June 12, 2025 • 27 mins
That disturbing moment when Sharon looked up from the strip club stage to see her own father sitting there—the same man who had sexually abused her for 12 years—became the catalyst for her escape from exploitation. But where do you run when your past keeps catching up with you?
Sharon's raw, powerful testimony reveals how childhood trauma created vulnerabilities that traffickers expertly exploited. "Anyone who's been sexually abused has this neon sign over them," she explains, describing how a seemingly friendly regular customer at her restaurant job gradually groomed and recruited her into dancing and eventual exploitation.
What makes this story extraordinary is the divine intervention that changed everything. Alone in her home while high on drugs, Sharon experienced something unexplainable—an audible voice asking three times, "What do you think you're doing?" That encounter led her to church the very next day, where she found immediate deliverance from substance dependency, though complete healing would take years of intentional work.
Host Ron Myers connects Sharon's journey to his own transformation from promoting bikini contests and wet t-shirt competitions to discovering his true calling. "Until you experience Jesus, until he actually touches your heart, touches your dreams, touches your inspiration—it's just a story," Myers reflects. "But when he begins to write the story in your life, you begin that love relationship with him, and the grace just floods in."
For anyone struggling with exploitation, addiction, or searching for purpose, this episode offers practical wisdom alongside genuine hope. As Sharon puts it, "You keep running until you run into the brick wall that's going to save you—and that can be a person God put in your path."
Ready to discover your own purpose and destiny? Listen now and learn how to "get the hell out of your life" by replacing darkness with divine direction and lasting hope.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
A weekly broadcast with realpeople sharing real struggles
and offering real hope.
Today's show will encourage,inspire and empower you to face
life's challenges with a boldconfidence and renewed hope.
Now let's join our host, ronMyers.
The promoter.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you once
again.
Welcome to the show that hasreal stories for you to listen
to.
Real stories, real strugglesand real hope.
Because who isn't havingstruggles in life?
One thing I have noticed withthe guests that I have
interviewed over the past 20years is that a lot of things in
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their life originated when theywere young.
The seed of doubt, the seed ofabuse, the seed of fear was
planted as a child and, you know, it just kind of developed a
life of its own over time andthen it takes root in the
person's life and the behavior.
It leads them to one thing, toanother thing, to another.
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It's a vicious cycle.
You probably know what I'mtalking about.
I know it happened to me.
Well, today's guest, sharon,talks about things as a child
and what happened as she grewolder and eventually went into a
strip club and entertained menfor money.
But something was pulling ather saying you got to stop this.
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It's time to get busy with lifeand start living for what your
purpose is.
So you're going to hear astruggle and the good news
you'll always hear in all mystories is they found hope
because they found Jesus.
So let's take a listen toSharon's story and then I'll
recap it when we finish it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, I graduated from school in 79.
I was a waitress food waitresshere on the Gulf Coast at 17.
I was going to be in MIT in aparticular restaurant that I was
working in and we had a regularperson that came in for
breakfast every morning At 18,.
I was training to be a manager.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you had a customer that liked you.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He did.
He was very friendly, he wasold enough to be my grandfather
and over time he asked all thepersonal questions.
And you know, being young andbeing on your own, I didn't have
any inhibitions as far astelling people who I was or what
I wanted to do in life or thestruggles that I was having,
even irregardless to the factthat I grew up as an introvert.
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But when you are in arestaurant, you have a different
platform of letting yourcustomers know that you're there
for them and you know in turn.
They sometimes ask how they canhelp or give you advice as a
customer because they're havinga conversation with you over
their lunch or breakfast.
He used to come in everymorning.
I knew his menu before he couldtell me what he wanted because
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I had memorized it.
I have a good memory on stufflike that Give him his coffee.
He would ask questions, andthis went on for probably a good
five, six months before he madethe initial invite which now,
looking back, you call thatrecruitment into being a club
for his employer.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What was the invite?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The invite was to help me make more money If I
wanted to be um work in thenightlife, since I was being a
waitress during the day.
If I wanted to make more moneyin the evening.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What's that entail?
The nightlife.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He introduced me to the club where he worked and um
asked me if I wanted to dance,bought all my clothes, my
clothes for dancing.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So he wanted you to be a stripper.
Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, and you were 18 ?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yep, at 18,.
You're young, you'reimpressionable, you're a little
bit naive.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Behind the scenes.
I was already marked as atarget because I was sexually
abused by my dad for 12 years,so I was already a target.
What do you mean by that?
A target?
Because I was sexually abusedby my dad for 12 years, so I was
already a target.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What do you mean by that?
A target?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean that anybody who's been sexually abused,
physically abused.
It's almost like they have thisneon sign over them and people
know what to look for.
That are.
They have inhibitions.
They have people who don't haveunderstanding of what kind of
people are out there.
Good judge of character on whattheir motives are to get you to
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do something that you do.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So this guy that came in for breakfast and through
conversation got to know thatyou had some sexual abuse in
your life.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think that he knew the signs of what kind of girl
he was looking for, becausetraffickers tend to do that they
groom a girl.
But they know what kind ofpersonalities People who are not
extroverts necessarily they'reintroverts.
They have personal issues goingon and they want to be the one
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to let you know that they gotyour back and that you can trust
them.
What happened to you then won'thappen to you again, but it
does, but at a bigger volume.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And they're going to take care of you.
Right, yeah, they're going totake care of you.
You're going to be their bestbud and you're going to make
money.
Just do what they want you todo.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
How long did that go on?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
A year and a half to two years.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And then what?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
My first offender sat at the front table next to the
stage.
He came into the club and satat the front table and I stepped
out on a stage and saw him andI just freaked out.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Did he recognize you?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I think he did, because I went and sat with him
after I danced.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why would you go sit with him if he was the offender
I?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
wanted to know why he would be there.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He was my dad.
I wanted to know what the heckhe was doing there.
Why was he there?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He was your dad.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yes, my biological dad.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Wow, did you find out anything that night?
Did he confess and apologize?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No, he didn't know that I worked there.
Apologize for the.
He didn't know that I workedthere.
I did ask him what he was doingthere.
He said I didn't know youworked here and he didn't um
know what happened later.
He did not know that I wasbeing sold that was a traumatic
experience.
I imagine seeing him huh uh,yeah, it was actually pivotal.
That's when I ran, because I'ma runner.
Most trafficked survivors umsexual abuse survivors, as well
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as physical abuse survivorsChildren of all of these things
tend to have the what do youcall it?
The three F's fight, flight,freeze.
I froze as a child, I flightduring my adolescent and young
twenties and then now I'm afighter.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So where did you run to?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
To the next county.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The next county.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, I ran to the next county, got to quit my job.
I quit the restaurant, went tothe next county, got a new job,
moved my place of where I lived.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Now a new job.
Is that dancing?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
still no the dancing that I did got me regulars when
we were being sold.
That told me things that Ididn't know, which they turned
out to be clients after I leftthe club.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So they developed a relationship with you and they
would call you up for a littleextracurricular activity.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Correct.
Yes, and that happened.
I had, I think, four regulars.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
How many years did that go on?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That went on.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That only went on for about a year, um, before I ran
smack into the first man Imarried you run into your dad
who abused you and now you raninto, and then, a couple years
later, you run into the man thatyou married.
Was that good or was that bad?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
well, I thought it was good, but it was after I got
married I found out I married adrug dealer.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Wow, wow, you did.
You know we're talking aboutthe storms in life, boy.
You had some serious storms,didn't you?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I had a few.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Was there anything inside of you that said I got to
get out of this, I got to leavethis?
There's something that God hasfor well.
I can't even say if you evenknew.
Did you even know God?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I didn't know God.
Then I mean, I knew there was aGod because I was raised in
church, you know.
But now that I look backthrough that volume of books, as
I call it is, my parents playedchurch.
You go to church because you'resupposed to, it's tradition.
And then I realized that theywent home and did whatever they
wanted.
So I knew about God.
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I just didn't have arelationship with God.
So my running thing was everytime you get into unfamiliar
waters you're like, okay, whatdo I do with this?
And you run, you just run.
Or if you're scared or youdon't know what you're supposed
to do, you run.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So you run, you go to somewhere else and it's almost
kind of like starting yeah,fresh yes new, nobody knows you
until some more stuff happenssome more stuff happened.
You can never outrun your past.
Huh, it somehow catches up withyou well it they say that.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But I think you can outrun your past, because when I
ran into the first man Imarried, who happened to be a
drug dealer, my next concern wasis the house being raided and
them taking my first born childaway from me?
So that was another issue andthat happened.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, how are you dealing with all this?
Are you doing drugs or alcohol?
How do you keep your sanity?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
well, actually in the club I was a drinker.
Half a bottle of schnapps justto get on the stage.
Then I went to drugs.
Um, my drug of choice back thenwas speed.
I was afraid to fall asleep, soI always took speed why were
you afraid to fall asleep?
Bad things happen when you'resleeping oh yeah, that's true
bad.
People touch you when you don'twant to be touched and you don't
realize it till you wake up,you know.
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So I mean, my choice of drug atthat time was speed.
It wasn't downers, I hateddowners.
I didn't like marijuana.
A few people tried to get me totake other stuff.
Didn't like that.
That scared me a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So what was the day night that it finally said I
can't do this anymore and youdecided to make a change in your
life.
What happened?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I think it was when I married my first husband.
I mean, things started changingbecause the woman who was his
mom was the one that started umpraying for me, knew my stuff
before I knew my stuff she, andactually because his mother
actually became a pivotal umpillar in my life.
I guess it was a few yearsafter I was married she
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introduced me to a young ladythat would be my counselor for
the next seven to ten years.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So what did she do to pull you out of your wild
lifestyle?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When my son my first son was a year and a half,
something major happened.
We were doing drugs me and hissister, my husband's sister in
our house and something reallystrange took place that weekend
and I was high, she was high,she left with her baby and my
baby was sleeping and thensomething happened which was
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kind of weird.
But divine things happen andpeople don't understand it, and
I have been one of these tolearn from what's happening
around me, to pay attention, butmaybe file it for a while.
When he was about a year and ahalf, when she left the house
that day, the house shook.
I thought she hit the trailerwith her car.
So I went outside and shewasn't even there.
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So I come back in and I hearthis voice.
I mean a deep, strong voice.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Audible.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, audible, yeah, audible.
To me it was very audible, likewhat do you think you're doing?
I won't ever forget it.
He said it three times.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So it was a he.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It was a he.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Was it God?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, it was.
What do you think you're doing?
I found my that was on aSaturday night, friday or
Saturday night.
It was on the weekend and thatSunday it had to been Friday
night because Saturday I calledmy mother-in-law and I said I'm
going to this church.
I've never been there before.
It's in Slidell, but it's rightoff the highway.
I'm going to go investigate it.
She says what's the name of itand I told her and she said I
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know the pastor.
Yes, go there.
So I picked up my baby thatSunday morning I went to church.
Well, that Sunday morning I gotsaved.
I was back the next Sunday andI got doused with the Holy
Spirit, with evidence ofspeaking in tongues, and was
immediately delivered from drugsand alcohol.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Wow, in your own words, you've had a lot of
strange things happen in yourlife.
Yes, strange things, storms,but you know it kind of goes
into the theme of today's shows.
Strange things, storms, but youknow it kind of goes into the
theme of today's shows thatthings happen in our lives,
storms, strange things.
We don't understand them, butgod the whole time is trying to
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pull us out of the storm that weare in.
Did you feel that?
Did you feel that?
Hey, I'm finally getting somerelief.
I can see a light at the end ofthe tunnel.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
This God thing is starting to make me enjoy life.
I'm starting to have fun again.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right.
Well, it was different thanwhat we're used to, which takes
some strategic planning Well,maybe not planning, but being
mindful of what you're doing andwhat you no longer want to do.
But I actually woke up not onlydelivered from drugs and
alcohol, but there was somethingI knew was different about me,
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that I wanted to do right by myson.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If you play off of a person's insecurity and all you
went through.
Well, you're a dancer.
I know that, theextracurricular activities that
come with that, but there had tobe something about that
applause and all these men justlooking at you and just adoring
you because you're thisbeautiful thing on stage.
Did that have a effect on youof a trap of hard to get away
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from that life because you'refinally getting some attention,
even though it was the wrongattention?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, you're probably right, but I think the
underlining thing.
When I look back through thosebooks and all those chapters, I
believe that I was set up by mydad and he didn't even realize
it that this is what men want,Teaching me all the things that
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men want, and I wasimpressionable child to believe
that men wanted your body andthey didn't want anything else.
So he taught me that that's allmen want.
I found out different when Igot delivered.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Boy.
What a change in life.
I mean and that's where a lotof people listening right now,
sharon, are going through isthey do not have a lot of
self-worth.
They do not like themselves.
I had one gentleman Iinterviewed over a year ago
before he got delivered.
He said he couldn't even lookin the mirror because he did not
like himself.
So with this new relationshipyou're beginning to have with
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God, are you starting to seeyourself in a different life?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't say I can't say that that happened right off
the bat, because my mymother-in-law at the time, um, I
have to say she taught mewarrior, uh, strategic things
that I didn't know about theword of God, cause she was a
warrior in the spirit, sheprayed a lot, she was a great
intercessor, taught me thingsand she said that to me and it
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made so much sense that justbecause I was delivered divinely
from alcohol and drugs, thatdoesn't happen for everybody,
but she says also, yourdeliverance is still happening.
Some deliverances is a process.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's a process that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's a process and she taught me that.
So she said going to counselingwould help me process the past
so that I could deal with thenow, so that I could live for my
future.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
There you go, that's good.
And when she?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
taught me that.
I never forgot that, Eventhough in those first 10 years
of my children's lives, I haveto say there was many times
where she would get aggravatedwith me, that she didn't think I
was listening.
I was listening, I just didn'tknow how to process it all
because it was so different frommy other life.
And when she died in 2006, ayear, literally one year later
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after Katrina, it was almostlike her mantle had shifted and
I remember every conversation.
I remember every prayer sheprayed over me and it was almost
like that first year.
She literally was whispering tome.
Do you remember when I said doyou remember what I said not to
do?
Do you remember when you needto go to the scriptures for this
and when you need help, youneed to go call your?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
counselor.
So she, this lady, yourmother-in-law, had a really
profound impact.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, she was the mother that I didn't have.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And chances are everybody out there listening
that don't think there'ssomebody out there that
understands them.
There probably is.
They might just need to look alittle bit harder, because God
will place people in our path.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yes, he will.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
To help us get out of the storms in life.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yes, you, I ran right , smack into her, you ran, she
was a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes.
If somebody right now is justdivinely tuned in and said oh my
God, she's talking about me,what would you tell them to do?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Well, they can call the human trafficking hotline.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
What's the national number?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
888-3737-888.
That's the national hotline yes.
Title of the national hotlineyes.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Title of the show is called Get the Hell Out of your
Life.
How do you get the hell out ofyour life?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
You keep running until you run into the brick
wall that's going to save youand that can be a person God put
in your path to help you out ofthe mess that you were in, to
get you to see him.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know I run into you off and on, here and there,
starbucks, and you're alwaysdoing good things.
Sharon, I'm so proud of you andwhat you're doing and God bless
you, and I'm so sorry for allthe pain that you had to go
through in life.
But the one thing that I'vediscovered with God, he'll take
our pain and turn it into apurpose.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, and if no one's read the purpose driven Life
book, I am living my purpose.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
When I return, let's talk about hope, purpose and
destiny.
You're listening to Get theHell Out of your Life with your
host, ron Myers.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Real stories real struggles and real hope.
In a world filled withuncertainty, it's easy to lose
sight of our purpose and destiny.
But when we anchor our heartsin a relationship with Jesus,
everything changes.
My name is Mark and this is theJourney.
Jesus becomes our true sourceof hope, our guide towards the
purpose in our life and the onewho shapes our destiny.
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Hebrews 6, verse 19 says we havethis hope, jesus as an anchor
for the soul, firm and secure.
You know the storms of lifewill come, but Jesus is our
unshakable anchor.
When we place our trust in Him,we are securely tethered to His
love, his wisdom and Hisperfect plan.
Proverbs 16, verse 4, remindsus the Lord works out everything
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to its proper end.
This means your life has truemeaning.
God has a purpose for you, areason you are here today, and
through a relationship withJesus that purpose begins to
unfold.
So when you feel lost oruncertain, echo the words of
David in Psalm 39.
My hope is in you, o Lord.
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In Jesus you are not forgotten.
You are called, loved anddestined for a life that
glorifies him.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Here's a refreshing word for you today from Hebrews
4.16.
Let us therefore come boldly tothe throne of grace that we may
obtain mercy and find grace tohelp in time of need.
You're tired of how you'reliving.
We'll change it.
You don't like where you'reheaded, my friends.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Now let's talk about hope, purpose and destiny.
Sharon's story reminded me ofwhat I had to go through to
change the direction and thedestiny in my life.
I was so hung up on greed,making money and using bikini
contests and wet t-shirtcontests and beer selling to
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make my income.
I had no guilt.
I did it for 16 years.
But something began stirring inme that, ron, you know you have
something inside of you thatGod wants to release.
And I thought, well, wonderwhat that is.
And I had that quiet littlethought your destiny, your
purpose.
And so I began a process.
Now, friends, I didn't changeovernight.
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I had a process that I startedpraying Lord, I want to discover
my destiny.
I want to discover what youwant me to do for you.
I know you've given me talent,skills and abilities, but what
is it, lord?
What is it that I can do foryou?
And I will be happy I cansupport my family and friends.
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Over a process of probably twoand a half to three years, I
started thinking different andwhat was happening behind the
scenes I didn't even know about.
God was rearranging things thatI would encounter in the coming
years that would make me wantto change my occupation wanted
me to change the direction of mylife and one thing led to
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another and the door ofopportunity opened, right when
the door of what I thought wasmy career was closed.
Just that quick, but it waswonderful.
I tell people I walked into thetime of life where I was so
poor I couldn't pay attention,but I was happy.
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I was happy.
I didn't know what I was happyfor, but I just knew God was
writing a new life, a newjourney in my life and that is
really a lot of the thoughtsbehind creating this show years
ago is to find other people thathad a powerful, wonderful,
loving, merciful, gracefulrelationship with Jesus and
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their destiny changed forever.
Because what I believe is this,friends, we can read about the
historical Jesus all the timeyou know, anytime you want.
Jesus lived here.
This is what he did.
He walked with these people, hedid these miracles.
But until you experience Jesus,until he actually touches your
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heart, touches your dreams,touches your inspiration, your
encouragement, it's just a story.
But when he begins to write thestory in your life for you, you
begin that love relationshipwith him and the grace just
floods in your life.
And the more you know how muchhe loves you, the more you fall
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in love with him and thatlimitless grace that he has for
us.
It causes us not to desire tosin or do things that we don't
want to do.
It causes us to just pursue ourpurpose with a passion.
So today I want to encourage you.
I don't care what anybody hasever told you, I don't care what
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preachers have preached to you.
The only one that knows yourdestiny is Jesus.
It is time for you to have somesit down, quiet time, coffee
with Jesus and begin to pouryour heart out.
And the longer you spend timewith Jesus, my friends, the more
that you realize you can trusthim, you can depend on him.
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He will never leave you, hewill never forsake you and he
will never toss you out of hishands.
This is the greatest time to bea believer, because Jesus is
walking the streets todaythrough the hands and feet of
his followers.
How do you get the hell out ofyour life?
Get on your knees and cry outto the Lord, he hears you right
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where you are.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
How?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
do you get the hell out of your life?
Well, you replace it with Jesus.
We've got to be born again,born of the Spirit, and that's
by trusting Jesus Christ,turning from our sins and
trusting Jesus.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
You find out about this man by the name of Jesus
who went to the cross and gavehis life so that we will have a
life more abundantly, and if youcan receive that love, he will
love that hell out of you.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You trust in him and you let him love the hell right
out of you.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
How do you get the hell out of your life?
Oh gosh Jesus.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Turn to Jesus.
Jesus is the way, the truth andthe life.
No one comes to the Fatherexcept through him.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you once
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Welcome to the show that hasreal stories for you to listen
to.
Real stories, real strugglesand real hope.
Because who isn't havingstruggles in life?
One thing I have noticed withthe guests that I have
interviewed over the past 20years is that a lot of things in
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their life originated when theywere young.
The seed of doubt, the seed ofabuse, the seed of fear was
planted as a child and, you know, it just kind of developed a
life of its own over time andthen it takes root in the
person's life and the behavior.
It leads them to one thing, toanother thing, to another.
(01:03):
It's a vicious cycle.
You probably know what I'mtalking about.
I know it happened to me.
Well, today's guest, sharon,talks about things as a child
and what happened as she grewolder and eventually went into a
strip club and entertained menfor money.
But something was pulling ather saying you got to stop this.
(01:23):
It's time to get busy with lifeand start living for what your
purpose is.
So you're going to hear astruggle and the good news
you'll always hear in all mystories is they found hope
because they found Jesus.
So let's take a listen toSharon's story and then I'll
recap it when we finish it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, I graduated from school in 79.
I was a waitress food waitresshere on the Gulf Coast at 17.
I was going to be in MIT in aparticular restaurant that I was
working in and we had a regularperson that came in for
breakfast every morning At 18,.
I was training to be a manager.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you had a customer that liked you.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He did.
He was very friendly, he wasold enough to be my grandfather
and over time he asked all thepersonal questions.
And you know, being young andbeing on your own, I didn't have
any inhibitions as far astelling people who I was or what
I wanted to do in life or thestruggles that I was having,
even irregardless to the factthat I grew up as an introvert.
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But when you are in arestaurant, you have a different
platform of letting yourcustomers know that you're there
for them and you know in turn.
They sometimes ask how they canhelp or give you advice as a
customer because they're havinga conversation with you over
their lunch or breakfast.
He used to come in everymorning.
I knew his menu before he couldtell me what he wanted because
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I had memorized it.
I have a good memory on stufflike that Give him his coffee.
He would ask questions, andthis went on for probably a good
five, six months before he madethe initial invite which now,
looking back, you call thatrecruitment into being a club
for his employer.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What was the invite?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The invite was to help me make more money If I
wanted to be um work in thenightlife, since I was being a
waitress during the day.
If I wanted to make more moneyin the evening.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What's that entail?
The nightlife.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He introduced me to the club where he worked and um
asked me if I wanted to dance,bought all my clothes, my
clothes for dancing.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So he wanted you to be a stripper.
Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, and you were 18 ?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yep, at 18,.
You're young, you'reimpressionable, you're a little
bit naive.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Behind the scenes.
I was already marked as atarget because I was sexually
abused by my dad for 12 years,so I was already a target.
What do you mean by that?
A target?
Because I was sexually abusedby my dad for 12 years, so I was
already a target.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What do you mean by that?
A target?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean that anybody who's been sexually abused,
physically abused.
It's almost like they have thisneon sign over them and people
know what to look for.
That are.
They have inhibitions.
They have people who don't haveunderstanding of what kind of
people are out there.
Good judge of character on whattheir motives are to get you to
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do something that you do.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So this guy that came in for breakfast and through
conversation got to know thatyou had some sexual abuse in
your life.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think that he knew the signs of what kind of girl
he was looking for, becausetraffickers tend to do that they
groom a girl.
But they know what kind ofpersonalities People who are not
extroverts necessarily they'reintroverts.
They have personal issues goingon and they want to be the one
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to let you know that they gotyour back and that you can trust
them.
What happened to you then won'thappen to you again, but it
does, but at a bigger volume.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And they're going to take care of you.
Right, yeah, they're going totake care of you.
You're going to be their bestbud and you're going to make
money.
Just do what they want you todo.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
How long did that go on?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
A year and a half to two years.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And then what?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
My first offender sat at the front table next to the
stage.
He came into the club and satat the front table and I stepped
out on a stage and saw him andI just freaked out.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Did he recognize you?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I think he did, because I went and sat with him
after I danced.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why would you go sit with him if he was the offender
I?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
wanted to know why he would be there.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He was my dad.
I wanted to know what the heckhe was doing there.
Why was he there?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He was your dad.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yes, my biological dad.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Wow, did you find out anything that night?
Did he confess and apologize?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No, he didn't know that I worked there.
Apologize for the.
He didn't know that I workedthere.
I did ask him what he was doingthere.
He said I didn't know youworked here and he didn't um
know what happened later.
He did not know that I wasbeing sold that was a traumatic
experience.
I imagine seeing him huh uh,yeah, it was actually pivotal.
That's when I ran, because I'ma runner.
Most trafficked survivors umsexual abuse survivors, as well
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as physical abuse survivorsChildren of all of these things
tend to have the what do youcall it?
The three F's fight, flight,freeze.
I froze as a child, I flightduring my adolescent and young
twenties and then now I'm afighter.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So where did you run to?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
To the next county.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The next county.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, I ran to the next county, got to quit my job.
I quit the restaurant, went tothe next county, got a new job,
moved my place of where I lived.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Now a new job.
Is that dancing?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
still no the dancing that I did got me regulars when
we were being sold.
That told me things that Ididn't know, which they turned
out to be clients after I leftthe club.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So they developed a relationship with you and they
would call you up for a littleextracurricular activity.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Correct.
Yes, and that happened.
I had, I think, four regulars.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
How many years did that go on?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That went on.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That only went on for about a year, um, before I ran
smack into the first man Imarried you run into your dad
who abused you and now you raninto, and then, a couple years
later, you run into the man thatyou married.
Was that good or was that bad?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
well, I thought it was good, but it was after I got
married I found out I married adrug dealer.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Wow, wow, you did.
You know we're talking aboutthe storms in life, boy.
You had some serious storms,didn't you?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I had a few.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Was there anything inside of you that said I got to
get out of this, I got to leavethis?
There's something that God hasfor well.
I can't even say if you evenknew.
Did you even know God?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I didn't know God.
Then I mean, I knew there was aGod because I was raised in
church, you know.
But now that I look backthrough that volume of books, as
I call it is, my parents playedchurch.
You go to church because you'resupposed to, it's tradition.
And then I realized that theywent home and did whatever they
wanted.
So I knew about God.
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I just didn't have arelationship with God.
So my running thing was everytime you get into unfamiliar
waters you're like, okay, whatdo I do with this?
And you run, you just run.
Or if you're scared or youdon't know what you're supposed
to do, you run.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So you run, you go to somewhere else and it's almost
kind of like starting yeah,fresh yes new, nobody knows you
until some more stuff happenssome more stuff happened.
You can never outrun your past.
Huh, it somehow catches up withyou well it they say that.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But I think you can outrun your past, because when I
ran into the first man Imarried, who happened to be a
drug dealer, my next concern wasis the house being raided and
them taking my first born childaway from me?
So that was another issue andthat happened.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, how are you dealing with all this?
Are you doing drugs or alcohol?
How do you keep your sanity?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
well, actually in the club I was a drinker.
Half a bottle of schnapps justto get on the stage.
Then I went to drugs.
Um, my drug of choice back thenwas speed.
I was afraid to fall asleep, soI always took speed why were
you afraid to fall asleep?
Bad things happen when you'resleeping oh yeah, that's true
bad.
People touch you when you don'twant to be touched and you don't
realize it till you wake up,you know.
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So I mean, my choice of drug atthat time was speed.
It wasn't downers, I hateddowners.
I didn't like marijuana.
A few people tried to get me totake other stuff.
Didn't like that.
That scared me a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So what was the day night that it finally said I
can't do this anymore and youdecided to make a change in your
life.
What happened?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I think it was when I married my first husband.
I mean, things started changingbecause the woman who was his
mom was the one that started umpraying for me, knew my stuff
before I knew my stuff she, andactually because his mother
actually became a pivotal umpillar in my life.
I guess it was a few yearsafter I was married she
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introduced me to a young ladythat would be my counselor for
the next seven to ten years.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So what did she do to pull you out of your wild
lifestyle?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When my son my first son was a year and a half,
something major happened.
We were doing drugs me and hissister, my husband's sister in
our house and something reallystrange took place that weekend
and I was high, she was high,she left with her baby and my
baby was sleeping and thensomething happened which was
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kind of weird.
But divine things happen andpeople don't understand it, and
I have been one of these tolearn from what's happening
around me, to pay attention, butmaybe file it for a while.
When he was about a year and ahalf, when she left the house
that day, the house shook.
I thought she hit the trailerwith her car.
So I went outside and shewasn't even there.
(10:59):
So I come back in and I hearthis voice.
I mean a deep, strong voice.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Audible.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, audible, yeah, audible.
To me it was very audible, likewhat do you think you're doing?
I won't ever forget it.
He said it three times.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So it was a he.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It was a he.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Was it God?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, it was.
What do you think you're doing?
I found my that was on aSaturday night, friday or
Saturday night.
It was on the weekend and thatSunday it had to been Friday
night because Saturday I calledmy mother-in-law and I said I'm
going to this church.
I've never been there before.
It's in Slidell, but it's rightoff the highway.
I'm going to go investigate it.
She says what's the name of itand I told her and she said I
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know the pastor.
Yes, go there.
So I picked up my baby thatSunday morning I went to church.
Well, that Sunday morning I gotsaved.
I was back the next Sunday andI got doused with the Holy
Spirit, with evidence ofspeaking in tongues, and was
immediately delivered from drugsand alcohol.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Wow, in your own words, you've had a lot of
strange things happen in yourlife.
Yes, strange things, storms,but you know it kind of goes
into the theme of today's shows.
Strange things, storms, but youknow it kind of goes into the
theme of today's shows thatthings happen in our lives,
storms, strange things.
We don't understand them, butgod the whole time is trying to
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pull us out of the storm that weare in.
Did you feel that?
Did you feel that?
Hey, I'm finally getting somerelief.
I can see a light at the end ofthe tunnel.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
This God thing is starting to make me enjoy life.
I'm starting to have fun again.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right.
Well, it was different thanwhat we're used to, which takes
some strategic planning Well,maybe not planning, but being
mindful of what you're doing andwhat you no longer want to do.
But I actually woke up not onlydelivered from drugs and
alcohol, but there was somethingI knew was different about me,
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that I wanted to do right by myson.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If you play off of a person's insecurity and all you
went through.
Well, you're a dancer.
I know that, theextracurricular activities that
come with that, but there had tobe something about that
applause and all these men justlooking at you and just adoring
you because you're thisbeautiful thing on stage.
Did that have a effect on youof a trap of hard to get away
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from that life because you'refinally getting some attention,
even though it was the wrongattention?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, you're probably right, but I think the
underlining thing.
When I look back through thosebooks and all those chapters, I
believe that I was set up by mydad and he didn't even realize
it that this is what men want,Teaching me all the things that
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men want, and I wasimpressionable child to believe
that men wanted your body andthey didn't want anything else.
So he taught me that that's allmen want.
I found out different when Igot delivered.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Boy.
What a change in life.
I mean and that's where a lotof people listening right now,
sharon, are going through isthey do not have a lot of
self-worth.
They do not like themselves.
I had one gentleman Iinterviewed over a year ago
before he got delivered.
He said he couldn't even lookin the mirror because he did not
like himself.
So with this new relationshipyou're beginning to have with
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God, are you starting to seeyourself in a different life?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't say I can't say that that happened right off
the bat, because my mymother-in-law at the time, um, I
have to say she taught mewarrior, uh, strategic things
that I didn't know about theword of God, cause she was a
warrior in the spirit, sheprayed a lot, she was a great
intercessor, taught me thingsand she said that to me and it
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made so much sense that justbecause I was delivered divinely
from alcohol and drugs, thatdoesn't happen for everybody,
but she says also, yourdeliverance is still happening.
Some deliverances is a process.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's a process that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's a process and she taught me that.
So she said going to counselingwould help me process the past
so that I could deal with thenow, so that I could live for my
future.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
There you go, that's good.
And when she?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
taught me that.
I never forgot that, Eventhough in those first 10 years
of my children's lives, I haveto say there was many times
where she would get aggravatedwith me, that she didn't think I
was listening.
I was listening, I just didn'tknow how to process it all
because it was so different frommy other life.
And when she died in 2006, ayear, literally one year later
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after Katrina, it was almostlike her mantle had shifted and
I remember every conversation.
I remember every prayer sheprayed over me and it was almost
like that first year.
She literally was whispering tome.
Do you remember when I said doyou remember what I said not to
do?
Do you remember when you needto go to the scriptures for this
and when you need help, youneed to go call your?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
counselor.
So she, this lady, yourmother-in-law, had a really
profound impact.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, she was the mother that I didn't have.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And chances are everybody out there listening
that don't think there'ssomebody out there that
understands them.
There probably is.
They might just need to look alittle bit harder, because God
will place people in our path.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yes, he will.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
To help us get out of the storms in life.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yes, you, I ran right , smack into her, you ran, she
was a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes.
If somebody right now is justdivinely tuned in and said oh my
God, she's talking about me,what would you tell them to do?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Well, they can call the human trafficking hotline.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
What's the national number?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
888-3737-888.
That's the national hotline yes.
Title of the national hotlineyes.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Title of the show is called Get the Hell Out of your
Life.
How do you get the hell out ofyour life?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
You keep running until you run into the brick
wall that's going to save youand that can be a person God put
in your path to help you out ofthe mess that you were in, to
get you to see him.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know I run into you off and on, here and there,
starbucks, and you're alwaysdoing good things.
Sharon, I'm so proud of you andwhat you're doing and God bless
you, and I'm so sorry for allthe pain that you had to go
through in life.
But the one thing that I'vediscovered with God, he'll take
our pain and turn it into apurpose.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, and if no one's read the purpose driven Life
book, I am living my purpose.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
When I return, let's talk about hope, purpose and
destiny.
You're listening to Get theHell Out of your Life with your
host, ron Myers.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Real stories real struggles and real hope.
In a world filled withuncertainty, it's easy to lose
sight of our purpose and destiny.
But when we anchor our heartsin a relationship with Jesus,
everything changes.
My name is Mark and this is theJourney.
Jesus becomes our true sourceof hope, our guide towards the
purpose in our life and the onewho shapes our destiny.
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Hebrews 6, verse 19 says we havethis hope, jesus as an anchor
for the soul, firm and secure.
You know the storms of lifewill come, but Jesus is our
unshakable anchor.
When we place our trust in Him,we are securely tethered to His
love, his wisdom and Hisperfect plan.
Proverbs 16, verse 4, remindsus the Lord works out everything
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to its proper end.
This means your life has truemeaning.
God has a purpose for you, areason you are here today, and
through a relationship withJesus that purpose begins to
unfold.
So when you feel lost oruncertain, echo the words of
David in Psalm 39.
My hope is in you, o Lord.
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In Jesus you are not forgotten.
You are called, loved anddestined for a life that
glorifies him.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Here's a refreshing word for you today from Hebrews
4.16.
Let us therefore come boldly tothe throne of grace that we may
obtain mercy and find grace tohelp in time of need.
You're tired of how you'reliving.
We'll change it.
You don't like where you'reheaded, my friends.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Now let's talk about hope, purpose and destiny.
Sharon's story reminded me ofwhat I had to go through to
change the direction and thedestiny in my life.
I was so hung up on greed,making money and using bikini
contests and wet t-shirtcontests and beer selling to
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make my income.
I had no guilt.
I did it for 16 years.
But something began stirring inme that, ron, you know you have
something inside of you thatGod wants to release.
And I thought, well, wonderwhat that is.
And I had that quiet littlethought your destiny, your
purpose.
And so I began a process.
Now, friends, I didn't changeovernight.
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I had a process that I startedpraying Lord, I want to discover
my destiny.
I want to discover what youwant me to do for you.
I know you've given me talent,skills and abilities, but what
is it, lord?
What is it that I can do foryou?
And I will be happy I cansupport my family and friends.
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Over a process of probably twoand a half to three years, I
started thinking different andwhat was happening behind the
scenes I didn't even know about.
God was rearranging things thatI would encounter in the coming
years that would make me wantto change my occupation wanted
me to change the direction of mylife and one thing led to
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another and the door ofopportunity opened, right when
the door of what I thought wasmy career was closed.
Just that quick, but it waswonderful.
I tell people I walked into thetime of life where I was so
poor I couldn't pay attention,but I was happy.
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I was happy.
I didn't know what I was happyfor, but I just knew God was
writing a new life, a newjourney in my life and that is
really a lot of the thoughtsbehind creating this show years
ago is to find other people thathad a powerful, wonderful,
loving, merciful, gracefulrelationship with Jesus and
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their destiny changed forever.
Because what I believe is this,friends, we can read about the
historical Jesus all the timeyou know, anytime you want.
Jesus lived here.
This is what he did.
He walked with these people, hedid these miracles.
But until you experience Jesus,until he actually touches your
(22:13):
heart, touches your dreams,touches your inspiration, your
encouragement, it's just a story.
But when he begins to write thestory in your life for you, you
begin that love relationshipwith him and the grace just
floods in your life.
And the more you know how muchhe loves you, the more you fall
(22:37):
in love with him and thatlimitless grace that he has for
us.
It causes us not to desire tosin or do things that we don't
want to do.
It causes us to just pursue ourpurpose with a passion.
So today I want to encourage you.
I don't care what anybody hasever told you, I don't care what
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preachers have preached to you.
The only one that knows yourdestiny is Jesus.
It is time for you to have somesit down, quiet time, coffee
with Jesus and begin to pouryour heart out.
And the longer you spend timewith Jesus, my friends, the more
that you realize you can trusthim, you can depend on him.
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He will never leave you, hewill never forsake you and he
will never toss you out of hishands.
This is the greatest time to bea believer, because Jesus is
walking the streets todaythrough the hands and feet of
his followers.
How do you get the hell out ofyour life?
Get on your knees and cry outto the Lord, he hears you right
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where you are.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
How?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
do you get the hell out of your life?
Well, you replace it with Jesus.
We've got to be born again,born of the Spirit, and that's
by trusting Jesus Christ,turning from our sins and
trusting Jesus.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
You find out about this man by the name of Jesus
who went to the cross and gavehis life so that we will have a
life more abundantly, and if youcan receive that love, he will
love that hell out of you.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You trust in him and you let him love the hell right
out of you.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
How do you get the hell out of your life?
Oh gosh Jesus.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Turn to Jesus.
Jesus is the way, the truth andthe life.
No one comes to the Fatherexcept through him.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Well, friends, would you like to have some fun this
coming week?
Then focus, meditate on thewords of hope, purpose and
destiny.
Commit this to your prayer life, your conversations with Jesus.
Ask him to help you discoveryour destiny, discover your
purpose and understand thebeautiful hope that he has
placed in you.
Get excited about life again.
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Understand that, hey, some ofthe challenges in your life are
only there to help you get towhere Jesus needs you to be,
because your test that you'regoing through now will soon
become your testimony.
This is your time, my friend.
This is the greatest time.
I absolutely believe it.
This is your time, my friend.
This is the greatest time.
I absolutely believe it.
This is the absolute best timeto be a believer, because Jesus
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is walking this planet right nowthrough the hands and feet of
his followers.
Share the good news, Share hisgrace, Share his love, Share his
forgiveness, and you willunderstand that hope, purpose
and destiny aren't just words,but they are a way of life.
Also, will you help me promotethis show?
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It's called Get the Hell Out ofyour Life and it's available on
all podcast platforms.
I'll be back next week withanother great episode of
somebody sharing their story ofwhat Jesus did for them.
Until then, this is Ron Myersreminding you that I love you,
Jesus loves you, and when yougive Jesus your heart, you not
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only get the hell out of yourlife, you begin to experience
hope, purpose and destiny.
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