Learn How To Be Grateful

Being grateful leads to blessings. Gratitude is the attitude that affects your altitude.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah ha, I sure will. A good morning everybody, y'all
listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one
and all it Steve Harvey got a radio show. Hey
Man back in business too, Man, Man, How good is God?
I mean, really, if you think about it in spite
of all that's going down in your life. First of all,

(00:22):
it could be worse. But secondly, sometimes you have to remember.
And I've just had to have this conversation with myself
this morning. That's how I'm fresh on this one right here.
When a challenge faces you, are you going through a
difficult moment, or you didn't hit a bump in the
road in the middle of that, if you could manage

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to be grateful, it would take you a long way.
Gratitude is a powerful resource if you can be grateful
in the middle of it. Gratitude is a powerful resource
when it's dim for you. It didn't got a little
bumpy on the road and he ran into some obstacles,

(01:03):
and you didn't ran up into some detooled signs and
your journey ain't smooth as it was last week or
last year. You gotta be grateful for the things that
are going right and that have gone right. And for
the thing that's wrong right now to get right? Man?
Can I share that with you? Man? Is that a

(01:25):
tough one to learn? It is? For me It has
been one of my toughest challenges is to learn how
to be grateful because it's a powerful resource, but how
to be grateful in moments of despair when it ain't
going right. See here's a mistake I would make. See
when something go wrong, I want to focus on the
wrong so much in an attempt to fix it. But

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even then, the focus ain't always in to fix it.
The focus becomes, Man, this is bad. Man, I can't
believe this is happening. Why keep going down? That doesn't
fix anything? You know, mealing over it, going over what's wrong,
explaining it, sharing it with your friends, you know, making

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it sound worse than it is, tell the story for
pity from other people. All of that, right there, has
nothing to do with the fix. Sometimes you're just mulling
over it. You're just making it worse. You're just making
it a bigger problem. You're manifesting it into your atmosphere,
You're putting it out there in your spirit. Now all
of a sudden, it consumes your day. Next thing you

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know you're having a bad day. If you're having a
bad day, it's because you've been having some bad thoughts.
So what I've had to learn how to do, and
what I'm working on this morning is I'm working on
the situation that's been cropped up. I was going kind
of smooth here for a minute, and now I didn't
got real bumpy in the road, you know, and all
this here. So what I'm thinking about now, though, is

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even though I've hit a bump in the road, and
even though out and ran into a detour, and even
though I've hit this love I'm going down into a valley,
I ain't up on the peak. Can I not still
be grateful for all the things that God has given me,
for all the things He's done for me, for all

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the things He's brought me through, And realizing that even
this that's happening to me again is going to pass too.
He gonna get me through that attitude. Come on, man,
God is a good god man. It's a lot to
be grateful for. So while I'm tripping on this bumping
the road out and here, what I gotta remember is
all the things He's done for me. And like I say,

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my saying is joy and depression cannot reside in the
same place. So instead of being down about this new
bumping the road, if I'm constantly filling my mind with
the thoughts of how good he's been to me, of
what all he's done for me, of all the things
he's brought me through, of all the blessings he's presented
me with. When I go down that list, I really

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don't have a lot of time to mull over the situation. Now.
Do I have to fix this bump in the road.
Of course I do. Are There's some things I'm going
to have to do to straighten it out. Of course
it is. But Steve just going to get the business
of doing it and straighten it out. What you mulling
over and wearing about it for? You know, old people.

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I heard old people say something I was growing up
in the church. They say, if you're gonna pray about it,
don't worry about it. But if you're gonna worry about it,
don't pray about it. That's an amazing thing. And prayer
just happens to be my weapon of choice. Now, it
ain't always been that way. I want you to understand
that my first weapon of choice was you do it
to me, I do it to you. You call me out,

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I call you out. You say something bad about me.
I've tried to find you and say something bad about you.
That was my weapon in the past. How did that
work out for you, Steve? Not so good? Because you
know what, I spent a lot of time fighting back,
kicking back, swinging back, when I could have spent all
that time climbing. See, all you're trying to do at

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the end of the day, folks, is have a better
life than the one you got. All you're trying to
do is to improve your position in life. You know,
it's not my business to make sure you don't get
where you're going. Ain't got no time for that. It's
not my job to assure that you ain't as high
as me. I ain't got no time for that. Your
real mission and purpose is to have the best life

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that you can have, to ascend to the highest plateau
that you can get to, to make your family as
comfortable as you can, to provide as much as you
can for your family. But legally, see, those of us
are sitting up here trying to come up with sideways.
You can ask a couple of million men sitting in
prison today, how they wish they hadn't have done that?

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And they'll tell you, Oh, man, I wish I never
had did it. I knew not to go down there.
Something told me not to go down there, and if
I could change things, I would. But they're sitting somewhere
doing some time that had they made another decision, they
wouldn't have to do now. I don't make them throw
away people, na, man, because everybody make mistakes and God

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is in the forgiving business. And some of us have
done some things that really broke the law and a
whole lot of other things and deserve to do some time.
But through the grace of God, we didn't. But now
we set up here and we passed judgment on people
who got to do something. Man, I don't care. I
don't care what you've done. God can't forgive anything. But
our position, our motivation in life is to try to

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have the best life we can have and provide for
those around us and make it comfortable. If that's your ambition,
you don't have time to worry about or concern yourself
with another person. And I wasted time doing that, and
that's not the way to get it done. It's simply
mind to your business, taking care of you and getting

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yourself right and tight. It's twenty four seven. That's a
full time job. So what I had to learn was
and what I've the reason I've chosen prayers as my
weapon of choice now is that now prayer helps me
that I don't have to fight back. Now, if I
get cornered, I'm gonna fight you. I ain't even gonna

(07:18):
lie to you. And now I'm still working on some
things that trigger me. You know, you know, you know,
and and and and so I'm I'm slowly getting better
at that. But I've learned that my weapon of choice
is prayer now. So when it happens ugly for me,
I pray about it. When it gets tight and dismal

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for me, I pray about it. And the thing about prayer, man,
is prayer changes things. Yes, it does. Now read about
it and try it. That's the deal. Okay, come on,
Prayer as a wonderful weapon.