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Ashley's Story; From Addiction to Gold! · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Announcer: It's time now to get the Hell Out of Your Life, a weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a fold confidence and renewed hope.
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Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the provider.
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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: I watched the 2026 Olympics with fascination.
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Ron Meyers: Excellence on display, discipline on display, sacrifice on display.
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Ron Meyers: The world's greatest athletes stepping onto the biggest stage.
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Ron Meyers: Years of unseen training for one shining moment.
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Ron Meyers: And as I watched them chase gold medals, I couldn't help but think you and I were in a race too.
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Ron Meyers: Not a race for applause, not a race for endorsement deals, and not a race for temporary glory.
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Ron Meyers: We are running for eternal gold.
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Ron Meyers: Because while Olympians have coaches pushing them toward physical greatness, we have the ultimate coach, Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Not a coach who condemns, not a coach who shames, and not a coach who keeps a scoreboard of your failures, but a coach who leads with love, corrects with grace, and is always forgiving.
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Ron Meyers: Today's guest, Ashley, will show you what it looks like when you finally listen to your coach.
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Ron Meyers: Her race didn't start on a podium.
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Ron Meyers: It started with wanting to fit in.
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Ron Meyers: It slid into heroin, homelessness, motel rooms, overdoses.
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Ron Meyers: But the story doesn't end there.
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Ron Meyers: Because when Jesus leads us, good things happen.
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Ron Meyers: Ashley's rescue wasn't flashy.
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Ron Meyers: It was messy.
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Ron Meyers: A strange robbery of an empty house, a drug court indictment, a shelter filled with people who quietly showed up with rides, church pews, cheeseburgers, and love that lingered.
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Ron Meyers: So if you've ever felt disqualified, if someone you love looks like they've dropped out of the race, then you need to listen to today's show.
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Ron Meyers: Because this isn't just Ashley's story, it's proof that you were created for gold.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Well, it it changes a lot.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: So spent a life chasing heroin, did that for many years, was homeless, just all the things, in and out of jail, you know, just all the stuff that goes with it from motel to motel.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Didn't have anything to do with my kids, just made heroin my God for you know about eight or nine years of my life.
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Ron Meyers: What age did that start?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I had started doing drugs when I was about twelve or thirteen years old.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Oh my goodness.
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Ron Meyers: You're supposed to be playing with Barbie dolls at that time and going to gymnastic classes, and you were doing heroin.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, well, heroin came in about my twenties and in my twenties is when I was introduced to the one that would really get me.
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Ron Meyers: Was it the uh the thrill?
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Ron Meyers: How you felt?
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Ron Meyers: Were you hiding something?
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Ron Meyers: Were you hiding from pain?
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Ron Meyers: Did you just want to escape reality?
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Ron Meyers: What caused you to be in addiction all those years?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I wanted to fit in, you know, and I always felt different.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I was a fat, chubby kid.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I got made fun of a lot, and it was an escape, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: When I when I found heroin, it was the escape, you know, like no other.
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Ron Meyers: Were were friends or family trying to intervene and say, Ashley, get your act together?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, yeah.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: They I mean they court ordered me to treatment.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I've been to like 13 treatment centers.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I've been to the cycle.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That was my favorite place to go, was detox.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: So I've been to that like over 20 times.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, so they did.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: They tried.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: My dad was actually fighting cancer, and he would have to, you know, drive from Memphis a few hours away.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I mean, he had full-blown cancer, and I'd be an ICU on life support, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: So I overdosed all the time.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, it was uh it was a whole different life back then, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I I didn't want I didn't care if I lived or or died anymore, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Only if I got high.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That's that's all I cared for.
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Ron Meyers: Now, how did you support your habit?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I would sell my body to uh get high when we rob people.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Actually, God's divine intervention my in my life was robbing a house in broad daylight that didn't even have anything in it, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That's how I would later be saved, really.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know, that's how he intervened for me.
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Ron Meyers: What happened where God intervened?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: We got indicted for robbing that house in the broad daylight.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I I would end I ended up getting drug court for that.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And then drug court, you know, they send you to treatment and all the things, and and during that whole process, my parents, man, I always thought I had time to, you know, do better.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And anyway, while dealing with drug court, I had sobered up and my dad was at the end of his cancer deal.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And anyway, he he passed away.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know, I was in my 13th treatment center.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: The last thing he ever said to me was, You're gonna do it this time, sweetie.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I I believe in you.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And man, I was saying a lot for somebody like me, you know, because then nobody believe in me anymore.
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Ron Meyers: So his last breath was speaking prophecy and hoping to you that, hey, you're going to beat this one day.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, yep, yep, it was.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And so I went back to treatment and then I had some teeth issues, so they were gonna let me out of treatment even though I wasn't done.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And that was the first time I ever got honest.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I told my PO, he was like, Where do you want to go, Arendelle?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: They're not gonna let you stay here anymore.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And uh at that time, you know, my mom lived at the motel.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, we just all lived at this horrible, you know, drugged up motel.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And uh, we had a you know, this room, it was 212 travel in.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And every ounce of my body wanted to say, 212 travel in, you know, come get me and take me there.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And uh, I got honest and I said, you know, Sullivan, I I have nowhere to go that you're not gonna have to come take me to prison.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: So they put me in a homeless shelter and and God prepared me.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I stayed in a huge homeless shelter by myself.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And anyway, 37 days after my dad died, my mom, while I was at that homeless shelter, got ran over and hit by a car, just real out of nowhere, and that was just right after, you know.
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Ron Meyers: Boy, things were really happening.
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Ron Meyers: Your dad dies, then your mom gets run over by a car, you're in a treatment center all by yourself.
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Ron Meyers: Did they get darker or did they start did you start seeing the light somewhere?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It was light, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I started seeing God moving in a way that that he was preparing me, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, he just set me at that homeless shelter, sober, all by myself, surrounded by all these good godly people, you know, that would come get me and take me to church or you know, just all these different things.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It is almost like you could just see, like like I was in a little bubble or something that God had just put me in this bubble to prepare me for what was to come, you know?
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ron Meyers: When you would get up in the morning and you know, take your shower and get all cleaned up, and then you look in the mirror, was there something that you just said, Who who is this person?
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Ron Meyers: What happened to me?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: At that point, you know, I mean, I just thought, man, like you're just a monster.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Like I just had no idea who I was, you know, just lost, broken, you know, just so gone.
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Ron Meyers: Just so in that moment before you started paying attention to God, did you actually believe that there was hope for you?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Absolutely not.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: No.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Uh-uh.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I could hear hope stories, and I mean, my exact thought would be, well, that's real good for you, but that'll never happen for a junkie like me.
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Ron Meyers: So your identification to you was you were a junkie, and there's nothing that you were beyond hope, huh?
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Ron Meyers: Is that is that what you thought?
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Ron Meyers: You were beyond hope, and you're just gonna end up dying like your mom and dad one of these days?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, absolutely.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah.
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Ron Meyers: But then the light started coming in.
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Ron Meyers: And tell us about that light and how how the change started happening and what you're up to today.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I just, you know, I was surrounded by so many good people, and I finally heard somebody say something, and I thought, man, maybe I can, you know, maybe I can do this too, you know.
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Ron Meyers: What did they say?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: She really just told her story, and and that that was enough.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know, I I'd finally heard somebody tell me they had been as far down as I had been and could relate.
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Ron Meyers: So they got honest and transparent, just like you did a little time before that.
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Ron Meyers: There's something about honesty with us sharing our struggles with others, and then when we share that honesty with God, there's something that happens to me.
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Ron Meyers: It was I just knew it was a breakthrough.
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Ron Meyers: I didn't know exactly what, but I knew that God did love me and God had a plan.
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Ron Meyers: Anything like that happened to you?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, I knew God loved me, knew, knew that he'd carried me, that he had set people up, that that he had, you know, gone before and and knew how this was gonna turn out, you know, and all those things that I thought, you know, why is this happening to me?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I mean, that's the only thing I held on to the homeless at the homeless shelter was God, you got some purpose behind this.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: There's some something I don't know that you're gonna use behind this, you know, and he did, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I I've been able to tell people, you know, man, that sucks.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I'm so sorry you lost your aunt, or I'm so sorry your brother died, man.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: But you don't you don't have to get high over that.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You don't have to use over that.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And then I can tell them why that I know that.
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Ron Meyers: So if you were in line today at a grocery store, maybe a fast food restaurant, and you saw one of the guys or someone outside the door just laying there begging for money, and you knew they were a junkie, would you say anything to them or how what would you think?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Well, this does happen where I live at.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, th those little things do happen.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I love them, man.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You never know the the seed that we plant just by loving somebody or telling somebody, man, hey, God loves you.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You want you want one of these cheeseburgers that I got, you know, because man, love goes a long way.
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Ron Meyers: Boy, that's beautiful.
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Ron Meyers: It sure does, Ashley.
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Ron Meyers: And well, I've got to ask you, I mean, I had an email that you wanted to share your story with my audience.
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Ron Meyers: Uh, how did you find out about me?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: One of the sober living houses that that I went to along the way was called Stillwaters in in Pasagoula, Mississippi.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And uh, Ricky, he Ricky Charlton, he he runs this.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It's not, you know, he he funds it and all the things.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It's it's kind of rare this day and time.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: He he listens to your radio show, and ever since I've been sober, you know, I go back to Ricky's at least a couple times a year.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: He has an annual Christmas party and I I go stay there just like I I did many years ago, except for I I do I have, you know, my own house and my my family and all the stuff, but but I take time away to go stay with Ricky and and go to those meetings that I went to, you know, all those years ago and have the fellowship and and be reminded because you have people coming in just like I was several years ago who who don't have a social security car, they don't have a driver's license, they haven't helped, you know, had a job.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, just those little things that that we can forget once we've, you know, built our life back up.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: We can forget how small it started out, you know, and it and it's just it's such a godly place.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And so yeah, he listens to your radio show.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And since I've I had not gotten to go in a while, I got sick, I got cancer, and so I I got to go visit him recently, you know, and uh because that's I mean, the book was I never thought that I would be writing a book about anything, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: But I got sick, man, and I had I had to talk to God because I really didn't understand, you know, after eight years of being in recovery, being in a new life, pouring into people, going places, speaking, you know, just you name it, you know what I'm saying?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It's extending my hand to to help anybody find a new way of life, like being in church, celebrate recovery, all the things.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I I again was right back to why would you do this to me?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know, why God would you do this to me?
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Ron Meyers: Did you ever get that answer?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yes.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Man, we get refined through the fire, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: We get refined through the fire, and you know, we have a father that that will sit us still, you know, so he can use us to glorify him.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I I don't know about some people, but man, this daughter right here, you know, I'm not gonna do it.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, you gotta slow me down and wake me up, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I need big signs, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That's what uh one of my friends, she calls me her angel on earth, and she always says, God just gives Arendelle these big signs.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And like, you know, like it's something special, and I'll say, that's because God knows Arendelle's a big stubborn dummy, and it takes a big, you know, billboard sign.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: So we went on a trip to process the cancer in in Alabama, and everybody wanted me to go to MD Anderson because it was it was such a big tumor and and and so rare.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And she said, Ashley, are you gonna you gonna do it in Jackson or are you gonna go to MD Anderson?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I said, Man, if if Jackson calls me and it's quicker than going to Texas, I said, I'm gonna go wherever's quicker unless God gives me some big sign.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I mean, as soon as I got it out of my mouth, there's this huge billboard and it says, This is your sign from God.
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know?
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Ron Meyers: Wow, yeah, and uh it's amazing sometimes, Ashley.
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Ron Meyers: I'll tell people that if we look in the rear view mirror of our life, we see now that God was with us when we never even knew it.
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Ron Meyers: Do you ever think about things like that?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Absolutely, yes.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: He he is there, he's already come before, you know, and and if we look for it, you know, he even gives us the signs that show, you know, I've already been here, I already know how this is going, you know.
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Ron Meyers: Boy, it's amazing, Ashley, listening to you, and you have joy.
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Ron Meyers: The joy of the Lord is your strength.
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Ron Meyers: You have some laughter, and then here at the beginning of the story, you're 12 years old, when you start into drugs and it leads to a life of just a lot of chaos.
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Ron Meyers: I think your story is telling people there is hope beyond dope.
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Ron Meyers: Is that right?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That's it, man.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That's the hope shot.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know, hold on, pain ends, and and life is there is a flip side, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: No matter how bad you think you are, if you're the worst of the worst, man, that there's nothing that God can't conquer, you know, there's no miracle he he can't do.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Well, you know, right now there are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, moms, dads, daughters, sons listening that they are dealing with addiction in their life, maybe not themselves, but a family member, and they have tuned in and they hear this.
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Ron Meyers: What hope would you give anybody listening right now that's dealing with similar circumstances?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You know, my aunt, she is she completely threw the towel with me for for every good reason, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: But she tells me all the time that her biggest testimony today at all her church things that she's in is, you know, you don't give up hope on anybody.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You don't label somebody a lost cause.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And uh, and that is her testimony because of me today that she gets to tell people, you know, we as humans don't get to say, you know, that's too far gone, or that there's no redemption story that's gonna happen there.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Wow because we don't have the power to say that, you know, only God has that.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And uh when you read the Bible and look at all the people, you would have thought, like, really, you know, that's who you used, you know?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And but it is.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That's who he used, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: That that was the people that he handpicked, and it was not people from a human perception that anybody would have picked, you know, and that's who God uses the most.
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Ron Meyers: Well, how is Ashley doing today?
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Ron Meyers: How's the cancer?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Well, they they've got the cancer out of my stomach, and it and it was a journey and and and I learned a lot through it.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: We're actually we just had a winter storm.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yeah, so no electricity, no hot water, man.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And there's a part in literature recovery that says living skills are reduced to the animal level.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I quote that a lot in recovery, and uh and I've been quoting it a lot lately because it's been crazy with no electricity.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: But yeah, we go back to Houston to deal with whatever's, you know.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I think there's some stuff in my neck, and uh I don't know, man.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I'm just not that uh, you know, God brought me out of heroin.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I mean, I we'd be on the phone all day if we talked about how many times I overdosed.
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Ron Meyers: I mean, he brought me off life support, and then I mean You know, I was just gonna say when God starts something in this, he's going to see it done to completion.
18:56
Ron Meyers: He's not through it to you.
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Ron Meyers: Ashley, and you are just a bright light of encouragement.
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Ron Meyers: I am so glad that you met Ricky, who I've never met, in Pascagoula.
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Ron Meyers: He told you about the show.
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Ron Meyers: You sent me a note, and now you and I are talking, and your story will literally go around the world.
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Ron Meyers: And so God is definitely using you.
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Ron Meyers: And I want to I I just want to thank you.
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Ron Meyers: Thank you for reaching out.
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Ron Meyers: And I know I had a flu.
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Ron Meyers: You and I were supposed to talk a couple weeks ago, and I had got the flu, but you were kind and sending me little encouragement and hoping I was praying that I was doing better.
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Ron Meyers: And I am so excited.
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Ron Meyers: You have to keep us posted on your journey, and I will pass that on to the listeners, and we'll do a follow-up after you beat all this cancer.
19:42
Ron Meyers: And then uh who knows, we might see on TV.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Yes, and and Ron, I do want to say the Ashes to Ash book, though, it is not my story.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It is a daily devotional with prayer, scripture, cries to God.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It it's just modern day psalms.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: You'll have to be in recovery to feel God in this book.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: So if you do know somebody that needs a shot of hope, you know, that that is the book to get them.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I'm so glad to throw that out there.
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Ron Meyers: How can they get a copy of your book?
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Ron Meyers: And are you on social media?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I'm on social media on Facebook, it's Ash Arundel, and then this book is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: It's Ashes to Ash, a 30-day hope shot delivered by the Holy Spirit by Ashley Arendelle.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And so it it's it's all over, but definitely Amazon.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I feel like is the easiest way to get a copy of it.
20:41
Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Thank you.
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Ron Meyers: Now, Ashley, one thing I like to ask my listeners, the title of the show is Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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Ron Meyers: So I'm gonna ask you, Ashley, how do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I remind myself that it's nothing to do with me, and it's all God, and I tell myself, move out of the way.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: All right, and now one of those Ashley's big faith, God has assigned prayers.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Oh, Jehovah Jirah, Father God, Lord, I just I thank you, Father.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I thank you for your peace, Father God, and I I thank you for just saving us from ourselves, Father God, and that you always have a plan, Father.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: I thank you for moving out of the way, Father God, for your plan, Father.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: And I just pray that if there's anybody, Father, that's just hopeless, God, that that just thinks that someone can't be resurrected back to life, Father, that you speak life into them right now, Father God.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: In the mighty name of you, Jehovah Jireh God, you provide, and we're so grateful for that, Father.
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Ashley Arendale Murphy: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: You know, watching the Olympics, I saw athletes who refused to quit when the training hurt.
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Ron Meyers: Ashley's story reminded me that spiritual endurance looks the same.
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Ron Meyers: Her father's last words, You're gonna do it this time, sweetie.
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Ron Meyers: That wasn't condemnation.
22:06
Ron Meyers: That was belief.
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Ron Meyers: That was encouragement.
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Ron Meyers: And belief can be the push off the starting block.
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Ron Meyers: Ashley made one honest decision not to return to that same motel room.
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Ron Meyers: One step, one lap.
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Ron Meyers: And here's the truth, my friend.
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Ron Meyers: We all have setbacks, false starts, disqualifying moments, but our coach doesn't bench us.
22:28
Ron Meyers: Jesus doesn't shame you for falling.
22:31
Ron Meyers: He trains you to stand again.
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Ron Meyers: Ashley didn't just get sober, she rebuilt her life brick by brick, ideas, work, and fellowship.
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Ron Meyers: She returned to Stillwaters and Pascagoula, not as a statistic, but as a servant.
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Ron Meyers: Now that's gold.
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Ron Meyers: Then Cancer tried to rewrite her story.
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Ron Meyers: Old fear knocked, but deeper conviction answered.
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Ron Meyers: Refinement through fire.
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Ron Meyers: When Jesus is leading, friend, even detours have purpose.
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Ron Meyers: Even pain becomes preparation.
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Ron Meyers: Even diagnosis becomes discipline.
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Ron Meyers: Rock bottom isn't bedrock.
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Ron Meyers: Redemption is.
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Announcer: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of Your Life with your host, Ron Myers.
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Announcer: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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Announcer: What's your story?
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Announcer: We're looking for stories of hope and overcoming life's struggles with God's grace.
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Announcer: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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Announcer: Get on your knees and cry out to the Lord.
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Announcer: He hears you right where you are.
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Announcer: How to get the hell out of your life?
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Announcer: Well, yeah, replace it with Jesus.
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Announcer: We got to be born again, born of the Spirit, and that's by trusting Jesus Christ, turning from our sins and trusting Jesus.
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Announcer: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Going to Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Well, friends, as we close today's show, here's our takeaway.
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Ron Meyers: You are in a race.
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Ron Meyers: You have a coach, not one who condemns, not one that shames, not one keeping a highlight real of your worst failures, but one who leads with love, corrects with grace, restores with forgiveness.
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Ron Meyers: So here's some action steps for this week.
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Ron Meyers: Number one, train your heart.
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Ron Meyers: Spend five minutes listening to Coach Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: No noise, no distraction.
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Ron Meyers: I call it coffee with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Number two, take one discipline step.
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Ron Meyers: Ashley didn't rebuild everything in a day.
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Ron Meyers: She made one honest choice.
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Ron Meyers: What's yours?
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Ron Meyers: Number three, drop the label.
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Ron Meyers: Stop calling yourself what you used to be.
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Ron Meyers: Stop labeling others by their worst lap.
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Ron Meyers: Number four, encourage someone in their race.
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Ron Meyers: A ride, a cheeseburger, a kind word.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes that's all it takes to keep someone from quitting.
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Ron Meyers: Because one day, on your final lap, you'll cross a finish line that makes every Olympic stadium look small.
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Ron Meyers: And you'll hear the words that matter most.
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Ron Meyers: Well done, good and faithful servant.
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Ron Meyers: That's the gold.
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Ron Meyers: Not a medal that fades, not applause that quiets, but eternal reward.
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Ron Meyers: So this is our time.
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Ron Meyers: This is our season.
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Ron Meyers: So, my friend, this week as you go out and walk in peace, walk in purpose, walk in passion, train your faith, condition your spirit, stay in step with your coach, because you were created for gold and heaven is watching.
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Ron Meyers: Until next time, my friend, this is Ron Myers reminding you.
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Ron Meyers: With Jesus, you can get and keep the hell out of your life.
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