August 10, 2023 • 29 mins
Join us as we witness the remarkable narrative of Kelby, a man who journeyed from the depths of addiction to the sanctuary of faith. Picture this: an 18-year-old caught in a cycle of drugs and delinquency celebrating his birthday behind bars. His life takes a radical turn when he meets a stranger who introduces him to Jesus, sowing the seeds of hope that pave the way for his transformation.
As we traverse the final chapters of his journey, Kelby illuminates how his faith became his beacon of hope and connection. From a life enslaved by addiction, he found freedom and purpose by centering his life around Jesus Christ. We reflect on his hunger for change and how he channeled it to escape his past and transform his life. As we culminate our conversation, we want to remind you: no matter your struggle, peace, and hope can always be found in Jesus Christ. So, connect with Kelby and discover how faith can be the catalyst to changing your life.
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Ron Meyers (00:00):
The following program is sponsored by Ron
Meyers Ministries.
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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, ronMeyers.
The Provider.
Ron Meyers (00:28):
Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you
today.
Have you had your coffee withJesus, your quiet time with Dad,
telling him the problems, themistakes, the stumbles and, you
know, just saying, hey, I got toget back on track there, jesus.
I need some guidance today andthey're just something healthy
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about a conversation with Jesus.
After all, he's living insideof you If you are a believer.
I learned a long time ago Ibypassed the middleman, I go
straight to Jesus.
I mean, I do like church and Ilike all that pageantry and
tradition, but there's nothinglike that close, intimate,
personal relationship with Jesus, my life coach and my mentor,
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because he is truth and thetruth will never lead you astray
.
This show is all about sharingstories to validate the love,
the mercy, the forgiveness ofJesus.
I interview people I've beendoing it for over four seasons
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now hundreds of people thatnever met Jesus in church, but
they met Jesus at the end oftheir loneliness or a needle or
just so much hell in their life.
They said I can't do thisanymore.
Well, today you will hear fromKelby.
Kelby grew up in South Carolinaand, well, he was a little
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little hellraiser and then oneday he's going to tell you about
a ballheaded white man thatchanged his life by introducing
introducing him to Jesus.
Kelby, so good to have you onthe phone with me.
How are you doing today?
Kelby McNabb (02:23):
Hey, ron, doing pretty well, doing pretty well.
Ron Meyers (02:25):
So, kelby, what is your story?
Kelby McNabb (02:27):
First of all, thank you so much.
That means that means the worldto me.
I mean, where do I start?
That's 17 really is where itall shifted for me.
You know I'm the oldest ofseven boys.
Mom, you know, single mom,didn't really have a father
figure.
To be honest, I didn't evenreally get to know my father to
probably like late teenage years, and even then it was kind of
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very distant and not reallygreat relationship.
So you know, I was kind of theman of the household and sort of
speaking, just one decision ledto another and it just started
going downhill.
And it first started with mereally just experimenting with
drugs.
You know, I dropped out of highschool, big 17.
I moved down to South Carolinaand then when I got here I just
I just really just wasn't doingnothing with my time no, can we
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eat all day and hanging out withthe wrong people.
You know, kind of prove myselfto somebody, really trying to
find something significant.
And I'll share this story.
It was me and my friends at thetime and we were drunk, we're
on Xanax and literally just outof our minds, and it was like
one o'clock in the morning andwe were walking down the street
and we just had this idea ofjust breaking into something and
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it was literally a church rightacross the street from where we
were walking.
We said, you know, let's justgo kick that door in and ran
inside the church and all wewere doing just scrumming
through stuff, being beingstupid, vandalizing things.
But a neighbor heard us andthey called the cops.
We seen some headlightsflashing the windows of the
church.
You know, it's one o'clock inthe morning.
We're like what is going on?
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We peek outside and all weheard was, hey, you, and it was
officers just lined up in theirpatrol.
Cars immediately freak out andwe go run back inside.
I actually remember trying totaking off and getting tackled
by a cop, but I definitelyremember being hit in the back
of the head and then theyreleased a canine into the
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church where my buddies were andhad the dog actually bite one
of them and drag them out, andso it was a crazy situation.
We ended up getting a lot oftrouble for that, but that was
just the first of many.
My mother bonded me out Godbless her.
She's such an amazing womanTried to do her best with what
she had.
Four weeks later, I'm doing itagain I'm back on a rampage.
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I'm back on Zanak and smoking,weed and drinking and this time
commit another felony.
That happened twice and thelast time the judge looked at me
I was 17.
And now I'm getting charged asan adult.
I got six felonies like eightmisdemeanors now and the judge
looks at me and says Kaby, I'mnot letting you out again.
Every time we let you out youget back in trouble.
So you're going to stay here inthis jail cell.
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And I'll never forget, becauseI had my 18th birthday in
Pickens County Jail here inSouth Carolina and while I was
in there, one day a guard comesup and says Kaby, you have a
visitor.
So of course I've got nothingto do.
I go to the visitation room andthere's this bald-headed white
dude on the other side of thisglass screen and I sit down and
talk with him and first he'sasking me how am I doing?
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And then sharing with me alittle bit about who he is, and
then he starts talking aboutJesus.
I've always known about Christand God.
I've definitely felt like I'vealways been a believer.
I knew there was somethingbigger out there.
I just wrestled with, I guess,believing Jesus, and so he
started talking to me a littlebit and I kind of shut it down
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to me.
If I look dude, like one of thereasons I'm in here is because I
was breaking into churches Notfor me.
I know God's real, I know that,but not for me, not right now.
I need to get in my life andtogether first, and then maybe I
can pursue this Jesus thing.
And then he shared with me astory about Saul to Paul, how
God transformed that man's lifeand used him to bring so much
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glory and honor to his name, andit really touched me, man, and
really I'll never forget it.
It was like hope was depositedin my heart at that moment, you
know, and I had this idea that,okay, maybe, maybe I can really
change and maybe I can reallyget help changing.
And he gave me this newbeliever's Bible and I went back
to my jail cell and immediatelyjust kind of opened that thing
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up and started reading, startedreading the red word, the words
of Jesus.
And I'll never forget because Iran across the passage where
Jesus was telling them, tellingthe crowd.
I believe he said don't letyour right hand know what your
left hand is doing, and he wastalking about giving you know,
at the time, in the jailhousethat I was in, there was a lot
of meth addicts in there, andthese guys would come in there,
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beat up super skinny you know,hadn't slept in four or five
days and I would just feel sosorry.
And so I would literally atnight time, 12, one o'clock in
jail I would run around andthrow some noodles under their
mat, so when they wake up theyhave something to eat or I don't
know something.
And it was really inspiredbecause of that verse and
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because of the words of Jesus,and so I started putting these
things into practice while I wasin jail and really devoting
myself to learning and devotingmyself to becoming better and
pursuing this life that God hadpredestined for us through
Christ.
Then it stopped me from havingto go through the consequences
of my decisions when it cametime for me to finally be
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charged with whatever was goingto happen for me, whatever the
court decided to happen me as adiscipline.
It could have been a lot worse.
I only got sent down the roadfor eight months.
So I had to go spend eightmonths in prison in Columbia,
south Carolina, and then then Icame home and I was on five
years parole and it was a verystrict parole.
When I got home I didn't wantto go back and I knew what I had
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experienced in jail wassomething significant and
something real.
And so I reached out to thisbald head of white guy again and
just wanted to kind of see whathe's up to and talk to him.
And so we formed a little bitof a relationship.
We would go and have lunchtogether and talk about things
and you know, I would bring mychallenges to him and I would
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debate with him on certain, youknow I guess, theological stuff
and just what I was wrestlingwith, and he would always kind
of give me his ear and justlisten and provide value and
just kind of walk through withme this journey and getting to
know Christ.
But it didn't stop there, man.
A couple years later I lost abrother, 16 years old, was
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drinking and driving and powdersville, south Carolina, and
wrecked his vehicle, lost hislife.
And then just a year later Ilost older brother who I looked
up to a lot, who I lived withfor a while.
He was shot in a gang drive by.
He was a very big blood member.
He was a 24 years old, was shotin the heart, died on the spot
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on the scene, and so I wasreally just going to really mess
up place with a lot ofquestions, a lot of doubt, and
alcohol became one of my bestfriends again.
This time it was worse, you know, drinking every day.
I remember my supervisorcatching me a couple of times
with alcohol in my breath andjust sending me straight home.
But he loved me and cared forme so much he didn't want to
fire me and I was really gracehe would tell me can we just go
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home?
What never really ended uphappening is I caught a DUI.
Another month later I caughtanother DUI and then a month
later I was drinking and drivingagain and I ran into someone's
house, crashing to their wall,told them my vehicle and
everything I made newspaper.
It was terrible.
Here I am now three DUIs, I gota hit and run.
I'm already a felon.
This is my fourth year on parole.
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Life's just like a mess.
I didn't keep my relationshipwith that guy who came and
visited me in prison.
I'm in a situation where I'mfeeling hopeless again.
I remember being on thisrailroad just walking.
It was right by my house andI'm just walking and I'm
contemplating life and I'm,honestly, I'm balling my eyes
out and just begging for helpfrom God because I don't know
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what's going to happen.
My mom's tired of it, my mom'skind of like, you know, this is
just going to be this kid's life.
And I didn't even know what todo.
And I remember sitting downthis railroad and really praying
God, please help me.
In that moment I really feltGod speak to me and say tell me
I still love you and I'm goingto use you for my name.
And it was such a reassuring,comfort and a loving voice.
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And I went back home and I toldmy mom I want to go to rehab.
And she said well, there's thisplace called Home with the
Heart.
It has a couple of thriftstores that I like shopping at,
they have a men's rehabilitationand you can try them out.
So I went up there and I talkedto the director, mr Alex, and I
just gave him my whole story.
This rehab was like borderlinehouse on a prairie straight farm
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.
All he relied on was two thingsNumber one just getting you
away from your environment andgetting you into Jesus and
really relying on him to saveyou.
And so he said you know what,kelby, come on in.
We got a bed for you 60 days.
It's going to be free, we'renot going to charge you a thing.
You come on in here, we'regoing to help you, and I did.
I went in and changed my lifecompletely.
To this day, one of the mostgreatest experiences I've ever
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had was stepping foot into thatrehabilitation center and I
promise you there was nothingfancy about it.
It was literally.
You work probably eight hours aday at a third store, you would
do chores around the house andyou got preached to three times
a day at a minimum.
I think really what happened wasat that point, when I stepped
in, I was so ready to leave myold life alone and embrace this
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new life that God met me in thatplace and I graduated and that
was, I think, 2016 when I leftthere, and my life has been
completely changed.
As soon as I left, I said I gotto go find this, this
ballheaded white dude that cameand visited me when I was 17 in
jail, and apparently he hadstarted his own church now.
He was a pastor at the timewhen he visited me.
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I still did not know why hecame and visited me until a
couple of years ago, he finallytold me that the detective that
was over my case said that therewas something unique about this
kid and that he reached out tohim to come up here and speak to
me.
And so I reached out to him andI'm like, what is he doing and
all this stuff?
And he said he's starting achurch and it was in a mall.
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And I said you know what I wantto know, want to come be a part
of that.
And I did, I got connectedthere and I stayed connected
with him and I stayed connectedwith church and I really, I
really did my best to devotemyself not only just to
believing but to now living thelife that God has called me to
live, abstaining from thepleasures that I used to indulge
myself in, removing badfriendships, removing myself out
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of toxic environments, removingbad music out of my life.
I really wanted to live a holyand purposeful life that God has
called me to and I was reallybecause my way was ruining it
and I just completely.
It was very obvious thatwhatever my way was, it
definitely wasn't working.
So like, let me give this a try.
Life hasn't been the same.
I literally met my wife there,met my wife in Bible study one
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night and then, two years later,I become his youth pastor.
He had no idea that he wastalking to his youth pastor
through that glass door sixyears earlier.
Today I run a company withabout 15 employees who serve
churches and nonprofits all overthe world.
You know I get to lead now asalmost like an associate pastor
in our church and my message,this story, has reached over 13
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million people.
Ron Meyers (13:18):
Well, friends, it's time for a break, and when we
return, the conclusion ofKelby's story, and in my
monologue I've got somethingthat well, you're going to want
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Welcome back, listeners.
Yes, God is in this story.
Is God in your story?
Well, listen to the rest ofstory, and story, decide you'll
you'll today to keep God inyour story.
Kelby, there are a lot ofpeople right now that drugs,
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alcohol, the pleasures of lifehave you said that is the only
thing that they know, becausethat numbs the pain in their
life.
So somebody listening right nowthey say, wow, you know, that's
that, Kelby, and that Jesusthing.
That's not for me.
What would you tell that person?
Kelby McNabb (15:35):
I totally get that mindset.
But here's what I would sayGive it a try.
You have nothing to lose.
And if you really, really,really don't want to live the
life you're living, deep downinside, if you have an inch of
hunger for a better life, justgive it a try.
Don't knock it.
Don't knock it just yet.
Don't say that could happen tohim but that'll never happen to
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me, because that was that samemindset that I had at that time.
The truth is, the same gracethat was given to me, the same
grace that was given to you, ron, can also be given to them, and
it's available.
All we got to do is just takethat step.
Ron Meyers (16:11):
But sometimes we have to hit bottom.
We have to see the worldcollapse before we reach for
help.
What do you think?
Kelby McNabb (16:20):
That's so true, you know.
You know, I had an MMAinstructor who Really really
dear in my life, trained withhim for about eight years and
he's always telling me Kelvinpain is a very cruel teacher,
but she is very good, she willget you to learn and sometimes
it takes that for some people.
I really hate that it does butsometimes it takes excruciating
and really a lot of pain forpeople to finally realize, like
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wait a minute, this can't bewhat life's about.
It can't be why I was sent here.
Ron Meyers (16:48):
Well, god will take our pain and turn it into his
purpose.
That's right.
You're having fun, aren't you?
Kelby McNabb (16:54):
I mean, I really am.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
On now, my life has completelyflipped.
That person that was in bondageto drugs and Xanax and blunts
and liquor I don't even know him, like that.
It's absolutely fun, it'sabsolutely amazing.
And the truth is, you know,what I really love is when I get
to tell people, like when theyAsk me like oh yeah, like like
um, you know what college didyou go through?
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Or they want to know a littlebit about my background, and
then it's like surprise, yeah,and they're just like what?
There was grace in my life.
God was looking after me.
Ron Meyers (17:26):
Okay, I'll be.
You said something a minute agoreminds me back to my before
Jesus days, when it was allabout sex, drugs and rock and
roll, but a lot of it was basedon Looking for that love,
looking for that acceptance.
Do you think, a lot of thepeople that are struggling
nowadays with drugs and alcohol,that the foundational Reason in
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their life is they justabsolutely?
Kelby McNabb (17:52):
I'll give you a good example, the reason why
alcohol became so addicting tome.
It brought me significant, itmade me feel important, or it
made me get attention, which Iwas really secretly craving, and
I think a lot of people maybenot all, but a lot of people
also want that.
They want to be Known, to beknown and to know.
For me, it was just like I wasalways thought I was just this
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poor black kid who was justanother stereotype and no one's
ever gonna see you with anythingmore than just this, and so I
was secretly longing to getAttention and show off and to
kind of just like you know, bedifferent.
But I didn't know how to meetthat need, and so alcohol and
drugs helped me meet that need.
Ron Meyers (18:30):
Sounds like you're addicted to Jesus now.
Kelby McNabb (18:32):
That's right.
I mean literally.
That's right.
Jesus said to free.
It really does he gets you stopthinking about yourself and
Making the world just about you,which is a huge, huge thing.
It really is.
It's just a beautiful journeyonce we start.
Ron Meyers (18:47):
And that's the thing is.
Once we start has a young blackman growing up.
You can go now into a blackcommunity and you can talk to
gang people.
You can talk to people on drugsand you become relatable to
them.
Have you found that?
Kelby McNabb (19:02):
Absolutely.
I mean, I literally just got togo speak at the fatherhood
coalition nothing.
It was a bunch of youngteenagers, majority of them
African-American At least 70,80% African-American.
They're all between 15 and 17and they're on probation for
bringing guns to school,catching charges, and I get to
speak to those guys and I reallytried to Resignate with them
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and allow them to see, listen, Ididn't graduate high school, I
didn't go to college.
I didn't like grow up and likethis great household.
To be honest, I was living in ashed in the backyard, those
little buildings you see on theside of road where it's like
rent to own.
We would get one of those, wewould insulate it, we would run
an extension court out there andthat's where, you know, I would
live.
So, like absolutely, and I tryto keep that perspective.
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Still, I try to hold on to thatbecause I know how much, how
important that is, you know.
I'll say this I love this storyso much and I like to share.
But one day, and you probablyheard this, one day, there was a
man who was doing his best buthe fell into a hole.
He was trying to get out ofthis hole and he was trying to
climb up the sides and he stillcouldn't get out.
He was giving off what he hadand there was no hope.
And so he would just sit downthere and yell for help and help
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, and no one would hear him.
But one day a doctor walked byand peaked in the hole and seen
him down there and said hey man,what are you doing down there?
He said I mean, I've been herefor a while, I've been crying
out for help.
No one's helped me.
I don't know what to do.
And the doctor says here, well,take this prescription, take
three of these a day and thiswill help you get out of this
hole.
He tries that and he's stillstuck in the hole, he doesn't
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get out.
And some time goes on and he'sdefeated, still stuck in this
hole.
And he hears somebody walkacross the top again, and this
time, this time it's a pastor, apreacher, and this priest comes
by and says man, what are youdoing down in this hole?
And he says man, look, I'vebeen here for a while now.
I've been talked to the doctor,I've been yelling for help,
nothing's helping me.
And so the pastor says here,look, here's a Bible.
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Just read this, read this, getto know this and this will help
you get out of here.
And the man spends hoursreading and spends time reading
this and he's still stuck and hestill doesn't help him get out.
So this guy's now just hopelessat this point, just withering
away, dying.
One day this man is walkingacross the top of this platform
or this hole, peeks down inthere and says Everybody, what
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are you doing in this hole?
And he says listen, man, justgo ahead and go on like let me
just, let me just be here anddie.
And and you go and live yourlife, said I've done, had the
doctor I've done, had peoplepray for me, I've done, did
everything I can to try to getout this hole.
So the man doesn't say nothing,he just walks off and the guy
in the hole just accepts it.
Then all sudden he hears a loudbump Right behind him and he
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turns around and this man donejumped in the hole with them.
He says what are you doing, youidiot?
We're both now stuck in thishole, didn't I just tell you?
I've been here for forever andI've tried everything.
Now we're both in this hole.
And the guy looks at him and hesmiles and he says don't worry,
I know the way out.
Ron Meyers (21:52):
Kelby, I can see why so many people follow you on
social media and I appreciateyour passion and your love so
much, because it's contagious.
Kelby McNabb (22:03):
Well, that means the world to me, ron, it really
does.
You know it's always what theenemy uses when I go to lay down
at night is you're really nothelping nobody?
Or you know, are you evenreally doing what you can do?
Or you know all this isn'tsaying no one's going to really
listen to you or believe you.
Ron Meyers (22:24):
Amen, brother, I've been there, done that.
I got the t-shirt.
I know exactly what you'redoing, but we know who's we are
and we are in the hands of Jesusand we are more than conquerors
.
Kelby, will you give mylisteners a Kelby McNabb-Pupp
Talk?
Kelby McNabb (22:44):
If you're a parent and maybe you have a kid who is
struggling with drugs andalcohol and you see them taking
this path that I just sharedwith you guys about and that me
and Ron has been talking about.
You know, I know how difficultthat can be and I wish there was
just a one answer solutionthat'll help you feel better
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about all of this and solve theproblem.
You know I pondered so much onMary, the mother of Jesus, and
how much she had to endure whenshe made the decision in her
head to let her baby boy go intothe world to be abused,
mistreated, the uncertainty thatshe had to bear of knowing that
she's going to let Jesus, herson, go right and she gave it to
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God.
I first want to kind ofchallenge the parents out there
with that.
I really do.
I want because I know how muchthat stress can be.
I know I've seen my mom gothrough every phone call after
those times where it's alwaysfilled with anxiety, because you
never know if it's a detective,if it's a state trooper saying
your son is dead or if it'ssomething like that.
I want you to first know thatGod cares for you.
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He really does your prayersmatter.
He is fighting for your child,he is fighting for you.
Go to him, really, pursue that.
Get connected with the body ofbelievers who also have gone
through what you're goingthrough.
You know one thing is that theenemy wants us to feel alone,
wants us to feel like this isonly happening to us because
we're bad parents or we're badpeople.
But that's not the case at all.
This is happening to a lot ofpeople.
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A lot of believers are havingto go through this.
So I just want to say that forthe parents out there and for
anybody out there who may belistening to this now and you're
the one wrestling with kind ofthe addiction of the drugs and
or the just the life of sin andjust of selfishness, it ain't
worth it.
There's not a, there's not apill you're going to take that's
going to immediately changeeverything.
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You know I told my story in thelast 20, 25 minutes.
That was over the span of well,eight to 10 years.
You know I left rehab six yearsago.
It's not going to happenovernight.
And the number one thing whensomeone comes to me and asks you
know what?
What do I need, I always sayyou have to have hunger, you
have to have something inside ofyou that wants a better right.
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You will not sit here to justlive a life of working every day
and just misery and making drugand taking drugs to feel better
.
That was not the life he hadplanned for you.
So you've got to have a hungerinside that wants that and
you've got to keep that hungerthere, because there's going to
be times when you're going totry.
You're going to be sober for twoweeks and then slip up, or
you're going to try and thenyou're going to fail.
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You might fail over and overand over again, but listen to me
, don't let that be the end.
You get up and you keep trying.
Don't let someone call you ahypocrite because this is your
eighth time trying to get thisright.
You keep pursuing, you keepmoving forward and I promise you
grace will meet you there,promise you if you really put
him first.
You say God, I believe you, Itrust you, I want to give you my
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whole life, not just part of it.
I don't want to just say Ibelieve, but now I want to
actually take that and make itreal in my life.
I want to do things for you, Iwant to behave differently and I
need your help.
He will show up.
I promise you he will show up.
Ron Meyers (25:48):
Kelly, that is awesome.
Now listen, how do peopleconnect with you?
Kelby McNabb (25:51):
Facebook obviously is a great, great way.
I mean, I almost answer everymessage on Facebook, ron.
That's how I got to meet youand talk with you.
I take that very seriously.
So Facebook, kelly McNabb.
K-e-l-b-y-m-c-n-a-b.
Ron Meyers (26:06):
One last thing before we go.
How do you get the hell out ofyour life?
Kelby McNabb (26:09):
I love that title.
Listen, I think you've got topursue heaven and would
inevitably, I believe, willhappen, as hell will just get
left behind.
Ron Meyers (26:17):
I want to thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing yourstory, thank you for being
faithful to the call in yourlife.
And again, ron, thank you.
A member of our.
Kelby McNabb (26:24):
I appreciate it.
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Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you
today.
Have you had your coffee withJesus, your quiet time with Dad,
telling him the problems, themistakes, the stumbles and, you
know, just saying, hey, I got toget back on track there, jesus.
I need some guidance today andthey're just something healthy
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about a conversation with Jesus.
After all, he's living insideof you If you are a believer.
I learned a long time ago Ibypassed the middleman, I go
straight to Jesus.
I mean, I do like church and Ilike all that pageantry and
tradition, but there's nothinglike that close, intimate,
personal relationship with Jesus, my life coach and my mentor,
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because he is truth and thetruth will never lead you astray
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This show is all about sharingstories to validate the love,
the mercy, the forgiveness ofJesus.
I interview people I've beendoing it for over four seasons
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now hundreds of people thatnever met Jesus in church, but
they met Jesus at the end oftheir loneliness or a needle or
just so much hell in their life.
They said I can't do thisanymore.
Well, today you will hear fromKelby.
Kelby grew up in South Carolinaand, well, he was a little
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little hellraiser and then oneday he's going to tell you about
a ballheaded white man thatchanged his life by introducing
introducing him to Jesus.
Kelby, so good to have you onthe phone with me.
How are you doing today?
Kelby McNabb (02:23):
Hey, ron, doing pretty well, doing pretty well.
Ron Meyers (02:25):
So, kelby, what is your story?
Kelby McNabb (02:27):
First of all, thank you so much.
That means that means the worldto me.
I mean, where do I start?
That's 17 really is where itall shifted for me.
You know I'm the oldest ofseven boys.
Mom, you know, single mom,didn't really have a father
figure.
To be honest, I didn't evenreally get to know my father to
probably like late teenage years, and even then it was kind of
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very distant and not reallygreat relationship.
So you know, I was kind of theman of the household and sort of
speaking, just one decision ledto another and it just started
going downhill.
And it first started with mereally just experimenting with
drugs.
You know, I dropped out of highschool, big 17.
I moved down to South Carolinaand then when I got here I just
I just really just wasn't doingnothing with my time no, can we
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eat all day and hanging out withthe wrong people.
You know, kind of prove myselfto somebody, really trying to
find something significant.
And I'll share this story.
It was me and my friends at thetime and we were drunk, we're
on Xanax and literally just outof our minds, and it was like
one o'clock in the morning andwe were walking down the street
and we just had this idea ofjust breaking into something and
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it was literally a church rightacross the street from where we
were walking.
We said, you know, let's justgo kick that door in and ran
inside the church and all wewere doing just scrumming
through stuff, being beingstupid, vandalizing things.
But a neighbor heard us andthey called the cops.
We seen some headlightsflashing the windows of the
church.
You know, it's one o'clock inthe morning.
We're like what is going on?
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We peek outside and all weheard was, hey, you, and it was
officers just lined up in theirpatrol.
Cars immediately freak out andwe go run back inside.
I actually remember trying totaking off and getting tackled
by a cop, but I definitelyremember being hit in the back
of the head and then theyreleased a canine into the
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church where my buddies were andhad the dog actually bite one
of them and drag them out, andso it was a crazy situation.
We ended up getting a lot oftrouble for that, but that was
just the first of many.
My mother bonded me out Godbless her.
She's such an amazing womanTried to do her best with what
she had.
Four weeks later, I'm doing itagain I'm back on a rampage.
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I'm back on Zanak and smoking,weed and drinking and this time
commit another felony.
That happened twice and thelast time the judge looked at me
I was 17.
And now I'm getting charged asan adult.
I got six felonies like eightmisdemeanors now and the judge
looks at me and says Kaby, I'mnot letting you out again.
Every time we let you out youget back in trouble.
So you're going to stay here inthis jail cell.
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And I'll never forget, becauseI had my 18th birthday in
Pickens County Jail here inSouth Carolina and while I was
in there, one day a guard comesup and says Kaby, you have a
visitor.
So of course I've got nothingto do.
I go to the visitation room andthere's this bald-headed white
dude on the other side of thisglass screen and I sit down and
talk with him and first he'sasking me how am I doing?
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And then sharing with me alittle bit about who he is, and
then he starts talking aboutJesus.
I've always known about Christand God.
I've definitely felt like I'vealways been a believer.
I knew there was somethingbigger out there.
I just wrestled with, I guess,believing Jesus, and so he
started talking to me a littlebit and I kind of shut it down
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to me.
If I look dude, like one of thereasons I'm in here is because I
was breaking into churches Notfor me.
I know God's real, I know that,but not for me, not right now.
I need to get in my life andtogether first, and then maybe I
can pursue this Jesus thing.
And then he shared with me astory about Saul to Paul, how
God transformed that man's lifeand used him to bring so much
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glory and honor to his name, andit really touched me, man, and
really I'll never forget it.
It was like hope was depositedin my heart at that moment, you
know, and I had this idea that,okay, maybe, maybe I can really
change and maybe I can reallyget help changing.
And he gave me this newbeliever's Bible and I went back
to my jail cell and immediatelyjust kind of opened that thing
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up and started reading, startedreading the red word, the words
of Jesus.
And I'll never forget because Iran across the passage where
Jesus was telling them, tellingthe crowd.
I believe he said don't letyour right hand know what your
left hand is doing, and he wastalking about giving you know,
at the time, in the jailhousethat I was in, there was a lot
of meth addicts in there, andthese guys would come in there,
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beat up super skinny you know,hadn't slept in four or five
days and I would just feel sosorry.
And so I would literally atnight time, 12, one o'clock in
jail I would run around andthrow some noodles under their
mat, so when they wake up theyhave something to eat or I don't
know something.
And it was really inspiredbecause of that verse and
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because of the words of Jesus,and so I started putting these
things into practice while I wasin jail and really devoting
myself to learning and devotingmyself to becoming better and
pursuing this life that God hadpredestined for us through
Christ.
Then it stopped me from havingto go through the consequences
of my decisions when it cametime for me to finally be
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charged with whatever was goingto happen for me, whatever the
court decided to happen me as adiscipline.
It could have been a lot worse.
I only got sent down the roadfor eight months.
So I had to go spend eightmonths in prison in Columbia,
south Carolina, and then then Icame home and I was on five
years parole and it was a verystrict parole.
When I got home I didn't wantto go back and I knew what I had
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experienced in jail wassomething significant and
something real.
And so I reached out to thisbald head of white guy again and
just wanted to kind of see whathe's up to and talk to him.
And so we formed a little bitof a relationship.
We would go and have lunchtogether and talk about things
and you know, I would bring mychallenges to him and I would
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debate with him on certain, youknow I guess, theological stuff
and just what I was wrestlingwith, and he would always kind
of give me his ear and justlisten and provide value and
just kind of walk through withme this journey and getting to
know Christ.
But it didn't stop there, man.
A couple years later I lost abrother, 16 years old, was
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drinking and driving and powdersville, south Carolina, and
wrecked his vehicle, lost hislife.
And then just a year later Ilost older brother who I looked
up to a lot, who I lived withfor a while.
He was shot in a gang drive by.
He was a very big blood member.
He was a 24 years old, was shotin the heart, died on the spot
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on the scene, and so I wasreally just going to really mess
up place with a lot ofquestions, a lot of doubt, and
alcohol became one of my bestfriends again.
This time it was worse, you know, drinking every day.
I remember my supervisorcatching me a couple of times
with alcohol in my breath andjust sending me straight home.
But he loved me and cared forme so much he didn't want to
fire me and I was really gracehe would tell me can we just go
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home?
What never really ended uphappening is I caught a DUI.
Another month later I caughtanother DUI and then a month
later I was drinking and drivingagain and I ran into someone's
house, crashing to their wall,told them my vehicle and
everything I made newspaper.
It was terrible.
Here I am now three DUIs, I gota hit and run.
I'm already a felon.
This is my fourth year on parole.
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Life's just like a mess.
I didn't keep my relationshipwith that guy who came and
visited me in prison.
I'm in a situation where I'mfeeling hopeless again.
I remember being on thisrailroad just walking.
It was right by my house andI'm just walking and I'm
contemplating life and I'm,honestly, I'm balling my eyes
out and just begging for helpfrom God because I don't know
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what's going to happen.
My mom's tired of it, my mom'skind of like, you know, this is
just going to be this kid's life.
And I didn't even know what todo.
And I remember sitting downthis railroad and really praying
God, please help me.
In that moment I really feltGod speak to me and say tell me
I still love you and I'm goingto use you for my name.
And it was such a reassuring,comfort and a loving voice.
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And I went back home and I toldmy mom I want to go to rehab.
And she said well, there's thisplace called Home with the
Heart.
It has a couple of thriftstores that I like shopping at,
they have a men's rehabilitationand you can try them out.
So I went up there and I talkedto the director, mr Alex, and I
just gave him my whole story.
This rehab was like borderlinehouse on a prairie straight farm
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.
All he relied on was two thingsNumber one just getting you
away from your environment andgetting you into Jesus and
really relying on him to saveyou.
And so he said you know what,kelby, come on in.
We got a bed for you 60 days.
It's going to be free, we'renot going to charge you a thing.
You come on in here, we'regoing to help you, and I did.
I went in and changed my lifecompletely.
To this day, one of the mostgreatest experiences I've ever
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had was stepping foot into thatrehabilitation center and I
promise you there was nothingfancy about it.
It was literally.
You work probably eight hours aday at a third store, you would
do chores around the house andyou got preached to three times
a day at a minimum.
I think really what happened wasat that point, when I stepped
in, I was so ready to leave myold life alone and embrace this
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new life that God met me in thatplace and I graduated and that
was, I think, 2016 when I leftthere, and my life has been
completely changed.
As soon as I left, I said I gotto go find this, this
ballheaded white dude that cameand visited me when I was 17 in
jail, and apparently he hadstarted his own church now.
He was a pastor at the timewhen he visited me.
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I still did not know why hecame and visited me until a
couple of years ago, he finallytold me that the detective that
was over my case said that therewas something unique about this
kid and that he reached out tohim to come up here and speak to
me.
And so I reached out to him andI'm like, what is he doing and
all this stuff?
And he said he's starting achurch and it was in a mall.
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And I said you know what I wantto know, want to come be a part
of that.
And I did, I got connectedthere and I stayed connected
with him and I stayed connectedwith church and I really, I
really did my best to devotemyself not only just to
believing but to now living thelife that God has called me to
live, abstaining from thepleasures that I used to indulge
myself in, removing badfriendships, removing myself out
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of toxic environments, removingbad music out of my life.
I really wanted to live a holyand purposeful life that God has
called me to and I was reallybecause my way was ruining it
and I just completely.
It was very obvious thatwhatever my way was, it
definitely wasn't working.
So like, let me give this a try.
Life hasn't been the same.
I literally met my wife there,met my wife in Bible study one
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night and then, two years later,I become his youth pastor.
He had no idea that he wastalking to his youth pastor
through that glass door sixyears earlier.
Today I run a company withabout 15 employees who serve
churches and nonprofits all overthe world.
You know I get to lead now asalmost like an associate pastor
in our church and my message,this story, has reached over 13
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million people.
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Well, friends, it's time for a break, and when we
return, the conclusion ofKelby's story, and in my
monologue I've got somethingthat well, you're going to want
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Welcome back, listeners.
Yes, God is in this story.
Is God in your story?
Well, listen to the rest ofstory, and story, decide you'll
you'll today to keep God inyour story.
Kelby, there are a lot ofpeople right now that drugs,
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alcohol, the pleasures of lifehave you said that is the only
thing that they know, becausethat numbs the pain in their
life.
So somebody listening right nowthey say, wow, you know, that's
that, Kelby, and that Jesusthing.
That's not for me.
What would you tell that person?
Kelby McNabb (15:35):
I totally get that mindset.
But here's what I would sayGive it a try.
You have nothing to lose.
And if you really, really,really don't want to live the
life you're living, deep downinside, if you have an inch of
hunger for a better life, justgive it a try.
Don't knock it.
Don't knock it just yet.
Don't say that could happen tohim but that'll never happen to
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me, because that was that samemindset that I had at that time.
The truth is, the same gracethat was given to me, the same
grace that was given to you, ron, can also be given to them, and
it's available.
All we got to do is just takethat step.
Ron Meyers (16:11):
But sometimes we have to hit bottom.
We have to see the worldcollapse before we reach for
help.
What do you think?
Kelby McNabb (16:20):
That's so true, you know.
You know, I had an MMAinstructor who Really really
dear in my life, trained withhim for about eight years and
he's always telling me Kelvinpain is a very cruel teacher,
but she is very good, she willget you to learn and sometimes
it takes that for some people.
I really hate that it does butsometimes it takes excruciating
and really a lot of pain forpeople to finally realize, like
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wait a minute, this can't bewhat life's about.
It can't be why I was sent here.
Ron Meyers (16:48):
Well, god will take our pain and turn it into his
purpose.
That's right.
You're having fun, aren't you?
Kelby McNabb (16:54):
I mean, I really am.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
On now, my life has completelyflipped.
That person that was in bondageto drugs and Xanax and blunts
and liquor I don't even know him, like that.
It's absolutely fun, it'sabsolutely amazing.
And the truth is, you know,what I really love is when I get
to tell people, like when theyAsk me like oh yeah, like like
um, you know what college didyou go through?
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Or they want to know a littlebit about my background, and
then it's like surprise, yeah,and they're just like what?
There was grace in my life.
God was looking after me.
Ron Meyers (17:26):
Okay, I'll be.
You said something a minute agoreminds me back to my before
Jesus days, when it was allabout sex, drugs and rock and
roll, but a lot of it was basedon Looking for that love,
looking for that acceptance.
Do you think, a lot of thepeople that are struggling
nowadays with drugs and alcohol,that the foundational Reason in
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their life is they justabsolutely?
Kelby McNabb (17:52):
I'll give you a good example, the reason why
alcohol became so addicting tome.
It brought me significant, itmade me feel important, or it
made me get attention, which Iwas really secretly craving, and
I think a lot of people maybenot all, but a lot of people
also want that.
They want to be Known, to beknown and to know.
For me, it was just like I wasalways thought I was just this
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poor black kid who was justanother stereotype and no one's
ever gonna see you with anythingmore than just this, and so I
was secretly longing to getAttention and show off and to
kind of just like you know, bedifferent.
But I didn't know how to meetthat need, and so alcohol and
drugs helped me meet that need.
Ron Meyers (18:30):
Sounds like you're addicted to Jesus now.
Kelby McNabb (18:32):
That's right.
I mean literally.
That's right.
Jesus said to free.
It really does he gets you stopthinking about yourself and
Making the world just about you,which is a huge, huge thing.
It really is.
It's just a beautiful journeyonce we start.
Ron Meyers (18:47):
And that's the thing is.
Once we start has a young blackman growing up.
You can go now into a blackcommunity and you can talk to
gang people.
You can talk to people on drugsand you become relatable to
them.
Have you found that?
Kelby McNabb (19:02):
Absolutely.
I mean, I literally just got togo speak at the fatherhood
coalition nothing.
It was a bunch of youngteenagers, majority of them
African-American At least 70,80% African-American.
They're all between 15 and 17and they're on probation for
bringing guns to school,catching charges, and I get to
speak to those guys and I reallytried to Resignate with them
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and allow them to see, listen, Ididn't graduate high school, I
didn't go to college.
I didn't like grow up and likethis great household.
To be honest, I was living in ashed in the backyard, those
little buildings you see on theside of road where it's like
rent to own.
We would get one of those, wewould insulate it, we would run
an extension court out there andthat's where, you know, I would
live.
So, like absolutely, and I tryto keep that perspective.
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Still, I try to hold on to thatbecause I know how much, how
important that is, you know.
I'll say this I love this storyso much and I like to share.
But one day, and you probablyheard this, one day, there was a
man who was doing his best buthe fell into a hole.
He was trying to get out ofthis hole and he was trying to
climb up the sides and he stillcouldn't get out.
He was giving off what he hadand there was no hope.
And so he would just sit downthere and yell for help and help
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, and no one would hear him.
But one day a doctor walked byand peaked in the hole and seen
him down there and said hey man,what are you doing down there?
He said I mean, I've been herefor a while, I've been crying
out for help.
No one's helped me.
I don't know what to do.
And the doctor says here, well,take this prescription, take
three of these a day and thiswill help you get out of this
hole.
He tries that and he's stillstuck in the hole, he doesn't
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get out.
And some time goes on and he'sdefeated, still stuck in this
hole.
And he hears somebody walkacross the top again, and this
time, this time it's a pastor, apreacher, and this priest comes
by and says man, what are youdoing down in this hole?
And he says man, look, I'vebeen here for a while now.
I've been talked to the doctor,I've been yelling for help,
nothing's helping me.
And so the pastor says here,look, here's a Bible.
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Just read this, read this, getto know this and this will help
you get out of here.
And the man spends hoursreading and spends time reading
this and he's still stuck and hestill doesn't help him get out.
So this guy's now just hopelessat this point, just withering
away, dying.
One day this man is walkingacross the top of this platform
or this hole, peeks down inthere and says Everybody, what
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are you doing in this hole?
And he says listen, man, justgo ahead and go on like let me
just, let me just be here anddie.
And and you go and live yourlife, said I've done, had the
doctor I've done, had peoplepray for me, I've done, did
everything I can to try to getout this hole.
So the man doesn't say nothing,he just walks off and the guy
in the hole just accepts it.
Then all sudden he hears a loudbump Right behind him and he
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turns around and this man donejumped in the hole with them.
He says what are you doing, youidiot?
We're both now stuck in thishole, didn't I just tell you?
I've been here for forever andI've tried everything.
Now we're both in this hole.
And the guy looks at him and hesmiles and he says don't worry,
I know the way out.
Ron Meyers (21:52):
Kelby, I can see why so many people follow you on
social media and I appreciateyour passion and your love so
much, because it's contagious.
Kelby McNabb (22:03):
Well, that means the world to me, ron, it really
does.
You know it's always what theenemy uses when I go to lay down
at night is you're really nothelping nobody?
Or you know, are you evenreally doing what you can do?
Or you know all this isn'tsaying no one's going to really
listen to you or believe you.
Ron Meyers (22:24):
Amen, brother, I've been there, done that.
I got the t-shirt.
I know exactly what you'redoing, but we know who's we are
and we are in the hands of Jesusand we are more than conquerors
.
Kelby, will you give mylisteners a Kelby McNabb-Pupp
Talk?
Kelby McNabb (22:44):
If you're a parent and maybe you have a kid who is
struggling with drugs andalcohol and you see them taking
this path that I just sharedwith you guys about and that me
and Ron has been talking about.
You know, I know how difficultthat can be and I wish there was
just a one answer solutionthat'll help you feel better
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about all of this and solve theproblem.
You know I pondered so much onMary, the mother of Jesus, and
how much she had to endure whenshe made the decision in her
head to let her baby boy go intothe world to be abused,
mistreated, the uncertainty thatshe had to bear of knowing that
she's going to let Jesus, herson, go right and she gave it to
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God.
I first want to kind ofchallenge the parents out there
with that.
I really do.
I want because I know how muchthat stress can be.
I know I've seen my mom gothrough every phone call after
those times where it's alwaysfilled with anxiety, because you
never know if it's a detective,if it's a state trooper saying
your son is dead or if it'ssomething like that.
I want you to first know thatGod cares for you.
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He really does your prayersmatter.
He is fighting for your child,he is fighting for you.
Go to him, really, pursue that.
Get connected with the body ofbelievers who also have gone
through what you're goingthrough.
You know one thing is that theenemy wants us to feel alone,
wants us to feel like this isonly happening to us because
we're bad parents or we're badpeople.
But that's not the case at all.
This is happening to a lot ofpeople.
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A lot of believers are havingto go through this.
So I just want to say that forthe parents out there and for
anybody out there who may belistening to this now and you're
the one wrestling with kind ofthe addiction of the drugs and
or the just the life of sin andjust of selfishness, it ain't
worth it.
There's not a, there's not apill you're going to take that's
going to immediately changeeverything.
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You know I told my story in thelast 20, 25 minutes.
That was over the span of well,eight to 10 years.
You know I left rehab six yearsago.
It's not going to happenovernight.
And the number one thing whensomeone comes to me and asks you
know what?
What do I need, I always sayyou have to have hunger, you
have to have something inside ofyou that wants a better right.
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You will not sit here to justlive a life of working every day
and just misery and making drugand taking drugs to feel better
.
That was not the life he hadplanned for you.
So you've got to have a hungerinside that wants that and
you've got to keep that hungerthere, because there's going to
be times when you're going totry.
You're going to be sober for twoweeks and then slip up, or
you're going to try and thenyou're going to fail.
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You might fail over and overand over again, but listen to me
, don't let that be the end.
You get up and you keep trying.
Don't let someone call you ahypocrite because this is your
eighth time trying to get thisright.
You keep pursuing, you keepmoving forward and I promise you
grace will meet you there,promise you if you really put
him first.
You say God, I believe you, Itrust you, I want to give you my
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whole life, not just part of it.
I don't want to just say Ibelieve, but now I want to
actually take that and make itreal in my life.
I want to do things for you, Iwant to behave differently and I
need your help.
He will show up.
I promise you he will show up.
Ron Meyers (25:48):
Kelly, that is awesome.
Now listen, how do peopleconnect with you?
Kelby McNabb (25:51):
Facebook obviously is a great, great way.
I mean, I almost answer everymessage on Facebook, ron.
That's how I got to meet youand talk with you.
I take that very seriously.
So Facebook, kelly McNabb.
K-e-l-b-y-m-c-n-a-b.
Ron Meyers (26:06):
One last thing before we go.
How do you get the hell out ofyour life?
Kelby McNabb (26:09):
I love that title.
Listen, I think you've got topursue heaven and would
inevitably, I believe, willhappen, as hell will just get
left behind.
Ron Meyers (26:17):
I want to thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing yourstory, thank you for being
faithful to the call in yourlife.
And again, ron, thank you.
A member of our.
Kelby McNabb (26:24):
I appreciate it.
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You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your
host, ron Myers.
Real stories, real strugglesand real hope.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
We hear real stories every week of job loss and
broken relationships.
Perhaps you're experiencingdifficult times in your life,
the fear of a shaky financialfuture, or maybe just plain fear
of the unknown.
No matter what your situationmight be, there is someone who's
there for you, someone who canbring you an answer to the fears
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Placing your faith in him isthe first step in obtaining the
peace found solely in arelationship with Christ, a
relationship that can never bebroken.
God has said many times in theBible I will never fail you, I
will never abandon you.
Wouldn't you like to knowsomeone who will never leave
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god loves you, and when you giveJesus your heart, he will give
you total forgiveness and a lifethat is absolutely everything
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