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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 Revolter.

Ron Meyers: 0:21

Hello, my friends, so good to be with you again today. Hello, my friends, so good to be with you again today. And I have to say right off the bat, I have been going through the book. I wrote the Promoter and I don't know how many times I said in the early days boy, what an arrogant bonehead I was. No wonder so many people thought I was a goofball and did not like me. They said stay away from that guy. He is only after what he can get from you and unfortunately that was true.

Ron Meyers: 0:58

And it's only as we get older in life that we can look back and reflect over our life and we can see some of the mistakes that we made at a younger age. But I will say this when the lady that was helping me edit this book, she said well, do you want to put something in there that you know you regret making those mistakes? And I said no. Why would I put that? Well, you know you should. I said why? Because those mistakes were part of my character. Those mistakes were part of defining who I was and who I would become. No, those mistakes, even though I made a lot of people mad and did a lot of wrong things, those are the very things that defined me. Now, if I go back and say, well, I'm sorry, I regret, I wish I would have never done them Well, then I'm actually also saying that I wish my life would have taken a whole different turn. I don't want any do-overs. Friends, if God came to me today and said, hey, listen, I'll let you do life over again. Do you want it? I would say no, no, even though maybe I would have liked things to end up in a different way. I'm okay today. I'm okay. I survived the mistakes, the failures, the bankruptcies, the rejection, the abandonment. I am stronger today because of all the nonsense in my life.

Ron Meyers: 2:40

In fact, friends, someone told me not too long ago they had a comment. They said Ron, you're really a smart guy. And I said can I tell you why I am smart? Because of all the mistakes that I have made in my life. If you make enough mistakes and you actually want to learn from those mistakes, you become pretty darn smart. What about you? Can you relate? Do you understand?

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But one of the hard things for a lot of people to do maybe you're one of them is pride comes in the way and we don't want to admit when we do something wrong. Now, that was me at a younger age. Today, I'm the first one to admit I was wrong. I don't know what I was thinking, because I'm after that end result. Aren't you after that end result? Don't you want more peace, a better quality of life? Don't you want to understand more of who you are, why you are here and what you need to do in life?

Ron Meyers: 3:42

It's never how we start, but it's how we finish. What if we could finish just really strong, because all those years that we have made mistakes and setbacks and people, just they wronged us. But we put all those in a big pot like we do gumbo, you know, throw a little bit of everything, all this crap in our lives. We put it in this, we turn it over to God and he turns it back to us with this perfect recipe of knowledge, of wisdom, of being able to walk down the path to our destiny wiser and smarter and with faith and a belief, and a knowing belief that it is going to be okay.

Ron Meyers: 4:30

Today's story you're going to hear a guy. His name is Rodney. Rodney really had a rough, rough childhood. He was molested, he got into drugs, but the scars in his life eventually led him to a point of cooking crystal meth in his home. He blew it up and on his way to the hospital he begged God to turn his scars into stars. That was 19 years ago and today Rodney Williams has a worldwide ministry and has been featured on national television shows because he has turned his scars into stars. So here is Rodney Williams.

Rodney Williams: 5:18

I'm from Moss Point, mississippi, born in Pasco, mississippi, at the Seaman River Hospital. I'm just a normal kid, maybe middle-class family, taken to church, told about a Jesus that loved me. Within this time frame, I was sexually molested by a very sick man. It was very hurtful, very painful and I didn't know who to turn to. So I turned to the Jesus they had told me. Back in church I had childlike faith and turned to the Jesus they told me about and God had spoken to me as a child. He told me that he would protect me and that one day I'd preach his words.

Rodney Williams: 5:59

I had a lot of hurt, a lot of hang-ups, even though my family, I believe they were Christians. They're Christians, but the life they were living from the mess they came from, was not what I wanted to. I didn't want what they had put it that way. And the church I went to there was some good people, but I didn't want what they had neither. It was not attractive to me. I had hurts, issues and I began to turn to the world looking for my satisfaction. What they had was not dealing with my hurts and my pains and my issues and just growing up, began to turn to the drugs and the alcohol, which did comfort to start off with it, brought about pleasure, but it did not satisfy, it did not completely. It took me deeper in infection, began to put band-aids on the infection, but the infection continues to grow and it takes more band-aids to cover this infection.

Rodney Williams: 6:48

Now that I am a born-again child of God and I go out across the country to schools and different stuff, me being molested, me sharing my testimony of being molested as a kid, I couldn't tell how many kids have come up to me in the schools and different places where I speak, opening up, saying I thought I was the only one. I'm being molested too and able to open up. So what God was a hurt back then as a childhood, god has turned around and turned it into good that now I'm able to help others, be able to open them up to their hurts and their pains and their issues and able to share Jesus with them and use it in my pain as my past to be able to help others. You know what I'm saying and it's you know. And hey, even though it was a terrible thing as a kid and I mean it was bad and we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord, to them who are called according to His goodness. In other words, the pain. God took that and turned it into good. You know, to go out there and see these kids open up to me and begin to tell me their hurts and pains and I know they're hurting and they feel like they're the only ones. That's hurting, like just feeling like that and for me to open up and tell them that I've been molested and the different things, and it gives them freedom to come and talk to me and open up to me and it brings them you else.

Rodney Williams: 7:54

But I was cooking the methamphetamines. I was in a small trailer cooking methamphetamines and the fumes built up In my mind. There was police in the trees, police under the trailer just all geeked out. When the fumes built up, a spark went off the heat lamp, the whole trailer ignites and I began to run in the flames and try and get the door unlocked. The doors were bolted down and and by the grace of God, the door comes open.

Rodney Williams: 8:29

I run outside with second, third-degree burns. I'd lost my family. I was homeless. My family couldn't stand me. The police were looking for me. I'm behind on child support. I mean, my whole life was a wreck. They supposed to be good friends have stolen from me. They, they've taken advantage of me and here I am, I hear a second, third degree burns, you know. And my life was just a wreck. And I walked down to these people's house at two o'clock in the morning and knock on the door and you know the shock. I'm standing there all burned up. You know, this guy standing at the door, all burned up, and they throw a blanket on me, begin blanket on me, began rushing me to the hospital, you know, and this was the breaking point, the turning point in my life. I mean, death felt like a victory. At that point I hated. I hated my life. I hated the people that I'd held on to what I call friends, which are not friends. I hated my life and I felt like death would be a victory. At that time I wanted to die and that's exactly what I did that night. I died to myself.

Rodney Williams: 9:20

I tell people I'd been in and out of jail Every time I went to jail. I didn't believe in God. I believe there's one God that'll do us well. The devil's also believed in tremble. I believed in God the whole time, because God had spoken to me as a child. I just didn't want to trust him with my life. I want to go to heaven, but I want to live like hell. That was my problem. Every time I cry out to God in the jail. As soon as I got out, I'd run back to the same old thing. I always tell people a dog returns to his vomit because he's still a dog, you know.

Rodney Williams: 9:45

Anyway, that night things was different. I hated my life, I hated everything about it and I just cried out to God God, you take my eye, my ears, whatever you want. Because they were all burned up. And I said God, you take eye, ear, whatever you want, whatever's left, I'm going to serve you. I made an unconditional surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rodney Williams: 10:05

That was in 2002. That's almost 17 years ago and the Bible says for with the heart, man believe unto righteousness. That night, with the heart, I surrendered my life to the Lord Jesus Christ, put my faith and trust in him, and the reason it was a real salvation is because here, 17 years later, I'm still living this thing, walking this thing out. Anyway, that night I become born again. All my sin, past, present, future, is placed upon the cross of Jesus Christ washed by His blood and then God clothed me in His righteousness. But my burnt body and anybody looking in at me and me looking at myself. I was defiled, burned up, my life was a wreck, but God had supernaturally clothed me in His righteousness.

Rodney Williams: 10:44

God began at that point being accomplished the very thing that he, which has begun a good work, you perform it to the day of Jesus Christ. God began to work with me at that point. You know, in the last 17 years he's been transforming me, changing me, making me what he's already declared me to be you know what I'm saying declaring me his child and an heir-joined heir with Christ, the righteous of Jesus Christ. I had a new destination and I had also a new identification at that point, and for the last 17 years I've been finding out what took place at that point in my life. You know what I'm saying.

Rodney Williams: 11:10

Well, if there's someone out there who can relate to what I'm talking about tonight, if I was in such despair, I had no hope. But today I can look back and say there was hope. There was hope in Jesus Christ, the God that loves you. The God that created you loves you, and when we turn to Jesus Christ, he will forgive you. He will transform your life, change you and set you free.

Rodney Williams: 11:37

The moment you turn from your sins, turn from the way you're living, when you come to a point like I did I hated my life and that's why you die to yourself and you turn to Jesus Christ for salvation, for forgiveness of sins Immediately God steps in and he transforms, begins to transform you, change you, gives you new life in him and God gives you a new destination, a new identification. Immediately you're set free and day by day, you're becoming. You know, for the last 17 years, I've been becoming who God declared me to be that day, which was June 19th 2002. I've been becoming who God already declared me to be. I always tell people you're becoming who you already are. You know, after you've been born again, born again in Christ, you know.

Ron Meyers: 12:16

So you discovered your destiny.

Rodney Williams: 12:18

Yes, and God gives me a new identification, he gives me a new destination and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. I said, well, I've preached to a lot of people the truth and they're not set free. And God told me to go up a verse and he says if you continue my word, you shall know the truth and truth shall set you free. It's a process. You're immediately set free through the blood of Jesus Christ and through the new birth and the process of transformation, the washing of the water, the word God transforming you, changing you day by day. God is making you who you already are in Christ. He's giving you the light and the truth to show you who you are, your new, like I said, your new destination, your new identification in him On the journey. You know what I'm saying.

Rodney Williams: 13:00

I always use the illustration is this is the mind of an addict. You're going down the road and you hit a bump in the road of life. You get a flat tire. The addict gets out and looks at his tires, sees he's got a flat tire, pulls out a knife and he slashes the other three tires. You know, that's the mind of an addict. No-transcript in the past. Uh, get a mentor, get a pastor, get someone to come and help you if you need help, and get this tire back on. You know, fix the issue. You know, deal with the issue there. Get back on the road and keep pressing toward the life of Christ. We all are going to get knocked down, but hey, it's nothing wrong. It's bad to get knocked down, but it's worse if you don't get back up. Get up and keep pressing toward. Then you're going to have a breakthrough and cross and you're going to begin to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh. Then things are going to be like in cruise control. It's battle after battle, but it's victory after victory if we trust God daily and walk in the Spirit.

Rodney Williams: 14:04

What I was thinking for the whole time the drugs, the alcohol I was looking for comfort, I was looking for joy, I was looking for something. But in reality, what we're all looking for is to be back in the presence of God. And the hurts, the pains, the issues, god is the answer. And if we just fully surrender to Christ, god, and give him full control, just throw up our hands and surrender to him, I'm telling you, god will come in and take control. He'll transform you, change you. Through his presence, god brings joy to your life, peace in your life. He brings you contentment in your life. I'm satisfied now in him. I'm not attracted to the things of the world anymore, I'm attracted to him. Of course God has blessed me with material things to use according to and in him. But you know what I'm saying. I'm content and satisfied in him. I got the joy of the Lord. I've got peace.

Rodney Williams: 14:52

I'm enjoying life like I never thought I could and nobody could have ever told me this. I thought if I quit drinking and drugging, going to the clubs and doing the things I did, I'd never have a good time again. That's the biggest lie from the Satan. When I fully surrendered to God and got on his plan and began to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh man, and began to walk in the joy of the Lord, I realized man, this is the greatest life I could ever imagine. Man, I'm enjoying life like I never could. God's blessed me with a beautiful wife and family. I I never could. God's blessed me with a beautiful wife and family. I enjoy them. I don't have to run down to the road to the bar and go get high and do all these different things. I'm satisfied in them, man. I'm satisfied in them because I'm satisfied in him and you know just fully.

Rodney Williams: 15:30

Give God a chance. You know, through Jesus Christ, god is the answer and he will satisfy you. He'll give you a joy that you never imagined. Joy unthinkable is what God offers you. God does not want you to be miserable. God wants you to turn back to him and receive what he's got for you, what he designed you for. Well, the Bible says Romans 10, 9, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Rodney Williams: 15:57

If you're sitting out there and you want a new beginning, a new life, see, we're living in this old, endemic or carnal nature which is in hostility against God. We're sick of it. We hate this life because it's made us miserable. Jesus Christ has paid for all of our sin. You know, past, present, future is upon the cross. If we'll just turn to him and ask him to forgive us, our sins and trust what he did on the cross, his payment in full and asking to come and be Lord of our lives, savior of our lives, he'll save you right now.

Rodney Williams: 16:22

He'll give you his nature. He'll give you his nature and you become a child of God. You'll have a new destination. You were on your way to a fiery hell. Now you're on the way to be with Jesus. When you die, he'll give you new identification. You were drunk, you were an addict, you were all these different things that the world calls you, but now God calls you an heir, drawing heir with Christ. He calls you a son. He calls you special. You're his son, you know. Anyway, you have a new identification. Now Begin to walk in it. You know you're the righteousness of Jesus Christ and begin to follow after Christ. Get in a spirit-filled, Bible-believing church and allow God to grow you and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. God's truth will set you free day by day, and you'll become who God's already declared you that you are.

Rodney Williams: 17:05

For the last 17 years I've been walking in freedom with Jesus Christ. God told me to write the book Club Meth to Christ, and we send thousands of these across the nation to people who are addicts or in jail or in prison, and also my new book Once an Addict, now Free. If you would like one of these books. We send them out to people free across the nation. We just want to see you set free. I'm free, my wife's free.

Rodney Williams: 17:26

I see so many people who are set free, who are ministers now, who are going out, walking in the joy of the Lord, and these books here shares a real life, my testimony, and I've got other prison letters who have been people who have been set free in these books and I'm telling you, if you just want one, all you got to do is contact me. Let's request a free book and we'll send it to you. We'll send it out to you no, free of charge, we'll cost you nothing and anybody's in attic or in jail. We'll send them wherever they need to be sent to and if you'll read them and listen to what's said in here, it'll set you free.

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You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your host, ron Myers. Real stories, real struggles and real hope.

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Today's refreshing word is from John, chapter 15, verse 7. Jesus said If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you.

Ron Meyers: 18:21

If you need something more out of life than what you've already experienced.

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If you need a new start, a clean slate, If you want to live life forever, you need God in your life.

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If getting old has you depressed.

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Growing up sometimes scares the daylights out of you. If you want to know what the future holds, get in touch with the one who holds the future.

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Stop wasting time and get a hold of God.

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It's not about earning points by being good. It ain't about some boring church, it's not about working your way to heaven. Finding God is not about following some group who claims to be the only way to God. It's not about being religious. It's not about religion. It's all about God's only son. It's all about Jesus.

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It's all about Jesus.

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It's about Jesus Christ and it's all about you.

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It's all about you, Jesus.

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Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me.

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Well, someday, when I stand before God and he asks me why should I let you into heaven? All that's going to matter is if I knew Jesus or not.

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And that's what it's all about. What's your story? We're looking for stories of hope and overcoming life's struggles with God's grace. Your story validates God's love, mercy, restoration and forgiveness. We want to help you share your story with the world. Visit our website, thepromoterorg, and click on the Share your Story link and submit your story. Your testimony of God's amazing grace will change a person's destiny for eternity, so I'm thankful for the scars Cause.

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Without them I wouldn't know your heart and I know they'll always tell of who you are Welcome back listeners.

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I love that song. The group is called I Am they. The song is called Scars. It talks about being thankful for the scars because without the scars I wouldn't know your heart, god. And now, because of God, I can stand in confidence, I can stand in faith, I have strength, I don't have to fear anymore. Wow, it is a powerful song.

Ron Meyers: 20:37

And without the scars in my life and it took me 40 years, franz, 40 years of hiding those scars with everything you could possibly think of, until I was broken into pieces but without those scars and me running to the scarred hands of Jesus, I would have never known what it's like to have this incredible platform of radio podcasting and interviewing people from all over the world with stories of God's love and mercy. I would have never had the ability to be involved with altar calls where thousands of people would come forward. I would never have had a book. I would have never had a restored relationship with my family. The scars brought me to become a star in the eyes of Jesus and I have confidence now, a holy confidence. The Bible says the Lord is near to the brokenhearted and he saves those who are crushed in spirit. So, friends, turn your scars, your pain, your brokenness over to God, because God's desire is for you and I to love him. He wants us to follow Jesus why? Because we become who we follow. My prayer is that you will choose to follow Jesus, because only with God's help do we have the power to turn our scars into stars and friends.

Ron Meyers: 22:12

I'm really excited to share something with you my book the Promoter. It's how I turned my scars into stars. It is absolutely free to anybody that would like one. Now. The book the Promoter. It's about my journey for purpose and meaning in life. Like a lot of other people, I grew up in a dysfunctional family where I was told I would never amount to much. Now, these negative voices in my childhood led me to want to end my life at the age of 11, but God stepped in and saved my life that day, both physically and spiritually. Yet the question remained what is my purpose in life? The rest of the book is about how God directed and guided me toward that purpose. Yes, there were many mistakes you're going to read about and setbacks along the way. I share that in the book. But today I'm doing things now that I never knew I could do.

Ron Meyers: 23:09

I wrote the book for the person who is also searching for their purpose in life, to encourage that person who may think that their past mistakes disqualify them from a purposeful and meaningful life. I want every person who reads this book to know that God loves them unconditionally, regardless of their past, and that they, too, can live out their God-given destiny. Live out their God-given destiny Now. All you need to do is just go to the promoterorg and the contact us tab at the top. Just go to that, just fill out your name and your address and in the message box just say, hey, ron, send me a book. And after you read the book, if you feel like you want to share your story with the world, I would love to hear from you. I'll be back in just a minute to close out today's show.

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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. Now back to Ron.

Ron Meyers: 26:16

Well, friends, my time is up. I'm going to go have some fun outside. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm not going to focus on all the nonsense in the world. I'm going to thank Jesus that I have another day to visit with you and that next week is going to be a great week, because I will remind myself daily that the center of my life is Jesus. You do the same, and I'm telling you, friends, this is a great time to be alive, as the world is getting darker and darker, the light of the world is getting brighter and brighter, and God does things through his people, you and I. So let's keep our faith, keep our heads held high and remember that God is in control Until next week. This is Ron Myers, reminding you that I love you, jesus loves you, and when you give your heart to Jesus, he will turn your scars into stars. I'll see you next week, your scars in the stars, I'll see you next week.

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