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Shay Walters Story: God Meets You at Your Bottom When You're Ready to Rise · 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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  Ron Meyers: My guest today has a transformational story, one that well, she was set free from prison.
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  Ron Meyers: Shea Walters got involved with drugs addiction and ended up in prison, but her faith saw her through and today she is free, becoming the person God created her to be.
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  Ron Meyers: So let's take a listen to this amazing story.
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  Ron Meyers: Shea, what's your story?
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  Shay Walters: Okay, I'm originally from Ohio, but I'm married now, so I live in Parkersburg, west Virginia.
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  Shay Walters: I'm 31,.
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  Shay Walters: Happy home, mother of four.
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  Shay Walters: But I'm married now, so I live in Parkersburg, west Virginia.
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  Shay Walters: I'm 31.
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  Shay Walters: Happy home, mother of four, three that live with us.
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  Shay Walters: And yeah, we're living a good life right now, thank God.
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  Ron Meyers: But at one time you weren't living a good life, were you?
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  Shay Walters: So yeah, actually I struggled with addiction for about 10 years of my life prior to getting sober.
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  Shay Walters: You wouldn't know by looking at me today, but I'm also a nine-time felon and I spent a couple of years in prison in Ohio actually.
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  Shay Walters: So I think a lot of times with people that start with addiction, it doesn't start out, you know, it starts off as smaller things.
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  Shay Walters: So I like to really touch base about how you know I had a good home life growing up, but I had this personality of someone who was never afraid to try anything.
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  Shay Walters: I almost thought it was cool.
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  Shay Walters: That's how I found my identity was to be rebellious, outgoing life of the party.
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  Shay Walters: So it started off with drinking at get-togethers and then gradually with marijuana, and then I would be trying pills and just gradually I ended up intervening in drug use, whether that be pain pills or heroin or cocaine.
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  Shay Walters: I ended up a full-blown drug addict, you know, by 19 years old.
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  Ron Meyers: During this addiction time of your life, were there others in your life your family trying to pull you out of that addiction?
• 3:55
  Shay Walters: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Shay Walters: My mom was always my biggest fan, and my sister.
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  Shay Walters: It was really hard for my mom because I think she wanted to save me so much, but my saving had to come from God.
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  Shay Walters: No human could have helped me, no human could have made me see that life was worth living.
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  Shay Walters: And then, you know, drugs caused such a depression and such, you know, I didn't have any self-worth.
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  Shay Walters: But then it gets to the point where you don't even want to live, you don't even want to be saved.
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  Shay Walters: You know you're using the drugs just to kill the pain of what your life is like.
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  Shay Walters: So my mom would always try to help me.
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  Shay Walters: And then my sister, who's a year older than me and we were always very close growing up and she's never touched anything and she started researching enabling and what that meant.
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  Shay Walters: So she would start coaching my mom about not enabling me and every day she would tell her like, don't give Shay money.
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  Shay Walters: You know you can't do this, mom.
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  Shay Walters: I've been.
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  Shay Walters: She just researched everything she could until you know, my mom had to cut me off from that and every night she would message me before she went to bed and she would just say you know, are you alive?
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  Shay Walters: And I would say yes, and she would say if you want to go to treatment, please call me.
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  Shay Walters: And I would never call her.
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  Shay Walters: I never wanted to go.
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  Ron Meyers: So you are a full blown addict.
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  Ron Meyers: And then you have nine felony convictions.
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  Ron Meyers: Tell us about those.
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  Shay Walters: Yeah, so it was all.
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  Shay Walters: It was all drug related.
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  Shay Walters: It was nine felony drug charges.
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  Shay Walters: So eventually what happens is you can't hold a job down and you're sick without drugs.
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  Shay Walters: But then I would probably say almost every drug addict has sold drugs at some point.
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  Shay Walters: So then, just to support my own habit, I started selling drugs and pushing drugs and I was in Ohio.
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  Shay Walters: I was from a small town in Ohio but I'd go to a bigger city if I am home, and I just was from a small town in Ohio but I'd go to a bigger city if I am home.
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  Shay Walters: And I just was not a very smart criminal either, so I just kept getting in trouble with the law until eventually they were like you know, enough's enough, we've given you enough chances.
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  Shay Walters: And they sent me to prison.
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  Ron Meyers: So in prison, is that where you met God?
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  Shay Walters: I did so.
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  Shay Walters: I met a woman who would come into the jail and she would bring AA meetings in there and she ultimately became my sponsor.
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  Shay Walters: But she would come in there and she just had this light about her.
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  Shay Walters: You know, people that know, know Jesus, that know God, they have that joy that you know, that comes from within, and she was just very kind to me and she would tell me about.
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  Shay Walters: You know, she worked this program and she's been sober for 35 years.
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  Shay Walters: So I think just hearing her story gave me a little glimpse of hope that that maybe I could do this, you know.
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  Shay Walters: So I would start to pray, she would encourage me to pray and I'd start to pray and then somehow, through the process of working these steps, I was just so comforted by God.
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  Shay Walters: I remember I would be in the hole in the county jail and the verse that says God is close to the brokenhearted.
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  Shay Walters: I had it scribbled on my wall and I'd look at that while I cried every night, you know, and it's just me and God.
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  Shay Walters: And eventually I just had this peace about me that it was okay that I was heading to prison and it was okay Everything that I'd been through and I could have peace with God.
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  Shay Walters: No matter where I was at and I really really was okay the love of God enveloped me and I was just determined to turn my life around.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, I was just going to say and you beat me to it the love of God does something to us.
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  Ron Meyers: Once I found that love of God, I realized you know what.
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  Ron Meyers: I have a purpose.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm here for something.
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  Ron Meyers: Did you think things like that?
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  Shay Walters: Absolutely.
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  Shay Walters: Some of the women that I was in prison with still reach out to me.
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  Shay Walters: Whether they're sober or not doesn't matter, but they'll tell me little things.
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  Shay Walters: So in prison they have what they call a yard and you can go out there and you can walk laps or people play sports out there and they remember we would all be walking on the yard and they would be talking about you know, they can't wait to get out and get high.
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  Shay Walters: A lot of them still wanted to get high and live that life and they said I would be walking and I would say you guys can do that.
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  Shay Walters: I'm going to get out and I'm going to change the world.
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  Shay Walters: You know, and this is while I was still in prison and I like that's where you don't have anything physically or materialistically, where I didn't have physical freedom.
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  Shay Walters: You know what I mean.
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  Shay Walters: But he gave me freedom that comes from the inside and you really realize that's what it's about and that's the voice that I was trying to fill all those years with drugs or with people or with worldly things, and then I realized I don't have to have anything and I can still be okay if everything's right with my creator.
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  Ron Meyers: Shay, I believe there are people listening right now that cannot break the chains of addiction.
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  Ron Meyers: In fact, they probably want to overdose to die.
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell any person that right now is chained up with addiction?
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  Shay Walters: That God is a God of second chances and I think he gets so much enjoyment out of bringing people out of the pit and bringing them to just a rooftop of happiness.
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  Shay Walters: You know you really like to use the least likely person to turn their life around so you can go out and give your testimony to other people.
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  Ron Meyers: How long have you been sober?
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  Shay Walters: October I celebrated six years sober.
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  Ron Meyers: Congratulations.
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  Ron Meyers: That's a long time, six years.
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  Shay Walters: Yeah, just the beginning.
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  Ron Meyers: Is it a struggle every day?
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  Shay Walters: No, not anymore.
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  Shay Walters: No, absolutely not.
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  Shay Walters: It's hard to believe I ever lived like that, and it's crazy because there was a point in time where I couldn't imagine a day without getting high, and now I can't imagine a day high.
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  Ron Meyers: I love it.
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  Ron Meyers: I love the story of freedom, breaking the chains of addiction.
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  Shay Walters: I'm a firm believer that, no matter what it is that people go through that, you go through it to help others go through it.
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  Shay Walters: Right, so that means mine is addiction.
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  Shay Walters: And then you know, now, even if I'm having, you know, if my husband and I are going through stuff, or we're a blended family or you know anything like that, you know we can help other people with it.
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  Shay Walters: Whether it be, you know, people get divorced and they think that they can't be used in the kingdom of God, you know.
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  Shay Walters: Or people go through sexual abuse or physical abuse or mental health issues you know whatever it is.
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  Shay Walters: Or veterans, you know whatever it is that you've been through, that you've trudged through and came out on the other side.
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  Shay Walters: I believe that God wants to use it to bring him glory, you know, and then you can help other people and somehow, with helping other people, it brings healing to us as well.
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  Ron Meyers: Now you've got the microphone.
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  Ron Meyers: You know your mission, as you said, is that you want to change the world.
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  Ron Meyers: That's what you want to do.
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  Ron Meyers: You wanted that when you were in prison.
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  Ron Meyers: So, right now, what would you tell them?
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  Ron Meyers: Right now You're up on the stage, you're talking right to these people that are hurt, they're broken, they can't wait to have their next drug, but you've interrupted their life and they're going to hear something from you, shay.
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell them?
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  Shay Walters: It's so important for us to realize that we can recover.
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  Shay Walters: I think for the longest time I'd never met anybody that really got sober.
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  Shay Walters: I didn't believe that I could overcome this, you know, and then you get to a point where you can't imagine living the way you're living anymore.
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  Shay Walters: But you also can't imagine a life where you're sober.
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  Shay Walters: You know, and God can use that.
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  Shay Walters: And all it takes is that first step, that first step of surrender, saying you know, whether it be going to treatment or reaching out to someone else that's in recovery, and just saying I want to do this.
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  Shay Walters: That's a miracle right there to even have the thought of.
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  Shay Walters: I think I want to get sober, you know, because our minds can be so far gone that we don't even think we want help.
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  Shay Walters: We can't imagine a life where we're not using.
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  Shay Walters: And I also think it's really important that, as a woman, I speak to the moms out there, because I think we carry so much guilt for what we put our kids through and then that guilt keeps us from getting better.
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  Shay Walters: Even fathers, you know your guilt of what you put your children through, and my son today is such a good kid and I'm not saying that hasn't been a struggle.
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  Shay Walters: There's a long time where my sponsor would tell me that, no matter what my son said, to say I know you're right and I'm sorry.
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  Shay Walters: For a long time I just had to humble myself and do that, you know.
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  Shay Walters: But through all of this he's become a better person.
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  Shay Walters: My family loves me.
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  Shay Walters: They look to me for advice and a lot of people come to me for prayer.
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  Shay Walters: They love my prayers, they love my advice, and when they sit down with me, everything that they're saying to me I'm saying I've been there too.
• 10:54
  Shay Walters: I've been there too, so much to the point where they'll say, like I don't believe you were in prison, I don't believe that was me, you know.
• 11:02
  Shay Walters: And just to be a living example, and if I can do it, anybody can do it.
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  Shay Walters: Like I said, I was a nine-time felon.
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  Shay Walters: I was arrested probably 30 times and upon being booked into the county jail, they would immediately put me in segregation because nobody liked me, nobody wanted to be around me, and now I'm a pillar of my community.
• 11:19
  Shay Walters: We own a licensed behavioral health center and we get to help people every single day get sober.
• 11:22
  Ron Meyers: Wow, that's awesome.
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  Ron Meyers: Shay Walters her story from prison to purpose.
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  Ron Meyers: Shay, you're getting me fired up about going out there to do something.
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  Ron Meyers: I love it, I love your energy, I love your passion.
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  Ron Meyers: But somebody on the other end is saying oh well, God could never love me.
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  Ron Meyers: I've done too many bad things.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm just worthless, I'm hopeless.
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  Ron Meyers: A lot of people think that, Shay.
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  Shay Walters: I tell people all the time that I thought I had done such horrible things that if I can't forgive myself, if I hated myself so much, how could God forgive me?
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  Shay Walters: How could the King of Kings love me and forgive me?
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  Shay Walters: And he gave his life for us.
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  Shay Walters: There's nothing.
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  Shay Walters: We're not inventing any new sins.
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  Shay Walters: You know he knew what we were going to do before we ever did it, and his love covers all sin.
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  Shay Walters: He wants us to need him.
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  Shay Walters: He often he wants us to need him.
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  Shay Walters: He wants us to have to cry out to him and it's in that brokenness that he's able to pour into us.
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  Shay Walters: You know through those cracks in our soul that we need him so much.
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  Shay Walters: That's what he's yearning for.
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  Shay Walters: God comes where there's a need.
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  Shay Walters: So if you need him, he's going to meet you right where you're at.
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  Shay Walters: And his forgiveness it overpowers anything that our human minds could ever understand.
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  Shay Walters: It's just beyond our comprehension.
• 12:23
  Ron Meyers: God has allowed you to hit the bottom of your pit because that's the only way he's going to get your attention.
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  Ron Meyers: Most people that I know come to God after they hit bottom.
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  Shay Walters: Yep, I'm thankful for my bottom.
• 12:35
  Shay Walters: I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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  Shay Walters: I mean, I'm so thankful for my bottom because I look at you know, I don't look at church as a punishment.
• 12:42
  Shay Walters: I'm like what an honor, what an honor I get to go and spend time with God.
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  Shay Walters: What an honor I get to help people.
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  Shay Walters: What an honor I'm alive.
• 12:49
  Shay Walters: What an honor.
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  Shay Walters: Everything's just such an honor and I believe that, like, gratitude equals happiness, you know, and I'm so thankful about my life.
• 12:55
  Shay Walters: It makes it to where I'm able to enjoy it a lot more.
• 12:59
  Ron Meyers: So tell us some of the exciting things that you've been doing.
• 13:01
  Ron Meyers: I've noticed your Facebook page.
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  Ron Meyers: You have a lot of followers, so do you travel?
• 13:04
  Ron Meyers: How can people get in touch with you?
• 13:07
  Shay Walters: Yeah, so I have a Facebook page right now it's just called Shea Walters, but you'll see it says says for present of purpose.
• 13:13
  Shay Walters: You can get on there and you can reach out to me.
• 13:15
  Shay Walters: I'm here locally where we're from.
• 13:16
  Shay Walters: We just opened a year ago a behavioral health center and we have peer supporters, which are people that are in recovery, that help other people.
• 13:24
  Shay Walters: So we do a lot of that here and my husband and I, we do travel and we speak and we're very involved in our church, so we like to go and visit churches and pour into people that way as well.
• 13:32
  Shay Walters: I think it's really important to blend, you know, recovery into the church too, so people feel welcomed there, so cool.
• 13:39
  Shay Walters: So actually, I was the first felon ever hired at my local courthouse.
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  Shay Walters: So and ever hired at my local courthouse so I get to advocate for people there in Marietta Ohio and, yeah, we're just doing big things.
• 13:46
  Shay Walters: I have a million me and my husband have a million followers together on our social media platforms and we just get to talk about God and recovery and life and what a blessing it is.
• 13:55
  Ron Meyers: I imagine he raised a lot of guilt in your life and when he sets you on that path of freedom you become a very good promoter for the goodness of God.
• 14:03
  Shay Walters: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Shay Walters: He wants us to share our testimony and there's power in our testimony.
• 14:08
  Shay Walters: He wants us to share about his works in our life.
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  Shay Walters: You know that's what he wants us to do.
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  Shay Walters: He wants us to share the gospel and the miracles that he's performed.
• 14:16
  Shay Walters: How could God save me?
• 14:16
  Shay Walters: And I don't want to go out and tell everybody, you know, if you walk into church and you go in with a broken leg and you walk out with your leg, yeah, I don't want any other life.
• 14:31
  Shay Walters: I couldn't imagine a life where I'm not a seeker.
• 14:33
  Shay Walters: I enjoy it.
• 14:34
  Shay Walters: I enjoy.
• 14:34
  Shay Walters: I think there's levels to God.
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  Shay Walters: I mean, you know, I just want to keep growing with him and it's so much fun, I love him so much, I enjoy it so much, I really do.
• 14:42
  Ron Meyers: Shay Walters.
• 14:43
  Ron Meyers: How do you get the hell out of your life?
• 14:45
  Shay Walters: Surrender, I just just surrender, you know.
• 14:48
  Shay Walters: Stay in your word, hit your knees, pray, do the next right thing.
• 14:52
  Shay Walters: That's a good way to live.
• 14:53
  Shay Walters: Seek God and do the very next right thing.
• 14:55
  Shay Walters: Yeah, surrender, because there really is life after addiction isn't there, and there's a verse, and I'm not the best at quoting verses exactly, but it says his thoughts are abundantly higher than our thoughts, you know.
• 15:09
  Shay Walters: So, whatever it is, if I would have written down everything I wanted out of my life, I would have sold myself short, because he wants even more for us than we would ever feel comfortable asking him for.
• 15:18
  Shay Walters: You know.
• 15:19
  Ron Meyers: Now I would love for you to pray for the listeners out there.
• 15:24
  Shay Walters: Dear Heavenly Father, I just want to thank you so much for letting me to speak to these people.
• 15:28
  Shay Walters: God, I want to thank you so much for Ron, his podcast and what he's doing for your kingdom.
• 15:31
  Shay Walters: I ask you to touch every listener today, god I on his podcast on what he's doing for your kingdom.
• 15:34
  Shay Walters: I ask you to touch every listener today, god.
• 15:35
  Shay Walters: I ask you to plant a seed of hope in their hearts.
• 15:36
  Shay Walters: God, I ask you to break the chains of addiction and sorrow and depression and anxiety over their life.
• 15:40
  Shay Walters: I ask you to bring them out of darkness and into your light.
• 15:42
  Shay Walters: I ask you to send your angel family to their home.
• 15:44
  Shay Walters: I ask you to use them, god, and bring blessings into their house, help them to be better mothers and fathers and grandparents, and help them to be seekers of you.
• 15:52
  Shay Walters: We just thank you for every single day that you give us.
• 15:54
  Shay Walters: We thank you for the breath in our lungs.
• 15:55
  Shay Walters: Thank you for everything.
• 16:03
  Ron Meyers: In Jesus' name we pray Amen.
• 16:04
  Ron Meyers: Friends, when I return, I want to share why it's so important to live a faith-filled life.
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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: In everyone's life there may be fear, worries, anxiety over issues of all kinds.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe addictions or bad choices have created an unbelievable amount of drama in your life or family.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Mark and this is the Journey.
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  Speaker 4: Today, I want to encourage you that if you find yourself in a situation where you don't know what to do, you have God's promise in His Word that he will help you.
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  Speaker 4: Back in the late 90s, after 10 years of marriage, I found myself making some really bad choices that caused my wife at the time to file for divorce.
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  Speaker 4: The Lord had been working on me before that, so it wasn't really a surprise.
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  Speaker 4: But suddenly my eyes were opened to the reality of my reality and I gave my life to Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: I had messed it up and knew that if I was going to do this Christian walk, I would need God's help.
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  Speaker 4: In Isaiah, chapter 41, god is speaking to Jacob and I believe he says to us also you are my servant, whom I have chosen.
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  Speaker 4: I have chosen you and not cast you off.
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  Speaker 4: Fear not, for I am with you.
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  Speaker 4: Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
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  Speaker 4: I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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  Speaker 4: There have been many times in my life that God has taken hold of my hand and led me through unbelievable challenges, and he'll do the same for you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: You have his promise where he says For I, the Lord, your God, hold your right hand.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: It is I who say to you fear not, I am the one who helps you.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Here's another refreshing word from 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17.
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  Speaker 5: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
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  Speaker 5: Old things have passed away.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Behold, all things have become new.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: You're tired of how you're living.
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  Speaker 5: We'll change it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: You don't like where you're headed?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Rearrange it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: You're sick of being let down and you want to turn your life around If you want to start living right.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Get the hell out of your life.
• 18:31
  Ron Meyers: Get the hell out of your life.
• 18:33
  Ron Meyers: Welcome back listeners.
• 18:35
  Ron Meyers: You know, right now we are living in a world that just seems topsy-turvy.
• 18:39
  Ron Meyers: Everything is going backwards.
• 18:41
  Ron Meyers: What was good at one time is becoming bad.
• 18:43
  Ron Meyers: What was bad at one time is now good.
• 18:46
  Ron Meyers: It puts us in the crosshairs of all these different views.
• 18:49
  Ron Meyers: And what do you do?
• 18:50
  Ron Meyers: You believe in God, and then you talk to someone that says, well, there's no such thing as God, and what you need to do is you have to have an unshakable faith in God and you have to have an unshakable faith in believing God.
• 19:04
  Ron Meyers: I want to give you a little backstory of how I have so much faith today and it's opened so many doors and really keeps peace in my life.
• 19:16
  Ron Meyers: It started all the way back in middle school.
• 19:18
  Ron Meyers: You know, middle school it's a jungle, a wild, unforgiving place.
• 19:22
  Ron Meyers: And there I was, ronnie Scrawny, kid Myers, with my hand-me-down clothes and dorky black horn-rimmed glasses.
• 19:31
  Ron Meyers: I was the prey of the bullies.
• 19:33
  Ron Meyers: Every day felt like a battle.
• 19:35
  Ron Meyers: Books would hit the floor as the bullies knocked them out of my hand, and one day some bully shoved me into a locker and whispered that no one liked me and that they were going to beat me up after school.
• 19:50
  Ron Meyers: Well, I didn't cry at school.
• 19:53
  Ron Meyers: No, I saved those tears for the sanctuary of my room, where I'd sit on my bed hard, heavy, wondering if anyone would ever see me.
• 20:04
  Ron Meyers: You wonder, god, hey, is anybody up there?
• 20:07
  Ron Meyers: Am I just a loser or do you have a plan for me?
• 20:11
  Ron Meyers: But I had a potential stirring inside of me.
• 20:14
  Ron Meyers: I was a dreamer.
• 20:15
  Ron Meyers: I was having these dreams and I just had a peace that things would be okay.
• 20:20
  Ron Meyers: I didn't have the words then, but what I was really desperate for, looking back, was worth Worth.
• 20:28
  Ron Meyers: That wasn't tied to the labels that others placed on me.
• 20:31
  Ron Meyers: I was looking for acceptance, and I was not accepted in that school.
• 20:36
  Ron Meyers: And one fateful day, after a punch that knocked the wind from my lungs, I found myself in the school bathroom, locked away from the world.
• 20:46
  Ron Meyers: In that moment I whispered a vow to myself Someday they're going to wish they treated me differently.
• 20:53
  Ron Meyers: Now.
• 20:53
  Ron Meyers: It wasn't a cry for revenge.
• 20:55
  Ron Meyers: It was a declaration of resilience.
• 20:58
  Ron Meyers: I was going to show them they were wrong.
• 21:01
  Ron Meyers: God had a plan for me.
• 21:02
  Ron Meyers: I didn't even really know God then, but it was beginning to work in my life.
• 21:06
  Ron Meyers: That day I made a choice.
• 21:08
  Ron Meyers: I wouldn't remain powerless any longer.
• 21:11
  Ron Meyers: If strength was revered, I would become strong.
• 21:13
  Ron Meyers: If wealth was admired, I'd would become strong.
• 21:15
  Ron Meyers: If wealth was admired, I'd find a way to achieve it.
• 21:18
  Ron Meyers: If success was worshiped, I would chase it with relentless fervor.
• 21:22
  Ron Meyers: But here's the paradox I've come to realize In chasing all of that, I was still searching for something else Acceptance, not from the world, not from those who labeled me, not from my parents, but from something greater God, the creator of the universe.
• 21:44
  Ron Meyers: You see, god doesn't care about the labels that others put on us.
• 21:48
  Ron Meyers: He wants you and I to know that he loves us so much that he sent his son, jesus.
• 21:54
  Ron Meyers: When we trust him with our life, we are fully accepted.
• 21:59
  Ron Meyers: We are free and forgiven and we have a grace that is a power that will take us to places that only God knows.
• 22:07
  Ron Meyers: So if any one of you out there is feeling lost in the jungle of life, remember this your worth isn't defined by the opinions or the acceptance of others.
• 22:18
  Ron Meyers: You stand tall, you embrace your journey and know that you are loved just as you are.
• 22:24
  Ron Meyers: If Jesus is for you, who cares if the whole world is against you, because you have eternal life with the King of all kings.
• 22:34
  Ron Meyers: How do you get the hell out of your life?
• 22:38
  Shay Walters: Get on your knees and cry out to the Lord.
• 22:40
  Shay Walters: He hears you, right where you are.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: How do you get the hell out of your life?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Well, you replace it with Jesus, we got to be born again, born of the Spirit, and that's by trusting Jesus Christ, turning from our sins and trusting Jesus.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: 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.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: And if you can receive that love, he will love that hell out of you.
• 23:04
  Shay Walters: You trust in him and you let him love the hell right out of you.
• 23:07
  Shay Walters: How?
• 23:08
  Ron Meyers: do you get the hell out of your life?
• 23:09
  Ron Meyers: Oh gosh, jesus, jesus.
• 23:12
  Shay Walters: Jesus, jesus, jesus, jesus, jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
• 23:16
  Shay Walters: No one comes to the Father except through him.
• 23:19
  Ron Meyers: So how do you get the hell out of your life?
• 23:22
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• 23:34
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• 23:38
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• 23:59
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• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Ron.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: We'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's show.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Ron will be back in a moment to wrap up today's show.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Are you searching for meaning, Struggling through life's challenges?
• 24:18
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• 24:24
  Speaker 4: One man's journey from failure and despair to hope and purpose unfolds Through childhood struggles, abandonment, bankruptcy and hopelessness.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Ron encountered Jesus and everything changed.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: The Promoter isn't just a story.
• 24:49
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• 24:56
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• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Jesus, you have all the answers.
• 25:16
  Ron Meyers: Well, my time is up, and, listeners, I want to leave you with a power thought for this week.
• 25:21
  Ron Meyers: You are never alone In times of doubt and fear.
• 25:26
  Ron Meyers: Remember that Jesus is always by your side.
• 25:30
  Ron Meyers: You are never alone in your journey.
• 25:37
  Ron Meyers: Jesus will guide you, support you and remind you of the incredible destiny he has for you.
• 25:41
  Ron Meyers: Your unshakable faith in the truth and the trust of Jesus will get you through and, as your faith grows, you soon will be able to look at people and just say man, they need to get the hell out of their life.
• 25:56
  Ron Meyers: Friends, this is our time.
• 25:59
  Ron Meyers: We need to stand tall, embrace our destiny and walk into the person that God has created us to be.
• 26:08
  Ron Meyers: I'll be back next week with another great episode and please share this program with your friends.
• 26:14
  Ron Meyers: It's on any podcast platform they listen to and it's called Get the Hell Out of your Life.
• 26:21
  Ron Meyers: Until next week, this is Ron Myers reminding you that I love you, jesus loves you, and when you give Jesus your heart, your faith will grow into an unshakable faith.
• 26:44
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• 26:48
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• 26:59
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• 27:03
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• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and if you would like to listen to previous episodes, click on the podcast tab at thepromoterorg.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Join us next week for another edition of Get the Hell Out of your Life Real stories, real struggles and real hope.
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