This is a special edition of Get the Hell Out of Your Life. We interrupt the noise, the scrolling, and the status quo because today's breaking message isn't coming from the world. It's coming for you. There is a growing crisis affecting people everywhere. Men and women living far below their God-given potential. Not because they are incapable, but because they've grown comfortable surviving instead of living. Our report will identify the problem, expose what's keeping people stuck, and most importantly, offer the remedy to get and keep the hell out of your life. We go now to the studio of Ron Myers, the promoter, a voice for clarity, courage, and calling, with today's message, if not now, when.

One evening I'm on my couch and I had this random thought just pop in my head. And it was this so are you really going to waste away and wonder what if? And it took me back to a day in my life when I was full of what ifs. What if it doesn't work? What if it fails? What if people don't like me? What if I sound stupid? What if I'm just dreaming? A lot of us go through those what ifs, and those what ifs are actually a slow, painful death. Because to me, the question isn't harmless and it's not neutral. Wondering what if for too long becomes a slow and painful death. Friend, I've lived that slow and painful death. Breathing, functioning, smiling on the outside, but slowly disappearing on the inside. I seem to be waiting for permission. I wanted clarity. I thought God was gonna send an angel down and do some skywriting and give me the exact directions of my life, but it never happened. So I thought, what if? Maybe what if? What if I take a chance? Maybe I need to quit waiting for someone else to tell me it's okay to dream again. But here's the most important thing I've learned, and I want to share this with you today because I want to help someone out there. Hell doesn't always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like comfort without purpose, routine without joy, faith without expectation. So today, let's talk about getting out of that place, about dreaming again, about believing again, laughing again. Some of you haven't laughed in a long time because life circumstances have beat you to a pulp. You've lost faith in the church and God, your family and friends, because where were they when you needed them the most? And you finally, what if I just sit here and do nothing? This way I can't make any mistakes and I can't get yelled at by people. But God is asking you, what if today you give yourself permission to dream again? Because when Jesus is at the center of your life, you don't just survive the days, you're inspired by them. And I believe with everything in me that God has a plan and you're not too late to it. There is a clear and present danger of living the what if life. Stagnation is more dangerous than failure. What if sounds thoughtful, but it's often fear in disguise. We don't drift into purpose, we drift into comfort. You know it's amazing sometimes the thoughts with my conversations with Jesus. Those are the ones that I encourage you to have. You and Jesus all alone. Nice little atmosphere. You're sharing your heart, you're transparent, you're open, you're honest, you're asking questions, and then you pause for the silence, and you let that beautiful, still voice just speak to your heart. And this is the one thing I have found out about Jesus. He speaks love. He will inspire you. The Bible says that kindness leads a man to repentance. The change of your mind. You change your mind and you believe that what if I just trust Jesus one more time? Sounds thoughtful, but it's often fear in disguise. We don't drift into purpose, we drift into comfort. I remember when I was the manager of a Christian radio station, I absolutely loved it. It was my most favorite job of my whole entire life. But one day we had a note that the national organization was closing local stations to go to a national broadcast. And basically, I was terminated. I was without a job. And I was tough. It was tough. It was it was real tough. And one day in the studio that I used to broadcast uh over the radio, I said to myself, my conversation with Jesus, I don't understand this, Lord. We were doing things in the community. We helped people during Hurricane Katrina, we interviewed so many wonderful people. What happened? Did I do something wrong? And I had the most profound answer from Jesus. It changed my whole life. And he said, Well, Ron, would you have left the station on your own? And of course, the answer would have been no. No, why would have I left? I was having fun. I had a 401k, I had a medical plan. And then I heard you got so wrapped up in your title. You were a general manager of a radio station that thought you knew everything. And I was reminded of something. This is really what started getting my attention. He reminded me one day, years before this incident, that I had said on the air that I love my job and they're going to have to pry my dead fingers off the microphone. Well, I realized why he made me think about that. That's a very prideful and arrogant statement. It was as if I was telling God that, hey, I'm your child, you've got me to a place I like now. Now you can just let me go on autopilot. As I said earlier, we don't drift into purpose, we drift into comfort. I was comfortable because I never asked the what if this changes? What if I lose my health? What if God changes things? I had so much comfort and I thought that I'm doing everything for Jesus, so there's no way this is going to change. There's no way he's going to move me somewhere else. I believe that. And I was wrong because God is on the move. Jesus is on the move, we're on the move. We sometimes lose loved ones, whether it's family, friends, associates, and we think, well, how am I going to go on without them? What if my life falls apart because I don't have my security blanket? Friends, those are healthy thoughts, but it has to drift right into Jesus. Speak to me, inspire me, encourage me. These what ifs, they're scaring me to death. And I want to learn to dream again, I want to laugh again, I want to believe again. I want to finish strong in life. You ever think about that, friends? In life? It's never how you start, it's how you finish. And a lot of us, as we get older in life, and I know some of you can relate to this, we start looking over our life. And we think of those what ifs. And as I said earlier, if we're not willing to change, they can be a slow and painful death. So I realized that he had something different. And when he asked me if I would have left on my own, and I said no, I realized that one door had to close before the other one could open. And friends, that day in my empty office by myself was the worst day of my life. But one year later, that day was the best day of my life. Why? Because I answered the question, what if I totally trust God? What if I put my destiny in his hands? What if I quit trying to change the things in my life because I'm not doing them? What if I rest in his finished works? What if I actually believe grace? And friends, that was the most transformative days, years of my life. Because, friends, when you see grace, you can never unsee grace. So today, I want to remind you that Jesus doesn't promise easy, He promises presence. Daily inspiration isn't hype, it's alignment. And centering my life on Jesus was as essential as me having oxygen to breathe. It clarified my decisions, it softened my fear, and it restored laughter. Friends, I started living again. I started being happy again. I was having random thoughts. And soon I was back on the radio. No, not by a company, but I bought equipment, produced my own show, started buying radio time around the country, and then put it into a podcast. See now, friends, I have my total freedom. I get to be me, not constrained by the rules and the regulations of churches, of bosses, of individuals, but Jesus and I do life together. And one of the things that I heard crystal clear in those early days of termination, and this is where you fit in. God would give me a platform. Individuals would come on air and share how their life changed when they began to ask the question, what if I asked Jesus for help? 99% of my guests never met Jesus in church. They met Jesus at the end of themselves asking that question, What if I trust Jesus? And friends, to this day, I believe with my whole heart, it's not an accident. You're listening to this. You're listening to this because God wants to replace what if I fail to what if life gets good when you trust Jesus? What if there are things available to you that you can't even comprehend, you can't even think about because you haven't got out of the boat? You can't walk on water if you don't get out of the boat. And today is the day that I believe that Jesus is raising a group of people that will dare to believe again, dare to laugh again, dare to say, what if I totally trust Jesus? What if I believe what he said, that he has a plan and a destiny for me? What if I take Jesus at his word when he said, your sins are forgiven, past, present, and future? What if I totally believe that I cannot lose my salvation? What if I believe he will never leave or forsake me and there is no shame and condemnation in Jesus? If you absolutely believed that, your whole entire life will change. See, grace goes before you. Grace opens the doors of opportunity that you may have to try to beat them down with your fist. But grace opens the doors gently. And when you walk in those doors, you know that you know that Jesus just led you into a new chapter of your life. Friends, there are people hurting in this world. There are people that are scared and fearful, and they want to believe what I'm saying. But I will tell you this: if you don't, you will have that slow, painful death of what if, living on the islands of regrets, would have, should have, and could have. Today, God is calling you to the islands of hope, opportunity, peace, and joy. You know, when you have that presence of Jesus in you and you feel it and you know it, and you have a peace and you have a hope, you don't have cares, you don't have worries, you're not worried about the money in the bank account, you're not worried about anything because the one thing when you have that relationship with Jesus and you know that you know that He is for you and not against you, you never want to leave it. You find that all the things that you chased in life, the things that the world has told you to go after, the things that people say, well, if you do this, you'll get something in return. No, no, no. It's all about resting in the finished works of Jesus. This is your day. This is your time. This is your message. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Today is the day that Jesus is uh calling the motionless into his arms so they will begin the motion of joy, of peace, of purpose, the fruits of the spirit, and the fog from their eyes will clear, they will see what they need to see, they will hear what they need to hear. This is the greatest time to be alive. I absolutely believe that. That's why I'm giving you this message to encourage you, inspire you, and empower you that it's never too late for a new beginning.