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God Is Not Finished With You · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Announcer: It's time now to get the Hell Out of Your Life, a weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope now.
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Announcer: Let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends.
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Ron Meyers: It is so good to be with you.
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Ron Meyers: Today I want to take you on a little different journey.
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Ron Meyers: I recently had the privilege of sitting on the other side of the microphone with my good friend John Martin on his podcast, Road to Redemption.
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Ron Meyers: Usually I'm the one chasing the stories.
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Ron Meyers: This time John asked me to tell mine.
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Ron Meyers: We talked about the good, the bad, the mistakes, the miracles, and those moments when Jesus reminded me that he wasn't finished with me yet.
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Ron Meyers: And maybe that's what somebody listening today needs to hear.
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Ron Meyers: God isn't finished with you either.
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Ron Meyers: Here's my conversation with John Martin on the Road to Redemption.
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John Martin: Welcome, friends, to Road to Redemption.
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John Martin: I'm John Martin, your host, and excited to be back with a good friend from Mississippi, Ron Myers.
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Ron Meyers: Ron, it's so good to be over here, John.
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Ron Meyers: I've heard so many good things about the Road to Redemption.
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Ron Meyers: I was honored when you asked me to come and visit with you for your podcast.
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John Martin: So you were a big part of this, you know.
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John Martin: We we got to know each other after Hurricane Katrina doing radio on the Gulf Coast.
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John Martin: And you you told me somewhere along the way, man, you should start a a show, you know.
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John Martin: And yeah, so you you were a part of this, and thank you for for encouraging me.
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Ron Meyers: Well, you're welcome.
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Ron Meyers: Iron sharpens iron.
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Ron Meyers: We encourage each other.
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Ron Meyers: And you know, God had when God has a plan, it's a perfect plan.
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John Martin: Yeah.
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John Martin: And we can't mess it up unless we just quit and we don't quit.
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John Martin: Well, well, I know Ron, you're with your show, you're always interviewing people, but I want to hear, and I know a lot of our listeners would like to hear, how did you come to know Jesus?
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John Martin: Give us your story.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I grew up in Iowa, Catholic family.
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Ron Meyers: I was the only one of seven children that went to a Catholic school.
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Ron Meyers: So I knew a little bit about Jesus, but I was also the odd one in the family.
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Ron Meyers: I was the black sheep of the family.
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Ron Meyers: And about 11 years old, I wanted to end my life.
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Ron Meyers: I was in my bedroom in the closet, and I just felt I don't want to live anymore.
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Ron Meyers: I'd be better off I wasn't here.
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Ron Meyers: And I put this old belt around my neck and put it up on the little clothes rack, and then I jumped off this little stool, and of course, the clothes rack fell on my head.
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Ron Meyers: And back in those days, it was bell bottom pants and those loud psychedelic shirts.
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Ron Meyers: But I heard the most beautiful voice, the most beautiful voice said, Ron, don't hurt yourself.
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Ron Meyers: I've got a plan for you.
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Ron Meyers: And the only reason I knew that was Jesus, because Sister Mary Catherine at the Catholic school told me that when Jesus speaks, you'll know his voice.
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Ron Meyers: And I knew, and something happened that day.
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Ron Meyers: I said, Wow, I have a plan.
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Ron Meyers: And that's been my driving force through all the adversity.
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Ron Meyers: Married at 18, leaving Iowa, going to the Air Force.
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Ron Meyers: My girlfriend got pregnant in an Iowa U Miriam.
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Ron Meyers: So I married her, went on, Mississippi, Biloxi, Keysler Air Force Base.
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Ron Meyers: Well, three years into our marriage, we had two children, but she seemed to like the next-door neighbor a little more than me.
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Ron Meyers: So she ran off at the neighbor and left me in a two-year-old and a one-year-old.
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Ron Meyers: And I'll never forget that night, it was a Friday night of the 13th.
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Ron Meyers: A two-year-old on the living room floor.
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Ron Meyers: I'm a one-year-old.
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Ron Meyers: And I looked up to the sky and said, Lord, what am I gonna do?
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Ron Meyers: And that same voice took me back to 11 years old.
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Ron Meyers: It's gonna be okay.
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Ron Meyers: So then I just knew I had a plan.
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Ron Meyers: But then again, I loved promoting things.
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Ron Meyers: I got out of the Air Force and I wanted to liven up the Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: It was kind of a boring place.
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Ron Meyers: So I had God, but yet I had my own ambition.
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Ron Meyers: So I'm doing this, and everything's going well, you know.
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Ron Meyers: Festivals, mud wrestling, bikini contests, selling lots of beer, concerts, and then about the 17th year of business, I said, Lord, I was in a hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ron Meyers: I just finished smoking a little joint.
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Ron Meyers: I looked up.
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Ron Meyers: I got oh, Charles, who's the Baptist preacher?
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Ron Meyers: Charles Stanton.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, he was on the air, and I looked up and I said, Lord, why do I feel like this?
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Ron Meyers: I'm doing well.
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Ron Meyers: I'm always in the you know, press and stuff, but I'm miserable.
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Ron Meyers: And I heard that beautiful voice again.
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Ron Meyers: Now that I have your attention, let me show you what you were created for.
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Ron Meyers: And I always tell people, I thank God I was in Atlanta because Atlanta is a six-hour drive to the coast in six hours.
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Ron Meyers: Already had my production company, how I was gonna be disassembling it, opening up Braun Meyer's ministries, didn't know what to do.
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Ron Meyers: All I wanted to do is find out more about Jesus and tell other people.
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Ron Meyers: So that was in 1999, and I never looked back.
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Ron Meyers: People thought I should go see a shrink, a psychiatrist, because I was gonna walk away from everything, but I was so happy.
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Ron Meyers: And then I felt the Lord say, He showed me this empty warehouse building.
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Ron Meyers: It was an empty warehouse building that I had been using for my sets for the beer, the beer booths and all the cosmetics, look for an event, but I couldn't afford it anymore.
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Ron Meyers: And I heard him say, make a church.
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Ron Meyers: So make church.
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Ron Meyers: And then I had this vision.
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Ron Meyers: So within seven days, I took all that material, unassembled, built a little church, and then I felt the Lord say, Now go to feed my sheep and the salvation army and invite people to come here on a Tuesday night.
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Ron Meyers: And I felt him say, make sure it's a Tuesday night because churches are gonna think you're a competitor if you go Sunday or Wednesday.
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Ron Meyers: So I did a Tuesday night, and I also felt the voice say, Don't tell people, don't tell people you they're gonna come on your own, on their own.
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Ron Meyers: And they did.
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Ron Meyers: They started coming and coming and coming for two years.
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Ron Meyers: We were in that church.
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Ron Meyers: But this has said something and so important that the listeners need to know there's sometimes in life that we're on a straight path.
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Ron Meyers: We know we're doing God's work, and then an opportunity may come your way that sure sounds good, sounds godly.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I had a church, Pastor Baptist Church.
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Ron Meyers: They came to me and they said, Listen, we love what you're doing in the warehouse, but I had no heat, no air.
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Ron Meyers: You could see rats up on the steel beams, you could hear people tinkle when they went to the restroom, but nobody cared because we were there for Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: They said, We have a church, an empty church across the street.
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Ron Meyers: We will let you use it, we'll pay all the bills.
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Ron Meyers: You have AC, you'll have heat, you'll have everything, a kitchen.
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Ron Meyers: So everybody's, hey man, thank you, Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: So we did that, and that's when I had an opportunity to begin getting into Christian radio.
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Ron Meyers: And as a volunteer, I had an afternoon radio show.
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Ron Meyers: And one day I put a song on and I said, Lord, because my shirt, that little church was I was losing attendance.
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Ron Meyers: Lord, why am I losing these people?
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Ron Meyers: And he said, Ron, I told you to build a church that it look like a church, act like a church, and smell like a church.
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Ron Meyers: And you, what do you do?
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Ron Meyers: You move into a church.
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Ron Meyers: And that lesson changed everything.
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Ron Meyers: I realized for me, my platform was the streets, was outside, the people that are gonna step foot into a church.
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Ron Meyers: They see the they get the heebie-jeebies, they see the church, but they'll come to an empty, abandoned warehouse or a street corner or something like that.
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Ron Meyers: So that's really and that's a long answer for a question when you meet Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: But it's a lot of us may have met Jesus our early in our life, but we kind of put it on the back side because we're still following our dreams.
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Ron Meyers: But I believe there's a time in everyone's life we've had to finally come and say this, and something's not right with my story.
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Ron Meyers: I'm not happy.
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Ron Meyers: And then Jesus comes in, he intervenes.
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Ron Meyers: And that's how I met you at the Christian radio station.
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Ron Meyers: You were coming in through Hurricane Katrina, updating our listeners on reports.
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Ron Meyers: And God has a plan.
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Ron Meyers: And I've just learned now by myself.
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Ron Meyers: I usually carry a rock, I don't have one here, but I will tell people by myself, I'm as dumb as this rock.
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Ron Meyers: But man, with Jesus, it's amazing the things that he does and what the ideas that he gives us.
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Ron Meyers: And you're the same thing, John.
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Ron Meyers: You want to reach out and speak life into people.
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Ron Meyers: You want people to understand that the worst is sometimes the best thing in their life because the messier your life is, the bigger the message when Jesus begins to sort it out.
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John Martin: Yeah.
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John Martin: A big part of what our mission with Road to Redemption is to give people hope.
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John Martin: This we're we're in a dying world and the US, the Western world, we were talking about this earlier.
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John Martin: Very walks around and kind of says things are great, but things really aren't great.
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John Martin: I mean, people have serious trials and things they're walking through, and they need hope.
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John Martin: And there's a lot of depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide, and everybody's walking around.
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John Martin: Oh, everything, you know.
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John Martin: And we want to provide people hope.
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John Martin: And I know you do too.
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John Martin: So talk to our listeners a little bit about that, Ron.
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Ron Meyers: I'll say to your listeners that I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people.
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Ron Meyers: I chase God stories, and I've I've interviewed the worst of the worst, the worst, that if you they thought there was no hope until they called upon the name of Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: And that sometimes, as I told a friend of yours outside, some people aren't ready to meet Jesus because they haven't had enough hell in their life.
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Ron Meyers: But once we get at the end of our rope, once we say we can't look at the world, we can't look at the politicians, we can't look at the denominations, we have to look at our life and say, I don't like what I'm doing.
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Ron Meyers: I don't like how I feel.
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Ron Meyers: And then you go and say, you go to your niece or however you do, there's not a formula.
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Ron Meyers: You just say, Lord, I can't do this anymore.
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Ron Meyers: I need you, I need you change my life, change my heart, and that's when it will take place.
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Ron Meyers: I have the proof, I have the evidence, I have the stories.
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Ron Meyers: 99% of hundreds, 300 guests I've interviewed never met Jesus at church.
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Ron Meyers: They met Jesus at the end of themselves.
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Ron Meyers: Did some of them stumble in that?
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Ron Meyers: Oh, yeah, we all make mistakes and we stumble, but it just makes us more determined that we can't get through this world on our own.
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Ron Meyers: And thank God for grace, because God does never, he's not walking around with a clipboard trying to grade our behavior every day.
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Ron Meyers: He wants us to trust in the spirit, lives in us and be led by the spirit and walk by faith, not by sight.
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Ron Meyers: See, this is what a lot of the listeners, and you probably are like this like me.
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Ron Meyers: I tell a lot of my listeners, I believe in them more than they believe in themselves.
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Ron Meyers: And if people really understood that they're wonderfully, fearfully made you just are so awesome in the eyes of God and Jesus that you have something that nobody else has in your hand.
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Ron Meyers: See that fingerprint?
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Ron Meyers: There's only one fingerprint.
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Ron Meyers: All of us have one.
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Ron Meyers: It proves we're an original, we're not a copy, we're a one of a kind, and all of us have something to give to this world.
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Ron Meyers: And my question to a lot of people if you don't become you, who will?
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Ron Meyers: See, a lot of reason a lot of people need hope because they're not themselves.
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Ron Meyers: They're trying to be who their parents told them to be, or they're trying to be who the boss told them to be.
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Ron Meyers: And Jesus says, No, come to me as you are.
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Ron Meyers: See, Jesus wants us to be ourselves, bring out the gifts and the talents and the skills that He's placed inside of us.
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Ron Meyers: You know, I could say that I want to be a uh a singer.
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Ron Meyers: I could take all the singing lessons from the greatest voice teachers in the world and I'll never sing.
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Ron Meyers: I'll scare people away.
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Ron Meyers: But when I can use encouragement or love and hope, God just magnifies that.
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Ron Meyers: You know, they told John Wesley said one time, how do you draw these crowds?
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Ron Meyers: And he says, I set myself on fire and people come watch me burn.
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Ron Meyers: See, Jesus wants to put this fire in us of because when we understand our purpose and we understand that no matter how many stupid things we've done with our life, we're not disqualified.
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Ron Meyers: We can't lose our salvation.
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Ron Meyers: I don't I don't book, I don't see anywhere.
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Ron Meyers: We are there, we make mistakes, but thank God we're still loved.
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Ron Meyers: In fact, the more mistakes we've made, the Bible says where sin abounds, grace abounds much more.
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Ron Meyers: He's with the ones, you know.
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Ron Meyers: Someone said the other day, well, asked me, they said, Well, what about these people that go to church and then all of a sudden they get back on drugs or they do this?
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Ron Meyers: You can't say God is happy with that.
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Ron Meyers: I said, God's gonna discard us because we have a trouble or we have an addiction.
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Ron Meyers: No, he's never with us more.
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Ron Meyers: He's gonna be, he's holding us even closer than he was before because he knows he hurts when we hurt.
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Ron Meyers: And that's why we need to walk with the Spirit and just let him lead us.
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Ron Meyers: You know, and when when you're by yourself, listeners, I have every day my coffee with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Be open, be honest, be transparent, and then just let Jesus do what he does best.
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Ron Meyers: Minister to you and love the hell out of your life.
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Ron Meyers: That's the name of your show.
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Ron Meyers: Get the hell out of your life.
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Ron Meyers: Get the hell out of your life.
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Ron Meyers: It's a funny, it's a funny name, but it is so true.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah.
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Ron Meyers: Because you it's the plan words, because when Christ comes in, you literally get the hell out of your life.
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Ron Meyers: You are safe.
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Ron Meyers: But when you can get the hell, the the anger, the bitterness, the unforgiveness, and when you can eliminate that, you know, I tell people with Jesus, everything I thought I was gonna do in my life, I'm not doing.
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Ron Meyers: And everything I'm doing in life I never knew I could do, I'm doing.
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Ron Meyers: And it's so fun.
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Ron Meyers: See, that's what really what they want, John.
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Ron Meyers: They want to tune into you, they want to tune into me and all these other people because they want hope again.
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Ron Meyers: They want to know they're gonna be okay.
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Ron Meyers: Well, you have God's word on that, you will be okay.
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John Martin: We do, and I I think too, um, we were talking about this earlier.
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John Martin: What people need is is human connection.
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John Martin: Yeah, I really see a revival coming, you know, in this nation.
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John Martin: Uh, people want to connect with others, connect, they're gonna connect with Jesus.
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John Martin: And it's gonna be a great revival.
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Ron Meyers: I think we're seeing the beginning of that right now, all over the place.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, and I was having a wedding in New Orleans, I walked in, and it was a young couple, and every type of person was in that audience: black, white, gay, and straight, transgender, and I felt the Lord say, This is what my church should look like.
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Ron Meyers: See, we qualify people before they can come in the door, but people need to hear about Jesus, they don't need to hear it.
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Ron Meyers: But if you know Jesus, he can take care of the rest.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes, well, you can't come into my church, you know, you you wear tattoos, or you might stay in our carpet, it's brand new carpeting, you don't have shoes.
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Ron Meyers: But man, uh, we have to see the souls just like somebody in my life somewhere, I don't know who it was, but told me sometimes that you know, God loves you, and no matter how many times you wanted to hurt yourself, he had a plan for you.
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Ron Meyers: And that's what we have to remember.
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Ron Meyers: This is a messy world, it is messy, and people don't like us of a political party or something like that.
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Ron Meyers: And another advice is I tell people is a lot of you people that have a heart for hurting people, take a break from inviting these people to church because they're tired of hearing these invitations.
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Ron Meyers: Share your story, tell them what Jesus did for you.
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Ron Meyers: You know, we used to call it in network marketing third-party validation.
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Ron Meyers: I just want to know what Jesus did with you, Ron.
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Ron Meyers: I don't want to know the history lesson.
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Ron Meyers: See, a lot of people know Jesus, but I've experienced Jesus two totally different things.
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Ron Meyers: Yes, that's why nobody can argue with me about when you come about Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Hey, I've experienced, and don't you tell me some things that he's gonna do or he's not gonna do.
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Ron Meyers: He is for us, he's not against us.
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Ron Meyers: He wants you to get where, again, going back to the talents, skills, and abilities.
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Ron Meyers: Somebody out there like you, look at this.
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Ron Meyers: You you you've been a successful realtor, but you've also had that personal connection with people.
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Ron Meyers: You're you're a happy guy, you're you're very cordial, and people want to talk to you.
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Ron Meyers: There's a lot of people that out there right now, they just need a friend.
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John Martin: Yeah, and the best friend is Jesus.
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John Martin: They just want someone to be their friend and listen to them.
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John Martin: And I I just found just offering to pray for people has been so impactful, and and that's a big part of what we're doing, just praying for people out and about.
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Ron Meyers: And see, and I think that the important thing to when people like us, what we do like this.
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Ron Meyers: People listening, we did not go to school to do this, we didn't go to college, we don't carry a degree with us, we don't have all these seminaries, we're not ordained, or maybe we are ordained.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus is working in us and through us.
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Ron Meyers: If you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice, right?
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Ron Meyers: You squeeze a lemon, you get lemonade.
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Ron Meyers: Well, when we get squeezed, Jesus should come out, but sometimes everything else comes out but Jesus.
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John Martin: Yeah, that's good.
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Ron Meyers: He is the truth, the way, the life, and no one can come to the Father without him.
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John Martin: I wanted to ask you before we move on a little bit, because I was looking on your website earlier about we were talking about revival.
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John Martin: I saw that video I'd never seen before where you were at the Brownsville Revival 2000, and the Pastor Kilpatrick, I guess he interviewed you up there.
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John Martin: That was really cool to watch.
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John Martin: But you you were there in that part of that revival for like five years.
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Ron Meyers: I was going every Friday night.
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Ron Meyers: I drove over every Friday night for two hours from Gulfport.
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ron Meyers: And I I saw, I saw with my own eyes the power of God and how that moved in the thousands of people.
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Ron Meyers: I didn't I and I said then, I said, This is incredible.
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Ron Meyers: I remember the first night I went to that revival.
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Ron Meyers: And see, when you have an experience like this, that's what we need to experience.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus, the first night I went there, I remember looking at my watch, and it was one o'clock in the morning, and I got there at seven.
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Ron Meyers: And I said, What's wrong with my watch?
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Ron Meyers: But when you get in the presence of Jesus and in the and in the worshiping, you know Jesus is there because he needed a minister.
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Ron Meyers: He was that was just that was the time I was just changing my whole life.
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Ron Meyers: And I said, This is the real deal.
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Ron Meyers: This is incredible.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, he called me up.
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Ron Meyers: He said, Well, all the ministers stand up.
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Ron Meyers: So probably 2,000 ministers, because the church was packed, 1,500 stood up, and he only called eight to the stage.
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Ron Meyers: And he said, You, you, and then he pointed right to me.
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Ron Meyers: And he said, You come up here.
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Ron Meyers: And what he whispered in my ear at the end, he said, I have a word for you.
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Ron Meyers: And this is just before I was getting ready to get into the radio business.
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Ron Meyers: You are a fisher of men, and God is getting ready to give you a brand new tackle box with brand new lures.
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Ron Meyers: And I said, Thank you, thank you, Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: And so if God was finished with us, you could be listening to this because you'd already be gone.
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Ron Meyers: But we're here because he's not finished with any of this.
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Ron Meyers: I have no idea what I'm doing tomorrow, let alone next year.
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Ron Meyers: But I don't need to know because he knows.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, and I'm willing to do that.
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Ron Meyers: And I'm willing, I'm willing to make mistakes.
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Ron Meyers: I'm willing to fail.
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Ron Meyers: I'm willing not to get the answers to the prayer, because after all, it's his will, not mine.
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Ron Meyers: And I'm open, I come to God open-handed, Lord, this is what I pray for, this is what I want.
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Ron Meyers: But I also accept that I may not get this because I want you to lead me where I need to be.
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Ron Meyers: And just like that radio state, the building I have, you know, the the company that you would come to that own that building when I would interview you through Katrina, they I leased it when they closed the radio station to go to a national signal.
20:10
Ron Meyers: There was no more local radio, so they leased it to me for my office.
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Ron Meyers: Well, they called me last year and they said, we're getting rid of all of our buildings across the country.
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Ron Meyers: And I've said, Oh my goodness, what am I gonna do?
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Ron Meyers: I don't have a place to go.
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Ron Meyers: No, Ron, we know what you're doing, we love what you're doing.
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Ron Meyers: Send us $100, and that building is yours, the land is yours, the tower is yours.
20:31
Ron Meyers: And it wasn't because for a hundred bucks, because they knew God knew that maybe moving to a new office and new things, maybe I don't know, maybe maybe the podcast would have ended.
20:45
Ron Meyers: Maybe I wouldn't have done it.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe I would have just retired on the sand destined island of happiness, but it wasn't.
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Ron Meyers: And you know, when you when God comes, he's never late, he's never early, but he's always on time.
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Ron Meyers: And all that did is make me want to charge hell with a water pill spel even more.
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John Martin: We always like my little chatter.
21:07
John Martin: No, I love it.
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John Martin: I love it.
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John Martin: That's what we wanted.
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John Martin: But we always like to, as we get towards the end, share, you know, as Ryan talked to you about you can give your life to Jesus right now.
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John Martin: Amen.
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John Martin: You just right now just call out to him and crowd to Jesus and say, Father, I'm a sinner, I'm in need of a savior.
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John Martin: I love you.
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John Martin: I just I give my life to you.
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John Martin: I surrender to you right now.
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John Martin: Come into my heart.
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John Martin: And amen.
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John Martin: God will do that right now as you pray.
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John Martin: Right now, and it's that simple.
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John Martin: And you are saved, and and he wants a personal relationship with you, and we believe many people will will give their life to Jesus right now.
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John Martin: And then once you've done that, it's just the beginning for you.
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John Martin: He doesn't You do this alone.
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John Martin: The primary way that He he talks to you and He He teaches you and builds that relationship is through the Bible.
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John Martin: He gave us this book.
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John Martin: This is our His manual for us.
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John Martin: And we encourage you to read this every day.
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John Martin: To get a Bible and read it.
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John Martin: Spend time with the Lord in the morning when you get up.
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John Martin: Read His Word.
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John Martin: We promise He'll speak to you.
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John Martin: And then you're not supposed to do this alone.
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John Martin: Get into a Christ-centered Bible-believing church and just go.
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John Martin: You're never going to find a perfect church.
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John Martin: You know, your church might even be something like Ron was doing on Tuesday night.
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John Martin: It just just go.
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John Martin: Get in that church and then get into a small group within the church, a group that you can do life with and make yourself vulnerable, make yourself accountable.
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John Martin: And we promise God is going to bless your life.
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John Martin: You're going to it's not going to be easy.
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John Martin: You'll still have trials, but you will have joy and peace in your relationship with the Lord.
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John Martin: Well, Ron, before we go, is there anything else that you would want to say that's on your heart?
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Ron Meyers: Well, just to add on what to you said, so many people know their past and they know the things they've done, and they're not pretty.
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Ron Meyers: But remember this the thief on the cross, he had like a what a two-minute confession, and Jesus says, Tonight you'll be with me in paradise.
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Ron Meyers: See, God isn't waiting for people that are all polished and perfect, because first of all, there are none in the there are none.
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Ron Meyers: But always remember, if you think that, man, I don't know, I'm too far gone, think about that thief on the cross, and then to put icing on top of the cake is the last words of Jesus to telesty.
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Ron Meyers: It is finished, the finished works of Christ.
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Ron Meyers: He did it all so we don't have to do anything.
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Ron Meyers: And even, even, even if circumstances, if you live in the jungle, you're out there in the sea doing offshore work.
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Ron Meyers: Even if you can't, and I agree with what you said, if you can't make it to church, you can't read that Bible every day.
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Ron Meyers: He will never leave you, he will never forsake you, he will never disown you.
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Ron Meyers: Go back to when I was 11.
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Ron Meyers: He knows your voice.
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Ron Meyers: You like you said, John, begin that dialogue.
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Ron Meyers: I tell people to start reading even the book of Proverbs.
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Ron Meyers: There's 31 Proverbs, one for every day.
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Ron Meyers: Read and then tell Jesus be open, be honest, transparent, don't hold anything back.
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Ron Meyers: And then one day at a time, and you'll be absolutely because you know we say that people want hope, but what goes along with that hope?
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Ron Meyers: But they people just want some peace in their mind.
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Ron Meyers: They want to be able to sleep, they want to quit taking the medication, they want to quit hiding from the world, they just want some peace.
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Ron Meyers: In Jesus, with Jesus, it's going to be okay.
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Ron Meyers: It really is.
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John Martin: He will provide that peace and just surrender your life to Jesus and trust in him, take it day by day.
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John Martin: Get some people around you, godly people to do life with.
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John Martin: You will be blessed.
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John Martin: We promise you.
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Ron Meyers: I hope something in that conversation spoke directly to you today.
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Ron Meyers: Life has taught me that redemption doesn't mean you have a perfect story.
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Ron Meyers: It means you have a savior who can take the broken pieces of your story and do something with them you never imagined.
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Ron Meyers: I've made mistakes, I've taken wrong turns, I've chased things I thought would make me happy.
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Ron Meyers: But through every season, Jesus kept reminding me, Ron, I have a plan for you.
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Ron Meyers: And friend, he has a plan for you too.
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Ron Meyers: Don't let your past convince you that your best days are behind you.
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Ron Meyers: Don't disqualify yourself because of what you have done or where you have been.
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Ron Meyers: Your mess may become the very message somebody else needs to hear.
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Ron Meyers: So here's Ron's next step.
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Ron Meyers: Tomorrow morning, before the noise of the world gets hold of you, have a conversation with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Be open, be honest, be transparent, and simply ask, Jesus, what do you want me to do with the rest of my story?
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Ron Meyers: And then listen.
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Ron Meyers: Remember, you were created on purpose for a purpose by a God who loves you more than you can imagine.
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Ron Meyers: Now go live like you believe it.
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Ron Meyers: And if God has brought you down your own road to redemption, I'd love to hear your story.
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Ron Meyers: Visit my website, thepromoter.org.
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Ron Meyers: In the meantime, remember this.
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Ron Meyers: I love you, Jesus loves you, and when you give Jesus your heart, you not only get the hell out of your life, but life begins to make sense.
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