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Faith Under Fire & Hope in Israel · 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, a weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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  Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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  Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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  Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends.
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  Ron Meyers: It is so good to be with you today.
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  Ron Meyers: My name is Ron Myers, and I'm the host.
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  Ron Meyers: The show is called 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: Today we're talking about something that every single one of us faces at some point in life.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith under fire.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, when we hear that phrase, we might think of soldiers, war zones, or first responders running toward danger.
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  Ron Meyers: But the truth is, millions of people are living with faith under fire every single day.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear about their health.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear about their finances, fear about their future, fear about relationships falling apart, and fear that their life may never become what they hoped it would be.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear has a voice, and fear tells convincing stories.
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  Ron Meyers: Years ago, someone gave me a simple acronym for the word fear: false evidence appearing real.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear creates pictures in our mind that feel real, even when they are not.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear says stay safe, stay small, don't take that risk, don't step out.
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  Ron Meyers: But faith says something completely different.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith says trust God.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith says step forward even when the path is not clear.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith says, keep your eyes on Jesus even when the waves begin to rise.
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  Ron Meyers: Remember the story when Peter saw Jesus walking on the water?
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  Ron Meyers: Peter stepped out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: But when Peter shifted his eyes from Jesus to the wind and the waves, well, he began to sink.
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  Ron Meyers: And that is what fear does.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear pulls our eyes off Jesus and onto the storm.
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  Ron Meyers: But here's the truth I want you to remember today.
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  Ron Meyers: You cannot walk on water if you never get out of the boat.
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  Ron Meyers: So many people today are living in boats of fear, boats of doubt, boats of worry, and boats of what if.
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  Ron Meyers: They are surviving, but they are not living the life God designed for them.
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  Ron Meyers: That is why I love sharing stories, stories of faith like the one you're about to hear.
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  Ron Meyers: Today you are going to meet a young woman whose faith was tested in a way most of us can barely imagine.
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  Ron Meyers: Her name?
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  Ron Meyers: Yasmin Mazawi, a 27-year-old Christian paramedic from Israel who lives in Nazareth, and she serves with Majen David Adam, Emergency Medical Service.
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  Ron Meyers: On the morning of October 7, 2023, she was supposed to be boarding a plane to submit her master's thesis.
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  Ron Meyers: Instead, rockets filled the sky, sirens began sounding, and she made a decision that placed her directly in the middle of danger.
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  Ron Meyers: She went to work saving lives.
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  Ron Meyers: What carried her through that day was not bravado, it was Psalm 23.
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  Ron Meyers: The Lord is my shepherd.
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  Ron Meyers: That quiet reminder that even in the valley, God is still walking beside us.
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  Ron Meyers: And her story reminds us of something we all need to hear today.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear may be loud, but faith is stronger.
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  Ron Meyers: Let's take a listen.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, listeners, I'm at the National Religious Broadcasting Convention, and I met this incredible young lady.
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  Ron Meyers: I want to say this right, Yasmin Mazawi?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Yeah.
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  Ron Meyers: All right, very good.
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  Ron Meyers: Where do you live?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Sure.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So I live in Israel.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I was born in Nazareth.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I live in Nazareth.
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  Ron Meyers: I think of Nazareth, and I think of Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: And you're a Christian?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Yes, I am.
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  Ron Meyers: Oh, praise God.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I'm a Christian.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I was born to a Christian family.
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  Ron Meyers: And you I saw you the other day.
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  Ron Meyers: And you had your ambulance uniform on.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Yes.
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  Ron Meyers: And you drive an ambulance in Israel.
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  Ron Meyers: Tell the listeners your job.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Sure.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So I started volunteering at Magenda Vidodom.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Magenda Videdom is the national medical and emergency and blood services organization in Israel.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So I started volunteering as a young volunteer since the age of 15.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And when I turned 18, I took the decision to do a national service as a paramedic.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So I did a one year of professional intensive training and then two years of national service as a paramedic.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And since then I've been volunteering as a paramedic at MDA.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So all I do is volunteering.
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  Ron Meyers: And you were on duty on October 7th.
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  Ron Meyers: Take us into how God used you to help other people.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Wow, it was just a chaos, I would say.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Like I think everyone was feeling under uncertainty.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Nobody knows, no knew what's happening and what's gonna happen.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I just woke up just like everyone, 6 30 a.m.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: in the morning of October 7th, and we saw all the alarms on our notifications and our phones, and we understood that something here is unusual that we didn't know or we didn't see before in the past.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And I was supposed to fly on the same day to submit my thesis for the masters.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And I took the decision not to fly and go to the station and support MDA in my region, the closest station to support my friends, my colleagues, the families.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And I think the verse that helped me and gave me the source of light all the time throughout this challenging time is Psalm 23.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: The Lord is my shepherd.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: This gave me the source of light that I want to be this light of people who were, you know, people who lost their family members and others who were kidnapped.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Many many of them we knew.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: They were friends of ours, friends of our families and colleagues.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: You know, it's not spe you know, it's it's not nothing that we it's very close, let's say.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: It's very close to us.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: But that was really, really challenging times.
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  Ron Meyers: How old are you?
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  Ron Meyers: You're young.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I'm tw almost 27.
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  Ron Meyers: You're 27.
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  Ron Meyers: So to see this horrific thing going on in front of your eyes, and then you're taking the ambulance out to get people, what's going through your mind?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: To be honest, it's it's scary, you know?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: It's all the tension, uncertainty.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Even going to emergency cases, and the sirens start in the outside, you have to stop the ambulance, go out, lay on the ground, say wait about 10 minutes or sometimes even more until the uh front command say otherwise, and then continue to to the emergency, you know, continue our way.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: It's very challenging, it's very scary, for sure.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We're all human, right?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: But I could feel that what gave me this energy is the unity that I could see in our teams.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Like we all in in Magenda Vidalam, we work and volunteer, people from so many different backgrounds, and I always like to use this analogy that each one is a hero, and what connects between us is this necklace made out of values, of loving the other, giving the other, of uh one mission of saving lives.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And all of us, as colleagues, Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Bitch, Druze, uh, Christians, worked all together for this mission of saving lives during these challenging times.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And also, you know, in the daily life as well, that's what we do is saving lives.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And this gave each one of us the power to continue and to serve and to, you know, to stay and stand still.
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  Ron Meyers: So during the days, the weeks, the months after all this, are you sitting on edge wondering when a siren went off, what's gonna happen?
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  Ron Meyers: Are we safe?
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  Ron Meyers: Is it living in a lot of fear after the thing of it's gonna happen again, or what's it like?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Wow, this is a great question.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I think we have to do this separate, you know, as medics and as first aid providers.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And in especially in our country, we see lots of emergencies, and we've been going through a very hard and challenging years lately.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I think we have to do this separate sometimes, like the what we see and what we go through in our shifts, and then after when we go back home, we have to do that, not just for us, also for our families, because as I say, I think we have to be a source of light for other people in need, to families, for families who lost their family members, to friends of ours, to our colleagues, and I pray every day to our Heavenly Father to give me the power and be this source of light and power and to give this energy to my colleagues and our colleagues at MDA who maybe face other challenges than the fear of sirens, you know.
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  Ron Meyers: There are people that are listening right now here in the United States that are going through trials and tribulations and fear, and their families are in trouble, and you have a microphone now.
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  Ron Meyers: Can you give them some hope or some encouragement?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I would say that hope is there, and there is a light at the end of the road.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And as a believer, I I am sure that our Heavenly Father has a great big plan for each and every one of us.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Just believe that whatever challenge you are going through will definitely end.
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  Ron Meyers: So you were gonna go fly away, but you didn't for your thesis.
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  Ron Meyers: So you're you're in college or you're finishing college?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I finished my master's, I already submitted my thesis.
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  Ron Meyers: So is there plans for Yasmin and maybe to leave the medical field, or what's the future look like for you?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: My master's degree and my uh educational uh part I did not in the medical field.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I'm working in the generative uh artificial intelligence field, which is way different from the medical.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Oh no, not way different, but like in a different field, I would say.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And I'm pursuing my PhD now.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Yeah, and the medical field will always be there, and I will always continue volunteering as a paramedic.
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  Ron Meyers: Living in Jerusalem and being Jewish, you have an audience right now that's Americans.
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  Ron Meyers: Tell us a little bit more about life in Jerusalem.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I love that question.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I live in I live in the northern part, not from Jerusalem, but I would say what is is the you know similar to all cities uh and to all places in Israel and the people in Israel is that we all say great life.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So people do love one another.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Definitely wherever there are differences, there is tension everywhere, not only in Israel, all around the world.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: But Israel is amazing, people of Israel are amazing, and you can find the love and the the compassion to one another.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Yeah, I think this is something that the world don't see in the media, maybe.
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  Ron Meyers: You ever just think about your living where Jesus, the Messiah, walks?
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  Ron Meyers: You are there.
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  Ron Meyers: What that has to be.
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  Ron Meyers: I've never been there yet.
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  Ron Meyers: I I want to be.
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  Ron Meyers: Yes, it's my bucket list.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: It's amazing.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I love that.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And I think it's like a privilege to to to be born there and to live there and to walk in the streets where Jesus walks, and it's amazing.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Yeah.
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  Ron Meyers: So you have a booth here, you're part of the is what can we do as citizens of the United States to help you?
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  Ron Meyers: We pray for you all the time.
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  Ron Meyers: We love our friends in Israel.
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  Ron Meyers: What can we do for you, your organization, or for Israel?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Thank you so much, first of all, for the support.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And yeah, we, you know, as I said in the beginning, MGA is based on volunteers.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We are like 90% volunteers and only 10% of employees.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So we're talking about 36,000 approximately of volunteers and 3,500 employees.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So I think the and and the beauty of this is that each one comes from a different background, supporting all Israeli uh citizens and all Israeli communities around the country.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And if the audience would like to hear more about the the work that we do at MDA, can visit our website, saving livesinisrael.org.
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  Ron Meyers: Saving lives inisrael.org.
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  Ron Meyers: Yes.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, I heard something this morning.
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  Ron Meyers: I was at the Prayer for Israel breakfast, beautiful, you spoke, and I was not aware about losing so many ambulances.
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  Ron Meyers: So tell us that story and how Franklin Graham came to the rescue.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Wow, this is a great story because you know, during the war, not only Jews were targeted, you know, all Israeli citizens were targeted.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Many, many people from non-Jewish religion or community were were kidnapped and others uh died, you know.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: So also ambulances were targeted.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Like we're talking about people who were coming to save people who were hit.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And we were targeted, ambulances and teams, and we lost so many ambulances and equipment.
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  Ron Meyers: So you're going out to help people, and yet you're in an ambulance that is also a target.
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  Ron Meyers: They want to blow you up.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And then Franklin Graham within days to him and to to his support and to their support that within days they were able to provide the MDA with the vehicles that you know we lost vehicles, and he and and and he said, like he he raised the phone to the CEO and said, Let us know how can we help you.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And they did help us, they supported us a lot during the war, which we are so grateful for.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, the United States, we love Israel, we're allies with Israel.
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  Ron Meyers: And when you're in Israel, I know you probably see some of the TV over here when these college students are protesting on the college campuses.
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  Ron Meyers: What goes through your mind when you see that on the news?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: To be honest, that's very sad.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Because, first of all, MDI is not a political organization.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Not at all.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We are built on values.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: But it's so sad because I I I see that these people do not give the opportunity for the people who are maybe different than them to talk.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: I I usually use an analogy that says, like, two communities maybe have stereotypes about one another, don't know about one another, but they don't communicate.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And we have to break this window made out of glass and make these people communicate.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And that's so sad that we see that these people do not communicate, do not accept the other who are maybe different or have different beliefs, and that's so sad, you know.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, we all are created in the image of God.
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  Ron Meyers: Yes, and there's people that hate other people, but they've never even met them.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Exactly.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: That's what I was trying to say.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And they've never talked to them.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Exactly, and that's so sad.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Because we're all different, even within the same religion and the same country and the same community.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We're all different, but we have to accept one another.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: To I'm not saying to, you know, just to accept, to be willing to communicate, to understand, maybe.
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  Ron Meyers: Yes.
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  Ron Meyers: Agree at disagreeing.
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  Ron Meyers: It's okay if you don't, but let's just talk.
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  Ron Meyers: Let's let's just sit down and talk.
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  Ron Meyers: I mean, we do we definitely do need more of that.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, I want to thank you, Yasmin, for your time.
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  Ron Meyers: Is there anything that you would like to say to the listeners out there?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Well, I'd like to thank everyone for listening and and the support and the love.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And we could feel the support and love.
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  Ron Meyers: Could you yeah?
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  Ron Meyers: I've heard that.
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  Ron Meyers: I've heard that.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Thank you.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, thank you again.
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  Ron Meyers: God bless you.
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  Ron Meyers: Thank you.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: God bless you.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, listen, I know you're at your booth.
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  Ron Meyers: Before we go, would you pray for my listeners?
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Of course.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: My privilege, of course.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Dear Heavenly Father, we pray for your wisdom.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We pray that you be with us during these challenging moments.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And we are sure that it's not only us facing challenges, many of our listeners and audience are facing challenges.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We ask you, our Heavenly Father, to give them the source of light and show them the source of light because we are sure that you have a great, great plan for each and every one of us.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: We thank thee for your love and unconditional love and light that you give to us.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And we pray for your wisdom, for your love, and for peace.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: And I say this in the name of our of thy son Jesus Christ.
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  Yasmeen Mazzawi: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: Listening to Yasmin, what struck me the most was not just the danger she faced, it was the peace she carried.
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  Ron Meyers: In a moment when rockets were falling, sirens were sounding, and chaos was unfolding, she kept showing up to save and to serve.
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  Ron Meyers: One call after another, one patient after another.
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  Ron Meyers: And what held her steady was not adrenaline, it was faith.
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  Ron Meyers: Psalm 23.
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  Ron Meyers: The Lord is my shepherd.
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  Ron Meyers: Those words have carried believers through centuries of storms.
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  Ron Meyers: And here is something else that stood out in Yasmin's story.
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  Ron Meyers: Unity.
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  Ron Meyers: In the ambulance, you will find Arabs, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze working side by side, diverse backgrounds, different beliefs, but one mission save lives, serve people, bring hope.
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  Ron Meyers: That is a picture of humanity at its best.
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  Ron Meyers: And Yasmin reminded us that courage is not always loud.
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  Ron Meyers: Sometimes courage looks like simply showing up.
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  Ron Meyers: Sometimes courage looks like the kindness when anger would be easier.
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  Ron Meyers: Sometimes courage looks like faith when fear is trying to take over your thinking.
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  Ron Meyers: And her story reminds us that even when the world feels uncertain, God is still present.
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  Ron Meyers: When I returned, some encouragement and action steps for the upcoming week.
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  Ron Meyers: My friends, before we go today, let me leave you with this thought.
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  Ron Meyers: Many of you listening right now are living with your own version of faith under fire.
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  Ron Meyers: Maybe your storm is not rockets or sirens.
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  Ron Meyers: Maybe it's uncertainty, stress, loneliness, financial pressure, a difficult decision.
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  Ron Meyers: And fear is whispering in your ear.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear is telling you the worst is coming.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear telling you you are not strong enough.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear telling you to stay in the boat.
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  Ron Meyers: But my friend, remember what fear really is.
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  Ron Meyers: False evidence appearing real.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear paints pictures that God never painted.
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  Ron Meyers: Fear predicts outcomes God never promised.
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  Ron Meyers: And fear keeps people from stepping into the life they were created to live.
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  Ron Meyers: But faith, faith lifts your eyes to Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith reminds you who is walking on the water with you.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith reminds you who is in control of the storm.
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  Ron Meyers: And remember this.
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  Ron Meyers: You cannot walk on water if you never get out of the boat.
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  Ron Meyers: So here are three simple action steps for this coming week.
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  Ron Meyers: Number one, start your day anchored in truth.
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  Ron Meyers: Before the noise of the world begins, read Psalm 23 for the next week.
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  Ron Meyers: Let those words remind you that God is guiding your steps, even when you can't see the entire path.
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  Ron Meyers: Number two, replace fear with faith.
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  Ron Meyers: When fear enters your mind this week, pause and ask, is this the truth or is this false evidence appearing real?
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  Ron Meyers: Then replace that thought with prayer and meditate and talk to Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Number three, take one step out of the boat.
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  Ron Meyers: Do something this week you have been avoiding because of fear.
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  Ron Meyers: Make that phone call, start the idea, have the conversation, take the step because your purpose is not waiting inside the boat, it is waiting in the step of faith.
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  Ron Meyers: My friends, fear does not get the final word.
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  Ron Meyers: Faith does.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, join me next week for another grace-filled episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life, available wherever you listen to podcast.
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  Ron Meyers: And now I want to close the show with the reading of Psalm 23.
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  Speaker 7: A Psalm of David.
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  Speaker 7: Psalm 23.
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  Speaker 7: He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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  Speaker 7: He leads me beside still waters.
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  Speaker 7: He restores my soul.
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  Speaker 7: He leads me in paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.
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  Speaker 7: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
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  Speaker 7: For you are with me.
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  Speaker 7: Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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  Speaker 7: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
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  Speaker 7: You anoint my head with oil.
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  Speaker 7: My cup overflows.
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  Speaker 7: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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