July 8, 2024 • 27 mins
Trust the Guide..... Billy Molls attended a Christian church throughout his youth. He left with little to no understanding of what he actually “believed”. Because of his experiences in the wilderness of Alaska, Billy’s Christian faith is now central in his life: Billy has survived grizzly charges. An experience with a moose calf delivered him from a two-year bout with depression. Take a listen and be inspired!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Modern Day Mountain man today on Get the
Hell Out of your Life.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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
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The promoter.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hello my friends.
So good to be with you today.
I am so excited about today'sshow.
My guest is Billy Moles, amodern-day mountain man.
Billy has survived grislycharges.
Billy's experience with a moosecalf delivered him from a
two-year bout with depression,and the day Billy's wife gave
birth to their youngest daughter, he was 3,000 miles away in the
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Brooks Range Mountains and hesaid it was the greatest day of
his life.
Get ready to be encouraged bythe modern-day mountain man
Billy Moles.
Billy, how are you today?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm doing pretty good , ron, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So you're a modern day mountain man.
What's a modern day mountainman?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, that is the brand name of my videos.
Just my dream.
How I came up with it?
It was my dream as a kid tolive the life of a mountain man.
My grandpa was a farmer and aprofessional trapper.
After the fall harvest he wouldgo up into northern Wisconsin,
build a log cabin and then hewould trap all winter long.
And then he would come home inthe springtime, sell his furs
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and use that money to buy seeds,start a new farming season all
over again.
And so his pictures and hisstories really influenced me as
a young kid.
My time in nature, trappingwith him and my dad and hunting
and fishing.
I felt the peace there that Ijust didn't feel anywhere else
and I just wanted to live asimplistic lifestyle.
And eventually the fur marketkind of tanked so my dream of
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being a professional trapperkind of died out and then I
started hunting and I reallyfell in love with it.
My grandpa said Billy, if youwant outdoor adventure you need
to go to Alaska.
There's places up there whereman's never been, and ever since
then you know just a young kidand knew that's where I wanted
to go.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What was your age on your first trip to Alaska?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I was 19.
Yeah, pretty much right out ofhigh school and greener than
grass, and I was, you know, Iwas pretty eager and pretty
excited.
But yeah, I was definitelyhumbled when I flew into Kodiak
Island.
That's where my first hunt everwas.
I was a packer, basically ahuman mule.
It was my job to backpackcamping supplies, food and tents
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and whatnot into the mountainsand kind of help out on the hunt
however I could.
You know we shot a bear.
It was my job to pack it out.
Those mountains were prettyintimidating.
The wilderness, the bears,bears, all that stuff was just
very intimidating and I just itreally squashed my ego right
from the get-go, you knowrealizing that hey, this is,
this is the real mccoy, this iswhat separates the wheat from
the chaff.
And you know, there was manytimes, and you know there's
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still, experiences where Iquestion if I have what it takes
.
But that's the uh, the beautyof the wilderness is it humbles
you.
You know it.
Um, you know adage, trial byfire, and that's kind of what it
is.
You're going to get intopredicaments that you've never
been in before and you're notsure how you're going to be able
to handle it.
And that's where the growth is.
That's where the transformationis.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
God will meet you where you're at, and there's
been many times where I'vecalled on him and I've needed
him and he's always been therefor me Listeners, if you just
tuned in Billy Moles, modern-daymountain man sharing experience
and Billy, one of the things Iread was how you survived an
attack of a grizzly.
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Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, it was a grizzly charge, so we weren't
actually attacked.
I don't think I have an attackthere anywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
But yeah, we were definitely charged.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We had a young girl that was my client and she hit
the bear, didn't make a greatshot on it and I was able to get
one shot into it just before itgot into the brush.
Long story short.
Thankfully I had a fellow guidewith me.
I've got a video on this.
It's a real compelling story.
I had a fellow guide with me who, when we went and talked to the
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bear, he said hey, I need to.
He said, all right, so one ofus needs to take the blood trail
, go first, and the other onebehind.
The other one needs to be thereto, you know, shoot the bear
before it kills the guy in front.
So whoever's got the bloodtrail, obviously he's going to
have his head down.
That's the most dangerous jobthere is, because the bear is
going to try to kill that guyfirst.
Wow, now the guy behind him hasa very important job because
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it's his job to kill the bearbefore it kills the guy in front
.
And uh, I was.
You know, I had guided the girland I said I'll go in front.
And john, who was with me, isabout my age, been guiding in
alaska many years.
He said no, no, he said I'lltake blood trail and he said
you've got a wife and kids,billy, I don't have anybody.
If I die here today, nobody'sreally going to miss me.
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so he and I argued back andforth and um, but he just said,
no, I, I won't have it.
And uh, so he, he took theblood trail.
Long story short, um, yeah, thebear ended up coming at us and
um, I shot the bear andeventually it just falls,
basically just I don't know fivesteps if that just right before
us and put one final shot inthere and finished the bear off.
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But it was just a real powerfulstory.
It was what I recognized, thatwell, jesus said, I think
chapter 15, verse 13, if I'm notmistaken, of John there's no
greater love than for one to laydown his life for his friends.
And that's what John waswilling to do for me in that
scenario, you know, he puthimself in harm's way out of
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love for me and my family, orhe'd never even met before, you
know, took on a more dangerousscenario in that tracking
process.
So, yeah, that one all goes toJohn, my buddy that was with me.
But intense situation no less.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
What is an average size and weight of a grizzly?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Grizzly bear and brown bear are the same animal.
A brown bear on the colusthey'll get.
I have to believe that's a bigone.
I've never weighed onepersonally, but a huge, huge
coastal brown bear can be 1500pounds probably a little more.
Grizzly bears live more intothe interior.
Uh, they have shorter growingseason, longer hibernation, not
as good a food source, namelythe brown bear has salmon.
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So grizzly bears have atendency to be a lot more
aggressive, but they'regenerally much smaller.
So there's some areas, areas inAlaska in the interior where a
big, big grizzly bear is goingto be 500 pounds.
You know, maybe six or seven isprobably max in a lot of areas
for a grizzly bear.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Man, it's one thing watching things on TV, but
another thing to actually hearyou describe it in person.
Boy, I bet that was a talkingpoint around the campfire that
night.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No for sure.
And everybody always thinks ohman, I bet being charged by a
grizzly bear, that's like theultimate adrenaline rush.
It's actually not an adrenalinerush at all.
It's actually one of the mostpeaceful things that you'll ever
experience.
You know, john and I are bothcoming into this, as I mentioned
, many years of experiences.
You know of bear huntingexperience, so you know we've
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been in similar situationsbefore.
But in a situation like thatyou're never more alive.
The rest of the world seeks usto exist.
You're so focused on killingthe bear before it kills you and
those that are around you andthen your surroundings.
So your senses are soheightened, they're so acute.
You're listening for not just atwig to break but like a blade
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of grass to snap or a squirrelto chirp or a raven to caw, any
type of indication or any typeof clue that nature will offer
you to give you a clue that thatbear is coming.
You know any type of shift andit's very, very peaceful.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's just fascinating to hear how you come alive in
nature when you are in athreatening situation and you're
trying to protect a young ladywho is your client, and wow,
that's awesome.
God is so good.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, yep, absolutely .
It is astounding and I thinkthat's why we, you know, we have
to, we have to test ourselves.
It's just like a muscle, youknow, a weightlifter goes into a
weight room and he needsresistance, he needs to, you
know, in some essence, breakhimself down a little bit, work
himself physically and destroythat muscle tissue to build the
backup even stronger.
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And that's why I go to Alaska.
I've never shot a big gameanimal for myself.
I've been a guide there for 23years.
What I love is the adventure,the experience.
You know every hunt there'ssomething unique, there's
something that you learn,something that you see or
experience that you go through,and that I mean that's the
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ultimate trophy.
That's the ultimate takeawayfrom a wilderness hunting
adventure is that you can't helpbut go into it and come out
some way a better person.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Billy, tell us about your two-year bout with
depression and how a moose calfuh came to your rescue yeah, it
was.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
um, I won't be boring with all the details, but uh, I
had a young girl we dated inhigh school.
Out of high school she wasgoing to college.
She was a couple of yearsyounger than I and you know,
just me being away, that waskind of.
You know, it was hard.
And you know, just, things kindof started to fizzle out for us
and eventually we broke up.
And when I was in thewilderness I was fine.
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But when I'd come back into thereal world, so to speak, in the
wintertime, I'd always comeback to Wisconsin.
I wondered if I'd made thebiggest mistake of my life, my
whole life.
I was kind of marched to thebeats of a different drummer.
You know I was kind of a lonewolf.
I was always kind of doing mything, definitely kind of had a
chip on my shoulder, I would say.
I always felt that everybodyelse had it wrong and I was the
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only one that had it right.
You know, as you go throughlife, so many people are telling
you you know, go do this, go totech school, billy.
You know, go to college, go dothat.
And I don't know, none of thatever resonated with me.
All I ever wanted to do was bein nature.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And during that time, that two year period, I just I
couldn't help but wonder ifmaybe this wasn't the woman I
was supposed to spend the restof my life with.
But in the back of my mind Iknew that if I quit going to
Alaska because of her, that Iwould resent her for the rest of
my life.
But that little bit of lightkept getting dimmer and dimmer
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and I just fell into thisdepression and there was a
period of time where I thoughtabout ending my own life every
day, sometimes minute to minute.
It just nothing made sense.
I had this.
It just there was.
The sweetness in life was gone.
It was almost inner dialogue inmy head and in my heart.
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You know the Bible talks abouthell there being weeping and
gnashing of teeth, and you knowthat sounds kind of odd, you
know that language is odd, butthat's kind of how I felt.
It was just like like weeping,just like this inner despair and
the gnashing of teeth.
Just you can just imagine justgrinding your teeth and
clenching your fist.
At the same time I was just sofrustrated and I felt so lost
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and it just got to be such aburden that I almost didn't want
to do it anymore.
I never held a gun in my mouthbut I thought of it and probably
more than anything else, thatreally got me through it, or at
least kept me from doing it atthat stage, was just the love of
my parents, namely my mother.
My mother was always veryselfless.
She always loved me and mysiblings above all else and I
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just couldn't stand the thoughtof her ever finding me dead or,
you know, having her son diethat way.
I started seeking God at thatpoint and I had this spring bear
hunt felt like it was kind of aturning point in my life.
I just needed to find some sortof direction.
I actually drove up to Alaskamy plan move there, you know,
become a resident and theoutfitter dropped me off.
I had no communication of anysort.
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Dropped me off and he says I'llbring you a hunter, and five
days later I hadn't seen anybodyand I had no idea if he died in
a plane crash or whatever.
But to be honest, I wasn'tquite worried.
I knew that I could hike out tothe ocean and get help and
survive and everything.
During this time there was a cowmoose and her yearling calf
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that would cross the river rightby my camp and I'd see them,
sometimes a couple, two, threetimes a day.
There was kind of a shallowriffle there where they'd cross
the river and meanwhile I waspacing up and down this gravel
bar by my tent and I was justpraying God, please, you know I
need something to go off of.
If you know, if you're real, Ineed you now.
So after five days theoutfitter, he comes in and I
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mean I probably prayed, Iprobably said a hundred prayers
on this five day period,probably several hundred.
So the outfitter comes in afterfive days and he says hey,
sorry, I don't have a hunter foryou, but I will have another
hunter for you in two days, Ipromise.
He brings me a six pack of beerand a package of pork chop.
So I hadn't had any fresh foodfor, you know, the five days
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that I'd been there and so I hadnothing but time to kill.
So I go back to my tent and Igot a little one-burner stove
and so I throw a pan on thereand throw a pork chop and start
frying this pork chop.
And so I just crack open a beerand figure, well, you know, I
crack open a beer and figure,well, you know, might as well
enjoy this time while I'm hereand I really was, I was finding
this peace, you know, I was okaywith, you know, being there.
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There was no place else I'drather be.
And so this cow moose comesalong.
I hadn't even finished, justcracked a beer, just started
frying the pork chop, and thiscow shows up and so she goes
across the river and she'seating, nibbling on these
willows.
And she looked back, as heryearling is in the river, and
she just looked back at it andright there when that cow looked
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back at that yearling.
Just it was a light switchmoment for me.
In that instant I justrecognized that any day now that
cow is going to kick away heryearling because she's soon
going to be going in and givebirth to her new calf, and
nature is black and white.
You know, there's no emotion innature and so much of our
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modern world as humans is allthis gray area, but you don't
have that in nature.
I recognize that any day nowthat yearling is going to be
100% her own for the first timeshe's going to be trying to
dodge wolverines and survive.
Grizzly attack, wolf attack,all that stuff that yearling is
going to have to figure out onits own for the rest of its life
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and and that yearling has noidea when that's going to happen
.
But I knew one thing is that,no matter what happened, that
yearling calf would never stoptrying to maximize its potential
, it would never give up and itwould never quit.
It was literally a light switchmoment.
I just realized, billy, you caneither get over this or end it
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now.
There's no sense in delayingthis any further.
And it literally was a lightswitch moment.
Two years of depression werejust gone in an instant, and
that experience has stuck withme ever since.
I think what it was.
I mean, when I got answered myprayers, he spoke to me.
He met me where I was at.
He spoke to me in the languagethat I understand, just the way
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he did with Peter when he toldPeter to cast your nets out into
the deep and Peter didn't knowthat it was Jesus except Master,
because you said we will do it.
And when they cast the net outinto the water and he hauled up
167 fish, peter knew he was aprofessional fisherman.
He knew that there was no wayI'd ever catch this many fish
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other than this.
Was God himself orchestratingthis?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Amen to that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Jesus spoke to Peter in the language that Peter
understood.
And nature is the language thatI understand.
And there's, you know, dozensand dozens of experiences that
I've had where there's no doubtthe Lord has spoken to me nature
, and that's why I'm sharing myexperiences.
I felt the Lord was calling meinto ministry several years ago.
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I just couldn't see myselfbeing a pastor, you know, like
man, no way.
But then I just recognized thatthere's a lot of guys like me
that you know maybe churchdoesn't resonate within them so
much or they get more confusedwhile they're there.
And I recognize that's myministry.
There's a lot of people outthere that are called to nature
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and they think that it's theanimal that they want, you know,
it's the bragging rights or thetrophy or whatever, but it's
that connection with God thatthey're experiencing and maybe
don't even recognize it.
And that's who, I feel Godcalled me to minister to.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You know that's such a great point, billy.
I've just from experience, havesaid that when things get all
hectic in life, sometimes weneed to take a break and go out
to nature.
Maybe we're not hunters, maybewe're not even campers, but just
there is something about beingin nature that you can really
feel the connection with God,and that's for anyone in nature
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that you can really feel theconnection with God.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And that's for anyone yeah, romans 1.20 or 1.28,.
You know that we can see man iswithout excuse.
We can see the invisiblequalities of God, that no man is
without excuse.
You just see the connectivity.
And here's, ultimately, I think, really, if I had to break it
down into a nutshell and justsay, how could you take your
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experiences in wild and say thatJesus Christ is the Son of God?
You know outside of, you knowthe gospel in and of itself,
which for me always seemed likefairy tale.
Well, I guess I'll make maybemake this twofold is that
everything in nature, nothing innature, worries about itself.
The end objective of everythingin nature is to give something
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back, and the more that it givesback to nature, the more it
will receive.
And there's no selfishness innature.
And that's exactly how Jesuslived.
You know Jesus laid, as Imentioned earlier, his life down
for his friends live.
You know Jesus laid, as Imentioned earlier, his life down
for his friends.
Jesus' whole life was lived,just like everything in nature,
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for the continuation of all life.
If we love God before allthings and love our neighbor as
ourselves, we wouldn't be in anyof these problems that we're in
in our world today.
So it's the obviousconnectivity of everything and
how everything works together innature, and that's exactly how
Jesus lived his life and that'swhy I started my online or
YouTube ministry.
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It's called Trust the Guide,because Jesus is our guide.
That's why he came to earth tobe our example of how we are to
live and, obviously, ultimatelyto be the sacrifice, you know,
for the atonement of our sins.
For that believing in Him andjust to trust Him as our Savior,
that our guilt and our shame ofour past and our wrongdoing we
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don't have to let that bog usdown and we can rid ourselves of
our selfishness and our own,just like I was, how I was so
depressed.
I was no good to anybody atthat point because I was so deep
in my depression and that'swhere the devil wants me,
because I won't be able to doanything for anybody else.
I was basically just taking upspace in the world and I was
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never going to be able to helpanyone.
And that's where the devilwants us Chasing idols and doing
worthless things and beshameful and guilt and
sin-ridden, because we're onlyliving for ourselves at that
point and that's not the way Godwants us to live.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
So well put, Billy.
Billy, I know I'm running lowon time, but I do want to get
the one part in.
Your wife gave birth to youryoungest daughter while you were
3,000 miles away.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I was hunting sheep and my wife was going into labor
.
I'll kind of give you theabbreviated story here.
But my wife was going intolabor and I was calling in with
a satellite phone to mysister-in-law every 20 minutes
or so and I just had thisoverwhelming angst.
I just felt so despondent.
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And that was about 10 years agoand I'd always questioned the
gospel of Jesus up to that point.
As a kid.
I saw it in cartoon form and italways seemed like a cartoon.
And as I'm praying, the more Iprayed, the more I realized that
I didn't have any right to beasking God for any favors.
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And I knew enough that Ifinally just told myself Billy,
you know, pray, say what yougotta say and get it over with,
because God's not gonna beimpressed by the number of times
you pray and finally, I justgot down on my knees and I just
said, god, you've blessed mebeyond what I deserve in this
life.
And if anything bad has tohappen today because I was
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really guilt ridden and justfelt a lot of shame for how I'd
lived my life and here I amcrying out to God to help my
wife and my unborn child,because I hadn't heard from my
sister-in-law in like two hoursat that point, and so I was
worried that something, veryworried something, was wrong.
And I just fell down to myknees and I just said, god, if
anything bad has to happen today, I would rather you strike me
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dead right, here and now, thanfor anything to happen to my
wife or my unborn child.
And I meant it from the bottomof my heart.
And when I said amen, and I gotup and I looked across the
valley, they'd been there for aweek but there was 35 dull sheep
, lambs and ewes on one mountainand then on the other side of
the valley there was a sowgrizzly and her two cubs and
they'd been there all day.
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But I just kind of checked onthem and right after I said that
prayer and I looked up and Ilooked at them.
All of a sudden, bam, john 3, 16just comes right into my mind.
For God so loved the world thathe gave his only begotten son
that whomsoever believes in himshall not perish but have
eternal life.
And I recognized right therethis happened just so beyond
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instantaneously, I mean it wasjust flooded the Holy Spirit.
I didn't, you know.
The Holy Spirit just hit me bigtime and I recognized that every
animal in nature would fight tothe death to protect its
offspring.
And I recognized that there wasnothing more that God could do
for us to show his love formankind than to send his son to
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earth to die for the forgivenessof our sins.
And right then I just realizedthat the gospel of Jesus Christ
was no fairy tale.
It became real for me and Iknew it.
And right then I remember fromour church as a kid, philippians
4, 7, I believe, and the peaceof God, which transcends all
understanding, would guard yourhearts and minds in Christ Jesus
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.
And that was the only way thatI could explain how I felt,
because I was feeling peacebeyond understanding and I knew
it was the Holy Spirit.
I'd always wondered what theHoly Spirit or Holy Ghost was.
It was always really weird to me, but I knew I was just gripped
by it and that peace was sopowerful.
And the Bible talks about how aman cannot get into heaven
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unless he is born again.
When Jesus is speaking toNicodemus, and there again,
that's the only way that I coulddescribe how I felt is that I
knew in that moment I was bornagain.
I was literally.
It was like a film was wipedaway from my eyes as I was
looking up at those mountainsand I just realized that I will
never be the same again and theworld is a completely different
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place.
And I didn't hear an audiblevoice, but it just came to me.
I mean God speaking to me.
There was no doubt about it.
And what he told me was tellothers.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Tell others, tell others.
Well, you just told a boatloadof people on radio plus podcast
all over the world.
Billy, tell us a little bitmore about the online videos of
Trust the Guide.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Campfire Chats.
It's on YouTube.
It's called Trust the Guide.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Trust the Guide.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yep, trust the Guide.
So the guide is Jesus.
Obviously I'm kind of playingon words there as a guide.
You know, there's so muchrelation that I find, as I'm
trying to guide these huntersand lead them into the
wilderness, well, jesus istrying to lead us through into a
lot of similar situations as towhat I've done through.
You know, anybody goes throughin the wilderness and so if you
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go on YouTube, look, type upModern Day Mountain man or Trust
the Guide, you'll find it.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And one last thing, billy, before we go.
The name of the show is Get theHell Out of your Life.
Billy, with all your knowledge,wisdom and experience, how do I
get the hell out of my life?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Wow, good question.
I would say live for others,and I say that because that's
something that I'm working on,you know.
Just try to get rid of ofselfishness out of out of your
life.
And and if we quit worryingabout ourselves, what I find,
the more that, the less that Iworry about myself, the happier
that I am.
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I had a guy come up to me one ofthe first times that I shared
my faith and my presentationjust kind of sunk because I was
so nervous.
And and this guy comes up to meand he's got tears in his eyes
and I thought, oh, presentationcould have been that bad.
You know, he comes up to me andhe just said, billy, he's like
I just got to tell you, I justwant to shake your hand.
I'm going through a really hardtime in my life right now and I
can't tell you what yourtestimony meant to me.
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And it was like god hit me inthe chest with a fledge hammer.
That was better than any 70inch moose or 40 inch ram.
I just recognized that at thatmoment.
That's why God called me tonature since I was a young kid
is because that was my gift,that was my purpose is to go out
and experience nature, not sothat I can have trophies on my
wall, but so that I can share myexperiences with other people.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The modern day mountain man listeners.
You want to check out hisYouTube Trust, the Guide Billy.
God bless you.
Thank you for sharing with thelisteners today Very, very
inspiring and encouraging.
God bless you, brother, andkeep up the good work.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Awesome.
Thank you, ron, my pleasure.
Blessings to you.
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Boy, billy had some incredible stories.
Have you ever felt like Billydid that time when he said that
he felt so worthless in lifethat he even thought about
ending his life?
I know I did, back to the ageof 11.
And that was the day Godvisited me and said don't hurt
yourself.
I've got a plan for you,friends.
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All we need to do is surrenderour fear, surrender our doubts
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Hello my friends.
So good to be with you today.
I am so excited about today'sshow.
My guest is Billy Moles, amodern-day mountain man.
Billy has survived grislycharges.
Billy's experience with a moosecalf delivered him from a
two-year bout with depression,and the day Billy's wife gave
birth to their youngest daughter, he was 3,000 miles away in the
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Brooks Range Mountains and hesaid it was the greatest day of
his life.
Get ready to be encouraged bythe modern-day mountain man
Billy Moles.
Billy, how are you today?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm doing pretty good , ron, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So you're a modern day mountain man.
What's a modern day mountainman?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, that is the brand name of my videos.
Just my dream.
How I came up with it?
It was my dream as a kid tolive the life of a mountain man.
My grandpa was a farmer and aprofessional trapper.
After the fall harvest he wouldgo up into northern Wisconsin,
build a log cabin and then hewould trap all winter long.
And then he would come home inthe springtime, sell his furs
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and use that money to buy seeds,start a new farming season all
over again.
And so his pictures and hisstories really influenced me as
a young kid.
My time in nature, trappingwith him and my dad and hunting
and fishing.
I felt the peace there that Ijust didn't feel anywhere else
and I just wanted to live asimplistic lifestyle.
And eventually the fur marketkind of tanked so my dream of
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being a professional trapperkind of died out and then I
started hunting and I reallyfell in love with it.
My grandpa said Billy, if youwant outdoor adventure you need
to go to Alaska.
There's places up there whereman's never been, and ever since
then you know just a young kidand knew that's where I wanted
to go.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What was your age on your first trip to Alaska?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I was 19.
Yeah, pretty much right out ofhigh school and greener than
grass, and I was, you know, Iwas pretty eager and pretty
excited.
But yeah, I was definitelyhumbled when I flew into Kodiak
Island.
That's where my first hunt everwas.
I was a packer, basically ahuman mule.
It was my job to backpackcamping supplies, food and tents
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and whatnot into the mountainsand kind of help out on the hunt
however I could.
You know we shot a bear.
It was my job to pack it out.
Those mountains were prettyintimidating.
The wilderness, the bears,bears, all that stuff was just
very intimidating and I just itreally squashed my ego right
from the get-go, you knowrealizing that hey, this is,
this is the real mccoy, this iswhat separates the wheat from
the chaff.
And you know, there was manytimes, and you know there's
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still, experiences where Iquestion if I have what it takes
.
But that's the uh, the beautyof the wilderness is it humbles
you.
You know it.
Um, you know adage, trial byfire, and that's kind of what it
is.
You're going to get intopredicaments that you've never
been in before and you're notsure how you're going to be able
to handle it.
And that's where the growth is.
That's where the transformationis.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
God will meet you where you're at, and there's
been many times where I'vecalled on him and I've needed
him and he's always been therefor me Listeners, if you just
tuned in Billy Moles, modern-daymountain man sharing experience
and Billy, one of the things Iread was how you survived an
attack of a grizzly.
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Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, it was a grizzly charge, so we weren't
actually attacked.
I don't think I have an attackthere anywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
But yeah, we were definitely charged.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We had a young girl that was my client and she hit
the bear, didn't make a greatshot on it and I was able to get
one shot into it just before itgot into the brush.
Long story short.
Thankfully I had a fellow guidewith me.
I've got a video on this.
It's a real compelling story.
I had a fellow guide with me who, when we went and talked to the
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bear, he said hey, I need to.
He said, all right, so one ofus needs to take the blood trail
, go first, and the other onebehind.
The other one needs to be thereto, you know, shoot the bear
before it kills the guy in front.
So whoever's got the bloodtrail, obviously he's going to
have his head down.
That's the most dangerous jobthere is, because the bear is
going to try to kill that guyfirst.
Wow, now the guy behind him hasa very important job because
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it's his job to kill the bearbefore it kills the guy in front
.
And uh, I was.
You know, I had guided the girland I said I'll go in front.
And john, who was with me, isabout my age, been guiding in
alaska many years.
He said no, no, he said I'lltake blood trail and he said
you've got a wife and kids,billy, I don't have anybody.
If I die here today, nobody'sreally going to miss me.
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so he and I argued back andforth and um, but he just said,
no, I, I won't have it.
And uh, so he, he took theblood trail.
Long story short, um, yeah, thebear ended up coming at us and
um, I shot the bear andeventually it just falls,
basically just I don't know fivesteps if that just right before
us and put one final shot inthere and finished the bear off.
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But it was just a real powerfulstory.
It was what I recognized, thatwell, jesus said, I think
chapter 15, verse 13, if I'm notmistaken, of John there's no
greater love than for one to laydown his life for his friends.
And that's what John waswilling to do for me in that
scenario, you know, he puthimself in harm's way out of
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love for me and my family, orhe'd never even met before, you
know, took on a more dangerousscenario in that tracking
process.
So, yeah, that one all goes toJohn, my buddy that was with me.
But intense situation no less.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
What is an average size and weight of a grizzly?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Grizzly bear and brown bear are the same animal.
A brown bear on the colusthey'll get.
I have to believe that's a bigone.
I've never weighed onepersonally, but a huge, huge
coastal brown bear can be 1500pounds probably a little more.
Grizzly bears live more intothe interior.
Uh, they have shorter growingseason, longer hibernation, not
as good a food source, namelythe brown bear has salmon.
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So grizzly bears have atendency to be a lot more
aggressive, but they'regenerally much smaller.
So there's some areas, areas inAlaska in the interior where a
big, big grizzly bear is goingto be 500 pounds.
You know, maybe six or seven isprobably max in a lot of areas
for a grizzly bear.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Man, it's one thing watching things on TV, but
another thing to actually hearyou describe it in person.
Boy, I bet that was a talkingpoint around the campfire that
night.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No for sure.
And everybody always thinks ohman, I bet being charged by a
grizzly bear, that's like theultimate adrenaline rush.
It's actually not an adrenalinerush at all.
It's actually one of the mostpeaceful things that you'll ever
experience.
You know, john and I are bothcoming into this, as I mentioned
, many years of experiences.
You know of bear huntingexperience, so you know we've
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been in similar situationsbefore.
But in a situation like thatyou're never more alive.
The rest of the world seeks usto exist.
You're so focused on killingthe bear before it kills you and
those that are around you andthen your surroundings.
So your senses are soheightened, they're so acute.
You're listening for not just atwig to break but like a blade
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of grass to snap or a squirrelto chirp or a raven to caw, any
type of indication or any typeof clue that nature will offer
you to give you a clue that thatbear is coming.
You know any type of shift andit's very, very peaceful.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's just fascinating to hear how you come alive in
nature when you are in athreatening situation and you're
trying to protect a young ladywho is your client, and wow,
that's awesome.
God is so good.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, yep, absolutely .
It is astounding and I thinkthat's why we, you know, we have
to, we have to test ourselves.
It's just like a muscle, youknow, a weightlifter goes into a
weight room and he needsresistance, he needs to, you
know, in some essence, breakhimself down a little bit, work
himself physically and destroythat muscle tissue to build the
backup even stronger.
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And that's why I go to Alaska.
I've never shot a big gameanimal for myself.
I've been a guide there for 23years.
What I love is the adventure,the experience.
You know every hunt there'ssomething unique, there's
something that you learn,something that you see or
experience that you go through,and that I mean that's the
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ultimate trophy.
That's the ultimate takeawayfrom a wilderness hunting
adventure is that you can't helpbut go into it and come out
some way a better person.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Billy, tell us about your two-year bout with
depression and how a moose calfuh came to your rescue yeah, it
was.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
um, I won't be boring with all the details, but uh, I
had a young girl we dated inhigh school.
Out of high school she wasgoing to college.
She was a couple of yearsyounger than I and you know,
just me being away, that waskind of.
You know, it was hard.
And you know, just, things kindof started to fizzle out for us
and eventually we broke up.
And when I was in thewilderness I was fine.
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But when I'd come back into thereal world, so to speak, in the
wintertime, I'd always comeback to Wisconsin.
I wondered if I'd made thebiggest mistake of my life, my
whole life.
I was kind of marched to thebeats of a different drummer.
You know I was kind of a lonewolf.
I was always kind of doing mything, definitely kind of had a
chip on my shoulder, I would say.
I always felt that everybodyelse had it wrong and I was the
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only one that had it right.
You know, as you go throughlife, so many people are telling
you you know, go do this, go totech school, billy.
You know, go to college, go dothat.
And I don't know, none of thatever resonated with me.
All I ever wanted to do was bein nature.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And during that time, that two year period, I just I
couldn't help but wonder ifmaybe this wasn't the woman I
was supposed to spend the restof my life with.
But in the back of my mind Iknew that if I quit going to
Alaska because of her, that Iwould resent her for the rest of
my life.
But that little bit of lightkept getting dimmer and dimmer
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and I just fell into thisdepression and there was a
period of time where I thoughtabout ending my own life every
day, sometimes minute to minute.
It just nothing made sense.
I had this.
It just there was.
The sweetness in life was gone.
It was almost inner dialogue inmy head and in my heart.
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You know the Bible talks abouthell there being weeping and
gnashing of teeth, and you knowthat sounds kind of odd, you
know that language is odd, butthat's kind of how I felt.
It was just like like weeping,just like this inner despair and
the gnashing of teeth.
Just you can just imagine justgrinding your teeth and
clenching your fist.
At the same time I was just sofrustrated and I felt so lost
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and it just got to be such aburden that I almost didn't want
to do it anymore.
I never held a gun in my mouthbut I thought of it and probably
more than anything else, thatreally got me through it, or at
least kept me from doing it atthat stage, was just the love of
my parents, namely my mother.
My mother was always veryselfless.
She always loved me and mysiblings above all else and I
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just couldn't stand the thoughtof her ever finding me dead or,
you know, having her son diethat way.
I started seeking God at thatpoint and I had this spring bear
hunt felt like it was kind of aturning point in my life.
I just needed to find some sortof direction.
I actually drove up to Alaskamy plan move there, you know,
become a resident and theoutfitter dropped me off.
I had no communication of anysort.
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Dropped me off and he says I'llbring you a hunter, and five
days later I hadn't seen anybodyand I had no idea if he died in
a plane crash or whatever.
But to be honest, I wasn'tquite worried.
I knew that I could hike out tothe ocean and get help and
survive and everything.
During this time there was a cowmoose and her yearling calf
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that would cross the river rightby my camp and I'd see them,
sometimes a couple, two, threetimes a day.
There was kind of a shallowriffle there where they'd cross
the river and meanwhile I waspacing up and down this gravel
bar by my tent and I was justpraying God, please, you know I
need something to go off of.
If you know, if you're real, Ineed you now.
So after five days theoutfitter, he comes in and I
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mean I probably prayed, Iprobably said a hundred prayers
on this five day period,probably several hundred.
So the outfitter comes in afterfive days and he says hey,
sorry, I don't have a hunter foryou, but I will have another
hunter for you in two days, Ipromise.
He brings me a six pack of beerand a package of pork chop.
So I hadn't had any fresh foodfor, you know, the five days
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that I'd been there and so I hadnothing but time to kill.
So I go back to my tent and Igot a little one-burner stove
and so I throw a pan on thereand throw a pork chop and start
frying this pork chop.
And so I just crack open a beerand figure, well, you know, I
crack open a beer and figure,well, you know, might as well
enjoy this time while I'm hereand I really was, I was finding
this peace, you know, I was okaywith, you know, being there.
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There was no place else I'drather be.
And so this cow moose comesalong.
I hadn't even finished, justcracked a beer, just started
frying the pork chop, and thiscow shows up and so she goes
across the river and she'seating, nibbling on these
willows.
And she looked back, as heryearling is in the river, and
she just looked back at it andright there when that cow looked
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back at that yearling.
Just it was a light switchmoment for me.
In that instant I justrecognized that any day now that
cow is going to kick away heryearling because she's soon
going to be going in and givebirth to her new calf, and
nature is black and white.
You know, there's no emotion innature and so much of our
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modern world as humans is allthis gray area, but you don't
have that in nature.
I recognize that any day nowthat yearling is going to be
100% her own for the first timeshe's going to be trying to
dodge wolverines and survive.
Grizzly attack, wolf attack,all that stuff that yearling is
going to have to figure out onits own for the rest of its life
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and and that yearling has noidea when that's going to happen
.
But I knew one thing is that,no matter what happened, that
yearling calf would never stoptrying to maximize its potential
, it would never give up and itwould never quit.
It was literally a light switchmoment.
I just realized, billy, you caneither get over this or end it
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now.
There's no sense in delayingthis any further.
And it literally was a lightswitch moment.
Two years of depression werejust gone in an instant, and
that experience has stuck withme ever since.
I think what it was.
I mean, when I got answered myprayers, he spoke to me.
He met me where I was at.
He spoke to me in the languagethat I understand, just the way
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he did with Peter when he toldPeter to cast your nets out into
the deep and Peter didn't knowthat it was Jesus except Master,
because you said we will do it.
And when they cast the net outinto the water and he hauled up
167 fish, peter knew he was aprofessional fisherman.
He knew that there was no wayI'd ever catch this many fish
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other than this.
Was God himself orchestratingthis?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Amen to that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Jesus spoke to Peter in the language that Peter
understood.
And nature is the language thatI understand.
And there's, you know, dozensand dozens of experiences that
I've had where there's no doubtthe Lord has spoken to me nature
, and that's why I'm sharing myexperiences.
I felt the Lord was calling meinto ministry several years ago.
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I just couldn't see myselfbeing a pastor, you know, like
man, no way.
But then I just recognized thatthere's a lot of guys like me
that you know maybe churchdoesn't resonate within them so
much or they get more confusedwhile they're there.
And I recognize that's myministry.
There's a lot of people outthere that are called to nature
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and they think that it's theanimal that they want, you know,
it's the bragging rights or thetrophy or whatever, but it's
that connection with God thatthey're experiencing and maybe
don't even recognize it.
And that's who, I feel Godcalled me to minister to.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You know that's such a great point, billy.
I've just from experience, havesaid that when things get all
hectic in life, sometimes weneed to take a break and go out
to nature.
Maybe we're not hunters, maybewe're not even campers, but just
there is something about beingin nature that you can really
feel the connection with God,and that's for anyone in nature
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that you can really feel theconnection with God.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And that's for anyone yeah, romans 1.20 or 1.28,.
You know that we can see man iswithout excuse.
We can see the invisiblequalities of God, that no man is
without excuse.
You just see the connectivity.
And here's, ultimately, I think, really, if I had to break it
down into a nutshell and justsay, how could you take your
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experiences in wild and say thatJesus Christ is the Son of God?
You know outside of, you knowthe gospel in and of itself,
which for me always seemed likefairy tale.
Well, I guess I'll make maybemake this twofold is that
everything in nature, nothing innature, worries about itself.
The end objective of everythingin nature is to give something
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back, and the more that it givesback to nature, the more it
will receive.
And there's no selfishness innature.
And that's exactly how Jesuslived.
You know Jesus laid, as Imentioned earlier, his life down
for his friends live.
You know Jesus laid, as Imentioned earlier, his life down
for his friends.
Jesus' whole life was lived,just like everything in nature,
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for the continuation of all life.
If we love God before allthings and love our neighbor as
ourselves, we wouldn't be in anyof these problems that we're in
in our world today.
So it's the obviousconnectivity of everything and
how everything works together innature, and that's exactly how
Jesus lived his life and that'swhy I started my online or
YouTube ministry.
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It's called Trust the Guide,because Jesus is our guide.
That's why he came to earth tobe our example of how we are to
live and, obviously, ultimatelyto be the sacrifice, you know,
for the atonement of our sins.
For that believing in Him andjust to trust Him as our Savior,
that our guilt and our shame ofour past and our wrongdoing we
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don't have to let that bog usdown and we can rid ourselves of
our selfishness and our own,just like I was, how I was so
depressed.
I was no good to anybody atthat point because I was so deep
in my depression and that'swhere the devil wants me,
because I won't be able to doanything for anybody else.
I was basically just taking upspace in the world and I was
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never going to be able to helpanyone.
And that's where the devilwants us Chasing idols and doing
worthless things and beshameful and guilt and
sin-ridden, because we're onlyliving for ourselves at that
point and that's not the way Godwants us to live.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
So well put, Billy.
Billy, I know I'm running lowon time, but I do want to get
the one part in.
Your wife gave birth to youryoungest daughter while you were
3,000 miles away.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I was hunting sheep and my wife was going into labor
.
I'll kind of give you theabbreviated story here.
But my wife was going intolabor and I was calling in with
a satellite phone to mysister-in-law every 20 minutes
or so and I just had thisoverwhelming angst.
I just felt so despondent.
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And that was about 10 years agoand I'd always questioned the
gospel of Jesus up to that point.
As a kid.
I saw it in cartoon form and italways seemed like a cartoon.
And as I'm praying, the more Iprayed, the more I realized that
I didn't have any right to beasking God for any favors.
(20:14):
And I knew enough that Ifinally just told myself Billy,
you know, pray, say what yougotta say and get it over with,
because God's not gonna beimpressed by the number of times
you pray and finally, I justgot down on my knees and I just
said, god, you've blessed mebeyond what I deserve in this
life.
And if anything bad has tohappen today because I was
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really guilt ridden and justfelt a lot of shame for how I'd
lived my life and here I amcrying out to God to help my
wife and my unborn child,because I hadn't heard from my
sister-in-law in like two hoursat that point, and so I was
worried that something, veryworried something, was wrong.
And I just fell down to myknees and I just said, god, if
anything bad has to happen today, I would rather you strike me
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dead right, here and now, thanfor anything to happen to my
wife or my unborn child.
And I meant it from the bottomof my heart.
And when I said amen, and I gotup and I looked across the
valley, they'd been there for aweek but there was 35 dull sheep
, lambs and ewes on one mountainand then on the other side of
the valley there was a sowgrizzly and her two cubs and
they'd been there all day.
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But I just kind of checked onthem and right after I said that
prayer and I looked up and Ilooked at them.
All of a sudden, bam, john 3, 16just comes right into my mind.
For God so loved the world thathe gave his only begotten son
that whomsoever believes in himshall not perish but have
eternal life.
And I recognized right therethis happened just so beyond
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instantaneously, I mean it wasjust flooded the Holy Spirit.
I didn't, you know.
The Holy Spirit just hit me bigtime and I recognized that every
animal in nature would fight tothe death to protect its
offspring.
And I recognized that there wasnothing more that God could do
for us to show his love formankind than to send his son to
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earth to die for the forgivenessof our sins.
And right then I just realizedthat the gospel of Jesus Christ
was no fairy tale.
It became real for me and Iknew it.
And right then I remember fromour church as a kid, philippians
4, 7, I believe, and the peaceof God, which transcends all
understanding, would guard yourhearts and minds in Christ Jesus
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.
And that was the only way thatI could explain how I felt,
because I was feeling peacebeyond understanding and I knew
it was the Holy Spirit.
I'd always wondered what theHoly Spirit or Holy Ghost was.
It was always really weird to me, but I knew I was just gripped
by it and that peace was sopowerful.
And the Bible talks about how aman cannot get into heaven
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unless he is born again.
When Jesus is speaking toNicodemus, and there again,
that's the only way that I coulddescribe how I felt is that I
knew in that moment I was bornagain.
I was literally.
It was like a film was wipedaway from my eyes as I was
looking up at those mountainsand I just realized that I will
never be the same again and theworld is a completely different
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place.
And I didn't hear an audiblevoice, but it just came to me.
I mean God speaking to me.
There was no doubt about it.
And what he told me was tellothers.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Tell others, tell others.
Well, you just told a boatloadof people on radio plus podcast
all over the world.
Billy, tell us a little bitmore about the online videos of
Trust the Guide.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Campfire Chats.
It's on YouTube.
It's called Trust the Guide.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Trust the Guide.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yep, trust the Guide.
So the guide is Jesus.
Obviously I'm kind of playingon words there as a guide.
You know, there's so muchrelation that I find, as I'm
trying to guide these huntersand lead them into the
wilderness, well, jesus istrying to lead us through into a
lot of similar situations as towhat I've done through.
You know, anybody goes throughin the wilderness and so if you
(23:59):
go on YouTube, look, type upModern Day Mountain man or Trust
the Guide, you'll find it.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And one last thing, billy, before we go.
The name of the show is Get theHell Out of your Life.
Billy, with all your knowledge,wisdom and experience, how do I
get the hell out of my life?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Wow, good question.
I would say live for others,and I say that because that's
something that I'm working on,you know.
Just try to get rid of ofselfishness out of out of your
life.
And and if we quit worryingabout ourselves, what I find,
the more that, the less that Iworry about myself, the happier
that I am.
(24:35):
I had a guy come up to me one ofthe first times that I shared
my faith and my presentationjust kind of sunk because I was
so nervous.
And and this guy comes up to meand he's got tears in his eyes
and I thought, oh, presentationcould have been that bad.
You know, he comes up to me andhe just said, billy, he's like
I just got to tell you, I justwant to shake your hand.
I'm going through a really hardtime in my life right now and I
can't tell you what yourtestimony meant to me.
(24:57):
And it was like god hit me inthe chest with a fledge hammer.
That was better than any 70inch moose or 40 inch ram.
I just recognized that at thatmoment.
That's why God called me tonature since I was a young kid
is because that was my gift,that was my purpose is to go out
and experience nature, not sothat I can have trophies on my
wall, but so that I can share myexperiences with other people.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The modern day mountain man listeners.
You want to check out hisYouTube Trust, the Guide Billy.
God bless you.
Thank you for sharing with thelisteners today Very, very
inspiring and encouraging.
God bless you, brother, andkeep up the good work.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Awesome.
Thank you, ron, my pleasure.
Blessings to you.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life
with your host, ron Myers.
Real stories, real strugglesand real hope.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's
conversation.
We want to encourage you todaywith God's promise to you.
It comes from the book ofJeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11.
For I know the plans I have foryou, declares the Lord.
Plans to prosper you and not toharm you.
Plans to give you hope and thefuture.
(26:11):
That's God's promise to youwhen you choose to commit your
plans and future to Him.
Now back to Ron.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Boy, billy had some incredible stories.
Have you ever felt like Billydid that time when he said that
he felt so worthless in lifethat he even thought about
ending his life?
I know I did, back to the ageof 11.
And that was the day Godvisited me and said don't hurt
yourself.
I've got a plan for you,friends.
(26:44):
God's got a plan for you, forme, for Billy, for everyone.
All we need to do is surrenderour fear, surrender our doubts
and surrender our life to Jesusso we can discover our
assignment while here on earth.
You know God isn't finishedwith you.
You have an incredible destinyin front of you.
(27:05):
Get the hell out.
Get the hell out.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
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Thanks for listening, and ifyou would like to share your
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