Can a life-threatening diagnosis truly change everything? Join us as we explore the profound shifts in priorities that occur when fate confronts us with our own mortality. Through personal stories, we dive into the often-overlooked emptiness of material success and how aligning with our true passions and values can lead to lasting peace and fulfillment. Reflecting on past experiences in the world of promotions, we investigate why waiting for tragedy isn't the answer and how finding purpose through faith and forgiveness can transform our lives.
Ever felt disillusioned with institutionalized religion? You're not alone. This episode tackles the search for spiritual truth beyond traditional church settings, especially in the post-COVID-19 world. We delve into the joy and fulfillment that come from genuine acts of compassion and service, emphasizing the importance of realigning priorities towards faith and family. Plus, we celebrate the power of storytelling by inviting listeners to share their journeys of divine intervention and transformation, fostering a community filled with hope and faith. Tune in for an inspiring conversation that challenges conventional beliefs and encourages a direct, personal relationship with Jesus.
If you would like to share your story, click this link: https://thepromoter.org/story/
Thanks for Listening, and subscribe to hear a new episode each week!
Can a life-threatening diagnosis truly change everything? Join us as we explore the profound shifts in priorities that occur when fate confronts us with our own mortality. Through personal stories, we dive into the often-overlooked emptiness of material success and how aligning with our true passions and values can lead to lasting peace and fulfillment. Reflecting on past experiences in the world of promotions, we investigate why waiting for tragedy isn't the answer and how finding purpose through faith and forgiveness can transform our lives.
Ever felt disillusioned with institutionalized religion? You're not alone. This episode tackles the search for spiritual truth beyond traditional church settings, especially in the post-COVID-19 world. We delve into the joy and fulfillment that come from genuine acts of compassion and service, emphasizing the importance of realigning priorities towards faith and family. Plus, we celebrate the power of storytelling by inviting listeners to share their journeys of divine intervention and transformation, fostering a community filled with hope and faith. Tune in for an inspiring conversation that challenges conventional beliefs and encourages a direct, personal relationship with Jesus.
If you would like to share your story, click this link: https://thepromoter.org/story/
Thanks for Listening, and subscribe to hear a new episode each week!
Speaker 1:
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. Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope. Now let's join our host, ron Myers the promoter. Ron Myers, the promoter.
Speaker 2:
Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you today. Today it's a jambalaya show. I'm going to throw a lot of stuff in the pot for you to think about, for you to ponder on, because I believe we are living in a time where answers are critical to the survival, the fitness, the health, the prosperity of our lives. If you went to the doctor today and the doctor told you you only had a few months to live, how would your life change? I ask that question many times when I speak in front of a group and I will ask people to share their answers and they say, well, I would do this and I would do that. And, man, it's incredible the things that people would do if they knew they were going to die. But then I asked them well, why are you not doing them now? Why does it take something tragic in our life to make us realize that life is valuable, life is important? I asked myself years ago Lord, why did you send me here to earth? Why did you give me to the parents I have? Why do I do the things that I do? Why do I like what I like and I don't like what I don't like? You know, I didn't ask for all this. I didn't ask for all these struggles. I didn't ask to be a juvenile delinquent. I didn't ask to consume myself with money and greed and anything possible to fill the void.
Speaker 2:
In my early youth I thought that's what you do. I thought you stepped on people to get where you wanted to go. I thought that was the American dream. You work hard. You know, hey, if someone's in your way, you just push them out of the way and you go in front of the line to collect the reward, the money, the pay, whatever it is.
Speaker 2:
Friends, as I get older and I know a lot of you are the same way you realize that life is not always what we were taught as a young child. So how do you find life? How do you find what it is you're to do here? Why are you here? Ask yourself again If I knew I only had a little bit of time to live, what would I do different in my life? Would you mend those broken relationships? Would you call those people that you have had arguments with over many, many years and just try to have a reconciliation day? Who knows what people would do of telling you some awesome news by guest myself, editorials, commentary, whatever it takes to let you know that you are not an accident, that God placed you in this world with those parents, with the beautiful childhood you had or the crummy childhood you had. I don't understand sometimes, friends, and I don't try to figure it out anymore, because all that did is make me go goofy.
Speaker 2:
And I knew one thing in life that if I was going to ever enjoy peace and passion, I had to discover what it is that I liked, what was my passion. I was speaking to a group the other night at a dinner and they asked me why do you call yourself the promoter? And I said I have been promoting something my whole life, whether it be entertainment or people or places or things. I promote what I believe in. In return, every one of you in this room, I said, is a promoter. Have you went to a movie? You enjoyed the movie. How many people did you tell? What about a restaurant? What about some clothes or a new car or a new toy? You promoted whatever it was that affected your life. It made you feel good. And I think the promoting part was so important to me because as a young person, I found that if I could promote something like the swimsuit calendar competition that I had in many of my festivals or the awesome music from Cajun people in Louisiana that I could attract an audience. And I did, and I was addictive. I just seemed to be able to find what people wanted. Put it together, do some advertisement and the next thing you know there's people there having fun giving me their hard-earned money to buy a Coke or a hot dog or a beer, and everybody's having fun.
Speaker 2:
But as I got older in life, I thought, well, this isn't all it's cracked up to be. Even making money and having fun with all kinds of people around has its drawbacks, because you still have to live with yourself when you go to bed. You have to live with yourself when you wake up in the morning, and I was beginning to see things that I didn't really want to see. I didn't want to become a greedy person to where money was more important than friends. I didn't want to have to use, you know, a bikini contest or swimsuit calendars and awesome beer drinking to attract people and make money. I got tired of that.
Speaker 2:
What was missing is me, my purpose. I was becoming what I thought the world wanted me to become. I was becoming what I wanted to become. I wanted some lights, I wanted some interviews, I wanted it to be in the news in the newspaper. Well, I accomplished that.
Speaker 2:
But when I accomplished it, I didn't feel any better. I didn't run around my yard or my home giving myself high fives, looking in the mirror. No, I said, is this all there is to it? I've filled the desires. I've had to make a couple bucks, but I haven't filled the desire that's within my soul. And how do I find that?
Speaker 2:
I had dabbled with a little bit of religion, growing up in a Catholic school and then bouncing around from an assembly of God church to a Methodist church and then to a Baptist church. And then I finally found what I needed. I found hope. I found peace. No, not in attending a building and not by listening to somebody on TV. I found it by saying Jesus, if you're real, will you come and be in my heart, will you show me what I'm here for? And, friends, that's really what happened in 1998. That led me now to promote the goodness, the grace, the mercy, the love, the forgiveness of Jesus. You see, what I discovered that day is that when Jesus is the center of your life, then the dreams that he placed in there begin to come alive, the total forgiveness that he gives us when he enters our life. Well, we begin to forgive others, we start removing those boundaries we had with other people because we thought, well, they were wrong and we were right. Who knows God's right? And he says to love one another? So forgiveness flows out of you when Jesus is in the center of your life.
Speaker 2:
I started finding more joy and I found abundance. Abundance not necessarily talking about financial, but abundance of peace, abundance of friends, abundance of just making a difference in life. I knew, without knowing. I didn't know really where I was going, but I knew that God was with me and I knew my faith was going to take me to a level that I never knew anything. What would happen. I just had to walk by faith and not by sight and youth, feeling young and feeling important in life again and feeling like God really is going to use me. Friends, when you value your worth and when you understand that God did not make junk. It is really an incredible feeling. And then the visions and the dreams that I started having it was ideas of things that I had to complete before I leave this world and it gave me a fire, it gave me a desire, it gave me a passion. And as I meditated and prayed on these dreams and ideas and visions, things began changing in my life. Things were being built, things were being discovered and I was on my way to discovering who Ron Myers is.
Speaker 2:
Peace, peace from the center of my life with Jesus is the most essential thing that any of us can have. Center of my life with Jesus is the most essential thing that any of us can have, because if we can be in the middle of a storm, with a lightning, with a be in the middle of a hurricane let's say hurricane, but you can still have peace, that's only because Jesus is the center of your life. And then eternityternity is the thing that I think about that when I miss my loved ones and my grandparents, my mom and dad and all my friends and families and brothers and sisters will be together one day. I want that. So I say all this today because this show just wants to touch that one person today that thinks they want to throw in the towel. Maybe they just don't like all this stuff going on. They don't like the politics, they don't like the division in this country.
Speaker 2:
I've said many times on this show that if you could snap your fingers and everything in this world would be just like you wanted it, would you be happy then? I don't think so, because until you can get the hell out of your life, when you can get the hell of disappointment, of fear, of doubt, of unbelief, that's the freedom. That's the freedom that comes to those that trust in Jesus. See, jesus is either real or he isn't. So when I began that intimate, personal walking relationship with Jesus, there was something different. There was something different. I really didn't know, but I liked it.
Speaker 2:
And if you've listened to any amount of my interviews that I've had on this show, you will find that thousands of people discovered the same thing. Could it be that God sent you to this world to show off you, your talents, skills and abilities? And even though we are in a fallen world with evil all around us, god extends his hand from heaven to say hey, listen, I'm knocking at your heart and I would really like to come in and live with you. And if you trust me with your life, I will forgive your sins, I will give you a peace that surpasses all understanding and you will begin to discover what it is that you have that this world needs. Friends. It's that simple. It doesn't matter if you ever step in a church. It doesn't matter if you ever open the Bible. It does not matter what behavior you do. If you have Jesus in your heart, you are a eternal being. You will live with Jesus for eternity period. It's not based on your behavior, it's not based on what you do. It's based on what he did.
Speaker 2:
I know some are saying right now Ron, that's not what they taught me in church. I'm not talking about church. What really began my journey, heartfelt journey to find the answers, was partly of COVID. Where were the churches for the people? They closed down and now you can search the internet. Look at the amount of pastors that are being disgraced by things that were in their past and they have stepped down or they're stepping aside, and it's causing people out in the world to become cynical and see, I never wanted that God thing. Look at those people over there. Friends, you never look at the messenger. You never look at the messenger. I am a messenger, but I'm giving you a message. It's not about me, it's all about Jesus. See, sometimes, many times, we fall in love with the messenger, we fall in love with the social activity inside of our church.
Speaker 2:
Some of the most unhappy people that I have ever met are the ones that have been sitting in the pews of church for many, many years. Why are they unhappy? Because they are scared they're not doing the right things. They are scared that Jesus is mad at them. They are scared that they are going to get a bad report card. All the things that I just mentioned aren't even scriptural. Jesus is is free to each of us and with that is grace. His last words on the cross were it is finished, friends. He did everything so you and I can have that life on earth.
Speaker 2:
That maybe it doesn't always make sense, but it doesn't matter because we're going forward, we're moving up, we're doing the things that are new desires that are in our heart. We're doing things that are getting to excite us and there's not really. It's not about money, it's not about fame, it's not about prosperity. It's about you want to do it because you come alive. Someone told me last week, when I interviewed them, that the greatest feeling they ever had is when they were ministering to other people, that when they were talking and caring and loving and having compassion for somebody else. They came alive. They loved everything about it. It was addictive. I heard this with many of the volunteers that came on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. They came here to help, but they ended up getting blessed beyond words. Many of them returned every six months or once a year just to get a refill at that awesome feeling of being the hands and feet of Jesus.
Speaker 2:
Friends, we are living in a time now that you have to make some serious decisions. No, no, no. I'm not talking about Republican, I'm not talking about Democrat, I'm not talking about an independent. I'm talking about you. What if, today, you found out you only had a few months to live? Would you really care who was going to be president? Would you really care how much was in your 401k? No, you might be saying, wow, where has time gone? I've wasted time with my life. Wow, I need to spend more time with my family. I was in the office all the time making money, and now it's almost over and I don't even know my own family. Now it's almost over and I don't even know my own family. Friends, we've got to get our priorities right. You have to be assured in your heart that if you fell asleep tonight and your eyes never opened again, that you would be in eternity with Jesus and one day see this loud mouth at the paroder Say hey you, there you are, ron. I heard you on the radio. Friends, we are in this together. I buy time on radio.
Speaker 2:
I know sometimes people say you ought to have your head examined and I said, well, what good if you have the answers that you searched for so much in life? You discovered the answers, but you don't share them with anyone. You know the Bible says without vision, the people perish. We've lost the vision of individuality. We base our life on popular pop stars or the cultural preachers, the ones that get the most likes on YouTube or videos. You know, when I started these podcasts five years ago and radio shows, the Lord told me that still quiet voice it's not an audible voice in no uncertain terms.
Speaker 2:
It's not about the numbers that listen to this show. It's all about that one person. So every week when I record a new show, I am speaking to one person out there, one person that says I need to know if you're real God. I need to know if you really do have a plan for me, lord, give me a sign. I'm willing, I'm able and I'm ready to do what you want me to do. That is my goal each week.
Speaker 2:
You see, the first half of my life, the whole premise of being a promoter was having the most people ever attend an event. If I had that, well then I would make a lot of money. Well, god flipped that upside down for me when I started promoting Jesus. He says now, it's not about the numbers, ron, I would leave 99 for that one person. So when you go out there and you start promoting the goodness of my son Jesus, you speak to that one person and don't worry about likes, don't worry about getting applause from the audience. You trust me and I'll take care of the rest. And friends, that's my journey. I don't really know what I'm doing tomorrow. I have a general idea, but when I wake up I say Jesus, take the wheel, let's do some life, let's take a break. And when I come back I want to talk to you about God. Is giving you permission to question the things that you've heard over your life, to question who Jesus is to question? Why do you feel guilty and full of shame after you leave church?
Speaker 1:
after you leave church. Thank you. You don't like where you're headed? Rearrange it. You're sick of being let down. If you want to turn your life around, if you want to start living right, get the hell out of your life.
Speaker 2:
Get the hell out of your life. I do not agree with this. I don't understand this. I have opened up my heart to Jesus. He lives with me, but now I am supposed to suppress the desires, the passion, the excitement, the fever, the fervor, everything that I have for Jesus? No way I'm not dying to myself daily. I am free, jesus. No way I'm not dying to myself daily. I am free, I'm forgiven. I'm going out and tell the world about Jesus and if I'm a little excited, I get a little crazy, I get a little wild, I have a little passion.
Speaker 2:
And people say, well, that guy's a wild guy, he needs to die to himself today because he's just a little bit too loud for me. No, that's not. That's the silliest thing I've ever heard in my life. Friends, you got to be yourself. That's all Jesus wants you to do. Be yourself, don't be anything else. Be yourself. Allow him to minister to you on a daily basis. You want some peace in this world. Let Jesus minister to you. You want some direction in your life. Let Jesus minister to you.
Speaker 2:
It's time that we take back who Jesus is and quit relegating our walk with Jesus by what we hear on a church on Sunday morning. What if they tell us something wrong? What if they bring up something that is totally irrelevant to the finished works of Jesus Christ? All it does is confuse you and it makes you leave wondering and scratching your head. You, and it makes you leave wondering and scratching your head.
Speaker 2:
Wow, jesus is a little more complicated than I thought. Jesus is not complicated. Jesus is freedom. Jesus is your life, jesus is eternity. As I said earlier, jesus as the center of your life. Everything begins to flow out with Jesus at the center. It's the fruits of the spirit.
Speaker 2:
Friends, don't ignore Jesus. Ignore the messengers that are trying to confuse you by having you do more, be more and sign up for more, and then God will have your back. That's not even scriptural. Don't listen to things like that. God doesn't need to bribe you to do something. God isn't going to say well, if you do this, if you sign up for this and you do this and you teach a Sunday school class, you're going to have a special blessing. That's not true. That's not true. We are blessed because what Jesus did at the cross, it's equal all across the board. There's no favorites. Anyway, that's my talk today, my jambalaya talk, throwing things out there because I love people. I love you. I see people struggling because they were just like me, until I finally said I don't think I'm being told about the real Jesus in church. They're telling me a little bit about Jesus, but they're mixing Moses with him. And what's the saying? If you flirt with Moses, you're cheating on Jesus. I like that. I'll be back and close out the show in just a minute.
Speaker 3:
Ron will be back in a minute to close out today's show. We want to remind you today of the last words of Jesus it is finished. What is finished, the finished work of Jesus, refers to the complete and final accomplishment of salvation through his death and resurrection. It means that Jesus has done everything necessary for our forgiveness, redemption and reconciliation with God. Through His sacrifice on the cross, jesus paid the price for our sins once and for all, providing total forgiveness and cleansing. This finished work of Jesus means that we no longer need to strive or work to earn God's favor or forgiveness. We can rest in the assurance that our salvation is secure and that we are fully accepted by God because of what Jesus has done for us.
Speaker 1:
Now back to Ron, Thank you. Get the hell out of your life is underwritten by the Christmas City Gift Show. We invite you to come shop with over 255 vendors from all over the United States from November 8th through the 10th inside the Coast Convention Center located on the beach in Biloxi, mississippi. You can find more information at christmascitygiftshowcom. Thanks for listening, and if you would like to share your story of what God has done in your life or listen to previous episodes, please visit our website, thepromoterorg. Join us next week for another episode of Get the Hell Out of your Life real stories, real struggles and real hope.
