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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 promoter.

Ron Meyers: 0:23

Hello, my friends. My first show of the new year. What a crazy show. Get the hell out of your life. You know, when I share that title with someone, it's always the same reaction. A chuckle. Cute name, Ron. Why did you come up with that? Well, it's really a play on words because grace tells us when we accept Jesus into our heart, we have got the hell out of our life, the eternal hell. But that's not always the kind of hell that I talk about and my guests talk about on this show. We talk about the hell that keeps us from being the person God created us to be. The person that we want to become, but often other people, situations, jobs, unknown circumstances come in and they rain on our parade. So we have to shift our focus to a whole new direction. And often, and I think you can relate with me, we're doing things that we really don't want to do. But we need to do them because it's part of the plan. It's part of the process, it's part of keeping peace with the family, with the boss, with your friends. But then when we're driving alone, I know for me, I'm driving alone. And one of the things I love to do when I'm driving alone, I love to listen to Led Zeppelin. I don't know why, but you know, Stairway to Heaven is one of my most favorite songs. And when I go to that song, I kind of go back to my childhood and I think of the wonderful things that I did. I had a troubled childhood, but at the same time, I had to create my own world, my own imagination where I wasn't being bullied or I wasn't being, you know, beat up by the little kid by the big kids. I was the little kid. I was like 118 pounds. Now that was a scrawny little kid, but you know, no matter what I was going through as a child, I had this unshakable faith. Maybe because I was the only one in my family that went to a Catholic school and I heard about Jesus. And I know one time when I wanted to do self-harm, I know that Jesus came in that little bedroom of mine because I heard a small voice inside of me say, Don't hurt yourself, Ron. You know, that is the very thing that has helped me all the way up into my 60s go after things in life, maybe dreams, opportunities, or deal with tragedy of death, of loss, of bankruptcy, of hurricanes. You know, a lot of people, they assume because I'm on the radio and I love Jesus and I do some incredible promotions that I've got my act all together. And I correct them on the spot and say, listen, I don't have my act together. I don't know of anybody on this planet that has their act together. Oh, sure, we we look like we do, we act like we do, we dress like we do, we go to church and do what we do. But deep down inside, there's a lot of us that are afraid to come out of the shadows. We've been pushed down, pushed back, and told not to cooperate so many times we absolutely believe it. You know, I heard years ago in a motivational speech, someone said, an elephant, you know, do you ever go to the circus? You can't do it anymore. I don't think there's elephants left anymore because of PETA. But anyway, an elephant, how they can keep that elephant from running wild, it puts a chain around its foot as a baby. It eventually understands that it can't get free, so it quits trying. Have you ever quit trying? Have you ever just quit trying doing things? Not because you wanted to, you really didn't want to do that, but you didn't have the resources, you didn't have the brains, you didn't have the finances, and you just figured, well, oh well, somebody else will do it. Will they do it? I don't believe they will. I think what God has for you and what God has for me is something that no one else can have. I was just speaking to a gentleman the other day about Elvis Presley. He was talking about so many people that still traveled to Graceland. You know, Elvis Presley was so incredible with his voice and his talent that can never be replaced. Nobody can be like him. Think of anybody in your life that you've been encouraged, inspired, empowered by. Maybe they're not here anymore, but you know there was no one like them. They made you feel good. But then sometimes death, you know, moving away, job promotions, we lose touch with people that believed in us. How come when we were little kids, did you ever notice when we were little kids that we always stuck with our club, our little group, our amigos, my friends? You know, I was a juvenile delinquent as a child, but and all my friends were juvenile delinquents, but we had to be because we were different. We were the oddballs, we were always the ones seeking attention. I really do think that's the whole reason that I did the things I did as a child. I wanted attention. I really wasn't a juvenile delinquent. I was a little boy that was starving for attention and approval from other people. And I got it with my three amigos, my friends. You know, two of those friends that I palled around with and did some pretty goofy things, they're gone. They died. I'm the only one left. And I look back at my life a lot. And this is the time of year we all look back on our lives, don't we? Don't we look back? It's a new year, 2026 is here, and what are we going to do with our life? And we get fired up for a while, don't we? We get fired up maybe for the first couple weeks, but then we're like that elephant that was trapped with a chain has a baby elephant, and it knows it can't move anymore. Well, maybe you don't know you can't move anymore. You believe you can't move anymore. You believe you've waited. It's too late in life. It's never gonna happen to me. Nobody likes me. Look at me. I'm kind of goofy looking. I don't have a lot of my act together. I used to think that so often. That's why I think as growing up and going into career business, I always wanted to look sharp when Ron Myers Productions was started. It was the sharp suit, it was the sharp dressed man, it was going out at night in the single atmosphere and making sure that I looked at best-looking women sitting at the bar and I dared to go up and ask them to dance. And you know what? 99.90% of the time they did. And people always ask, they said, Well, Ron, why do you always seem to be out with the best looking girls? I said, Listen, here's the secret. It's not even about me looking good, it's about me taking a chance on this beautiful woman sitting on the bar to ask her to dance. Now, a lot of men are gonna say, There is no way I'm going to ask her, she's going to reject me. Well, if men are not going to ask, so with that in mind, I knew that night that a lot of guys wouldn't have the courage to go ask her to dance. But I did, and it always worked. And it taught me something with dating as a young person. It taught me that if you have the courage to ask someone that's 20 times better looking than you to dance, and they accept what other things in life could we do if we took the risk? You know, I was taking the risk of her looking at me and saying, You, me, dance, and have her start laughing her head off. But they never did. We went out, we danced, we had a nice time. Friends, I think a lot of us are not that happy here in the new year because a lot of times the news friends, they put this timeline on us. They say, Well, have you made any new year's resolutions? And we want to be quick to, you know, respond, well, yeah, I'm gonna lose weight, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna focus more. I quit making resolution years ago. You know what a simple goal is? To just try every day to have a good attitude. Me, I start my days, coffee with Jesus, just a hot cup of coffee, sitting outside, and then just letting my mind wander. And then a conversation begins, Jesus and me. And by the time I'm done with my coffee, I feel better, I have some answers, and I have some direction for that day. Now, do I know what's gonna happen the entire day? No, not at all. But I've learned I don't need to because everywhere I go, I believe that is exactly where God needed me to go. So I live life with my hands open and say, God lead me, God inspire me, God encourage me, God empower me. Friends, a dialogue like that by yourself and just you and Jesus, it's life-changing. And you know, some of the things that I do when I talk to Jesus about their private, I don't tell anyone. Have you ever done that? You you get excited about something and you tell someone, and most of the time they don't even have the excitement you do, and then you could possibly walk away singing, thinking, well, you know, that was probably a dumb idea. Maybe I won't do it. How many ideas never came to life because we already killed them in our mind, in our attitude by listening to the responses of people that frankly don't even have a clue about you. They don't know you, they don't know your hurts, they don't know your joys, they don't know how you grow up as a child, they don't know how what motivates you, they don't know the plan that God has for you. But yet those same people that we pal around with, maybe go to a football game, sit around and have a beer and crawfish with, we allow them to actually encourage us or decourage us at our direction in life. So, what does all that mean? I've learned that one of the things for a healthy, productive, at least a peaceful life, is you gotta take charge. You gotta take charge of what you listen to. You have to take charge of who you allow in your life. You know, a lot of people ask me recently about church. They hear me on the radio talking about Jesus, and they always want to ask me, do I have a church? And when I say, No, I don't have a church, my church is Walmart, car washes, the parks, the radio, wherever I can tell people about Jesus, really just brag about Jesus. That's all I do, and that's what my guests do. But I tell them, listen, I used to tell you about different churches in the speakers. But what I'm going to tell you now is this. I've had fun in church. I've had a lot of great activities in church, but there is nothing that inspires, encourages me more than my personal one-on-one relationship with Jesus Christ. Nobody can take that away. And do you know where that really, I guess, blossomed out of COVID? Where were the churches? They shut the doors. They told us to watch them on television. I've always said I think God allowed COVID for one simple reason. He wanted his children to quit using the middleman for their worship and bypass the middleman, the church, the preacher, and go straight to him. Do you know how many people I know that during COVID were re-inspired, re-motivated for Jesus? And they did it in the privacy of their home, at the beach, at the gym, conversations with Jesus. You know, that's what I see happening in 2026 and 2027. I do believe there's a revival coming. I believe there's a revival of epic proportion. And I also believe that revival is not going to start in a church, in a denomination, or with individuals. It's going to be God's awesome, mighty grace that just begins to fall on the land. Imagine this. You've been in rainstorms before, and you go outside and you just let this rain come down and you're drenched, you're wet. And sometimes as a kid, I know we got to play in the rain. It felt so good. Well, imagine one day soon, I think it's very soon, that God says, you know, these denominations don't get along. They all interpret the Bible differently. They argue about what this is and what that is. My kids don't know what's happening. Some people are accepted in a church. Other people in a church are not allowed to come in the door. So what's Jesus say? I think he says, hey, I think it's time to rain some grace. Rain grace, no, not in the form of liquid, but that one day we just feel a massive move of love in our life. All of a sudden we see the skies are blue. We see the bluer than we've ever seen them before, the green in the grass, and we come alive and we then feel the one thing that brings people to God. And the Bible says it's kindness, the love of God that leads a person to repentance. Repentance, change of the mind. What we do is we feel this love and we know that it's coming from something. It's something up above. And we say, Is that you, God? Is that you? Is it you? And you know it is. And things begin to change in your life. See, a lot of you are struggling right this very minute because you know about Jesus, but the experiences you've had in church has what has raised you, has what gives you those beliefs and your optimism. But how do you know that person behind the pulpit in the denomination is right? What is their interpretation of scripture? That's why you have all these different denominations arguing and different things. What if you bypassed all that? And Jesus, the God of the universe, says, you know, my kids, they're hurting. They're not being fed in church, they haven't experienced me. That's what I was saying. A lot of us know about Jesus. We experience church, but shouldn't we know about the church by experiencing Jesus? I mean, when Jesus comes in your life and you just, you've been somewhere sometimes and you see a movie or somebody tells you something and you get those goosebumps and you just get chills. What do you think that is? I believe that's the Holy Spirit. I think you are so sensitive to the Holy Spirit that when you hear about a God story or a story of faith, it just touches you because deep down you're longing for that faith. You want that faith that that guy on the radio has. You want that faith the guy over in the concentration camps in Germany had. You want that faith. That faith can only grow and touch you on the inside by the Holy Spirit, by the power of Jesus Christ. Jesus is not going to share you with denominations, churches, individuals, or people, because every human being on this planet is flawed. You have to know that. They're all flawed. We all make mistakes. We never grow up. We never get our act together. We just look like we do. But deep down, we all have secrets. But Jesus knows our secrets. And you know, there's something about Jesus knowing our secrets that is so comforting because with Jesus, there's no guilt, there's no shame, there's no condemnation. When he died on that cross, we weren't even born. But he took our sins away, past, present, and future, simply by saying, Jesus, I believe. I believe in you. And when we have that faith, the childlike faith, and we turn our life, our heart to Jesus, and I like to say the desert island mentality, I don't rush people to church anymore. I rush them to the desert island of Jesus. And this is what I tell them. There's nothing wrong with church. But you've got to grow this relationship with Jesus one-on-one. That when one day say you're alone on an island, it's just you and Jesus. No radio, no Bibles, no churches. And you allow Jesus to speak through his spirit to you. You not only will survive, you will thrive. There is something, and I challenge anyone in the new year. I challenge you to go out in the morning by yourself. I would do it totally by yourself. You don't want anybody looking at you or laughing at you and just have your coffee, your milk, your toast, whatever you want, and say, Jesus, Ron told me that I can have a conversation with you and I can be honest and I can be real and I can just tell you what's on my heart, why I'm scared, what I'm fearful of. And then, friends, you're gonna start having things that just pop up. They're just gonna be inside of you, and you will begin this inner dialogue. You and Jesus, you and the Holy Spirit, you have communion with the God of the universe. You know, even in the Old Testament, the Jews, the Israelites, never had the intimate personal relationship with Jesus. They didn't have the Holy Spirit. You and I have access to something that is more powerful than nuclear energy, more powerful than winning the lottery 10 million times. It's the creator of the universe coming in to live with you and have peace forever and ever. Sure, you'll have some troubles, but the things that happen when you go through trouble, when you go through tribulations, and God knows we have always been in trouble in our life because of this fallen world, and it's not going to go away in our lifetime. But when we know that there was somebody That loved us so much, they were going to send their son to rescue us, to forgive our sins, to give us the power of the Holy Spirit. And my prayer for 2026 is churches will begin to tell people their identity in Christ, tell them about the promises of God, and quit trying to evangelize the same identical people sitting in their pews for 20 years every week, acting as their sermon is going to save them. Listen, once we come to Jesus, we are saved. Teach us now how to grow, how to walk in the presence of the power of the Holy Spirit. Teach us our identity, teach us who we are in Christ. I don't want to serve Moses. I want to serve Jesus. What's the old saying? If you flirt with Moses, you're cheating on Jesus. Well, there's a lot of people cheating on Jesus because they're trying to earn their way to heaven. They're trying to work their way to heaven. They're trying to behave their way to heaven. They're trying to be sin free to go to heaven. Well, friends, it won't work. It's impossible. You can't do it. God's faithful children couldn't even do it in the Old Testament. So what does God have to do? He has to rearrange everything. He sends Jesus to the earth to come to us goofy little Gentiles. But he gave us what the Jews could never get: the Holy Spirit, that intimacy with God and you. God, can you really grasp that? I think if more people would just promote the relationship with Jesus, you don't have to get into all this theological stuff. Jesus doesn't need you to be his salesperson. He doesn't need a salesperson. He needs a promoter, someone that is just going to promote what God has done in the lives of individuals, in the lives of himself. And friends, I'm only here by the grace of God. And I don't have my act together. I don't want to have my act together. I never want to grow up. I always want to be silly like a little kid. I don't care. And when you can have that attitude, friends, life is good. Jesus is good because it's you, me, and Jesus. I have one thing I'd like to read before I get ready to close out the show. Grace. Grace doesn't wait for January 1st. It doesn't check the calendar. Grace shows up every morning and says, Today it can still be new. That's the part we forget. We think we missed our moment, that we're behind, that if it didn't happen last year or ten years ago, it's probably too late now. But Grace never agrees with that lie. Every day you wake up breathing is proof that God isn't finished. It's never too late for a new beginning. Not with grace, not with God. Yes, 2026 is a new year, and yes, it carries new opportunities. But the deeper truth is this your heart was created for more than survival. You will always feel restless, that holy ache, that unsettled longing until you discover what Jesus wants to show you, not what the world promises, not what success tries to sell you, not what distraction numbs for a while. You can't find this any other way. Only by believing that his promises are not maybe, not someday, not if you're good enough, but yes and amen. Grace says the door is open today. Hope says, Step forward now, and faith says this new year can mark the moment you finally stopped running and started trusting. Because when grace leads, every day becomes a new beginning.

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SPEAKER_03: 25:32

How do you get the hell out of your life? Get on your knees and cry out to the Lord.

Announcer: 25:38

How to get the hell out of your life? Well, you replace it with Jesus. We gotta be born again, born of the Spirit, and that's by trusting Jesus Christ, turning from our sins and trusting Jesus.

SPEAKER_04: 25:46

It's a one-step program, and you find out about this man by the name of Jesus who went to the cross and gave his life so that we will have a life more abundantly. And if you can receive that love, he will love that hell out of you. How do you get the hell out of your life? You trust in him and you let him love the hell right out of you.

Ron Meyers: 26:08

How do you get the hell out of your life? Oh, gosh. Jesus.

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Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. And abide in him. Yes.

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Turn to Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through him.

Ron Meyers: 26:26

Well, friends, my time is up. I hope you enjoyed my New Year's speech, pep talk, whatever you want to say. But I am committed until the day I leave this world to encourage, empower, and inspire individuals and preach Jesus. Jesus 24-7. Not church, not denominations, not religion. Every single one of those will let you down. Jesus will never let you down. I'll be back next week with another great episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life. Available on any podcast platform. Until next week, this is Ron Myers reminding you that I love you, Jesus loves you, and when you give your heart to Jesus, you not only get the hell out of your life, but life really does start to become good.

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