November 20, 2023 • 7 mins
Being grateful leads to blessings. Gratitude is the attitude that affects your altitude.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ahhah, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You all listening
to the voice, Come on dig me now, one and
only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Am 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, it could
(00:22):
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 to be grateful,
(00:44):
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 and a little bumpy on the road and
he ran into some obstacles, and you done ran up
into some detooled signs and your journey ain't smooth as
(01:08):
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Last week or last year.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You gotta be grateful for the things that are going
right and that have gone right.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And for the thing that's wrong right now? To get right? Man?
Can I share that with you? Man? Is that a
tough one to learn? It is? For me. It has
been one of.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
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 even then, the focus
(01:52):
ain't always in to fix it. The focus becomes, Man,
this is bad, Man, I can't believe this is happening.
Keep going down. That doesn't fix anything, you know, mealing over.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It, going over what's.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Wrong, explaining it, sharing it with your friends, you know,
making 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,
(02:30):
You're putting it out there in your spirit. Now all
of a sudden it consumes your day. Next thing you 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 this situation
that Ben cropped up. I was going kind of smooth
here for a minute and now then got real bumpy
(02:53):
in the road, you know, and all this here. So
what I'm thinking about now, though, is even though I've
hit a bump in the road, and even though I
done ran into a detour, and even though I've hit
this lull, 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
(03:16):
all the things He's done for me, for all the
things He's bought me through, And realizing that even this
that's happening to me again is going to pass to
He gonna get me through that too.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
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
got to remember is all the things He's done for me.
And like I say, my saying is join 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
(03:51):
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 don't have a lot of time to mull
over the situation.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do I have to fix this bump in the roll?
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 worrying about it for you know, old people.
I heard old people say something when 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
(04:28):
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?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I do it to you. You called me out, I
call you out.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You say something bad about me, I've tried to find
you 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
(05:06):
you trying to do at the end of the day, folks,
is have a better life than the one you got.
All you 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 going. I 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
(05:29):
to have the best life 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 million men
sitting in prison today how they wish they hadn't have
(05:50):
done that, and they'll tell you, Oh, man, I wish
I never had did it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I knew not to go down there. Something told me
not to go down there. Man. If I could change things,
I would.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But they sitting somewhere doing some time that had they
made another decision, they wouldn't have to do. Now that
don't make them throw away people, nah, man, because everybody
make mistakes, and God 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,
(06:23):
we didn't. But now we sit up here we pass
judgment on people who got to do some Now I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't care what you've done.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
God can forgive anything, but our position, our motivation in
life is to try to 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
(06:52):
to get it done. It's simply mine to your business
taking care of you and getting yourself right and tight
is twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a full time job.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
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 lie to you.
And now I'm still working on some things that trigger me.
(07:22):
You know, you know, you know, 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 for me, I pray about it.
(07:43):
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 is a wonderful weapon,
Ahhah, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You all listening
to the voice, Come on dig me now, one and
only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Am 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, it could
(00:22):
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 to be grateful,
(00:44):
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 and a little bumpy on the road and
he ran into some obstacles, and you done ran up
into some detooled signs and your journey ain't smooth as
(01:08):
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Last week or last year.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You gotta be grateful for the things that are going
right and that have gone right.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And for the thing that's wrong right now? To get right? Man?
Can I share that with you? Man? Is that a
tough one to learn? It is? For me. It has
been one of.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
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 even then, the focus
(01:52):
ain't always in to fix it. The focus becomes, Man,
this is bad, Man, I can't believe this is happening.
Keep going down. That doesn't fix anything, you know, mealing over.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It, going over what's.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Wrong, explaining it, sharing it with your friends, you know,
making 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,
(02:30):
You're putting it out there in your spirit. Now all
of a sudden it consumes your day. Next thing you 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 this situation
that Ben cropped up. I was going kind of smooth
here for a minute and now then got real bumpy
(02:53):
in the road, you know, and all this here. So
what I'm thinking about now, though, is even though I've
hit a bump in the road, and even though I
done ran into a detour, and even though I've hit
this lull, 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
(03:16):
all the things He's done for me, for all the
things He's bought me through, And realizing that even this
that's happening to me again is going to pass to
He gonna get me through that too.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
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
got to remember is all the things He's done for me.
And like I say, my saying is join 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
(03:51):
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 don't have a lot of time to mull
over the situation.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do I have to fix this bump in the roll?
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 worrying about it for you know, old people.
I heard old people say something when 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
(04:28):
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?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I do it to you. You called me out, I
call you out.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You say something bad about me, I've tried to find
you 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
(05:06):
you trying to do at the end of the day, folks,
is have a better life than the one you got.
All you 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 going. I 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
(05:29):
to have the best life 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 million men
sitting in prison today how they wish they hadn't have
(05:50):
done that, and they'll tell you, Oh, man, I wish
I never had did it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I knew not to go down there. Something told me
not to go down there. Man. If I could change things,
I would.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But they sitting somewhere doing some time that had they
made another decision, they wouldn't have to do. Now that
don't make them throw away people, nah, man, because everybody
make mistakes, and God 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,
(06:23):
we didn't. But now we sit up here we pass
judgment on people who got to do some Now I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't care what you've done.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
God can forgive anything, but our position, our motivation in
life is to try to 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
(06:52):
to get it done. It's simply mine to your business
taking care of you and getting yourself right and tight
is twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a full time job.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
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 lie to you.
And now I'm still working on some things that trigger me.
(07:22):
You know, you know, you know, 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 for me, I pray about it.
(07:43):
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 is a wonderful weapon,
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