June 22, 2022 • 8 mins
God will bless you, however, you must give Him something to work with. What effort have you made?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I share, well, a good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, Come on dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. I have something,
and it so describes how I was living. It's so
captures the feelings that I had about beginning on the
(00:25):
pathway of my dreams. It so describes how I felt
when I was about to attempt something. And I have
some striking news for you. It describes often how I
feel still today to a degree. So let me tell
you what that is. And I know what's happened to
(00:45):
a lot of people. Here's an analogy that I've heard
a couple of different ways, but I've kind of, you know,
fixed it around to where I can k it better.
And I think it fits my personality to describe it
to people best this way. You know I was I
(01:08):
was talking. I've talked often about the urgency of doing
something with your life, of of getting started today, of
stopping the procrastination and putting it off and waiting on
all your ducks to line up in a row and
waiting until the stars aligned themselves. If if you ain't
on such a thing, you're you're never gonna get started.
(01:33):
I don't really. I don't know too many people who
can say that all the ducks just lined up in
a row. Things happen. Things happen even when you get
them lined up. One of the ducks get out of line,
or somebody knock over the domino, or something happens. But here's, here's,
here's here's here's the point I'm getting at. God has
(01:56):
so many blessings available to you. You who's listening. God
has so many blessings available to you from where you
are right now. I don't care what you've gotten yourself
into or what you've done. God has so many blessings
(02:20):
that he can send your way. But you have to
do something. See a lot of people just sit around
and go man, and something always happening to you. You're
always getting a break, You're always doing this. You always say, man,
don't nothing come my way? Listen to me. If nothing
ever comes your way. You know why that is. It's
(02:41):
because you're not doing anything. I promise you you're not. See.
Here's a deal. God has all these blessings he wants
to send you, but you got to give him something
to work with. Now, come on, you have to give
God something to work with God will bless you. God
(03:01):
can touch people's hearts on your behalf. He can move
situations around for you. He can align the stars. He
can set the ducks up in the road. But align
the stars and move people around, and touch people's hearts
and set the ducks up in the road for what?
Based on what have you put forth? Any effort? Have
(03:22):
you made a single step in any direction to do
the right thing or go the right way? That gives
him something to put his finger on. Come on, man,
God can only bless you according to your faith. If
you have a little bit of faith, give him that,
Let him work with that. He can do that. You know, man,
(03:44):
I didn't always start with these speeches you hear in
the morning. Now. I ain't always had these. I grew
to these. I stumbled my way to these. I messed
up my way to these. Hell, I got it wrong
so many times to be able to sound like I
got some sense, I said it often. Failure is a
(04:04):
wonderful teacher. Do you know how many times I have
had to have failed to have what I have in
my head today? I'm telling you, man, it's a process.
People get mad at the process. You got to do
something to give God something to work with. He'll bless you.
But what you want me to bless if you ain't
(04:26):
putting forth any effort, any effort, if you just sit
down and start. I got a book coming out, I'm
telling you, man, that's going to really explain this thoroughly. Man,
Where you can get blessed from whoever you are in
your life, wherever your starting point is, wherever you find
yourself wound up you can get you can get it
(04:47):
back from now. I've done it, man, by the grace
of God, I've done it. I got over. Man. I
learned some things along the way. Because here's a deal.
As long as God keeps waking you up in the morning,
he ain't with you yet. When he's done, you're done.
But if God still has a plan for you you
wake up in the morning, he's still got some more
work for you to do. You wake up in the morning.
(05:09):
So if you keep waking up, man, it's something that
God wants from you, would love to have from you,
and he can work with you, man, if you just
walk towards him a little bit. So here's the deal.
I know it's hard for the average person to start
because the fear of the unknown is incredible. Well what
if I failed? What if I don't get picked? You know,
(05:32):
one of the hardest things I ever did was walking
in to quit my job. Oh man, let me tell
you about that day when I decided that I was
going to be a full time comedian after winning an
amateur night one time. Quitting your job, following your dream,
going forward despite all the nay says, it's like stepping
(05:53):
off a cliff. It's like actually just walking off the
edge of a cliff. Who being hoping now not really knowing,
but hoping. Hoping is the bad basis of faith. I
stepped off that cliff hoping that my parachute would open
(06:16):
and allow me to drift down. See. I've never skydived before,
but I would imagine part of the thrill. And I
don't know this because I'm not going to skydive to
find out. I think part of the thrill for people
is the danger part of throwing yourself out a plane
and how it feels to be free falling, but the
(06:38):
whole time they're free falling, having this exhilarating over the
top moment, you have got to believe in your heart
of hearts, you have got the hope with everything in
you that when you pull this chord the shoot opens
or else. This ain't a good move at all. But
you've packed your shoot yourself, You've taken the lessons, so
(07:00):
you go ahead and you make the leap. Now, the
only thing about quitting your job and following your dream
is you ain't really been trained all that good for this,
and you'ren't really You didn't packed your shoot, but you
ain't never opened it before. So I walked off this cliff,
That's what it was like. And you following your dream
is like you walking off a cliff. Now, let me
(07:21):
tell you something. Here's the part where people don't never
make the jump. They see somebody like myself who jumped
off the cliff and the pasachute don't open right away.
And I hit a couple of rocks on the way down.
I got my back cut up pretty bad, I got
my clothes ripped off. They see that three years living
(07:43):
in a car man, he got his life toe down
jumping off that cliff. I ain't jumping off that cliff.
But see, what you don't understand is you don't you
don't know it. But eventually the shoote will open, and
I'm at the parachute opening part of my life, man,
where the shooting open and I'm drifting and I'm able
(08:03):
to go over to parish, guide my shoote over to
Paris and glide. I've glided over to Africa and seen
what it looked like. It's a slow ride down. When
the pass chute finally opened, and my back then heel too,
and the cuts that I had on me, I remember
now I know how to stay away from the edge.
But the parish shute then opened, and I'm enjoying my
(08:25):
life for the first time. I'm gliding, but I got
hit up against the rock. I can see more. I
get a chance to see more things. I get to
glide and see more parts of the world. I'm living
my dream. The passhute open. Your passhute is gone open.
But I'll tell you one thing for shore, It'll never
open if you don't step off that cliff. You got
(08:46):
to step off that cliff, got to get the passhute
open for you. But you got the jump, baby, That's
the hard part, ain't it now? Question is the end
of this story right here today? When you jumping
Uh huh, I share, well, a good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, Come on dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. I have something,
and it so describes how I was living. It's so
captures the feelings that I had about beginning on the
(00:25):
pathway of my dreams. It so describes how I felt
when I was about to attempt something. And I have
some striking news for you. It describes often how I
feel still today to a degree. So let me tell
you what that is. And I know what's happened to
(00:45):
a lot of people. Here's an analogy that I've heard
a couple of different ways, but I've kind of, you know,
fixed it around to where I can k it better.
And I think it fits my personality to describe it
to people best this way. You know I was I
(01:08):
was talking. I've talked often about the urgency of doing
something with your life, of of getting started today, of
stopping the procrastination and putting it off and waiting on
all your ducks to line up in a row and
waiting until the stars aligned themselves. If if you ain't
on such a thing, you're you're never gonna get started.
(01:33):
I don't really. I don't know too many people who
can say that all the ducks just lined up in
a row. Things happen. Things happen even when you get
them lined up. One of the ducks get out of line,
or somebody knock over the domino, or something happens. But here's, here's,
here's here's here's the point I'm getting at. God has
(01:56):
so many blessings available to you. You who's listening. God
has so many blessings available to you from where you
are right now. I don't care what you've gotten yourself
into or what you've done. God has so many blessings
(02:20):
that he can send your way. But you have to
do something. See a lot of people just sit around
and go man, and something always happening to you. You're
always getting a break, You're always doing this. You always say, man,
don't nothing come my way? Listen to me. If nothing
ever comes your way. You know why that is. It's
(02:41):
because you're not doing anything. I promise you you're not. See.
Here's a deal. God has all these blessings he wants
to send you, but you got to give him something
to work with. Now, come on, you have to give
God something to work with God will bless you. God
(03:01):
can touch people's hearts on your behalf. He can move
situations around for you. He can align the stars. He
can set the ducks up in the road. But align
the stars and move people around, and touch people's hearts
and set the ducks up in the road for what?
Based on what have you put forth? Any effort? Have
(03:22):
you made a single step in any direction to do
the right thing or go the right way? That gives
him something to put his finger on. Come on, man,
God can only bless you according to your faith. If
you have a little bit of faith, give him that,
Let him work with that. He can do that. You know, man,
(03:44):
I didn't always start with these speeches you hear in
the morning. Now. I ain't always had these. I grew
to these. I stumbled my way to these. I messed
up my way to these. Hell, I got it wrong
so many times to be able to sound like I
got some sense, I said it often. Failure is a
(04:04):
wonderful teacher. Do you know how many times I have
had to have failed to have what I have in
my head today? I'm telling you, man, it's a process.
People get mad at the process. You got to do
something to give God something to work with. He'll bless you.
But what you want me to bless if you ain't
(04:26):
putting forth any effort, any effort, if you just sit
down and start. I got a book coming out, I'm
telling you, man, that's going to really explain this thoroughly. Man,
Where you can get blessed from whoever you are in
your life, wherever your starting point is, wherever you find
yourself wound up you can get you can get it
(04:47):
back from now. I've done it, man, by the grace
of God, I've done it. I got over. Man. I
learned some things along the way. Because here's a deal.
As long as God keeps waking you up in the morning,
he ain't with you yet. When he's done, you're done.
But if God still has a plan for you you
wake up in the morning, he's still got some more
work for you to do. You wake up in the morning.
(05:09):
So if you keep waking up, man, it's something that
God wants from you, would love to have from you,
and he can work with you, man, if you just
walk towards him a little bit. So here's the deal.
I know it's hard for the average person to start
because the fear of the unknown is incredible. Well what
if I failed? What if I don't get picked? You know,
(05:32):
one of the hardest things I ever did was walking
in to quit my job. Oh man, let me tell
you about that day when I decided that I was
going to be a full time comedian after winning an
amateur night one time. Quitting your job, following your dream,
going forward despite all the nay says, it's like stepping
(05:53):
off a cliff. It's like actually just walking off the
edge of a cliff. Who being hoping now not really knowing,
but hoping. Hoping is the bad basis of faith. I
stepped off that cliff hoping that my parachute would open
(06:16):
and allow me to drift down. See. I've never skydived before,
but I would imagine part of the thrill. And I
don't know this because I'm not going to skydive to
find out. I think part of the thrill for people
is the danger part of throwing yourself out a plane
and how it feels to be free falling, but the
(06:38):
whole time they're free falling, having this exhilarating over the
top moment, you have got to believe in your heart
of hearts, you have got the hope with everything in
you that when you pull this chord the shoot opens
or else. This ain't a good move at all. But
you've packed your shoot yourself, You've taken the lessons, so
(07:00):
you go ahead and you make the leap. Now, the
only thing about quitting your job and following your dream
is you ain't really been trained all that good for this,
and you'ren't really You didn't packed your shoot, but you
ain't never opened it before. So I walked off this cliff,
That's what it was like. And you following your dream
is like you walking off a cliff. Now, let me
(07:21):
tell you something. Here's the part where people don't never
make the jump. They see somebody like myself who jumped
off the cliff and the pasachute don't open right away.
And I hit a couple of rocks on the way down.
I got my back cut up pretty bad, I got
my clothes ripped off. They see that three years living
(07:43):
in a car man, he got his life toe down
jumping off that cliff. I ain't jumping off that cliff.
But see, what you don't understand is you don't you
don't know it. But eventually the shoote will open, and
I'm at the parachute opening part of my life, man,
where the shooting open and I'm drifting and I'm able
(08:03):
to go over to parish, guide my shoote over to
Paris and glide. I've glided over to Africa and seen
what it looked like. It's a slow ride down. When
the pass chute finally opened, and my back then heel too,
and the cuts that I had on me, I remember
now I know how to stay away from the edge.
But the parish shute then opened, and I'm enjoying my
(08:25):
life for the first time. I'm gliding, but I got
hit up against the rock. I can see more. I
get a chance to see more things. I get to
glide and see more parts of the world. I'm living
my dream. The passhute open. Your passhute is gone open.
But I'll tell you one thing for shore, It'll never
open if you don't step off that cliff. You got
(08:46):
to step off that cliff, got to get the passhute
open for you. But you got the jump, baby, That's
the hard part, ain't it now? Question is the end
of this story right here today? When you jumping
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