: And even in death, while serving others, that legacy kept speaking.
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  Ron Meyers: Now Scotty is carrying that forward through broken stone ministries, our father's arms, men's homes, prison re-entry, and a free medical clinic.
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  Ron Meyers: That's not religion.
• 19:56
  Ron Meyers: That's love in motion.
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  Ron Meyers: Number four, one act of love can change everything.
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  Ron Meyers: The man in the lawnmower shed, don't miss that.
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  Ron Meyers: One ride, one opportunity, and one person who cared.
• 20:12
  Ron Meyers: And now a father restored, a daughter reunited, a family rebuilt.
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  Ron Meyers: You never know, my friend, what is on the other side of one yes.
• 20:24
  Ron Meyers: And number five, trust is a daily discipline.
• 20:28
  Ron Meyers: Scotty talked about leading without chasing money.
• 20:32
  Ron Meyers: Now that takes faith because fear will always whisper, what if it doesn't work?
• 20:39
  Ron Meyers: But trust says confidently, God didn't bring me this far to leave me now.
• 20:46
  Ron Meyers: Friends, he will never leave you.
• 20:49
  Ron Meyers: And when I return, we'll close out the show with some encouragement for the upcoming week.
• 20:55
  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 2: Here's a refreshing word from the book of Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 8.
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  Speaker 2: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Walk as children of light.
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  Announcer: What's your story?
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  Announcer: We're looking for stories of hope and overcoming life's struggles with God's grace.
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  Announcer: Your story validates God's love, mercy, restoration, and forgiveness.
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  Announcer: We want to help you share your story with the world.
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  Announcer: Visit our website, thepromoter.org, and click on the share your story link to your story.
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  Announcer: Your testimony of God's amazing grace or change a person's testimony for eternity.
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  Speaker 4: His name is Willie A.
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  Speaker 4: He's a pretty imperfect guy, but sometimes Changed the oil in his car on time, he hasn't gotten around to fix the toaster his wife asked him to fix two months ago.
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  Speaker 4: He even missed church a few Sundays ago to play golf.
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  Speaker 4: An ordinary imperfect guy, that Willie Ames.
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  Speaker 4: But despite his imperfections, he's got something really going for him.
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  Speaker 4: The guy loves God a lot.
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  Speaker 4: He loves to study the word, he loves his family, and he loves to praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, does he love to praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: It goes to show that God isn't looking for perfect people to follow him.
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  Speaker 4: He just needs people who love him with all their heart.
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  Speaker 4: Someone who has a heart for God is more pleasing to God than someone who looks squeaky clean but has no real passion for God.
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  Speaker 4: The Bible says that love covers a multitude of sins.
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  Speaker 4: So get the love part done.
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  Speaker 4: God can cover all the other little imperfections.
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  unknown: Get the hell out of your life.
• 23:15
  Ron Meyers: So let me ask you something.
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  Ron Meyers: What part of your life are you still trying to control?
• 23:20
  Ron Meyers: That God is asking you to surrender?
• 23:23
  Ron Meyers: Because here's the truth, my friend.
• 23:25
  Ron Meyers: You don't need a coughing moment to wake up.
• 23:28
  Ron Meyers: You don't have to lose everything to find your purpose.
• 23:32
  Ron Meyers: You don't have to hit rock bottom to start a brand new life.
• 23:37
  Ron Meyers: You just have to respond.
• 23:40
  Ron Meyers: Right now, not someday, not when it's convenient, right now.
• 23:45
  Ron Meyers: And maybe you're listening thinking, Ron, I've gone too far.
• 23:50
  Ron Meyers: No, you haven't.
• 23:52
  Ron Meyers: If Scotty can go from addiction to jail to homelessness to helping others find freedom, then your story isn't over.
• 23:59
  Ron Meyers: Not even close to being over.
• 24:02
  Ron Meyers: And if this episode spoke to you, don't keep it to yourself.
• 24:06
  Ron Meyers: Share it with someone who needs hope.
• 24:08
  Ron Meyers: Send it to someone who feels stuck.
• 24:11
  Ron Meyers: Be the reason someone else hears this message.
• 24:14
  Ron Meyers: Because friends, we're all in this together, encouraging, empowering, and inspiring people to discover their God ordained destiny.
• 24:26
  Ron Meyers: And I'll leave you with this what line, what moment, what truth from today are you going to pass on?
• 24:35
  Ron Meyers: Let's take a moment and pray.
• 24:39
  Ron Meyers: God, some of us are tired, tired of trying to hold it all together, tired of carrying things we were never meant to carry, tired of pretending we're okay when we're not.
• 24:50
  Ron Meyers: And maybe for the first time in a long time, we're being honest.
• 24:56
  Ron Meyers: God, you see every person listening right now.
• 24:59
  Ron Meyers: You see the one who feels too far gone, the one who feels forgotten to the one who's one step away from giving up.
• 25:09
  Ron Meyers: And I ask you right now, meet them, not with judgment, not with shame, but your beautiful, extravagant grace.
• 25:16
  Ron Meyers: Remind them they are not disqualified, they are not alone, and they are not finished.
• 25:24
  Ron Meyers: God, give them the courage to stop trying to fix everything on their own and the strength to surrender, not as a last resort, but as a first step towards freedom.
• 25:37
  Ron Meyers: Heal what's broken, restore what's been lost, and begin something new today.
• 25:43
  Ron Meyers: And God, just like Scotty's story, take the mess, take the pain, take the past, and turn it into purpose.
• 25:51
  Ron Meyers: We trust you even when we don't understand, even when we're afraid.
• 25:57
  Ron Meyers: And we all say this together.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 26:01
  Ron Meyers: Now, my friend, if that prayer meant something to you, hold on to it.
• 26:06
  Ron Meyers: Don't walk your life out alone.
• 26:08
  Ron Meyers: Invite Jesus to walk with you.
• 26:12
  Ron Meyers: This is Ron Myers reminding you don't live on the island of regrets with villages called should've, would've, and could've.
• 26:21
  Ron Meyers: It's never too late, my friend, for a new beginning.
• 26:24
  Ron Meyers: Why do you think you're listening today?
• 26:26
  Ron Meyers: Because God is sending you a message.
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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.
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  Ron Meyers: Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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  Ron Meyers: And remember, I love you.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus loves you.
• 26:44
  Ron Meyers: And when you give Jesus your heart, you not only get the hell out of your life, but life begins to start making sense.
• 27:04
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