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Blaine's Story; From Dumpster Diving to Divine Intervention · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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  Ron Meyers: Is Jesus a gimmick Today?
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  Ron Meyers: on Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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  Announcer: It's time now to Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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  Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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  Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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  Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Meyers.
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  Announcer: 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.
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  Ron Meyers: Is Jesus a gimmick?
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  Ron Meyers: No, he's no gimmick, but I'll talk about that more in my monologue.
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  Ron Meyers: In the meantime, in the studios is my friend, Blain Landrum.
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  Ron Meyers: Blaine, how you doing, brother, Doing good, how you doing?
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  Ron Meyers: Hey, I'm glad you came in to share your story.
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  Ron Meyers: So, Blain, what's your story?
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  Blaine Landrum: Well, ron, i grew up here in Gulfport, mississippi, grew up in a middle class family, didn't have everything in life, but never did without anything either.
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  Blaine Landrum: So my dad worked out at the shipyard for years.
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  Blaine Landrum: I eventually got to high school and started dabbing and drinking a little bit And I was an athlete.
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  Blaine Landrum: So you know that kind of comes with territory, especially in high school.
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  Blaine Landrum: But after high school I married my high school sweetheart and had my first son, travis, at the age of 20.
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  Blaine Landrum: After that, me and my wife and my son, we moved down to Orlando, florida, to go to work for my wife's family.
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  Blaine Landrum: We stayed down there for, i think, 13, 14 years.
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  Blaine Landrum: Of course, when I got down there excuse me the drinking kind of led to other things, to marijuana and then eventually cocaine.
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  Blaine Landrum: I had a pretty substantial drinking slash cocaine habit for probably 12 or 13 years that I was down there.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know the drinking and drugging it kind of took its toll on my marriage And we moved back up to the coast in 2010,.
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  Blaine Landrum: We had three kids by then Travis, hunter and Haley.
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  Blaine Landrum: And you know my marriage is still in a pretty rocky place And when I get back up here I've still got a.
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  Blaine Landrum: I've not only got a drinking cocaine habit, but by the time I got back I had a pretty serious opiate addiction also.
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  Blaine Landrum: I moved back from Florida up here to try to get away from all that And of course, when I get back up here with all that on top of me, i was introduced to Crystal Meth.
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  Blaine Landrum: Wow, that was a game changer.
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  Blaine Landrum: There.
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  Blaine Landrum: You're lucky to be alive.
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  Blaine Landrum: Yes, no doubt, no doubt I am.
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  Blaine Landrum: I am that for sure.
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  Blaine Landrum: I was smoking it and snorting it when I first started doing it.
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  Blaine Landrum: I did that for a couple of years.
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  Blaine Landrum: By this time the state had taken away all three of my children And after abusing the meth the way I was doing, after a couple of years I eventually started shooting it.
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  Blaine Landrum: And that right there, ron, was a day that I wish I could have back, because after that it was game over for me.
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  Blaine Landrum: Then What do you mean game over?
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  Blaine Landrum: I lost?
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  Blaine Landrum: I just lost everything.
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  Blaine Landrum: I lost all hope as far as of ever repairing my marriage or repairing my life or anything.
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  Blaine Landrum: It just took every, every bit of hope away from me of ever, you know, prospering again or ever having any.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, who wants to do anything or have hope when you're high all the time?
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  Blaine Landrum: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt, wow.
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  Blaine Landrum: So you know.
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  Blaine Landrum: eventually, like I said, the state had taken my kids by.
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  Blaine Landrum: that point Were you still married.
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  Blaine Landrum: I was, me and my wife had separated at that time.
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  Blaine Landrum: Was she doing drugs?
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  Blaine Landrum: She was Yes, we were both addicts of our whole marriage.
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  Blaine Landrum: We were married for 20 plus years.
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  Blaine Landrum: Wow, and of course, eventually we separated and, and at this time my kids were in custody of the state And I found myself homeless, nowhere to go.
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  Blaine Landrum: I'd burn every bridge that I'd ever had.
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  Blaine Landrum: I had no one I could turn to.
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  Blaine Landrum: And it came to.
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  Blaine Landrum: All came to a head one night, ron, when I found myself eating out of a dumpster in the very neighborhood that I grew up in.
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  Blaine Landrum: Wow, and, and that's that was a night that I got down on my knees and and I and I and I asked God to help me.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, i didn't have any anywhere else to turn and have anybody to turn to.
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  Blaine Landrum: I didn't grow up in church.
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  Blaine Landrum: I didn't know anything about God.
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  Blaine Landrum: All I knew was that Jesus hung on a cross.
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  Blaine Landrum: I didn't know why he had been put up there.
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  Blaine Landrum: I didn't know anything except that that was the only thing about God that I had known at that point.
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  Blaine Landrum: But I knew that God was God, always heard that God was good.
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  Blaine Landrum: So I got down on my knees and I asked God to help me, And that was.
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  Blaine Landrum: That was a night that that I fully believed that I got saved.
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  Blaine Landrum: So I stayed in my addiction for another year after that night, because you know, everything's on God's time.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know what I mean.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, a year or another year went by and I had come across a friend of mine who I who I used to use with.
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  Blaine Landrum: I came across his picture on Facebook one night and he looked like a totally different guy.
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  Blaine Landrum: He didn't look anything like the guy that I had, that I had known from the street.
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  Blaine Landrum: I searched him on Facebook and I got a hold of him and he was at the home of grace And I got a little bit of glimmer of hope because I saw somebody that that was in the same position I was, that had changed their life And all of a sudden it seemed possible.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know what I mean.
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  Blaine Landrum: So I reached out to him.
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  Blaine Landrum: I got a hold of him and he put me in contact with with Miss Becky out at the home of grace at the time, when I found out there was a possibility for me to to actually to get somewhere to, where all I wanted was help.
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  Blaine Landrum: I just wanted somebody to help me.
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  Blaine Landrum: So she got back back in touch with me about three days later and told me that that they had found the money for me to come because I didn't have any way to pay for anything like that.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, it was all there.
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  Blaine Landrum: Every bit of that was was was due to God's grace and mercy and favor over it.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, in my life I didn't have any clue what kind of place it was.
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  Blaine Landrum: I didn't know that it was faith based.
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  Blaine Landrum: All I knew was that it was a place where I'd seen you know their tagline is where miracles happen.
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  Blaine Landrum: Amen, but I didn't know that.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, growing up down here, you'd figured that I, that I would have heard that place before, but I never have.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, i got out there and they gave me a couple days to where I could kind of get my wits back about me and stuff like that.
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  Blaine Landrum: And and when I woke up, i think I slept for three or four days when I first got out there And when I, when I woke up, i was so thankful to be somewhere that I didn't have to worry anymore about what I was going to eat or what you know, or where I was going to stay or anything like that, so just so happy to be somewhere safe.
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  Blaine Landrum: So, you know, as time went on, a couple weeks went by and I, you know, i started to started eating and started, you know, putting a little weight on and got me some decent clothes and, you know, you felt like a human again.
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  Blaine Landrum: I did, i did, ron, i really did.
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  Blaine Landrum: Let me tell you what.
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  Blaine Landrum: There was a guy out there I was with.
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  Blaine Landrum: His name is Andrew Neely.
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  Blaine Landrum: He made a remark.
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  Blaine Landrum: He said Blaine man, you look like a different person than you were when you got here.
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  Blaine Landrum: That was a game changer there, ron.
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  Blaine Landrum: I realized at that point that all this was possible.
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  Ron Meyers: You were getting ready to get the hell out of your life.
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  Ron Meyers: I was.
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  Blaine Landrum: I was definitely Amen, brother.
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  Blaine Landrum: And let me tell you what After that moment, i dug my claws into that place as hard and as deep as I could.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know.
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  Blaine Landrum: I started going to class, which they have classes out there every day.
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  Blaine Landrum: I started going to class and I started learning about God, the God that I had, that I had asked a year prior to help me with my situation.
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  Blaine Landrum: And the more I started learning about him, the more, the more I wanted to learn more about him.
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  Blaine Landrum: Amen, i made it through the initial program, which is three months, and then, and then I stayed an extra three months And, of course, all during this three months, god is just just changing me and changing me and changing me.
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  Blaine Landrum: Changing, you know, the things that I think about and the things that I he was changing the desires of my heart is what he was doing.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, as I spent my whole life, you know living a certain way and acting a certain way, and and and wanting certain things.
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  Blaine Landrum: And through this whole six months, god is just changing me and changing me and changing me.
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  Blaine Landrum: So, about the fifth month, a guy that I was in a program with he was, he was making his, his exit plan And I didn't really have one at the time.
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  Blaine Landrum: But he told me about a place he was going to here in Godford called, called Joseph home.
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  Blaine Landrum: So I prayed about that a couple weeks and my counselor, my counselor Sam P Shea, kept telling me that you know, this might be a God thing.
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  Blaine Landrum: This might be a God thing I think you might.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, should maybe go over there with him.
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  Blaine Landrum: And I said I'll tell you what I said, i'll put the application in and I'll see where God leads me.
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  Blaine Landrum: When I graduated the six months program, me and this and this other fellow, we went.
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  Blaine Landrum: We went to Joseph's phone, joseph's home, i'm sorry And we, you know, got under the tutelage of, of, of, of, of Jeff York, who runs the place.
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  Blaine Landrum: Joseph's home is a ministry of Michael Memorial Baptist Church.
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  Blaine Landrum: Those guys showed me what it, what it means to be a man and how to be a man, which at the time I didn't know.
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  Blaine Landrum: That all those prior years I was not acting like a man, you know, i was acting like a child.
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  Blaine Landrum: And then, once I started setting up under them guys and started learning and you know, pastor Tony Carnes over there is, you know, just just one of the godliest men I've ever met, that all them guys over there are.
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  Blaine Landrum: I know it sounds cliche a lot, but you know, if you don't surround yourself with good godly people, you're in trouble.
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  Blaine Landrum: You've got.
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  Blaine Landrum: You have zero chance of success.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, how long ago was this?
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  Blaine Landrum: That was, let's see, i left.
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  Blaine Landrum: I left the home of Grayson March of 2019.
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  Blaine Landrum: And I stayed at Joseph's home for six months.
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  Blaine Landrum: When I got to Joseph's home, i was battling this battle with the, with the state trying to get, trying to get him back, and I eventually got him back, praise the Lord, yeah.
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  Ron Meyers: In fact, he's sitting in here with you right now He is.
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  Ron Meyers: He's listening to his dad Tell the story.
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  Blaine Landrum: No doubt I'm very proud of him.
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  Blaine Landrum: He's he's done wonderful things And it's all due to God's, to God's grace and love and God's hand on my life.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, listen, we're going to take a break and then, when we come back, we want to hear what's life like now.
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  Ron Meyers: You look great.
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  Ron Meyers: I believe you're a truck driver, aren't you?
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  Ron Meyers: And you're telling people about Jesus.
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  Announcer: So as soon as we come back, we'll talk about that, okay, You're listening to get the hell out of your life with your host, ron Myers.
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  Ron Meyers: Listeners, welcome back In the studios.
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  Ron Meyers: with me is Blaine Landrum, and Blaine, you were talking about your addiction and now you are on a.
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  Ron Meyers: you have a whole new life in front of you.
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  Ron Meyers: So after 20 years of bondage, it had to be hard to get used to.
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  Ron Meyers: wow, i'm actually free, i can dream, i can hope, i can talk to people.
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  Ron Meyers: I don't have to be looking for my next fix, absolutely.
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  Ron Meyers: What was that like?
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  Blaine Landrum: It was.
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  Blaine Landrum: it was, um, it was foreign, ron, to be honest with you, because I'd lived a certain way for so many years that when I started walking with the Lord, it was especially when I, when I left Joseph's home, having responsibilities, really was foreign.
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  Blaine Landrum: It was foreign to me.
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  Blaine Landrum: but God led me through it all And, and you know, if I sat here and told you that I haven't had struggles since then, i'd be lying to you.
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  Blaine Landrum: I have had my struggles, don't get me wrong, but it's the things that I learned while I was at the home of grace and the things that I have learned from my pastors and my mentors and guys that have walked with me through this.
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  Blaine Landrum: So what is life like now?
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  Blaine Landrum: Well, you know, i have a wonderful job.
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  Blaine Landrum: I have.
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  Blaine Landrum: I have my son, my son back.
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  Blaine Landrum: I actually am about to get married to a wonderful, beautiful, godly woman, cassandra May, that I met at a celebrate recovery meeting a week after I left the home of grace, amen.
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  Ron Meyers: I asked you that because it's important for people to know that there is hope after addiction.
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  Blaine Landrum: And there is.
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  Blaine Landrum: there is one of the things that I've had to learn over the past four years, since I've been in recovery, is that is that God's going to do, do his part.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, but, but, but if you, if we don't do our part, he's not going to do it all for us.
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  Blaine Landrum: We have to put in our, our, our will with his to be able to accomplish his will.
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  Blaine Landrum: ultimately You know what I mean He's not going to.
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  Blaine Landrum: He's not going to.
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  Blaine Landrum: He's not going to come down here and keep me 100% from using.
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  Blaine Landrum: I have to put in the work, i have to stay in church and what the Bible talks about the renewing of the mind.
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  Ron Meyers: Absolutely, jesus wants to do life with us each and every day, absolutely.
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  Ron Meyers: You reached out to me to share your story and I really, really appreciate that.
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  Ron Meyers: But you know, right now, blaine, you know somebody listening is either dealing with addiction themselves or they know somebody in their family and they're losing hope.
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell that person?
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  Blaine Landrum: I would tell that person to do exactly what I did Get down on your knees and ask God Almighty to put his hand on your life and on you To help you get out of out of what you're in Now.
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  Blaine Landrum: Now your story may not be the same as mine.
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  Blaine Landrum: He may do it for you immediately.
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  Blaine Landrum: He may wait a year, like he did with me.
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  Blaine Landrum: It's on his timing, but but.
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  Blaine Landrum: But.
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  Blaine Landrum: The Bible says if you you you call on his name, he will save you.
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  Blaine Landrum: Thank you.
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  Ron Meyers: This is a real battle out there.
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  Ron Meyers: It sure is.
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  Ron Meyers: It sure is.
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  Ron Meyers: As you said, the enemy is out there to kill, steal and destroy and take away our livelihood, our destiny, all of our hopes.
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  Ron Meyers: There really is a good life out there.
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  Ron Meyers: We can have fun, we can smile again, we can laugh again.
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  Ron Meyers: Most people that I interview never meet Jesus in church.
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  Ron Meyers: They meet Jesus at the end of themselves, just like you did, just like me.
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  Ron Meyers: Yep, somebody that's listening right now can meet with Jesus right this minute, absolutely The only thing that Jesus is asking.
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  Blaine Landrum: Will you pray right now for somebody out there listening?
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  Blaine Landrum: Absolutely, i sure will.
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  Blaine Landrum: Dear Heavenly Father.
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  Blaine Landrum: I ask for anybody who's out there that is still struggling, lord, the way that I was.
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  Blaine Landrum: Please put your hand on them, god.
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  Blaine Landrum: Please give them the knowledge to let them know that you are there and that you will save them if they ask you.
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  Blaine Landrum: Lord, again, put your hand on whoever's out there struggling.
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  Blaine Landrum: Let them know who you are and that you are sovereign over everything.
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  Blaine Landrum: Lord, i ask all this in the name of Christ, amen.
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  Ron Meyers: We go way back.
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  Ron Meyers: I didn't even know this until you called.
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  Ron Meyers: I don't remember meeting you.
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  Ron Meyers: I guess what?
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  Ron Meyers: 20, 25 years ago, but you went to high school or junior high or something with my daughter Junior high and high school actually Dawn, Yep.
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  Ron Meyers: And when you told me that a couple of weeks ago, I said, wow, you know, God is so amazing.
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  Ron Meyers: And right now it is a very important that anybody out there listening that is struggling with anything in life They ask for help.
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  Blaine Landrum: It's it's really that simple.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know, for anybody out there, that's, that's, that's in recovery right now.
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  Blaine Landrum: Yeah, i said a minute ago, you know, if you leave recovery and just go back to you know, it's like I said, it's cliche, it's you cannot go back to same people, same places and the same things.
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  Blaine Landrum: you want, you want you.
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  Blaine Landrum: you know your chance of success is little to none.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, i've had people tell me that what they did is they had to make sure they got rid of their cell phone when they left home and grazed with all their phone numbers So none of their dealers and nobody could ever call them again.
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  Ron Meyers: You're right, you've got to be around a whole new group of people, for sure.
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  Blaine Landrum: You know.
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  Blaine Landrum: I mentioned, you know, all the people at Michael Memorial and Jeff and Tisha over Joseph's phone.
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  Blaine Landrum: But I'm now a member over at Campground Baptist Church me and my me and my fiance Cassandra.
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  Blaine Landrum: We've been over what she's been over their years.
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  Blaine Landrum: Now.
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  Blaine Landrum: I've been over there I think for about two and a half years now, and people over there are awesome too.
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  Ron Meyers: There is life after addiction.
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  Ron Meyers: There is, and God is good, he is all in, god answers prayer Absolutely, and that he has no favorites, that he treats all of us.
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  Announcer: He's an equal opportunity?
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  Ron Meyers: God no doubt.
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  Ron Meyers: So it doesn't matter where we've lived, what we've done, what color our skin is.
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  Ron Meyers: God just wants us to say help me, absolutely, absolutely, i love it.
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  Ron Meyers: And you brought Hunter with you.
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  Ron Meyers: And Hunter, you're a nice young man and you're hearing this testimony from your dad.
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  Ron Meyers: What do you think of when you hear your dad sharing some of the struggles and things that he's done?
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  Blaine's Son: It's a beautiful story and he really showed that you're never too far gone.
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  Blaine's Son: You can always change.
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  Blaine's Son: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, you're proud of your dad, huh.
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  Blaine's Son: Very proud Actually.
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  Blaine's Son: Yes, He slipped up a few times, but he always bounces back and he always has God in his life to lead him in the right direction.
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  Blaine's Son: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: And you are on your way hopefully soon to the Air Force.
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  Ron Meyers: That is correct.
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  Blaine's Son: I can't wait.
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  Ron Meyers: Okay, well, thank you for coming in with your dad, blaine.
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  Ron Meyers: Thank you, thank you, and I always ask my guests and both of you can answer.
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  Ron Meyers: This is, if you want is how do you get the hell out of?
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  Blaine Landrum: your life.
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  Blaine Landrum: I don't have a clue how to do it.
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  Blaine Landrum: I'll let the Lord guide me to get me to that place.
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  Ron Meyers: That's a good answer.
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  Ron Meyers: What do you think, Hunter?
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  Ron Meyers: How does a person get the hell out of their life?
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  Blaine's Son: I honestly have no clue.
• 19:14
  Ron Meyers: Well, I think your dad said it best Call on the name of Jesus and he will save us all.
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  Ron Meyers: All right, Thank you both for coming in.
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  Ron Meyers: God bless you.
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  Ron Meyers: Thank you, Listers.
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  Ron Meyers: When I return my monologue is Jesus a gimmick?
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  Announcer: A pastor friend in Chicago taught me one difference between religion and a personal relationship with God is the way they're spelled.
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  Announcer: That's right.
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  Announcer: Religion is spelled D-O, he said, because in every religion in the world you've got to do this or do that in order to please God.
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  Announcer: Christianity, however, is spelled D-O-N-E Because when Jesus Christ was stretched out on that cross for you and me, his last words continue to echo through the pages of time.
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  Announcer: It is finished, finished, done, completed.
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  Announcer: You see, that's what Christianity is all about and that's what God's love is about.
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  Announcer: Do you want a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
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  Announcer: Then call us today at 1-888-NEED-HIM.
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  Ron Meyers: In the mail today I received this giant postcard that said see what you have won.
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  Ron Meyers: And they have a little pill sticker on it.
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  Ron Meyers: You peel it off And, according to this, i'm a winner.
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  Ron Meyers: I won $700 in cash.
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  Ron Meyers: I know what you're saying.
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  Ron Meyers: The same thing I did.
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  Ron Meyers: Oh, ron, that's just a gimmick.
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  Ron Meyers: They're just trying to get you in the store to buy a car.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, it probably is, but I have looked all over this fine print to see where that $700 cash will come from.
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  Ron Meyers: I'll let you know in a future episode if I actually walk into the dealer.
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  Ron Meyers: And so today, is Jesus a gimmick?
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  Ron Meyers: is the message of grace a gimmick?
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  Ron Meyers: is just too good to be true?
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  Ron Meyers: Well, not in my life it hasn't been.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, grace is God's wonderful, awesome gift to us.
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  Ron Meyers: You heard Blaine.
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  Ron Meyers: He got tired of himself, he got tired of the addiction and after a buffet of garbage in a dumpster, he went to his knees and he asked God for help.
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  Ron Meyers: He shared his problem with God.
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  Ron Meyers: He chose to share his problem with God.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus is not a gimmick.
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  Ron Meyers: I'll tell you what's a gimmick is thinking that we can do performance-based works and things we can do for God to be pleased.
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  Ron Meyers: No, there is nothing we can do that will earn us salvation.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus did it all at the cross and I want to tell you today that if you're tired of gimmicks, you're tired of feeling the guilt and the condemnation A lot of people.
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  Ron Meyers: They walk into a church and they think, well, i, i'm gonna sit down and all my problems will be gone today.
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  Ron Meyers: But they end up leaving and they live a life like a car, stuck in the mud.
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  Ron Meyers: The tires are spinning and they aren't going anywhere.
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  Ron Meyers: Because one of the things they have not done is they have not made a choice.
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  Ron Meyers: They did not get tired, like Blaine did, of the the hell in his life.
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  Ron Meyers: He made a decision to choose a better life.
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  Ron Meyers: I did the same thing 23 years ago.
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  Ron Meyers: I made a choice.
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  Ron Meyers: I didn't like the hell in my life, i chose Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: And when we choose to make a decision to change the circumstances in our life, then that can be done outside of a dumpster, in a hotel room, in your car, on the beach, in your bed, wherever.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus loves to hear people say I give up, i have chosen the wrong things for my life and they have gotten me in trouble.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus, help me.
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  Ron Meyers: That is no gimmick.
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  Ron Meyers: And then he pours his grace into you.
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  Ron Meyers: What is grace?
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  Ron Meyers: Well, grace is his love for you, the forgiveness of all your sins the past, present and the ones that you will continue to commit.
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  Ron Meyers: Yes, people still do sin.
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  Ron Meyers: When they come to Jesus, they just don't like it anymore and he washes us clean.
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  Ron Meyers: He gives us a new heart.
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  Ron Meyers: The old, wicked heart is gone, replaced with his heart, and now we have the Holy Spirit that resides in us.
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  Ron Meyers: I made a choice to wake up every day and say Jesus, thank you for being in my life.
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  Ron Meyers: I made a choice to remind myself that I am forgiven, i am right with God.
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  Ron Meyers: There's nothing that I can do that will erase his love.
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  Ron Meyers: It is the foundation of what grace is when we believe that we are right with God.
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  Ron Meyers: It's not a performance based works, friends, there's something about that.
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  Ron Meyers: No condemnation.
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  Ron Meyers: There is no rejection by Christ.
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  Ron Meyers: He's not walking around with a clipboard grading you and I on our performance.
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  Ron Meyers: No, he's saying go girl, go guy, let's go, let's be yourself.
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  Ron Meyers: It's now a vine branch relationship.
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  Ron Meyers: He's the branch, we are the vine, and we begin to have good things happen in our life.
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  Ron Meyers: It's really that simple, it's no gimmick, and that same message that I just told you would work in the jungles of Africa or India or wherever.
• 25:36
  Ron Meyers: It's not where you go, it's not what you do, it's not all the performance based religious activities that so many churches have you going through.
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  Ron Meyers: It's all been done.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus says last words where it is finished.
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  Ron Meyers: So today I want to ask you are you tired of religion?
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  Ron Meyers: Are you tired of works based religion?
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  Ron Meyers: Are you stuck in the mud?
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  Ron Meyers: We'll make a choice today.
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  Ron Meyers: When you give Jesus your heart, he will give you the grace to not only keep the hell out of your life, but to begin to laugh again, smile again and live the abundant life through the finished works of Jesus Christ.
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  Ron Meyers: And, my friends, that is no gimmick.
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  Ron Meyers: That is the only way to live.
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  Announcer: Ron will be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation.
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  Announcer: Did you know what Ron did before he discovered his destiny?
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  Announcer: He was a promoter of secular entertainment and, by his own admission, he promoted anything he could make a buck at.
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  Announcer: At the pinnacle of his success, he walked away from it all so he could follow Jesus and discover his God-given destiny.
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  Announcer: That was over 20 years ago and he has never looked back.
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  Announcer: Today he's an inspirational speaker on a mission to empower individuals just like you to discover their God-given destiny.
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  Announcer: Ron put his story in a novel entitled The Promoter and he wants to give you a copy.
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  Announcer: Here's what a few readers have said.
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  Announcer: I could not put it down.
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  Announcer: I cried, giggled, gasped and laughed out loud.
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  Announcer: Ron has written a novel and self-help book all in one.
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  Announcer: This book is a message of hope.
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  Announcer: To request your free copy, visit our website at ThePromoterorg.
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  Ron Meyers: Now back to Ron, i would love to send you a copy of my book And, listeners, here's a little homework.
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  Ron Meyers: With your coffee with Jesus, remind yourself every day that you are a child of God, you are loved, you have been forgiven.
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  Ron Meyers: You cannot lose your relationship with Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Friends, when you really believe that from the inner fiber of everything you have, that is the solid foundation to build a solid relationship with Jesus.
• 28:10
  Ron Meyers: And then world watch out.
• 28:13
  Ron Meyers: Here she or here he comes.
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  Ron Meyers: Friends, this is our time.
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  Ron Meyers: We must embrace it, enjoy it and live the life that God created us to live.
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  Ron Meyers: I'll be back next week with another great episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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  Ron Meyers: In the meantime, remember this that I love you, god loves you and, yes, when you get the hell out of your life, you will have freedom.
• 28:40
  Ron Meyers: Get the hell out, get the hell out.
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