Daniel Ponce de Leon:There are a few times that baseball broke me in half..I come back the next day and I feel healthy, feel new again.
God is just a prayer way: Daniel Ponce de Leon & Lanny West - Section #293
Narrator:welcome toJesus calls podcast.When you feel broken and lost, and the life you want seems far from reach, there is someone you can approach..He listens.He doesn't care.Never far behind.We talk to baseball pitcher to St.Louis CardinalsDaniel Ponce de Leonand musician and founder ofTippunt Artist Wellness Lanny West.
Let's start with the story of Daniel.
Daniel Ponce de Leon: My name is Daniel Ponce de Leon, and I am from La Mirada, California.St. Louis CardinalsI 2014,And came to the big competitions in 2018.
Daniels Pad to Professional Baseball
When I grew up, I played three sports.I have coached myself in most of them: football, basketball and baseball.And my passion was always football.Be the future.These scouts came and watched me, and better deals came as a baseball player.
And I not only played Little League, I also played travel ball and travel ball is in the football season.My father I didn't want to play anymore, he said, "Just keep it out, we just want to keep it once a year."And it was much better for me and gave me a clear mind.
I finally received a nice fair after my last year in high school at the University of Arizon.I had a bit of a problem there.That season.Chicago Cubs.
And that year I would go to Tucson to play some Minor League baseball and eventually a physical failure before I even started.Eventually on embryo richels, who was a Naia school at the time. Louis Cardinals found me.
A devastating damage causes a change in heart
Since its foundation I have often been up and down in the large competitions and smaller competitions and you know that there are many heights, much low.
May 9, 2017, it was a day game, children's day.I came through first place.The second ining comes around and I am confrontedVictor Caratini.He is a left -handed Slagman.And my catcher, Rosario, requires a fastball road.Stayed straight, Karatini immediately walked back in the middle and I got out of the way and did not get out of the way.seconds.
I remember that everyone who runs against me and trains against me and he asks me questions about what my name is, what year is that simple question I can answer.He didn't like it."When I grew up, I played football, I had stingers and species a bit out-oh-je doesn't really understand how bad the damage is at that time.
So during my injury when I first entered the ambulance, it was when I started to recognize whatYou know what?This might be a bit worse than I thought.And when I first enter the hospital, it is when my memory is stained a bit..
And then he talks to me and I go right away: "Hello, can you come here very quickly and just pray about me?"And he was like "yes."I want to tell you that it was very reassuring when your father prayed about your bath.Looking for me to feel a child again, you know, just as my father was there, who protects me against something.
My injury was oneEpidural hematoma.Some brain injury.When it died, they could set up the skull again, remain silent and hope it would not swell, because if it were to swell again, I would have significant disabilities and luckily it was not.Would die first, and then they were afraid that I couldn't go, talk and eat again.
So to restore a brain is very different from rehabilitating an arm or a leg or something.My brain change will be normal again because I had changed about eight millimeters and I needed to be normal again before I even resume every form of activity.I spent a lot of time reading.
My father was a very big role to teach me the word [growing up] and he read every morning.The Bible, all the words he told me, started to come together, and I started to understand it even more.
“My father was a very big role to teach me the word [growing up] and he read every morning.Read the Bible, all the words he told me to come together, and I started to understand it even more. ”- Daniel Ponce de Leon
Believe in my life is something important now.I know, I read daily, I have a daily lecture that I follow, and on good days, bad days, I need God, especially the bad days.
"On good days, bad days, I need God."- Daniel Ponce de Leon
Jesus calls, January 4:
I want you to learn a new habit.Consider the depth and width of my love for you.
This simple practice will help you see me in every situation and to recognize my sovereign control over the universe.When you see events from this perspective - because of the light of my universal presence - sir -free it grabs you.Your trust in me, whatever happens.
The second part of the improvement plan was to help my body cure itself.So I started investigating it and what I found was that if your body is healthy, you can focus attention on what should heal.and began to drink superfood green, took a high levelFish oil, probiotics and all kinds.I changed the whole diet and I was able to heal the brain.I was able to resume the activity in baseball and weightlifting.
Near-death experience, that is what it has trained literally a hit upside down [for me to hear God say]: "Hello, I am here. You know you have to do well." And I think the wholeTravel he had implemented me, different ways in which God fueled me.You know that it says in the Bible that God will pull you when a father throws his son and "I walk in this direction. Go this way.
"I think the whole journey he completed me were different ways in which God stopped me."- Daniel Ponce de Leon
To return to the Haug
My first time back on the Haug, as a pitcher you have to be in the attack mode.If you are on the Haug and you have these thoughts, these doubts in your mind will happen bad things.Back -up in the middle.It is called conviction at your pitch.
And I was able to pray and I asked him for peace and quiet.A calm about me and I was able to go out and nothing outside of me and catcher got me it was just and [him] it was a good day., no hits.
I wanted to tell you that I felt blessed at the time and not just for myself, but it was a kind of reward for everyone around me, you know, for my father, my mother, my sisters, my wife now, myChildren and even my agent, whom I consider as a family, Brian Grieper.All throw back.
I use my baseball talents to spread the gospel and I can talk to people and see their connection, take their walk with God and hopefully bring them closer and hopefully just bring us all closer.
"I use my baseball talents to spread the gospel and I can talk to people and see their connection, take their walk with God and hopefully bring them closer as a church."- Daniel Ponce de Leon
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Narrator:Our next guest is a former music director and founder ofTippunt Artist Wellness Lanny West.Lanny had a tough start in life and treated emotional, physical and verbal abuse in a household that he describes as 'godless'.Industry.Lanny finally reached his break when he remembers that he was listening to contemporary Christian music in his kitchen, and God broke through his walls and began to heal his heart.
Lanny West:My name is Lanny West and I am a few things., a father and a man.I am the founder ofTip artist wellnessS and brings it to the ministry of the table, as we do on our farm.
Try to escape from a restless family life
My upbringing was a lot of riot.
My first experience with the church as a family, we lived across the side of the Methodist Church, and we went inside and sat in this bank - I can remember exactly the left part of the banks, the fourth bank - and we were likeA family, and Ushers came by and moved, because this is where this prominent family was every Sunday.
And then I had a very crooked look at church and religion, and we rarely went to church and never talked about it in our household., There was the son of a close family of ours and never said anything about it.
What dreams I had were based on music.That I could escape listening to the lyrics to these songs.And like many people who are my age,Beatleswas absolutely prominent, but I also listened to a lot of R&B music,The non -singersInOtis reddingAnd things like that.But the lyrics and songs helped me to escape from this stormy life that I live that I wanted to be, so I had to flee through music.
When I got older, I was digging to want to be a DJ and be on the radio to play that kind of music.At home and to do what I really enjoyed, you play music.Heck to get out of that mess because nothing got better.
It came to a head where I almost killed my stepfather and my mother prevented me from doing this.
This guy was really a bad guy and one of my friends and I decided to run away in Home Dance Show such as Dick Clark Dance Show.And then we would get $ 25 a day to dance.Exciting for me because it was part of the music, but I had to flee.
"My dream was to escape the unrest and abuse in my family."- Lanny West
The progression of addiction
My addiction started with alcohol.Step BROTHER - We wanted to get dressed in packs and watch tables and we would serve food and we would set tables and it was my mother who showed that we had some ways.And take things back to the kitchen.Discovered that by drowning myself in alcohol, I could escape from what was going on for a short period.
When I was fifteen, sixteen years old, I was an alcoholic.Party when I got older.
And when I came deeper into the entertainment world and worked on radio, Cocaine became a big subject in the 1970s.On the table.I spent four years of my life every day making medicines.
I was about to stop where I could not stop and it made me a new person.And I felt that I had to keep drinking and made these drugs because people expected that I would definitely be a way, this entertainer, this radio -dj.And then I was hung in it and I couldn't get out of it.
"I felt that I had to keep drinking and made these drugs because people expected me to be a certain way, this entertainer, this radio -dj." - Lanny West
The representatives of the record company would come to the city, and without exception they had all the cocaine with them.To sleep, I would smoke pot and take Nyquil and then come back in the morning and start it again.And I have often tried to stop.
I once clearly remember that my sinuses were so infected and then hid that when I drove the trailer park in which I lived at the time, I threw our cocaine out of the window in the car and swore that I would never do that is again.And I got up the next morning to go to work and got out and went into the bushes and found cocaine again and started well again.Everything as heroin or one of these kinds of medicines.
I continued to drink on a very regular basis until four years ago, but cocaine became [A] to become too expensive, [B] very dangerous to do, and [C] killed me.I did, so cocaine was the first thing I had set aside and luckily I didn't have to go to a rehabilitation center.
And again, I look back on my life and although I didn't know my real father, there was a father who looked at me.I decided to stop making cocaine, I just stopped and that was, oh, many years later - it would have been in the 1980s.My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I really confused things.Me or my wife.Aa, do you know.Because of the help of Christ I was able to stop.
I don't miss it to have a co*cktail.I don't miss drink.I don't miss cocaine..
"Although I didn't know my real father, there was a father who looked at me ... I don't miss it to have a co*cktail. I don't miss it. I don't miss cocaine. I don't miss it all because I miss it becauseI am filled with the Spirit of God and that is the most important thing in my life at the moment. ”- Lanny West
To learn to listen to God
I started exploring the Bible, I started to spend time on the farm alone, listen, know he is God and asked him to get into my life.nice -but I just asked [my brother -in -law] I said, "Okay, see, I ask, I listen. What happens? Do I have to start turning wagon wheels through the Walmart -gang, or fellI happen to be a big revelation on this trip when I give him my heart and so on: "Lanny, just listen.
And in 2017, August 10, I was in our kitchen. And for whatever reason, I was given this position to listen to modern Christian music.Amy GrantIs the only modern Christian artist I knew, so I go to My iTunes, and I look at modern Christian music, and it gave me these compilations -CDs or whatever, and I knew none of the artists.And I listen and we get five songs in this collection and this song is enabled and the lyrics, it was the most amazing ever and I now got cold shivers.Was a puddle, only a mess when this song played and I couldn't get off the floor.You want me.Don, and told him what had happened.
And then I said nothing to [my wife] Leslie.Our's guests came.We ate dinner.We are left and we are sitting at the table."Yes."She said, "There is something else for you."And then we both started to cry, and I told her the story of what had happened.And it was just the most amazing one.And at the time the spirit had come to me and that God had finally shaken me to the point where I realized that I could not continue in my life without him, the father that I never had to be in my life.
"At that moment I knew that the Spirit had come into me and that God had finally shaken me to the point where I realized that I couldn't continue in my life without him."- Lanny West
This farm is forty hectares of some of the most beautiful country in Tennessee.I just look around and see what God created and I am closer to him by being here with this energy.We don't own the farm.Boer within trade.I am now aware that what my walk and my way isIs to harvest souls and that this will be a place for people who need discovery who must come closer to God who have to build their relationship, strengthen their relationship or come to a relationship with God.So I spend every day with our animals outside, the bees that we have received, and really work on the service of the men here, who will roll in a few ministry and then build the location.Help me discover him in his fullness and also to share it with other people.
Spend time with God
Spending time with God every day is something that I started to appreciate and that I love.Think that is what God's wish is for me to do.But I look back and go,Man oh man what a dummy, and how you missed this opportunity in your life.
We read devotions.We readJesus callsIn the morning while we have coffee in bed and some other devotions.And that is really all I want to do with my life, everything I want to do is bring God to this earth.
One of the really importantJesus calls[Passenger] comes from 20 June:
I constantly talk to you.My nature is to communicate, but not always in words.Updates and you like it.
You can find me at any time if you have eyes seeing and ears that have my mind to sharpen your spiritual view and hearing.Will find me more and more of your moments.
This passage is so strong for where I am on my journey with Christ and my time here on the farm.Above all.So this passage was so moving and timely for me on the farm.
Narrator:Please visit for more information about Lanny and his workhttps://www.tippingpt.coach/And make sure you look at his latest book,Vader, Zoon en de UNDEDEN ROAD: The Darkness, Twisted Truth on My Travel From Cocaine to Christ,,At your favorite dealer.
If you want to hear more stories about turning God if you feel ruined, View our interview withHolly Hayes.
Next week: 5. Dimensions Florence Larue
Narrator:Next time onJesus calls podcastWe hear fromFlorence Larue, a former member of the Grammy-winning group 5. Dimension.
Florence Larue: Now I know that we have to support each other and be happy with others if they are happy, sad if they are sad.This is what real friendship is.To go out and to have a bigger career than you.It is part of the growth.
