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Barbershop Confessions: How Dallas Found Her Voice · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Speaker 1: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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Speaker 1: A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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Speaker 1: Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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Speaker 1: Now let's join our host, ron Myers.
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Speaker 1: The promoter.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you today.
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Ron Meyers: I'm excited about today's program the power of faith, the power of coming out of hiding.
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Ron Meyers: Did you ever play hide and seek as a child?
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Ron Meyers: Well, a lot of people are playing hide and seek right now in life.
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Ron Meyers: They're hiding from God.
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Ron Meyers: My guest was doing that in Spokane, Washington, but God was beginning to work in her life and then God told her to head to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: Why would she come here?
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Ron Meyers: Well, she's going to tell you, but what a story she has.
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Ron Meyers: We have become friends and she is just very well loved in this community.
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Ron Meyers: Dallas, welcome to the studios and tell us about you coming to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: This is exactly where God told us to come.
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Ron Meyers: So what is it, Dallas, that you are going to do here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Well, I have a pretty hard background but unfortunately it's very common how I grew up and what I've been through.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But the difference is God really used my career to save my life and through that I'm a barber.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I've owned and operated a barbershop in Spokane for the last number of years and through that, when I built it, I built it about me.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I built it so I could make a name for myself, so I could make a legacy.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But over the past couple of years God really broke that down and said I want to use this to help other people, not just to help you.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And over the past couple of years he's really just ripped my heart apart and shown me that we can use whatever we do for work to change the trajectory of not only our lives but the lives of everyone around us.
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Ron Meyers: So, dallas, what was life like before you met God?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: That's the thing Everyone always wants to know.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Well, what was it before God?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: There wasn't really a before God.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: He was always around.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: My past was more about what I really knew about him and meeting Jesus.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Right, god was always involved.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We were in and out of churches, I had praying grandparents, but that idea of the fear of God when I was growing up was a genuine fear.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Like I was terrified of him.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Because if we were showing up to church but then going home and the things that were happening behind closed doors was happening, how could God be good?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It didn't make any sense.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Abandonment is a huge thing.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: In my life I've been without my mother since about 18 months old and with my dad.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So being, you know, separated or left from my mom and then growing up with a single dad for quite some time, that was pretty abusive.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: When I was growing up there again, was that like well, is the father really good Cause I didn't have any, you're talking about the heavenly father.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I didn't have any visual of that in my real life, so I never thought of him as good.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I thought of him as someone to be afraid of, like if you do something wrong, a lightning bolt will come down, you know, and I grew up with a very strong work ethic, so it was always about working for him.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: What can I do for him to stay out of trouble, to be good?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Obviously, at some point that came to a shocking halt multiple times, just simply because we can't work for our salvation.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We can't do that.
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Ron Meyers: Right, that's, it's called grace, isn't it?
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Ron Meyers: Amen, amen.
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Ron Meyers: So were you a party girl.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I grew up in Helena, montana.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I ended up in Spokane, washington.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Because of how wild I was, it got to a point where my dad was on I believe his third wife and they, they just could not control me.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I think I was just about to turn 16 and you know, drinking and smoking and having sex and running away, and I just was doing all the things I could do and at one point my dad looked at me and said you look just like her.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: He was talking about my biological mom.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I was around the same age as her when they were really struggling.
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Ron Meyers: Was he?
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Ron Meyers: Did he mean that as a compliment or as a slap?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Absolutely not, it was, it was he was heartbroken because to him it was like this is happening again.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I'm sure, looking back, that he felt at fault, like why can't I, I couldn't do it with your mom, and now I can't help you, I can't change you, I can't fix you.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So there again was that God thought he can't fix me, so he'll leave me.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And it just pounded it back into my brain.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I came to Spokane because that's where my biological mom was, and he dropped me off on her doorstep and said well, you've been through this and now you're clean and sober, so maybe you'll be able to help her.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I felt utterly betrayed.
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Ron Meyers: Now Dallas.
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Ron Meyers: I've got to know you a little bit and you have a very serving heart.
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Ron Meyers: It seems like you are always doing something for someone else.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I mean at the end of the day this is always what I think about multiple times a day.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I am saved to serve Christ and others bottom line.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So what are the things that I can do on a daily basis to a show people who Jesus is and be, have the relational content with those same people to show them what he's done in my life?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We have to build a relationship and I can do that at the barbershop.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Ron Meyers: I think of my story when I was young and I was troubled, you know, wild and drugs and all the kind of things you were doing.
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Ron Meyers: When I began to follow Jesus, 99% of my family never believed that I really had a conversion.
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Ron Meyers: Did you deal with that?
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Ron Meyers: Did they say, oh, there she goes again in one of those phases?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: To be honest, I'm not sure, because I never really put a lot of importance on that.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I've always been that kind of girl that well, I don't care what anybody thinks, but inside I really did.
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Ron Meyers: And that is the point that I was getting to that there are people listening right now that they want to step over into the land of their destiny.
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Ron Meyers: They want to step over with God, but they're so worried about what others will say here's the best way that I can, I can think, to explain.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It is when I was walking out the church life right, that stereotypical conversion type of story that was really hard.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It was really hard and I fell away multiple times.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: The reason is because I didn't have a true, honest to goodness experience with Jesus.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: When that actually happened and I truly experienced him in my life and I met him, everything started to change.
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Ron Meyers: Tell us about that.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Well, I my life got a lot harder very quickly when I met Jesus.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But I had been working on my relationship with one of my sisters I'm the oldest of 13 and she was going to be preaching at this mega church in Spokane which I had, seven years prior, vowed to never walk into again.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I just had my son.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I was still really struggling with some postpartum depression, a ton of anxiety, and I was drinking heavily to try to combat that.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I'd been walking with God, opening my Bible a little bit, turning on a little worship music here and there again, but nothing major.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And anyway she invited me to service and I just went oh, I don't want to go.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But long story short, I ended up.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I made a commitment to her and that was part of my change in life.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I have to say things and then follow through hard things.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I said I'd go.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We were on the way there and I basically made one of those deals with God where I said you have to show up If I'm going to go in there.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I know you can.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I've read it in the Bible where people have said put the wool down, make it wet on top, dry on bottom.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I need it again.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I'm going to flip it over.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I want it wet on bottom, dry on top.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I said, god, I know you can do this and it has to be for me, it has to be personal.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I'm not just going to take a generalized sermon and say, yeah, that was for me, show up.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I mapped it out in my head.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I went right to the front of the church this is a big church and my anxiety is through the roof.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But I just wanted to focus on whoever was in front of me on the stage and nobody else.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So worship begins and I felt free there in worship I could feel the Holy spirit.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I knew I was safe and it was nice to feel the Holy spirit again.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We do worship and it's the church where you shake hands and say hi to your neighbor and anxiety lady.
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Speaker 1: I hate that.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I feel a tap on my shoulder and, oh man, this woman, you're Dallas, aren't you?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I said, yeah, oh man, I need to talk to you at the end of service.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So there I was for 45 minutes in peril.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You know, just I probably hurt her or her son or someone she knows.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We talked after service and this woman said she had met me 10 years prior and wasn't even from Spokane.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: She was on her way through and God stopped her on the freeway and told her to show up at that church.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: She didn't know why, but as soon as she heard me singing from four rows back, she knew that he had sent her there for me and she said Dallas, I know that you've been lost, but God sent me here to tell you that I still want to use your voice.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You used to sing and it's going to be different, but he still wants to use your voice.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: If you would just give him back your life.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And now here we are talking on a podcast.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Right, it's my voice, it's just in a different way.
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Ron Meyers: So this lady hears you in church singing, so you're a singer.
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Ron Meyers: I didn't know that.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah yeah.
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Ron Meyers: Oh, we'll have to talk about that later.
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Ron Meyers: God stopped her on the highway and told her to get to that church to see you.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It was pretty incredible.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And after having, you know, made this deal with him in the car, if you want my life and you really want a relationship with me, not just go to church, dallas.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Get your life together, dallas, because that's how it is, how it had always felt.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: No, I want a relationship with you, then show me that.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Wow, prove it to me and make it personal.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And boy did he make it personal.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I began to be part of this church life center and I got really involved.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But if I'm completely honest, as I said before, most people go oh, christian, so ticket to the perfect life?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Not true.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I wasn't at a place where I was fully surrendered.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I thought I was, but I wasn't there yet, right?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I began to walk with him, opening up my Bible, studying a lot more, trying to really form a relationship with him by spending time with Jesus.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But I was still drinking, I still had this anxiety, I still had severe depression.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I didn't have an answer.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: There wasn't.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You know, pray it away.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: That's not.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: That's not a thing.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Mental health is a big deal, especially in this day and age, and it is a hidden, hidden thing.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: People don't want to talk about it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So I started to get real about that stuff In May.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I'll be three years sober.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So there was a day in May where we went to my in-laws house and just being around groups of people like that were very uncomfortable for me and I began to drink, drank there, went home after we had people over, drank there I'm.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I don't even remember the night, but I'll tell you.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: The next morning I woke up and I pulled myself into the bathroom and I looked at my face in the mirror and I didn't know who she was and I just began to cry and to scream like audibly screaming out.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I'd been walking back with the Lord for about two years now and I just said, god, if I wanted to kill myself, if I can't kill myself, you keep stopping me from doing it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I'm trying to drink myself to sleep, I'm trying to you know, pills, whatever.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: If I can't kill myself, you have to kill my flesh, because it's all I can think about my, my son, my husband, everyone.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Would be so much better if I just wasn't here, if I wasn't a problem for all these people around me, like I'm doing what the world says God wants me to do, but it's not getting better.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So the only thing I could think to say out loud was if I can't kill myself, then you have to kill my flesh.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And it was so clear.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: He said your drinking isn't the problem, your problems are the problems.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So you have to put that alcohol down so we can go there together.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We'll never be able to go there if you won't stop numbing them.
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Ron Meyers: You know, dallas, you're talking to someone out there right now, listening A hundred percent.
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Ron Meyers: That is going through what you're going through.
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Ron Meyers: Yes, now you're like the lady that was on the interstate.
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Ron Meyers: He pulled you in here today to be on the mic to talk to the person that's listening.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You know, I can only tell people what Jesus has done for me.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Right, every person's situation is a little bit different, but at the end of the day, when I really sat down and thought about it, I said what is one good thing?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Name one good thing that alcohol does in my life?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: One, and at first, when I was still very manipulative about it, right, this is always the response that I get when I'm having this conversation with people.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Well, you know, it gives me a little bit of courage or it lubricates social situations.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Why in the world would I want to pay for something to do that for me when I know that I can do that on my own?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But it's going to take some work.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It is hard to get sober and to stay sober.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I promised God a year and now we're close to three and I won't lie, there's been mishaps in there.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But I will tell you, I have sat in the last three years and everybody, everybody in this world, has had a hard time the last three years with everything that's gone on socially, politically, economically.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But I have faced every single one of those things sober.
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Ron Meyers: I sense with you you don't really care what anybody thinks.
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Ron Meyers: And to compliment that, you're so transparent, you're so honest, and I think honesty is exactly what God wants nowadays.
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Ron Meyers: But a lot of people hide behind what they're doing, but they don't realize.
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Ron Meyers: God knows what you're doing, so why hide around?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Just come on come let's be.
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Ron Meyers: God knows what you're doing.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, 100%.
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Ron Meyers: Why hide around?
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Ron Meyers: Just come on, come, let's be honest, let's open up, let's have some dialogue.
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Ron Meyers: I try to tell people when you're really going into a problem and you really need God, the first thing you have to do is you've got to be honest, you've got to open up to God.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: He can't heal things that we are hiding.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: That's it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: No, we can't.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I mean, that's the thing I know.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: A lot of people see those scriptures in the Bible and they love to twist them up.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Well, if God already knows my prayers, then why should I pray?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Because this isn't about religion, this is about relationship.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: At the end of the day, if we're not willing to get in relationship with him, nothing will change.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I promise you that.
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Ron Meyers: Della.
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Ron Meyers: Something happened at Christmas City.
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Ron Meyers: I heard a lady say oh my goodness, that's that lady from TikTok.
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Ron Meyers: Oh Lord Meaning you.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You're pretty big on TikTok aren't you, I think, social media.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I have like 130,000 followers on social media.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Tiktok was a weird thing too.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I during COVID, I had downloaded it and just thought, oh, there's funny videos on here.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I didn't know anything about it and I found myself kind of using it to zone out, and I, you know, with alcohol, I noticed those behaviors and so I said, okay, God, delete this thing.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: And I did for a really long time and he called me back to it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: He said I did want you on social media, but I want you on it for me, not for you.
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Ron Meyers: So you're using social media, especially TikTok, for your platform.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Yeah, and I mean that's really all I do.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: When I started it was I don't, I don't pre-film, I don't do anything special.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: When the Holy Spirit sits on me and says I need you to share this, then I just turn it on you just do it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It's all raw and real.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: It's not.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You know, I wish it could be prettier and cooler, but that's not what I'm called to do.
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Ron Meyers: Don't ever wish that.
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Ron Meyers: Because this younger generation, they just want somebody to be real and you're real.
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Ron Meyers: So tell us this you have a connection with young people.
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Ron Meyers: What's on the heart of the young people?
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Ron Meyers: What are some of the situations you're hearing through social media that people are going through?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You would be shocked and really my audience is very strange on social media.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You would think, because of the way that I look, the stuff that I deal with, the way that I speak, that it would be a younger generation, but it's really not.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I have people from 18 to.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: There is a lady that is like one of my most hardcore followers and she's like 72 years old.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So people can see their lives in what I'm talking about, because all of us are dealing with the same things.
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Ron Meyers: Listeners, you mentioned of what she looked like.
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Ron Meyers: First of all, she's just a beautiful lady.
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Ron Meyers: But I do have to ask you this Is there anywhere except your neck and face?
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Ron Meyers: On your body you don't have a tattoo.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: The one thing I've always said is that I won't ever get my stomach tattooed.
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Ron Meyers: but pretty much everywhere else has artwork we need to quit conforming to what the world wants and start becoming who God says we are.
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Ron Meyers: So are you who God says you are?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I am progressing towards that every day.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: That's kind of the biggest thing that I try to remind myself and others.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We are not perfect.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: There was only one perfect man.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I will never be perfect, but if I'm progressing in my relationship with Jesus and allowing the Holy Spirit to move me and I'm not dragging him around, we're good.
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Ron Meyers: Well, we're almost out of time.
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Ron Meyers: How do people get to see some of those great videos on TikTok?
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Ron Meyers: How do they find you on TikTok?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: So TikTok and Instagram.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: My handle is the same, it's dallasthebarbernoel.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You can find me on Instagram or Dallas dot the barber, dot Noelle.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: All right, Noelle like yeah, noelle is my, it's my middle name.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: Yeah, and oh yeah.
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Ron Meyers: Some encouragement right now to somebody out there listening that needs to get the hell out of their life.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, what would you?
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Dallas Barbee Noel: tell them.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: You know, I know when you're struggling.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: When I was struggling, I wanted to hide all of it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I was so ashamed of all of it.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: But I can tell you and I will promise you that there are people that God has called to walk beside you.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: None of us were meant to do any of the stuff in life alone.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: If you look at Jesus, which he is the prime example, he had 12 amazing men around him all the time and they were a crazy bunch, and when they went out to do what they were called to do, they did it in pairs.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We are supposed to do life together, and that means the ugly stuff and the amazing stuff.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I promise that there is people that God has called to put directly into your life, to walk beside you.
19:32
Dallas Barbee Noel: I know for me, our ministry at Surrendered Studios that's what we're doing.
19:37
Dallas Barbee Noel: We're not just giving free haircuts and then saying good luck with your life.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: We are called to walk beside people who are still hurting, because I've been there.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: I know what it looks like and I am, through Christ, strong enough to go back into that junk with somebody else and I will sit there as long as it takes, until they're ready to jump out themselves.
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Ron Meyers: When I return.
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Ron Meyers: It's time to quit hiding from God.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your host, ron Myers.
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Speaker 1: Real stories, real struggles and real hope.
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Speaker 4: When God begins to draw us to Him, something really strange begins to happen.
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Speaker 4: We suddenly become completely aware of all the sin in our life.
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Speaker 4: My name is Mark and this is the Journey I want to encourage you today that, even though you may feel shame and guilt when you think about all the bad things you've done in your life, there is no need to try to hide from God.
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Speaker 4: He loves you and it's pointless anyway.
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Speaker 4: The Psalms tell us that God knew us before we were born, that he laid out all the days of our life.
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Speaker 4: In Psalm 139, david reminds us of God's perfect knowledge of man.
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Speaker 4: He says God knows our thoughts, the words we will speak, our comings and goings.
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Speaker 4: There is nowhere we can go to hide from him.
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Speaker 4: And yet comings and goings.
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Speaker 4: There is nowhere we can go to hide from him.
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Speaker 4: And yet, even though he knows everything we've ever done in our life or will do, he still loves us enough that he sent his only son, jesus, to die on a cross and pay the penalty for our sin so that we can be made clean and right with God.
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Speaker 4: It's only natural to feel guilty about our sin, but God loves us and he wants us to walk in the freedom he offers through a relationship with Jesus.
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Speaker 4: When you do, the guilt and the shame will eventually fade away.
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Speaker 4: So don't try to hide from God.
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Speaker 4: Instead, run to Him.
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Speaker 4: Here's today's refreshing word from Proverbs 3, verses 5-6.
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Speaker 4: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
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Speaker 4: In all your ways, acknowledge Him and he shall direct your paths.
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Speaker 1: You're tired of how you're living.
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Speaker 1: Well, change it.
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Speaker 1: You don't like where you're headed.
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Ron Meyers: My friends.
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Ron Meyers: Hide and seek.
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Ron Meyers: Did you play that as a child?
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Ron Meyers: I did.
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Ron Meyers: I loved it.
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Ron Meyers: A lot of us are playing hide and seek right now.
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Ron Meyers: We're hiding from God, but we don't want anybody to seek us because we're just wallowing in our own self-pity and we're sitting on a pity pot thinking that, as Dallas said, that we'd be better off not here.
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Ron Meyers: That's not true.
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Ron Meyers: I want to encourage you today that God is desiring you to quit playing hide and seek.
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Ron Meyers: He has had his arms open for you since the day you were born.
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Ron Meyers: He wants his children to come back into the family, to come back home to him so he can help you, he can heal you and minister to you no more hiding.
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Ron Meyers: He knows everything that's going on and I know some of you feel shame and you feel condemnation, but there is no shame, there is no condemnation in Christ.
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Ron Meyers: He is total forgiveness, past, present, in the future.
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Ron Meyers: So today is the day for you to quit playing hide and seek.
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Ron Meyers: Walk into the arms of your heavenly father and let him just love the hell out of you.
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Ron Meyers: And this is what will happen.
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Ron Meyers: It happened to Dallas, it happened to me, it happened to all my guests.
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Ron Meyers: Once we unite with Jesus, there's a transformation.
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Ron Meyers: Our sins are gone, the guilt is gone, and then the process of growing and renewing our mind, turning into the person we were created to be, new desires, new hopes and optimism comes into your life.
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Ron Meyers: You don't know all the answers, but you have the confidence and the trust that Jesus is going to take care of you.
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Ron Meyers: He will so.
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Ron Meyers: Today I want to encourage anybody playing hide and seek with God.
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Ron Meyers: Quit playing hide and seek.
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Ron Meyers: He knows what you're going through.
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Ron Meyers: He's got his arms open.
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Ron Meyers: Just walk into his arms and say Jesus, I am yours.
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Ron Meyers: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: Get on your knees and cry out to the Lord.
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Dallas Barbee Noel: He hears you right where you are.
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Ron Meyers: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: Well, yeah, replace it with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: 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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Speaker 4: You find out about this man by the name of Jesus, who went to the cross and gave his life so that we will have a life more abundantly.
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Speaker 4: And if you can receive that love, he will love that hell out of you.
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Speaker 1: You trust in him and you let him love the hell right out of you.
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Ron Meyers: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: Oh gosh, jesus, jesus, jesus Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
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Ron Meyers: No one comes to the Father except through him.
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Ron Meyers: So how do you get the hell out of your life?
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Ron Meyers: Record a voice memo and email it to me, ron, at the promoter dot org.
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Speaker 4: Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation.
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Speaker 4: We want to encourage you today with God's promise to you.
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Speaker 4: It comes from the book of Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11.
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Speaker 4: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
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Speaker 4: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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Speaker 4: Plans to give you hope and the future.
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Speaker 4: That's God's promise to you when you choose to commit your plans and future to him.
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Speaker 4: Now back to Ron.
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Ron Meyers: Well, friends, my time is up and I want to encourage you to take a trip yes, a trip to the island of tranquility.
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Ron Meyers: It's peaceful and restful.
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Ron Meyers: It's just you and Jesus, and you're opening up your heart with all your thoughts, your concerns, your anger, whatever it is that's on your heart.
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Ron Meyers: God wants to hear from you.
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Ron Meyers: Like I said earlier, he knows what you're going through.
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Ron Meyers: He just wants to love the hell out of you.
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Ron Meyers: If today's program has spoken to you, please share it with someone.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I'll see you next week.
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Ron Meyers: In the meantime, remember this I love you, Jesus loves you, and when you give Jesus your heart, you not only get the hell out of your life, life gets good.
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