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No Atheists in Foxholes: Greg's Combat Testimony · 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's so good to be with you, but I have to pause just for one second.
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Ron Meyers: Get out of here and never come back.
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Ron Meyers: Wow, I had to do that.
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Ron Meyers: Have you ever got the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: And it just wants to barge its way back into your life.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I don't let it.
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Ron Meyers: You know fear, doubt, anxiety, worry.
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Ron Meyers: Nope, we don't have time for that because we're here.
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Ron Meyers: God has a plan, you have a plan, I have a plan, and we will never discover what God wants us to do if we keep the hell in our life.
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Ron Meyers: Well, that's what this show does.
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Ron Meyers: It's all about helping you understand that you are a winner.
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Ron Meyers: You are more than a conqueror, and God has given you enough courage to keep the hell out of your life and live the life you were created to live.
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Ron Meyers: And each week we share a story, or you never know what you're going to hear.
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Ron Meyers: And today I have a friend of mine that was in Iraq, in Afghanistan, years ago.
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Ron Meyers: And what a story.
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Ron Meyers: What a story.
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Ron Meyers: Have you heard the expression are there atheists in foxholes Well over in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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Ron Meyers: He told me there weren't many of them atheists.
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Ron Meyers: That is at all me.
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Ron Meyers: There weren't many of them atheists.
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Ron Meyers: That is at all, greg.
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Greg Crosby: Thank you for your service first of all and we can't wait to hear your story.
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Greg Crosby: What's your story?
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Greg Crosby: I am.
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Greg Crosby: Anytime I'm getting in front of anybody and in this case today, a microphone I like to tell people that my faith is not an insurance policy.
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Greg Crosby: It is who I am.
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Greg Crosby: I was born in Wiggins, mississippi.
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Greg Crosby: I grew up right here on the coast and my mother actually passed away just a few months ago, and the thing about her that every single person, bar none, would tell you about my mother is that she loved every single person she met and she just exhibited the love of Christ in everything that she did.
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Greg Crosby: My dad he joined the Navy at an early age is a Vietnam veteran with the United States Navy.
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Ron Meyers: And did you spend some time in the military yourself?
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Greg Crosby: Yes, I am retired from the Mississippi Army National Guard and I had a period of time in the Marines for eight years.
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Greg Crosby: My experience is I have three years in combat.
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Greg Crosby: Did your faith play a part when you were overseas?
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Greg Crosby: I heard a gentleman say there are absolutely no atheists in foxholes.
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Greg Crosby: In those situations, every single person is a spiritual person and we know what is at stake in those environments and I'm getting closer and closer to thinking that's probably the case for every person that has been under those kind of conditions.
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Ron Meyers: I met a homeless couple a couple weeks ago and I was talking to them and they had this tremendous amount of faith.
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Ron Meyers: I said where's this faith come from?
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Ron Meyers: They said the way we live.
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Ron Meyers: We live in fear, we may be killed.
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Ron Meyers: So our faith is everything Kind of ties in what you just said in the military.
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Ron Meyers: You're out there, you live in fear.
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Ron Meyers: You don't know when somebody's going to sneak up or if there's a landmine out there.
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Ron Meyers: So you have to be prayed up every day before you go out on duty.
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Greg Crosby: Absolutely, and you have to have peace too, because you can't function in a meaningful way in those roles without having peace.
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Ron Meyers: You know and I understand now why you told me before we went on the air that there is a huge spiritual battle taking place in this world.
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Ron Meyers: You know good versus evil and I understand why you're such a good student with spiritual warfare.
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Ron Meyers: You understand the enemy.
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Ron Meyers: You did it in the military.
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Ron Meyers: You had to map out what you thought the enemy was going to do to the troops.
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Ron Meyers: Now you know the enemy Satan, the dark side of the world, is after us Christians.
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Ron Meyers: Does that make sense?
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Ron Meyers: Does it all tie together?
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Ron Meyers: It absolutely makes sense.
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Greg Crosby: Wow, the enemy is looking for your soft spot.
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Greg Crosby: He is looking for the easiest location that he can get the most benefit from, with the least amount of risk on his part.
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Greg Crosby: They're not going to attack a vigilant, battle-ready, hardened veteran who knows what to do the moment he attacks.
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Greg Crosby: The enemy is looking for a guard post where the guards are sleeping and joking around and they're fat and lazy and switching guard posts at the wrong time and things like that.
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Greg Crosby: You want to look like the least important thing on the battlefield.
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Greg Crosby: The enemy is looking for a soft target.
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Greg Crosby: They know what new looks like.
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Greg Crosby: They know what lazy looks like.
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Greg Crosby: He knows what complacency looks like.
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Ron Meyers: Does he really care for Christians in church?
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Ron Meyers: We can sit there in church, but if we don't do anything, if we never get out of our comfort zone, we get lazy.
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Ron Meyers: We go one hour a week.
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Ron Meyers: We're kind of a sign for the devil, aren't we?
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Greg Crosby: Exactly.
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Greg Crosby: You are giving the enemy an advantage.
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Greg Crosby: An advantage he has no concern about us.
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Greg Crosby: Every relationship, including yours and mine, me and my wife's, mine and my children.
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Greg Crosby: The principles apply to every single relationship, all the way to a geopolitical level.
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Greg Crosby: If we're not communicating properly and respecting each other properly, something will occur and it's going to escalate.
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Greg Crosby: The devil knows that If he can throw a wedge in there or find some complacency somewhere, it will be exploited.
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Ron Meyers: So are you saying for us believers, it's very important to have a relationship with Jesus, as opposed to just a knowledge of Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: It's critical.
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Greg Crosby: I can't say it more than that.
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Greg Crosby: It is absolutely critical.
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Greg Crosby: This understanding that I'm sharing with you right now about how important and how vital our relationship is started around 2014 or 15 in a Bible study, a year-long Bible study with two close friends.
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Greg Crosby: In John 15, where Christ talks about abiding, abiding in Christ is the key to that relationship.
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Greg Crosby: Abiding for me, if that doesn't make sense and when we say how do you abide in Jesus Christ?
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Greg Crosby: I'm abiding in a marriage relationship with my wife.
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Greg Crosby: As we speak here, I have a wedding ring on.
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Greg Crosby: I don't have to think about if I'm married or not.
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Greg Crosby: I don't have to think about if I'm married or not.
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Greg Crosby: I don't have to think about if I love her or not.
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Greg Crosby: Right now she trusts me and I trust her equally.
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Greg Crosby: That relationship that my wife and I have for one another with Jesus, you have to abide when we're abiding with Christ.
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Greg Crosby: There's not a moment of my life that I question whether Jesus loves me completely, exactly.
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Ron Meyers: Very well put.
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Ron Meyers: Until you absolutely believe that he's for you, not against you, you trust him.
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Ron Meyers: His love will never leave us, it will never forsake us.
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Ron Meyers: We cannot lose our salvation.
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Ron Meyers: When you understand that and that is on your conscious, then it just is kind of a natural flow of life.
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Ron Meyers: Conscious, then it just is kind of a natural flow of life.
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Ron Meyers: You don't go worrying if he's following me today with his little clipboard and he's going to grade me because he loves me.
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Ron Meyers: With that kind of thought process, it gives us the opportunity to live life how we're supposed to live, become the person he created us to be.
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Ron Meyers: We don't live in fear.
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Greg Crosby: Fear is not from God.
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Greg Crosby: Fear is not from the Holy Spirit.
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Greg Crosby: God doesn't fear anything.
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Greg Crosby: The Holy Spirit does not fear anything.
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Greg Crosby: Jesus didn't fear the cross for our benefit.
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Greg Crosby: And that fear is rooted in a part of us that we're not willing to turn over to the Holy Spirit in our daily walk.
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Greg Crosby: Amen, amen.
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Greg Crosby: I don't want you to think that there aren't things that give me fear or cause for concern, but just as soon as I recognize it as a spiritual issue, and the Lord lays that on my heart, it's time to turn it over.
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Greg Crosby: Whether we hold on to it or not will be our choice.
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Ron Meyers: Because the blessing of fear.
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Ron Meyers: If you didn't have fear in your life then you wouldn't need faith.
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Ron Meyers: For me that I feared the most, when I embraced him and I had Christ at my side, there was always a blessing that came out of that fear.
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Ron Meyers: I got stronger and it built my faith to say, wow, if I got through that, what else can I get through?
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Ron Meyers: And I think, as you said, as you got older in life you've realized this.
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Ron Meyers: But that's the beauty about abiding in Christ it all begins to make sense.
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Greg Crosby: So I want to tell you about something that happened in 2004, early 2004.
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Greg Crosby: And to preface that, a comment about fear and faith.
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Greg Crosby: Sometimes people like to say why is God allowing this problem to happen?
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Greg Crosby: Why did this happen?
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Greg Crosby: Why would God allow this?
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Greg Crosby: And what you said.
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Greg Crosby: When bad things happen, it really reveals to us how good God can possibly be.
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Greg Crosby: My daughter asked her friend.
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Greg Crosby: My 15-year-old daughter asked her friend.
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Greg Crosby: One day.
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Greg Crosby: This young lady was faulting God for an issue she was facing and my daughter said that's really Satan's fault.
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Greg Crosby: God is the answer to that problem and somehow or another, even Christians walking around daily, professing Christians, will blame God for their problems.
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Greg Crosby: Satan is the reason for our problems.
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Greg Crosby: God's the answer.
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Greg Crosby: So we need to get that out of our language.
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Greg Crosby: As a Christian, that's something I've learned in the last year from my 15-year-old daughter Blame Satan for your problems, not God.
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Ron Meyers: What Flip Wilson used to say.
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Ron Meyers: If you remember him the older people out there the devil made me do it.
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Greg Crosby: Yeah, exactly, well, you made your own choice.
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Ron Meyers: He gave you an offer, well you are a faith-filled individual and right now I just feel you've got some hope for somebody out there listening.
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Ron Meyers: Will you share some hope for someone out there that's struggling?
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Greg Crosby: This time in Iraq, my unit a little bit of context.
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Greg Crosby: We were sent over and you stage in this big, huge desert area in Kuwait it's called a marshalling area and these huge bases and there are thousands of soldiers and equipment and everything getting ready to go north into Iraq.
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Greg Crosby: And I was a part of a very small unit, a liaison team.
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Greg Crosby: Well, the situation on Iraq did not warrant a liaison team.
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Greg Crosby: There were 25 of us, senior command type unit.
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Greg Crosby: So they handed my leadership.
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Greg Crosby: Well, they gave them orders to go to this place, some of you will recognize, called Abu Ghraib Prison.
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Greg Crosby: My unit was charged with taking over the prison where this torture was happening.
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Greg Crosby: We were a unit of 25, and we would be.
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Greg Crosby: Many units would be attached to us, but we would be the command and control for the prison.
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Greg Crosby: The big part is getting there, okay.
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Greg Crosby: So we're a small unit with maybe a dozen vehicles and about 20 people.
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Greg Crosby: So in this marshalling area you just cannot fathom, day and night, trucks are going up the highway and they're trying to find a unit to place us with.
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Greg Crosby: And I was an E-4 at the time, an older E-4, because I was in the National Guard and been around long enough to know what right looks like in the military and we finally they place us with a unit.
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Greg Crosby: We're going to piggyback with this large transportation unit and at the appointed time and place we go out for this big briefing and this unit is tore up from the floor.
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Greg Crosby: They're short of ammo, they're confused.
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Greg Crosby: There's no offense to all you young lieutenants out there, but there's a young lieutenant in charge of a huge transportation unit.
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Greg Crosby: They had about 80 pieces of equipment or something of that nature, and anybody with any sense, their heart was sinking because we would, and anybody with any sense, their heart was sinking because we would.
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Greg Crosby: The border into the combat zone was about less than an hour from where we were, maybe 20 miles so north of us and 20 miles we would be in the combat zone and our hearts dropped.
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Greg Crosby: And in fact, this lieutenant looked at one of our senior officers and said you're going to be in charge of the convoy.
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Greg Crosby: And he's like, oh, and I won't use words here, you can fill in the blanks.
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Greg Crosby: But our commander was like oh, no, we're not, you're going to fix this and whatever.
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Greg Crosby: So what I didn't know was happening behind the scenes.
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Greg Crosby: We left there that was probably 7 or 8 one evening and we're going to our vehicles because we are due to push off with that unit early early the next morning, well before sunrise, and behind the scenes one of our senior commanders went to another meeting and just they threw a fit about the situation and they're trying to move people and we're just a small piece of a big pie.
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Greg Crosby: So he comes back and we're getting ready.
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Greg Crosby: I go out to my Humvee which is being driven by a sergeant I had a female soldier and I go out there and we're still prepping and getting ready to move out and make sure weapons are ready, all those things go out there and we're still prepping and getting ready to move out and make sure weapons are ready, all those things.
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Greg Crosby: And my friend was very emotional about the situation and so I sat down in the vehicle where I would be the A driver and the gunner position for this going up, and we prayed together and I did my best to calm her down and I said you need to go get some rest and just move on, okay?
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Greg Crosby: And so she got out of the truck.
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Greg Crosby: There wasn't much for her to do and when she got out of the truck I started punching the dashboard.
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Greg Crosby: It was like Lord, why me?
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Greg Crosby: Why did you?
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Greg Crosby: You know this and all that.
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Greg Crosby: So I was feeling sorry for myself and angry, but portraying confidence to her.
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Greg Crosby: And I'm telling you the personal inside story here.
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Greg Crosby: And so, just as soon as I got done having my fit and questioning God about you know why am I in this situation?
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Greg Crosby: I was reminded of my mother and her chapter that she gave us over and over and over Psalms 91, verse 11, for he will order his angels to protect you in all you do.
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Greg Crosby: They will lift you up in their hands so you will not slip and fall on a stone.
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Greg Crosby: And I had a grease pencil where we wrote notes on the windshields for the nine-line medevacs and all that.
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Greg Crosby: And I flipped my little visor down and I wrote that verse across the visor in my Humvee.
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Greg Crosby: And at that moment I knew, no matter what happened, from that minute on, god would be protecting us.
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Greg Crosby: And you know what?
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Greg Crosby: At that point I didn't care who it was, I knew God would take care of us.
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Greg Crosby: That was a moment, and that's before I went into the combat zone.
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Greg Crosby: God reminded me ahead of time of his providence in everything we do as a Christian.
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Greg Crosby: And the fact for me is.
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Greg Crosby: I know he intervenes and takes care of me in my life and I can tell you that and that's a fact to me.
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Greg Crosby: That's a fact as sure as you and I are sitting here.
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Greg Crosby: One day I sat down and counted how many people were praying for Greg Crosby overseas.
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Greg Crosby: There were 200 people that I could think of who prayed for me every day while I was over there.
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Greg Crosby: Later on, on missions and convoys and stuff, I would jokingly tell the guys hey, if you want to be in the truck with a guy, I'm the guy.
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Greg Crosby: I got 200 people praying for me and there will be a lion trying to ride with me.
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Greg Crosby: Not like I was a driver, I'm just one of the dudes in the truck, didn't drive all the time or nothing, but I felt like my truck was a good place to be, no matter what occurred.
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Greg Crosby: And I'll say this too, just because somebody's praying for somebody doesn't mean they won't get killed Sometimes one of the complex Realities.
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Greg Crosby: And it took me years at least three years after I came home to accept it.
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Greg Crosby: There's no reconciling with that, because the devil's alive and well.
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Greg Crosby: Did you lose some of your buddies?
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Greg Crosby: Yes, sir, I lost a very close friend.
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Greg Crosby: My 15-year-old daughter is named after Army Sgt.
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Greg Crosby: Cari Anne Gasiewicz.
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Greg Crosby: Sergeant Gasiewicz gave her life on the battlefield within.
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Greg Crosby: She was literally two weeks from coming home.
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Ron Meyers: How did it?
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Ron Meyers: How has that affected you even to this day?
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Ron Meyers: How?
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Greg Crosby: has that affected you?
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Greg Crosby: Even to this day, I can accept what God has for us.
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Greg Crosby: I wasn't able to accept it for a few years.
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Ron Meyers: Wow, no wonder your faith is so strong.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, when you go through something like that there are no atheists in foxholes, no.
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Greg Crosby: In my small group at church there are things that people are dealing with and it'll come my turn to explain.
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Greg Crosby: I say, look, I'm kind of lucky because I've been in combat, and everybody laughs.
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Greg Crosby: I say I don't have to worry about that, about dying or that event.
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Greg Crosby: In the chow hall that day I carried a laminated picture of my family.
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Greg Crosby: I pulled it out of my pocket and looked at them and I said, lord, I have to get home because I've got to take care of these people.
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Greg Crosby: And the Holy Spirit said do you think I can take better care of them than you?
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Greg Crosby: You're lacking faith in God to think that I can do a better job of taking care of Susan and Savannah and Lily and Carrie Ann than I can.
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Greg Crosby: I can't do a better job than God.
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Greg Crosby: And he reminded me of that and I said okay, it's in your hands.
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Greg Crosby: And from that moment on I didn't have to worry about getting killed or even today I'm not worried about dying.
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Greg Crosby: I've done everything.
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Greg Crosby: I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing with respect to that, and so that's given me.
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Greg Crosby: That was a hard lesson that I learned early on and it's hard for a lot of people to grasp that level of freedom.
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Greg Crosby: You can't imagine what it would be like to tangle with somebody who has no fear of dying.
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Greg Crosby: The devil knows that we have to pray for protection from him and all.
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Greg Crosby: But if you are not worried about dying and as a Christian you shouldn't.
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Greg Crosby: We know how this war ends.
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Greg Crosby: We're fighting skirmishes.
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Greg Crosby: We know how this war ends.
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Greg Crosby: We're fighting skirmishes.
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Greg Crosby: We know how the war ends.
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Greg Crosby: The devil knows how it ends.
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Greg Crosby: That's why he's so hard at it trying to get people to change their minds.
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Greg Crosby: So what I want people to hear in this story is God's providence.
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Greg Crosby: God is the hero in that story.
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Greg Crosby: In my life I tell if you see me and you think, good, it is God that you're seeing, it is not Greg Crosby, it is God.
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Greg Crosby: That you see what I want you to understand God loves you.
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Greg Crosby: He absolutely loves you.
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Greg Crosby: John 3.16 tells us how he loves us.
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Ron Meyers: Greg, I'd like to ask all my guests.
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Ron Meyers: The title of the show is called Get the Hell Out of your Life.
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Ron Meyers: So, greg, how do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: Don't let it in.
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Greg Crosby: Don't let the hell in.
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Greg Crosby: All right, god has provided for us to keep Satan out of our lives.
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Greg Crosby: If he's in there, god will get him out.
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Greg Crosby: Don't let him in.
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Ron Meyers: As we go?
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Ron Meyers: Will you close us out?
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Ron Meyers: Will you pray for the listeners?
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Greg Crosby: Father, I praise you for your provisions, Father.
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Greg Crosby: I praise you for the design of this universe, and then I think about me being born into an original sin, father, and you caring about me before I was ever conceived.
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Greg Crosby: You had a plan for me.
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Greg Crosby: I thank you for my parents, father, that you provided me with, brought me up and pointed me to you every day the way they lived.
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Greg Crosby: I thank you for my church family, father.
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Greg Crosby: I thank you for the things you have placed in my life, father.
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Greg Crosby: I thank you for the difficult places along that way I have been.
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Greg Crosby: That pointed me back to you, father.
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Greg Crosby: Father, I thank you for the blessing of being in a sweet spot in my life right now, father, where I just enjoying the work that you have for me and enjoying the relationships around me, lord, and the blessings that you pour into our life.
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Greg Crosby: I praise you for all those things, father.
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Greg Crosby: I hope and pray, father, that what we are sharing here today is a blessing and reaches right down into a person's heart that needs to hear what we're saying about you.
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Greg Crosby: Father, I pray that they will do whatever it takes to find their friend.
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Greg Crosby: I know there's somebody in their life that they know of that can help them along this path.
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Greg Crosby: Lord, I pray that we are encouraging and everything that is done here today brings honor and glory to your kingdom and for your kingdom's sake, in the precious, holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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Ron Meyers: When I return.
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Ron Meyers: Welcome back, listeners.
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Ron Meyers: I asked you before the break Are you ready for a miracle?
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Ron Meyers: Could a miracle?
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Ron Meyers: Would you like to have some peace in your life?
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Ron Meyers: Would you like to have some direction and get over the fear and the doubt and the anxiety, maybe even I have over 300 eyewitness accounts through my guests who got the hell out of their lives, and never in a church?
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Ron Meyers: And you think it's absolutely impossible?
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Ron Meyers: Well, I beg to differ.
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Ron Meyers: I've got the proof, I've got the witnesses.
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Ron Meyers: They got the hell out of their life when they made a decision that life had to change.
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Ron Meyers: They were not going to sit back anymore and take this negativity that was everywhere in their life.
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Ron Meyers: So they called out to Jesus, not knowing what to expect.
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Ron Meyers: But they got the best, because when the miracle takes place in your life, you are a new creation with a new heart, new desires.
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Ron Meyers: You now have a tutor, a teacher trainer, Jesus Himself , through the Holy Spirit, and when you get in touch with Jesus, things get good.
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Ron Meyers: I know, friends, I was one of those skeptic people.
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Ron Meyers: I got tired of church because they weren't telling me enough about Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: They were telling me all kinds of things I needed to do, just like that would really get me closer to Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: No, what gets me close to Jesus is understanding that he's already living inside of me.
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Ron Meyers: He can't get any closer.
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Ron Meyers: He just wants a day-to-day conversation, a relationship, some fun, and, yes, he lets us be ourselves.
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Ron Meyers: But he just wants us to be ourselves, be the person he created you and I to be, and nobody on this planet can get you to where you need to go other than Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: So I don't know what you've been told, I don't know what your fearful love about Jesus, but he's loving, he comes into your life and that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Ron Meyers: When you call out to Jesus, you get the best.
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Ron Meyers: I mean, imagine a friend God, the creator of the universe, that comes in and takes all your sins away, past, present and future.
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Ron Meyers: That's true, that's the gospel.
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Ron Meyers: And then he gives us a peace that surpasses understanding when the hell in our life just starts pouring itself in and trying to take us off the path to our destiny.
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Ron Meyers: And the other thing that Jesus does is begin that intimate personal relationship with him, whether you're reading his word or you are having a conversation with him over a cup of coffee, life gets good.
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Ron Meyers: You find out that what you've been missing in life is someone that actually believes in you, someone that actually loves you unconditionally.
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Ron Meyers: That means no conditions Someone that is for you and not against you.
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Ron Meyers: Now, friends, if you don't call that a miracle, I don't know what you could call it.
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Ron Meyers: I know I went through that, friends.
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Ron Meyers: I thought it was religion, I thought it was performing all these duties, I thought I needed a second blessing or a Holy Spirit dose coming down from the sky.
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Ron Meyers: But what I found out?
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Ron Meyers: When Jesus came into my heart.
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Ron Meyers: The gospel verified that we are complete and lack nothing.
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Ron Meyers: We are ready.
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Ron Meyers: We are free from guilt and condemnation, and now we are ready to live a life with peace, purpose and direction.
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Ron Meyers: So now my only question to you are you ready to receive your miracle?
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Ron Meyers: You know what to do.
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Speaker 5: Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation.
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Speaker 5: We want to encourage you today with God's promise to you.
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Speaker 5: It comes from the book of Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11.
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Speaker 5: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
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Speaker 5: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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Speaker 5: Plans to give you hope and a future.
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Speaker 5: That's God's promise to you when you choose to commit your plans and future to Him Now back to Ron, as we close today's chapter.
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Ron Meyers: Remember that miracle.
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Ron Meyers: Call upon the name of Jesus and you will be saved and life gets good.
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Ron Meyers: Friends, the first thing you're going to do is feel the guilt wash off of you because you're forgiven past, present and future that's right.
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Ron Meyers: That's the Bible.
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Ron Meyers: That's the finished works of Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: And future, that's right.
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Ron Meyers: That's the Bible, that's the finished works of Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: And then that intimate relationship with you talking to him, with you reading this word, your mind begins to be renewed.
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Ron Meyers: You have a new heart, you have new desires and soon you are ready to charge hell with a water pistol.
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Ron Meyers: So if you want the miracle of a new life, new desires, new thoughts, new peace, new understanding, call upon the name of Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: I'll be back next week with another inspirational show available on all your favorite podcast platforms.
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Ron Meyers: It's called Get the Hell Out of your Life.
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Ron Meyers: Until next time, this is Ron Myers, reminding you that I love you, Jesus loves you, and when you get the hell out of your life, life does get good.
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