Welcome to the New Journey, a
program about real life people
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with real life testimonies doing
real life ministry for Jesus
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Christ. I'm your host Pastor
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Marquis Johns. Join
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Jesus promises us resurrection
and some of us are waiting till
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some future event to experience
that resurrection. On today's
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show we have someone who's been
resurrected at least two times.
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Bryan, how are you doing today?
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Fine. Bryan why
don't you tell us who
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you are and where you're from.
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My name is Bryan Myers.
I'm from Wabash, Indiana.
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Wabash, Indiana? Wabash, yeah.
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OK. So Bryan, as you heard me
say, and I want to get into it
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very quickly, I want to get into
it very quickly, because I feel
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like you have a lot to share
with our audience, our viewers.
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Tell us about your early
childhood and upbringing.
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I had both parents together,
middle-class, wealthy parents.
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I mean, we had a great family.
I had a good upbringing. We were
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all together. About the age
of 15 I started drinking and of
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course that led to
smoking pot and drugs. Then I...
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Let's deal with the early
childhood. You had parents. Did
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your parents have a divorce?
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No, they separated but
they got right back together.
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So, parents separated for
a moment, came back together.
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Dad hard worker, Mom taking care
of the family. Any siblings?
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Yes, a brother and a sister.
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A brother and a
sister. Older or younger?
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One was younger. OK,
so, pretty stable family,
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pretty stable home and then
out of the blue one day you just
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you just started
drinking Bryan? Yeah.
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I mean, was drinking a part
of what went on in the family?
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Was it the occasional drink
or was dad a drinker, was mom a
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drinker? What made
you decide drinking?
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No my parents were really
Christians. I mean, we went to
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church three times a week. It's
the in crowd in high school when
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I was going into high school.
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OK, so, you get into high school
15, 16 years of age, popularity
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hits, you want to be popular,
you want to be with the in crowd
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and alcohol is the way to
do that. Tell us about that.
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I started drinking, like I said,
15, 16. After a few years that
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progressed into smoking
some pot and that progressed, of
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course, into doing some coke and
tripping on acid. You know you
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recreation for a while.
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So, from 15 years of age to
about 19, 20, you're in this
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experimental phase. Right.
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Anything to get a rush. Right.
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Anything to get the adrenaline
going. You know, whatever it is;
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pot, alcohol, LSD, mushrooms,
whatever it is. When do you
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settle on a drug of choice?
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My drug of choice? Um, I finally
settled on coke. I like started
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snorting it, of course, like
everybody else. That went on for
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two, three or four years until
you couldn't really snort it any
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more. You can only snort so much
then you start smoking it and
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then after about three months of
smoking I realized that I hated
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that because you just knew you
were going to run out and you
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was crazy if you had a great
big wad of it left. So then I
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started shooting it.
That went on for in and out...
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I'm sorry let me just burst
in here. Of all the things I've
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heard, and this may seem a
little naive on my part, you
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can actually the same way you
do with heroin, kind of melt it
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down and shoot it, cocaine?
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Coke, yeah, you
just put water on it.
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Wow, this is the first time that
I've heard someone say that they
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shot cocaine. Keep going.
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This whole time from the age of
19 when I till my first prison
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bit, that was like four years.
And I've been in and out of
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prison, you know, in and out, in
and out from 19 up until, well
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which I'll get to that,
but. Yeah I started shooting and
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playing around recreationally.
My first son's mother died in a
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house fire and it caught
me pretty hard. So then I went
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from playing around recreational
to full blown getting high and I
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was shooting everything and
drinking everything and eating
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every kind of pill.
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So, back us up a little
bit. So, from 15 to 19 it was an
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experimental phase. At 19 was
your first prison stay. How long
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were you in
jail? About four years.
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What were you in jail for?
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Battery and theft, like that.
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Because again I'm hearing
that you had a pretty decent
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upbringing, up until 15. Was
there some anger festering of
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what contributed to you... I
mean it was just like you know
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the boys are hanging out, we get
into a fight and you get stuck
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with the wrap. What happened
that landed you in prison. Take
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us through that day that, Boom!
you get accused of a crime and
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you're guilty and you go
to jail. What was that crime?
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Take us through that day.
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Always for me from 15 my best
friend and I thought we would go
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out and just fight. We loved to
do that. We were just boys and
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liked to be rough. We started
fighting and then it became you
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know... and then you
start fighting a lot and then
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everybody expects you to fight
and then everybody's challenging
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you so that becomes you know...
So then you get in a fight and
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then people... you get in
trouble. And they press charges
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that you beat someone up.
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So you get in trouble. You beat
somebody up bad enough that they
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press charges. So you got into
a fight with someone and beat
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them up pretty bad and
their recourse was to kind of...
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And just where I'm from
they just snitched on you.
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Right. Just went
and told. Probably
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they wanted the fight.
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They started it and wanted it.
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They started the fight and
wanted it. They didn't win and
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so what they did was they went
and ratted you out. And hey, now
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we look back on it and say
well we shouldn't be fighting.
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Right. I'm not trying to speak
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negatively of tell when things
are done wrong, but nonetheless
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in that lifestyle, we
looked down on people who tell.
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You know, there's a saying,
there's a saying, I don't know
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if you're familiar with this:
Snitches get stitches. And so,
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someone tells on you. Man,
you beat him up pretty bad.
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They tell you, you get
four years first time offense?
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So, tell us about that. I mean,
you're going into court, you're
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fighting this charge and boom
the mallet slams, Guilty, Four
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years. How are
you feeling Bryan?
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Sadly all my friends were
locked up in jail, in prison,
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so, you know, it's a game.
When you're young you're silly.
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You just take the ignorance from
the street to prison with you.
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The drugs are the same and
better, the alcohol's there
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so we're just having
a big party in prison.
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So, we're in prison for four
years. We got the pruno. That's
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a jailhouse liquor that they
make from gasoline and fermented
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fruit and such. You got
the pruno, you got the cocaine,
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you got the marijuana and you
got you boys with you and you
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guys are fighting,
you're roughhousing in jail.
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So, you didn't learn the lesson
the first time, did you? No.
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So you get out four years later.
You haven't learned this lesson.
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When do you meet
the mother of your son?
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When I first got out.
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When you first got
out. Tell us about that.
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I met her and then we dated.
We were just together, we just
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never got married because I
wasn't serious. I knew I wasn't
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done going to jail or prison.
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Right. Wait, wait, wait a
minute. This is part and parcel
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of what we call an institutional
mindset. You got out and said
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that's not the last
time I'm going back. Right.
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You know, I had some uncles who
would spend time in jail. They'd
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come out and they'd call coming
out to the streets vacation. So,
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they'd go on vacation on
the streets and they'd just do
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anything just to go right back
in jail. So you walked out of
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prison and said, hey,
I want to go back there.
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I knew I was going to go
back because I was crazier than
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before I went in after I
got out. So you just know you're
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going to end up back in trouble.
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So, take us back to
meeting your son's mother.
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I met her and then at a factory
we started working. I was
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actually working a good job.
Things got crazy. I'm doing all
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the coke. I mean, I'm banging
and shooting it in. Then I run
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across something called
meth, crystal meth, you know.
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And after you do coke for
so long even if you're shooting
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you still can't get that, you
know. So somebody introduced me
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to meth. Boy I liked it so much
I was like I got to learn how to
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make this because I
can't... I want to buy it.
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Wow Bryan. So you tried meth.
After the first few times you're
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saying hey I got to open a meth
factory. So, you have this new
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girlfriend, you guys are
dating. Is she a user as well.
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A drinker and yeah and
she started on the meth...
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OK, so, now we go in at 19. Four
years later, you're about 20,
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19, 20, 21, 22, about 23 years
old. You get out. You're running
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a meth lab with
this girlfriend of yours.
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Well, after a few years
after that I'd been out.
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OK, so, walk us through that.
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Then after a while, I think 1996
or so I meet this guy who shows
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me how to make meth. I stayed on
it, you know. Once I first did
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it and it is true, like they
say, you do it and you're hooked
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immediately. He teaches me how
to make it. Then I just spun out
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of the world, and crazy spun
out and then in 1998 she dies.
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And that's what I want to
get to. Does she die in a meth
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house. No, no.
OK, just a house fire.
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Yeah, my brother's house caught
on fire. My brother and I were
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in a different town partying.
His wife and my girlfriend were
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at their house. They were
drinking doing pills and we were
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in another place tweaking and
doing speed. She dies. Then life
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gets kind of crazy after that
and I just get out of control.
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It's not when you want to kill
yourself but you don't care what
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you do. As you separate yourself
from Christ, OK, the further you
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separate the more the void gets
so the darker the despair gets
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and you don't realize when
you're living in sin that's what
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happens. So I was just
separating myself further and
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further. The further I got, the
darker and the lonelier I was.
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It didn't matter
how high I was you know.
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And what about the son,
your son? What about him?
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He's locked up right now. He
gets taken to his grandmother's
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and I see him for a while and
she stops by and I see him of
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course. Because I'm out
of control, I'm in and out of
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prison so she's like man you're
not going to keep hurting him.
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Right. So, he follows his dad's
footsteps. Yeah. Selling drugs,
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using drugs. Yeah and
partying a little bit.
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He's in jail currently?
Yeah. How long? Four years.
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We're going to come back to him.
So, partying hard, okay here's
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the picture. This kid grows up,
good family, good upbringing,
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Christian family, brother,
sister, seems like you have
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everything. You hit high school.
Want to be cool. We start with
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the alcohol, we start with
the marijuana, we start with the
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coke. Next thing you know we're
fighting, we're angry, we're
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mad. You and your friends,
you're fighting every night,
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you're having a good time,
partying hard, boom, land in
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jail for four years. Come out,
and typically we come out of
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jail with better connections,
you know, come out with better
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connections. You come out with
a deeper understanding of what
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you really want to do which
is tear down the world probably.
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You meet a girl, nice girl.
You guys start using together.
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Three or so years in you run
into meth, you're running a meth
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lab, you got this kid now and
boom it all falls down. She dies
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in a house fire. Tell me what
was going on in your mind now
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when this woman... I mean,
quite possibly had you had the
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opportunity and gotten yourself
together, you may have married
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her. What's going on in
your mind when you get the news?
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So, you're over here, you
and your brother. You guys are
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partying. You get the word,
she's died in a fire. Walk us
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through that emotion.
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Oh man, of course, I mean,
it tore me up, it tore me up.
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I just went crazy. I mean
shooting, drinking, partying,
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insane. Introduced my brother
and of course introduced my
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brother. I mean he's already
partying with me. Then I shoot
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him up one time. So then he gets
into it. This is 1998. Then in
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2002 I get a call that he's down
in Kentucky, man he's in the
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intensive care, because he's
OD'd. So I go down there for
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nine days and set with
him and just watch him die.
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Wow! So, the brother
you introduced to meth dies.
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I'm sure this is another spiral,
right? Take us through the first
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time you OD'd Well
after he died then I'm in
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and out, in and out, in and out.
Then I just really get out of
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control then. I mean, like I
said, the void's deeper. It's so
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deep now that I'm doing grams,
a gram and a half at a shot, in
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one shot. Then one time I was
messing around, I was dumping
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some and then I was tweaked out.
I didn't want my girlfriend to
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catch me so I accidentally
dumped in about 2-2/1 grams and
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I did it and I knew right then.
I hit the floor, man got cold
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water going and stuff. Then they
take me to the emergency room.
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So, wait. I got to get this.
So, boom you slam 2 grams, 2-1/2
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grams, pow. And the moment
it hits you, you know oh my
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goodness, on the floor now.
They're throwing the cold water
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on you. Call the ambulance. They
rush you to the hospital. We're
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in the hospital. What are
you thinking on the ride to the
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hospital? What are you thinking
on the ride to the hospital?
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I'm just thinking I want to go
to sleep. That's how... I mean
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I was hurting so bad and
everything was locking up and
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they was like don't go to sleep,
don't go to sleep. Then I get
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in the ER in Wabash, they take
my blood pressure and it's like
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34/22 and they're like man you
need to get to Ft. Wayne, you're
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going to die. So they're
bringing me up there and get me
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going and then I'm coming to in
and out, but I'm so high off the
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meth for five days. You know,
they're trying to bring me down
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I mean, but I can't see and
I just remember my mom and my
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grandma and their preacher
just locked up and praying and
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praying and praying. My whole
left side was completely dead
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from the stroke and my
heart is down to 25%, my kidneys
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completely failed because
I got complete renal failure.
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I remember I'm praying honey
and this is the power of prayer.
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You're praying that? I'm
not, they are. Even for a
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even though I'm a lost sinner
the prayers of the righteous are
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heard. And they went through.
They were praying over me and
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mom was like save him, bring him
Lord, bring him back. I remember
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all that. Two-and-a-half months
I'm up in intensive care unit
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You were in ICU for 2-1/2
months Keep going, keep going.
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I got complete kidney failure
you know. That much meth killed
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them at one time. So I'm on
kidney dialysis. I get out. This
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is crazy. This is drugs. I get
out and I've got a shunt right
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here that they hook up to do
your blood for kidney. Well I'm
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sitting at home two months later
and I think man I'll take the
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cap off and I'll shoot up into
it because it won't take as much
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so it will stay in my heart.
If I do this not very much it
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stay in my heart, bam, drops me.
I'm back up there in intensive
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care for a couple of
months. That's crazy.
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Wow! So, now you hear your mom,
her pastor, your grandma praying
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in and out, in and out,
and you're thinking to yourself
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what? I just want to go
to sleep? You get out and you
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decide that you want to shoot
into the cord that is attached
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to your heart. You
shoot into that. What happens?
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It drops me. I mean, it's
straight into my heart and
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there's no vein to go
through or nothing; it just goes
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straight in and I hit the floor.
This is another time that the
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Lord... I mean, because I
didn't get the cap back on so I
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bleed out on the floor. But the
doctors there said that because
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it was so cool in the house and
I was on the linoleum, that's
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the reason I didn't die. Because
if I'd have lost like half of
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another pint of
blood I would have died.
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So, this is the second OD. Yeah.
When did you flat line? Did you
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flat line the
first time you OD'd?
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The first time, yeah.
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Flat lined. Dead, pronounced
dead. Did they tell you how long
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you were dead? Well I
mean they just said that
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you stopped your heart. They
were so concerned with getting
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me back. So was
this the first time you
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died? Yeah.
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Now listen to what I'm saying
to you Bryan. This is the first
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time you died? Do you
die another time after this?
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Well the second time I OD'd, the
second time it happened, I don't
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know flat line. They had to
revive me and stuff like that.
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Wow, wow! Do mom and grandma
and pastor show up again?
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They're up there every day
praying. The power of prayer
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you know what that says. The
power of prayer even over the
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sinner, the unrighteous. I mean
the prayers of the righteous are
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heard by the Lord.
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The prayers of the righteous
man availeth much. Yeah, Yeah.
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So we come out of this second
OD. Have we learned our lesson?
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No. Come on,
walk us through that.
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Still partying. Of course
they turned me loose from the
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hospital with a bunch of oxys
and Dilaudid and stuff which are
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really good banging drugs,
doing drugs. So my girlfriend at
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the time sees the stuff and
she just starts bawling. I mean,
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she's like, man, they're trying
to kill you. Which they don't
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know, the doctors don't. Then
I'm in and out of jail a couple
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more times. Then I catch myself.
I stop shooting dope, I stop
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drinking, I'm just eating pills
now. I'm working seven days a
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week for over a year. Then
a friend of mine wants to make
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some meth and wants some help.
So I'm like I don't mess around
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anymore but the guy that I get
the pills from does. So he said
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OK I'll help you out a little
bit. Well it all falls apart of
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course, which is the Lord's
doing. Setting block ways in
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the way before I get crazy
again And it falls apart and I'm
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sitting in jail and I'm facing
50 years. Well I get up to go
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to get arraignment and they're
reading off the charges and they
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say OK you're up to 20 years.
You know you're facing the B
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felony up to 20 years. The judge
stops and says, No, no, the only
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plea bargain you can take Mr.
Myers, is I'll let you plead the
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20 years, nothing else. No
one pleads from Jump Street.
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Stop right there. I want to go
back to the 15-year-old kid from
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Indiana, life of drinking,
life of pot, violence, four year
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prison sentence,
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gets out, starts banging meth
meets a girl, the girl dies,
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starts banging more meth, gets
a cause, watches his brother die
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the brother he introduces,
watches him die, OD's a couple
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times, flat line, boom, he's
dead, is revived through the
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power of prayer. Yes. So then
you go back again pulled in to
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help someone out you get caught.
You're sitting in jail now and
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the only plea the judge will
accept from Bryan Myers is 20
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years. Don't say anything else
to me but I'll take 20 years,
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your Honor. What goes through
your mind at that moment Bryan?
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That I'm hit. That I'm hit. The
prosecutor's wanting to give me
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the _ on top of that
which is 30, up to 30, you know,
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so that's a 50. So I'm like wow.
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So what happens 'cause
you're sitting here right now.
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I go back over to the jail and
I'm staying there and it takes a
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few weeks. And this is the power
of God, OK? It's so important
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of planting seeds, you know what
I mean, 'cause that seed was
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planted in my heart when I was
a kid from my parents, they sent
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me to church. So when I hit rock
bottom I know the only where
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else to go is turn to Christ.
I say man Lord. I start looking
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up the Bible, which I didn't
know any power, no personal
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relationship with Christ. I
just knew if I followed these 10
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commandments, if I ever got
out if I ever got out, if I just
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followed these commandments I
won't be back. So that's where
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I started. And I started reading
and praying, and reading and
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praying. How
long were you in jail?
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That whole time 3-1/2 years.
Three-and-a-half years and then
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you're released. You should
be in there for 20 years. You
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should be in there for 50 years.
You do 3-1/2 years, you're
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reading the Bible, you're
getting a personal relationship
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with Jesus. The seeds that were
planted by your family before
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you were 15, before this
tumultuous life took place,
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before the devil got a hold of
you and separated you from God
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you spent 3-1/2 years getting
back. Now do you realize the
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significance of the three...
Come on now. Jesus was here for
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3-1/2 years. So 3-1/2
years you get into this personal
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relationship with Christ and
instead of 10 years, instead of
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15 years, instead of 20 years,
instead of the 50 years, you do
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3-1/2 years and you're back
on the street. When was that?
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In 2008 but let me back up.
The same judge and prosecutor...
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People think that man controls
things, but the Lord controls
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what he wants, because the
same judge and same prosecutor a
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year-and-a-half later come
down... Up until two days before
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this the same thing, no pleas,
no pleas, then all of a sudden
00:24:05.97\00:24:09.38
the Lord moves and they say come
down there and they say I get
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a 5-1/2-year plea bargain. But
I got in some trouble in there
00:24:12.81\00:24:16.75
in the beginning so I had to do
some extra time. But that's what
00:24:16.79\00:24:20.66
the Lord did. The Lord has
final say so in everything.
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Yes he does. So in
2008 you get out, 2008.
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Right before I get out, OK,
which I'm getting strong in the
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Lord and a guy at Westrow
is J. Lawson, administrator, he
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said what are you going to do
when you get out, Bryan. And I
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say man with all my heart the
Lord's calling me back into the
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ministry. Come on.
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He says well that's good. He's
like but you know you have to
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wait two years before you can
go back into a jail or a prison.
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And I say, the Lord's calling me
into the ministry and I get out
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2008. A week later I'm going
back down to my jail to minister
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Come on, come on. The power of
God, the power of prayer. Your
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life is a testimony to the
power of prayer, the power of
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God and the fact that God
removes kings and sets up kings.
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He is the one who has the final
say in everything going on in
00:25:10.94\00:25:14.31
our lives as individuals as well
as on a global scale and that
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is what your testimony tells
us. So here's what I need you
00:25:17.21\00:25:19.81
to do. Real quick, about a
minute, I want you to look over
00:25:19.85\00:25:22.38
my left shoulder here and I want
you to speak to someone, speak
00:25:22.45\00:25:25.59
to someone, right here, right
over my left shoulder, I want
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you to speak to someone who
is lost in their life where they
00:25:29.32\00:25:32.93
feel there's no hope.
00:25:32.96\00:25:34.76
Our hope is in Christ Jesus.
Even though I lost my family,
00:25:34.80\00:25:37.97
my brother and sister, to
the devil, my mother and father
00:25:38.00\00:25:41.27
passed away, the Lord has
restored a new family to me.
00:25:41.30\00:25:44.71
He gave me a beautiful wife,
three beautiful boys, allowed
00:25:44.74\00:25:48.21
me to be part of a ministry
at the jail that I done all the
00:25:48.24\00:25:52.05
crazy trouble that I've been
in in our town. I've been in the
00:25:52.08\00:25:56.79
ministry for about 3-1/2 years
now. Any hope that we have could
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only be in Christ. It doesn't
matter where you've come from,
00:26:00.56\00:26:04.09
or what you've been through,
or the trouble you've been in,
00:26:04.13\00:26:07.16
or the needle that you're on,
or the drugs that you're on, or
00:26:07.20\00:26:10.53
the pills that you're eating
or the bottle you're on, man all
00:26:10.57\00:26:13.34
you got to do is just make a
willing decision to turn your
00:26:13.40\00:26:16.24
life over to Christ and ask him
to come into your heart and to
00:26:16.27\00:26:19.54
help you through it and if you
do this with a complete sincere
00:26:19.57\00:26:22.81
heart he will. He shows no
favorites. He loves no one no
00:26:22.84\00:26:26.08
more than anybody else.
He's no respecter of persons.
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He loves us just as much as he
loved King David and that alone
00:26:29.32\00:26:33.66
makes you feel, wow man, if he
can love me as much as that guy,
00:26:33.72\00:26:38.03
King David, his favorite.
00:26:38.06\00:26:39.39
Man, man, Bryan that was so
powerful. For the people who
00:26:39.43\00:26:47.47
know irrespective of your _
of the bottle, of the pipe, of
00:26:47.54\00:26:53.41
rolling papers, whatever it is
put your hope in Christ, and as
00:26:53.44\00:26:58.55
you put your hope in Christ...
It reminds me almost of job
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here. That Job had everything
restored double. So not only
00:27:04.75\00:27:10.83
has God resurrected you but he's
resurrected you new and better.
00:27:10.86\00:27:15.46
He's given you all the things
that you lost. And I'm sure now
00:27:15.50\00:27:19.27
you've learned the lesson now.
You may not have learned it in
00:27:19.30\00:27:22.14
prison but you've learned it
now. You may not have learned
00:27:22.17\00:27:24.94
it after the first OD but you've
learned it now. You may not have
00:27:24.97\00:27:28.34
learned it after the second OD,
but you've learned it now after
00:27:28.38\00:27:31.85
that last prison sentence coming
out and now being able to be
00:27:31.88\00:27:36.45
engaged, going right back a
week later into the same prison.
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I've heard a lot of stories,
but you give our listeners, our
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viewers the ability,
they can truly dare to dream.
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Amen, amen. Because
if you can go on this
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journey, they to can go on
to and begin a new journey.
00:27:53.47\00:27:57.24
Brothers and sisters dare
to dream if for no other reason
00:27:57.31\00:28:01.98
what you heard today from
Bryan Myers: God loves you,
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God bless you
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