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Roy Wykoff on Mentorship, Hope, and Divine Timing · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Speaker 1: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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Speaker 1: A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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Speaker 1: Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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Speaker 1: Now let's join our host, ron Myers.
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Speaker 1: The promoter.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you today.
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Ron Meyers: I've been praying for you.
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Ron Meyers: Have you felt it?
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Ron Meyers: That's right.
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Ron Meyers: Every single day I pray for every listener.
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Ron Meyers: I want you to experience God's grace, his love, his power and the destiny that he has for you.
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Ron Meyers: Have you ever met somebody in life that had an impact on your life?
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Ron Meyers: I believe God is moving people around in different places, different geographical locations and different vocations.
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Ron Meyers: Because this is the time that you and I have been born for, because we have something to contribute to this world.
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Ron Meyers: We have something that we can help with God's plan, and I want you to know that when you listen to this show, it will always be about God's unbelievable grace, his awesome mercy and how much he wants to have a relationship with you.
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Ron Meyers: Personally, I say all the time that we are living in a time that we have to have the desert island mentality.
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Ron Meyers: It's just you and Jesus on a desert island, no church, no TV, no podcast.
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Ron Meyers: Darn it, hey.
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Ron Meyers: But that's the way it should be, because when you are alone with Jesus and you can open your heart and share whatever's on your mind, conversations with Jesus, I call it.
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Ron Meyers: It is freedom, it is liberating.
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Ron Meyers: And then he begins the process of turning you into the person he designed you to become.
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Ron Meyers: This is a great time to be alive, and my guest today is proof of the fact that God will always intervene in our lives when we don't even know it.
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Ron Meyers: He will put people in your path that can change the entire direction, the trajectory of your life and your destiny, because he knows those people have an influence that nobody else has.
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Ron Meyers: And when someone believes in you, someone really values what you can contribute to this world, it feels good.
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Ron Meyers: And do you know what you want to do?
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Ron Meyers: You know what the answer is you want to do more, and that's what happened to me.
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Ron Meyers: My guest today is a friend, a coach, a mentor, Roy Wyckoff.
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Ron Meyers: If it wasn't for Roy, you would not hear me on this radio show or podcast.
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Ron Meyers: He gave me a shot in life when everybody else thought I was well a loser, a goofball.
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Ron Meyers: Roy, I'm so glad that you took some time to visit with me today.
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Ron Meyers: How are you doing?
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Roy Wikoff: Hey, I'm doing fine, Ron, and so happy to be on your show and have a chance to share with you a little bit of my life and what God's done over the years.
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Roy Wikoff: It's an amazing look back it really is on all that God has done for me and my family.
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Ron Meyers: I first met you back in the 90s, you were taking your daughter to the orthodontist next to me and you saw a sign I believe Ron Myers Productions and you wanted to find out who is this guy.
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Roy Wikoff: Yeah, actually I was working at that radio station there on the Gulf Coast at the time and you had already contracted for some advertising time with those radio stations for your Christmas show and you came in.
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Roy Wikoff: That's when I first met you and that was in 1994, by the way, we've known each other 30 years, ron Wow Long time.
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Roy Wikoff: You were actually a young man in those days.
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Roy Wikoff: I remember I was impressed.
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Roy Wikoff: Something about you just clicked, and over time we got to.
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Roy Wikoff: Not only through that advertising effort I got to know you, but I got to know you real well when my daughter was having her braces put on.
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Roy Wikoff: Your office was just next door to the dentist and we had a chance to spend some real quality time getting to know each other at that point in your life.
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Ron Meyers: If you want to get the whole story, friends, go to my website.
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Ron Meyers: I'll send you the book the Promoter.
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Ron Meyers: Go to my website.
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Ron Meyers: I'll send you the book the Promoter.
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Ron Meyers: But eventually, one day after Jesus got a hold of me, I came to you.
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Ron Meyers: You and I were having lunch and I ended up being a volunteer.
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Ron Meyers: I offered my services as a volunteer for Christian Radio in the afternoon and you liked it.
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Ron Meyers: But when I went on the air, well, a lot of listeners didn't like it, did they?
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Roy Wikoff: No, they didn't.
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Roy Wikoff: And I got some calls from some believe it or not some prominent Christian leaders on the Gulf Coast who said do you know who this guy is?
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Roy Wikoff: And that was one of the big questions.
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Roy Wikoff: And I said, well, sure, ron Myers, great guy, good Christian man.
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Roy Wikoff: But see, what they didn't know is what I knew at that time.
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Roy Wikoff: I had watched the progress of Ron Myers over the last couple of years.
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Roy Wikoff: I had watched your growth.
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Roy Wikoff: I had watched you turn into something that you weren't before and that was an advocate for the gospel and you began to teach and to preach and stuff.
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Roy Wikoff: And so I saw an opportunity because I was in a position with American Family Radio there.
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Roy Wikoff: I needed some help.
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Roy Wikoff: So I asked you to do that.
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Roy Wikoff: And what happened was I got a call from I'm not going to name the pastor, but he called me up and says Roy, he says you know this guy, he promotes a wet t-shirt contest and has beer.
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Roy Wikoff: I mean, it was all this stuff and that's the kind of promotions that at one time in your life you did, but you had changed.
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Roy Wikoff: But they didn't know about the change that I saw in Ron Myers and I felt like you had a lot to offer the kingdom through radio and that's why I offered that position to you.
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Roy Wikoff: I saw something in you that others at that point only knew the public image of Ron Myers and what you did in promotions before.
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Roy Wikoff: I saw something deeper and I wanted you to be a part of it deeper and I wanted you to be a part of it.
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Ron Meyers: You know, and, roy, that is one reason I have this radio show podcast and I go to non-Christian radio stations to air this, just to let everybody knows that.
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Ron Meyers: Here's this it doesn't matter what you've done in life, it doesn't matter if you think that God could never use you, that God does have a plan.
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Ron Meyers: And when we get to the point in life like I did, I got to the end of myself.
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Ron Meyers: I said Lord, I'm making money, I'm having fun, people know me, but I'm miserable.
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Ron Meyers: And that's when I started following Jesus and I love Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: It's been what?
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Ron Meyers: 30, well, 25 years, or whatever.
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Ron Meyers: But the point is this, roy there are people listening right now that they think, because of what they've done, that God could never use them.
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Ron Meyers: That's not true, is it?
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Roy Wikoff: No, it isn't.
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Roy Wikoff: And think about from a biblical perspective.
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Roy Wikoff: Here was Saul heading on the road to Damascus.
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Roy Wikoff: To do what?
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Roy Wikoff: To persecute Christians, to have them stoned, like he did Stephen and others.
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Roy Wikoff: But here he was and God said I'm going to use you.
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Roy Wikoff: Look, this was a man who hated Christians, who hated Jesus at that time, and was looking for reasons to put Christians in prison, to have them stoned, have them killed.
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Roy Wikoff: But yet God took him and you talk about a flip-flop flipped him completely upside down and turned him into the greatest evangelist in the New Testament.
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Roy Wikoff: No question, paul was that.
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Roy Wikoff: If God can do that for Paul, what can he do for a Ron Myers?
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Roy Wikoff: And that's the way I look at things.
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Roy Wikoff: I don't care what you've done in the past, I don't care who you were in the past.
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Roy Wikoff: God looked at you and said I'm going to use you, ron Myers, whether you want to be used or not.
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Roy Wikoff: And he did.
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Roy Wikoff: He used you and he's using you now.
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Ron Meyers: And Roy, right now, a lot of people, a lot of preachers some are preaching doom and gloom, other ones are, you know, almost selling bomb shelters to go hide because the end of the world is coming soon.
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Ron Meyers: A lot of these people that don't know Jesus, they don't know what to think.
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Ron Meyers: What do you tell someone out there that doesn't go to church, doesn't really know Jesus that well, they do have faith, but they're starting to get worried.
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Ron Meyers: They're starting to get fearful for their family.
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Roy Wikoff: You know, one of the things that I try to tell people and I hear this quite a bit is people are worried about what the world is coming to.
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Roy Wikoff: The culture of the United States and the world.
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Roy Wikoff: They call it.
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Roy Wikoff: If you watch the media, they call it wokeism.
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Roy Wikoff: You can call it whatever you want.
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Roy Wikoff: God's got a plan.
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Roy Wikoff: He's sovereign, he knows what's happening.
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Roy Wikoff: He's not surprised by any of this stuff going on in the current political arena.
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Roy Wikoff: Not at all.
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Roy Wikoff: But what we do is we worry.
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Roy Wikoff: And look, I worry about my children and grandchildren, as you do, john.
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Roy Wikoff: You know, what kind of future are they going to have in this country?
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Roy Wikoff: We've experienced in the United States some of the greatest blessings ever, and we really have.
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Roy Wikoff: But this too shall pass.
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Roy Wikoff: As they say, god's got a plan and, by the way, my preacher says this quite a bit.
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Roy Wikoff: He says there is a God and you're not him.
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Roy Wikoff: So he's got a purpose for all of this.
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Roy Wikoff: And look, my prayer is God, come quickly.
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Roy Wikoff: Now.
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Roy Wikoff: Whether you believe in a pre-millennial rapture, whether you know a pre-trib rapture, you know you could go on to all those different rapture theories you want to the bottom line is this God has a plan and the world out here is full of sin and there's a lot of Christians who look at the world and it worries them.
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Roy Wikoff: I try to look at the kingdom and not let the world bother me, because I can't change the world.
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Roy Wikoff: But I can touch one life at a time and that's what your program does, because you're broadcasting this program on secular radio stations who have a belief that maybe your program has some value.
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Roy Wikoff: So you've got that one listener maybe, who listens to what you have to say on some of your different podcasts and I've looked at several of them and listened to them.
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Roy Wikoff: By the way, you do a pretty good job for an old man.
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Roy Wikoff: But anyway, we go through this thing and we realize that if you touch one life, if all you do from now to the time you go home to be with the Lord, and you've affected one life for the kingdom, you've been a success.
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Roy Wikoff: Let's see, in this culture in which we live, it's about the numbers, it's about how many people might ask you how many listeners do you have on your radio program or your podcast?
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Roy Wikoff: And I heard you say that that's not what's important.
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Roy Wikoff: What's important is touching that one life and you do that.
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Roy Wikoff: I saw that in Ron Myers in 1994.
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Roy Wikoff: I could see there was.
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Roy Wikoff: We became good friends after that and a lot of people, as you said earlier, they questioned me.
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Roy Wikoff: But God, I think, was tapping on my heart and said hey, I've got a plan for Ron in the future and I just need you to do something today.
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Roy Wikoff: And I did that and I didn't hear some audible voice out of the sky say Roy, call Ron.
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Roy Wikoff: That didn't happen, but what happened was I just had a peace in my heart about who you were and what you could become in the kingdom, and I'm kind of proud of that.
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Roy Wikoff: I like the idea that I was able to listen to God's still small voice and move forward on it.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I actually believe I wouldn't be behind a microphone now if it wasn't for you.
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Ron Meyers: And speaking of that, how God has a plan for all of us.
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Ron Meyers: You know, I came in to get into Christian radio and, as you said, to share the good news of Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: But one of the skills that I've had my whole life is a promoter organization.
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Ron Meyers: And what happened in 2004, I became the general manager here at the American Families Radio Station in Gulfport, but one year later, hurricane Katrina changed this entire Gulf Coast and I think that and you saw this, you were down here, coming to traveling down here from Tupelo that God had put me, just like he'll put other people out there in positions when he knows a storm is coming, and he puts people in place.
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Ron Meyers: And I think it was the organizational skills that I had, my team had, here at the radio station, because we were busy little bees helping people along this coast to rebuild, send out supplies.
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Ron Meyers: Remember this was a central hub of activity and I was right there in the middle of it.
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Roy Wikoff: You were, and what I remember about that was when all the power was down and it was hot and humid.
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Roy Wikoff: The radio station had two shingles off of it Seriously had a little 100 foot stick there beside and they came down from Tupelo and put a small transmitter in.
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Roy Wikoff: We were the only and had the big generator.
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Roy Wikoff: We were the only radio station broadcasting for a while because God placed his Christian radio station in the midst of the turmoil of that storm to provide information.
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Roy Wikoff: You remember, the people come in, we're doing interviews.
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Roy Wikoff: You were there in the midst of that when the big stations, the hundred thousand waters, and all those others out there.
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Roy Wikoff: they weren't on the air, they had no power, but God provided through the Christian radio group and I think that affected a lot of people.
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Roy Wikoff: They now know who American Family Radio is and was, and they know who you are.
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Roy Wikoff: As a result of that, god uses Romans 8, 28,.
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Roy Wikoff: All things work together for good.
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Roy Wikoff: All things, the good, the bad, the ugly, everything.
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Roy Wikoff: God has a purpose for making it work out to his glory, and I think he did that, you know.
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Ron Meyers: Roy, one of the funny things, while it wasn't really funny, one of the things that happened so many people, a lot of them, were the religious people.
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Ron Meyers: Ah, this is God's judgment.
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Ron Meyers: He has put Hurricane Katrina on the coast, and I said, well, you know, the only ones that really got damaged around here were the churches and Bourbon Street's opening up right away within two weeks, and I don't know.
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Roy Wikoff: We laugh at that, but it's true.
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Roy Wikoff: Look, I don't think that Hurricane, Katrina or any other storms are God's punishment.
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Roy Wikoff: I think that this world is aching.
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Roy Wikoff: My wife, Barbara, and I were speaking just the other day about the heat that we have up here in Kentucky.
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Roy Wikoff: Where we are, it's going to be like 99 tomorrow Unusual for this area and we take a look at how the earth is groaning we're seeing snow and Tahoe and 95 degree weather in the mid part of the country, and what that is.
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Roy Wikoff: I think this old earth is tired.
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Roy Wikoff: The earth is.
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Roy Wikoff: It's not anything that I did or you did, but sin from the time of Adam and Eve has corrupted the land in which we now live and God's going to change that soon.
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Roy Wikoff: He's going to change it back to a new heaven and a new earth and all these sea waves.
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Roy Wikoff: We're going to have perfect 80 degree weather and sunshine all the time.
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Roy Wikoff: I'm waiting for that.
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Roy Wikoff: I'm looking forward to that.
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Roy Wikoff: So, because I look forward to heaven, because I look forward to what God has promised us as Christians, I don't fret too much.
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Roy Wikoff: I don't fret too much about what the economy is doing.
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Roy Wikoff: Yes, but I like to see the economy better.
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Roy Wikoff: Well, absolutely, but I don't worry about it, it's going to be what it's going to be.
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Roy Wikoff: In light of God's kingdom work, it doesn't really matter, but it does matter that we do something in the meantime.
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Roy Wikoff: What is that?
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Roy Wikoff: What you're doing with this radio program?
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Roy Wikoff: Touching lives?
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Roy Wikoff: That's what really matters.
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Roy Wikoff: Yeah, we can.
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Roy Wikoff: We need to be careful not to throw trash out our car window.
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Roy Wikoff: We've had to be, you know, good people and and and take care of the things around us and care about what's going on.
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Roy Wikoff: But if we forget the gospel in the midst of all that taking care of stuff, then we failed miserably.
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Roy Wikoff: And I don't want to be that person that fails and I do anyway, because I am.
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Roy Wikoff: Paul said when he begged God to take that thorn from his flesh and God said hey, look, said Paul, you're going to be OK.
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Roy Wikoff: I'm going to be strong because of your weakness.
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Roy Wikoff: Just be OK.
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Roy Wikoff: And that's what I have to remember.
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Roy Wikoff: That's what I have to take care of in my heart.
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Roy Wikoff: I fail quite a bit, just like you do.
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Roy Wikoff: We fail, but you know what my prayer is each day Lord, when I fail, pick me up, show me where I failed and teach me how to be better, for one purpose, one purpose only, that's the gospel period.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: You know Roy well.
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Ron Meyers: Listeners Roy Wyckoff on the phone, my former boss, just a great friend and mentor.
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Ron Meyers: He is always like this, he's always enthusiastic, he's always happy.
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Ron Meyers: And it brings me back to when I was a volunteer here.
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Ron Meyers: You at that time were married to another barber but she was battling cancer and I was sitting back and watching you from a distance and Roy, you, just you were a breath of fresh air.
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Ron Meyers: You were always having hope.
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Ron Meyers: You're always praying for Barbara.
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Ron Meyers: You never were whiny and share a little bit about that, because there are a lot of people going through some sickness situations as we speak.
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Roy Wikoff: Yeah, that's true.
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Roy Wikoff: By the way, your listeners are probably going away.
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Roy Wikoff: He just mentioned that he was talking to Barbara a few days ago and, by the way, my late wife's name was Barbara and my current wife's name is Barbara.
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Roy Wikoff: That's another whole story and a lot of funny stuff happened as a result of that.
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Roy Wikoff: But yeah, I remember that time.
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Roy Wikoff: That time in my life was tough.
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Roy Wikoff: I remember the very day that she passed away.
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Roy Wikoff: It life was tough, but I remember the very day that she passed away.
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Roy Wikoff: It was on a Sunday afternoon and I got in my truck and of course, they were coming to do whatever they do at that time and I went over to Lowry and Candy Anderson's house A lot of people listeners here know who Candy Anderson is and I went over to speak to Lowry and sit with them until time for church at Michael Memorial.
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Roy Wikoff: I went to church at six o'clock and some people were looking at me and they said Roy, what are you doing here?
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Roy Wikoff: I said, where else would I be?
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Roy Wikoff: I'm with my family, and I wasn't talking about my mother, who was there, and others.
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Roy Wikoff: I wanted to be with my church family because I knew that's where my strength was and I had people that thought it was crazy that my wife died at three o'clock and at six o'clock I was in church.
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Roy Wikoff: Where did I need to be?
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Roy Wikoff: I needed to be in the presence of God's people.
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Roy Wikoff: I needed to be in the presence of worship and I needed that as much as I needed anything else.
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Roy Wikoff: That's where my strength came from.
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Roy Wikoff: Yeah, it was difficult days.
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Roy Wikoff: There were some tough times and I've got some stories that I could always tell about how God reached down and had to shake me to my knees to understand his glory in the midst of it all, and had to shake me to my knees to understand his glory in the midst of it all.
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Roy Wikoff: But yes, I try to remain positive.
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Roy Wikoff: It was difficult If I sat here and tried to tell you that it was all fun and games.
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Roy Wikoff: No, it was not.
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Roy Wikoff: It was terrible, it was powerfully terrible.
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Roy Wikoff: But God used that opportunity in the midst of her sickness, her illness and her death to teach me a lot, and I would rather have been taught a different way, but God used it to teach me and with that he should continue to work with me and I'm blessed by that.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Well, Roy, speaking of that, right now you've got the microphone.
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Ron Meyers: You can talk to anyone out there that's having some struggles.
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Ron Meyers: What would you tell them?
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Roy Wikoff: that's having some struggles.
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Roy Wikoff: What would you tell them?
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Roy Wikoff: Well, I simply say that you surround yourself with people of faith, and that's what I did during those difficult times.
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Roy Wikoff: A lot of people feel so alone in the midst of their struggle.
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Roy Wikoff: It doesn't matter whether it's about to lose a loved one, as I did, whether it's an addiction of any kind, from gambling to alcohol to drugs, you name it.
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Roy Wikoff: You're struggling and you're in a lot of pain.
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Roy Wikoff: Right now You're thinking how can I get through this?
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Roy Wikoff: One of the things that I would suggest is to surround yourself with people of faith, people who will encourage you.
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Roy Wikoff: Stay away from those naysayers, those negative people you know like.
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Roy Wikoff: For instance, when you lose a loved one and somebody says, because you're grieving, after two or three months they say get over it, in time you'll be better.
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Roy Wikoff: It's the worst thing you can ever say to anyone.
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Roy Wikoff: But be around Like I did.
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Roy Wikoff: I went to church.
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Roy Wikoff: Why?
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Roy Wikoff: Because I wanted to be around the people who loved me and cared for me, my real family.
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Roy Wikoff: And I encourage you if you're out there listening and you're struggling, maybe with the death of a loved one, maybe you're struggling with alcohol or some type of addictions, go and seek out people of faith who can be an encouragement to you, because I want to tell you, even when I was going through all, that there was Blair Bradley is another friend of mine, you another great friend of mine Jerry Watts, larry Anderson I mentioned these guys because these were the ones that when my wife passed away, they stood beside me, they were there every day.
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Roy Wikoff: I remember Larry Anderson knocking on my door one night at 1030 just to see if I was okay.
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Roy Wikoff: So surround yourself with godly people, with people of faith, who will encourage you, and these people will walk with you.
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Roy Wikoff: They will walk with you through the struggles, walk with you.
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Roy Wikoff: They will walk with you through the struggles, through the encouraging word of God, giving you faith and hope.
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Roy Wikoff: And I'm telling you, if it wasn't for people of faith, ron, yourself and those other men I just mentioned, I'm not sure I could have made it on my own.
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Roy Wikoff: God placed those people in my life for a reason and those are the people who made it right for me.
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Ron Meyers: And those are the people who made it right for me.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: I have said many times.
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Ron Meyers: I would not be here if it wasn't me finally calling out to Jesus and he saved my life, and I love it.
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Ron Meyers: As a matter of fact, Roy, I believe we are living in the greatest time ever to be a Christian.
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Ron Meyers: As the world is getting darker, our light is getting brighter, People are looking for hope, and those of us who call ourselves Christians, we are carrying the hope of the world within us.
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Ron Meyers: So this is a good time.
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Ron Meyers: Am I nutty or am I right?
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Roy Wikoff: Well, maybe a little bit nuts, but that's okay.
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Roy Wikoff: You have an opportunity to in the midst of the seemingly bad darkness that's all around us, because people are desperate for some hope.
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Roy Wikoff: There's the key.
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Roy Wikoff: I was on an airplane flight from Chicago to Denver a few years ago and I was with Transworld Radio and there was a gentleman sitting beside me on the whole flight.
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Roy Wikoff: He was a Muslim and we got to talking and he said what is it about you?
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Roy Wikoff: Because he knew I was a Christian, because he heard me talking to someone else.
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Roy Wikoff: And I said you know, we have a common goal here in life.
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Roy Wikoff: And he said what's that?
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Roy Wikoff: I said peace.
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Roy Wikoff: I said everybody who's ever born, ever lived, they just want peace.
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Roy Wikoff: And I'm not talking about world peace, I'm not talking about peace from wars, I'm not talking about peace from struggles.
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Roy Wikoff: I mean peace in our heart.
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Roy Wikoff: I said, and the only way to get peace is through Christ Jesus.
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Roy Wikoff: I found an opportunity.
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Roy Wikoff: God placed me right.
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Roy Wikoff: I never know what ever happened to that guy.
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Roy Wikoff: I have to believe that God continued that conversation with him right on.
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Roy Wikoff: Here's what happens, Ron.
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Roy Wikoff: You are in the middle of a war zone, you are broadcasting in the middle of a terrible darkness, but there's a light.
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Roy Wikoff: Always remember.
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Roy Wikoff: Darkness cannot overtake light.
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Roy Wikoff: Light always overtakes darkness, and your radio program and your podcast is a light, it's a beacon so people living in darkness can see, and I think that's what has to happen here.
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Roy Wikoff: So look, hey, I'm always open to a conversation.
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Roy Wikoff: Hey, you can give people my phone number, have them call and say, hey, I heard you on the radio, I'll pray with them.
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Roy Wikoff: If someone out there is struggling now, if it's a Sunday morning and this radio program is broadcasting, I may not answer right away.
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Roy Wikoff: You can leave me a message.
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Roy Wikoff: I'll call you back after church.
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Roy Wikoff: My number is 270-217-0612.
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Roy Wikoff: That's 270-217-0612.
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Roy Wikoff: You want to talk and pray.
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Roy Wikoff: You want someone to maybe help you a little bit through your struggles, and I'm also a grief counselor.
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Roy Wikoff: I do that as well and I appreciate any opportunity to pray with anyone, anytime, anywhere.
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Roy Wikoff: I missed the radio gig.
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Roy Wikoff: Hey, I did that for 45 years, 45 years, and God gave me much of that through Christian radio.
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Roy Wikoff: Now I'm a real estate broker.
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Roy Wikoff: I'm not having a ball because I get to really share my life with others through that.
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Roy Wikoff: Even though the law says you can't talk about your faith when you're a realtor, I do anyway.
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Roy Wikoff: I don't care, I'm going to talk about Jesus no matter what.
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Roy Wikoff: And I've got a great life partner now over 20 years, almost 20 years with my wife, and she feels the same way and we have a great relationship and God has blessed me.
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Roy Wikoff: My goodness, I am so blessed, Even in the midst of losing someone you love dearly and moving on through.
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Roy Wikoff: I've lost both my parents, I've lost a sister.
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Roy Wikoff: I've seen death here.
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Roy Wikoff: Just a month ago we lost Barbara's mother but in the midst of it all, God gives me hope.
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Roy Wikoff: I wouldn't want to live any other way.
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Roy Wikoff: I want to share that with somebody.
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Roy Wikoff: Amen, Somehow someway Amen.
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Roy Wikoff: Well, I'm going to ask you right now, roy, to pray for our listeners.
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Roy Wikoff: I'll do it.
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Roy Wikoff: Let's pray, father, lord, jesus, we just give you all the praise and all the glory, all the power that we can muster in our hearts right now for you, lord, thanking you for your gospel message, thanking you for your death, burial and resurrection.
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Roy Wikoff: That truly makes a difference in who we are and what we do.
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Roy Wikoff: Father, lord, there's a lot of people listening right now to this radio program and this podcast, and I pray for their hearts.
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Roy Wikoff: I pray for their minds as it relates to their heart struggle, lord.
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Roy Wikoff: If there be one person out there, lord, or many, that is struggling with life, have them know that you are there for them.
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Roy Wikoff: Bless them in such a way, lord.
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Roy Wikoff: Encourage their hearts to reach out to Ron, to reach out to me.
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Roy Wikoff: I pray, lord, that this is something that will change the hearts and the minds of everyone listening.
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Roy Wikoff: So bless them, lord.
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Roy Wikoff: Lord, I pray, blessings on Ron and his show, that he will continue to be able to share the gospel message and the struggles that other people have as they get the hell out of their lives, and I understand that that's so important.
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Roy Wikoff: So we praise you, lord and we thank you and all this.
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Roy Wikoff: We pray in Jesus' name.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your host, ron Myers.
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Speaker 1: Real stories, real struggles and real hope.
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Roy Wikoff: Here's a refreshing word from Ephesians 5, 1 and 2.
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Roy Wikoff: Therefore, be imitators of God as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us.
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Roy Wikoff: And walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us.
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Speaker 2: Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation.
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Speaker 2: We want to encourage you today with God's promise to you.
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Speaker 2: It comes from the book of Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 11.
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Speaker 2: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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Speaker 2: Plans to give you hope and a future.
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Speaker 2: That's God's promise to you when you choose to commit your plans and future to Him Now back to Ron.
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Ron Meyers: Well, friends, my time is up and I want you to remember this.
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Ron Meyers: Do not forget this God is not through with you and I.
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Ron Meyers: You can't script God's love.
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Ron Meyers: You can't script what God is going to do in your life.
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Ron Meyers: So be on the lookout for people that God is going to plant, or maybe has already planted, in your life.
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Ron Meyers: I believe in you, friends.
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Ron Meyers: God has an awesome plan and I will continue to pray for you and join me next week for another great episode of Get the Hell Out of your Life Real stories, real struggles and real hope.
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Ron Meyers: In the meantime, remember this that I love you, jesus loves you, and when you get the hell out of your life, life gets good, life is fun.
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Ron Meyers: And guess what?
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Ron Meyers: You're going to smile again.
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