Steve Harvey' Closing Remarks - 07.23.24

Today in Closing Remarks, we are advised by Big Dog to keep gratitude in our prayers.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are last break of the
day on this Tuesday. Wow, this day would pretty quickly
for us. Huh yep, thank you day. Yeah. I'm kind
of all over the place a little bit. I think
one of the things I want to do in my clothingness.

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Because I was on IGD other day, this white minister
came out. I have no idea what his name was,
but he was talking about prayer. It was really really
important what he said. It really struck a nerve with me.
He said, when most people pray, eighty percent of their

(00:44):
prayers are based on needs, you know, a need for healing,
a need for financial assurance, a need for help, a
need for reassurance, a need. And he says that he
wasn't judging that that's important. He say, but when you

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constantly go to God with your needs what he wants
you to do, and that's all you do, you remove
an important element. He said, if you would turn your
prayer around and make eighty percent of your prayer about
gratitude and then twenty percent for what you need, because

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you do need prayer to help you with life challenges
and set backs and life's decisions. Even but he was saying,
when you spend eighty percent of that based on that,
you remove so much gratitude from it that you don't
allow for your mindset to be accepting of God's will

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and what He's done for you. That I'm paraphrasing what
he said that helped me understand it, and I was
thinking about it, and I thought about how true that
was because of the times when we pray, and I
know I'm guilty of it myself. I spend a lot
of time in my prayer telling God what I want
and what I need, and I mean in terms of
understanding His presence, you know, decisions I got to make,

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you know, goals and aspirations I'm trying to reach, and
I always open my prayers with gratitude, but I don't
I may not be spending enough time with the gratitude
aspect of it. Is what I'm my takeaway with what
this guy was saying, And I just wanted to offer
that to you all as a thought to start thinking

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about spending more time in whichever way you pray, with
being more grateful for what you have. Because I've said
just a million times, the more grateful you are, the
more grateful, the more grateful you are, the more things
God will give you to be grateful for. That's a
true thing. So it's just a thought starter, just for
people to think about. In terms of praying, don't forget

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the gratitude aspect of it. Don't forget to, you know,
spend a large portion of what you're praying about, you know,
to be in terms of gratitude. It just makes a
lot of sense. I have so many things to be
grateful for, and I don't think I spend enough time
talking to Him about all those things. So I just

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wanted to share that with you all this morning, just
something for you to might want to think about. That
may work for you, that may not work for you,
because I do understand the need factor, especially when you
need so many things that I don't know who else
to ask for for. So I'm kind of taking what
he said and understanding too that there is a great

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need that you should go to Him for everything. But
I just think that to be a little bit more
of a balance with the gratitude aspect of it. I
just want to share that. Those are my closing remarks,
So you feel me, everybody, team, everybody good. Absolutely, I
totally agree. Man, Yeah, because I think we all do that,
So pray for what we want, you know. And I

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like what you said about the gratitude. Yeah, I know
I do. I do a lot me too, but I
always open my prayer with gratitude. I always think him first.
But from finding that I may not be doing it
enough on the gratitude side, because He also knows what
you need. What I stopped doing, though, was keep asking

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for the same thing over and over, repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly, repeated,
because I think God heard me, and I think he's
sending the blessing if I just had to stay in
peace and patience, now wait on to see what he's
got to do. Strong. So that's it. Yeah, great message

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because because it's plenty to pray about on a daily basis,
you ain't gonna run out. And that's how we communicate
with God. Prayer. Yeah, line open. Yeah. Well, y'all have
a great day. We'll see y'all. The mom hanging strong
over here. Y'all be good, love you see the mob

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