Change Is A Challenge

The only thing in life that is constant is change. It is necessary for growth. Are you ready?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah ha, I show will good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, Come on, dig me now one and only.
Uh Steve Harvey got a radio show, Yeah you do.
Steve Harvey got a radio show. But like I said
the other day, you got something too, though, don't you.
God hadn't done something wonderful for you. You just gotta
thank Him for it, you know, in the midst of

(00:21):
all that's going on in my life and in your life.
You know, I always use myself as an example because
well I mean that way. I guarantee one hundred percent
I know what I'm talking about. Um, here's the situation,
you know, with everything that's going on in my life
and all the things I'm asking God for in the

(00:43):
midst of a taxing and a very trying situation, that's
very challenging for me right now. Man, God just keeps on,
keeps on surprising me. He keeps doing things. And I
want you to look at your life. Or for a second,
let's make two columns here. Let's make a column of

(01:06):
all the things you want from God. You know, just
do that throughout the course of the day, you know,
you know, run down the list of all the things
you're asking God for all the things you're praying for,
the things you aspire to, what you your dreams, your visions,
whatever it is. Just make a column a list of
all those things. Let's make three lists. And then the

(01:27):
second list, I want you to make a list of
everything that you've been asking God for. So I guess
that could be a little bit of the same. But
this third list, I want you to do a check
off point. I want you to do a make a
list of everything that God has given you that you've
asked him for. Just think about it like that for

(01:49):
a second. I may be explaining a little wrong right now,
but I'm gonna pull it together for you. Make a
list of everything you're asking God for. Just just list.
You know. It's okay, it's a dream board. You can
call it that. I got one, it's a vision board.
You know. Every everybody's got something you hope for. Make
a list. Now. I want you to make another list

(02:11):
of everything you've asked God for that he's given you already.
See this is a good list because sometimes and what
I've been guilty of and maybe you two in my
request list on my dream board. I keep focusing so
hard sometimes on the what I'm yet to receive. I

(02:34):
keep focusing so hard on the what I hope he
gives me. I keep focusing so hard on the things
that I yet not fulfilled in my life that sometimes,
as he starts checking off my wish list the things
I've asked for in the past that have come to
pass that he's given me, I sometimes, in praying for

(02:57):
what I want forget to thank him for what he's
done for me. And I'm currently in the middle of
that situation. And this morning when I woke up, I really, man,
I just got on my knees this morning and I
quit tripping for a second. I said, Man, hey, God,
you know what I really do need all them things
I'm asking for, and I'm really am believing that you're

(03:19):
gonna give it to me. But in the meantime, though, Man,
have I overlooked some important details here. I had to
really look at what he's done for me. I mean, look, man,
take yourself out of it personally and look, well, you
can leave yourself in it however you want to be.
Some people can't do that, so just leave yourself in
it there. But man, I started looking at the eye

(03:40):
part of me and I started looking around at what's
happening overall, Like, man, he has kept my family together
in spite of the attempts to tear it apart. I
look at all of that. I look at how he's
blessing my children with the desires of their heart, which
I pray for my kids. You know, I want my
kids to have a better life i've had. I really

(04:01):
really do. I don't want them to take as long
as it took me to get it together. I really
really don't. I'm trying to say, hey, man, if you
go to college, this is what you can be. Don't
do like your father did. Don't go three years, drop out,
throw yourself into a spiral and then got to start
to scratch all over again. You know. And for the
most part so far, you know, they're doing quite well

(04:23):
of it. You know, you know, they they're getting kicked
around a little bit, but that's life. I started thinking
of the blessings that he's helped me overcome with some
of the previous mistakes I've made in relationships in my life.
And then I started looking about the things he's blessed
me with that I've been asking him for. But since
I've moved on from it. I forgot to keep thinking

(04:45):
him because I gotta always thank God for a roof
over my head because guess what, when I was asking
for the roof and I didn't really have it, then
he gave me one that since he gave it to me, what,
I'm just cool now. I can't ever go back to
him and go, hey, man, I really do appreciate this
roof over my head because that was a time when
I was living in a car. But see, so every
morning I wake up, I gotta remember the fact that

(05:07):
I have a home now because I got to look
back and go, man, that was time, Steve, when you
didn't have no home. But see, we forget what God
has done for us because in our column that won't column,
the need column. We oftentimes forget for the columns and
the check marks, as He's already fulfilled in our life.

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You've got to take inventory every now and then daily
if possible. But I know we're humans. We're not gonna
do that. I don't. But you've got to take inventory
of your life to say, hey, what has God done
for me? You know? And remember something else too. Change
is good, but change is challenging. Accept the challenge that

(05:53):
it is. Look, a lot of you come up to
me all the time and say, Steve Man, thank you, man, boy,
you in the morning. Man, I really be needing that.
Like I under said it a hundred times, but I'm
gonna say it again, y'all. I'll be needing it too.
You know, you understand, sometimes what God is dealing with
me is for me. But now I'm in a sharing

(06:16):
position where I can open up and if I just
if I just quit being so about me and become
a little bit more transparent, I can maybe some of
me that's happening to me, it is happening to you,
and you can see some of this in me. That's
why I use myself as an example, because man, I'm
catching it too, y'all. I ain't perfect either. So for

(06:37):
those of you that come up to me and say that,
I want you to understand these these talks in the morning, man,
this is important for me because man, I need these
conversations from God. I need God to continue to strengthen me,
to show me the way to help me understand what's
happening to me. And see, as we've all those of

(06:58):
you who have made the decision to change to become
a better person, a better woman, a better boy, a
better girl, a better man. For those of you have
made the decision to change, change is a challenge, and
accept the challenge because it's gonna come. Because right out
of that here come to haters. Here they come people
you don't even know, discussing your life and your change.

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If God see you, really really mean what you say,
in spite of what they say about you, God will
raise you above the phrase. He'll keep promoting you, He'll
keep blessing you, He'll keep moving you up. He will
use you as a show off point. He'll show you off. Man.
He'll make you, He'll make you look good to people,

(07:39):
man who wish you'd fall all day long, and so
to all your haters. All your haters will end up
just watching you rise. Man. They will watch you continue
to grow. That's what God will do for you. Man.
You can fool the world, but you can't fool God.
God know your heart, He know your every thought. Man,