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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, ah huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harley got a radio show. Here
we go today. I think I have something for a
lot of people today, at least I hope I do.
(00:21):
And this is about on your journey, And this is
about something that happens to us all. I mean, what
happens to all of us from time to time when
we get discouraged. What happens to all of us when
we feel like quitting, What happens to all of us
(00:43):
when we have that turnback moment. What happens to all
of us when it don't seem like it's going to
pan out? Because I want you to understand something that everyone,
every single living soul, has those thoughts about some thing
at some point in their life. I mean, you know, look,
(01:05):
I've oftentimes been discouraged about things not happening as fast
as I like them. All things don't pan out the
way I would like for them to have panned out.
I mean, it's so many ways to get discouraged. But
what my encouragement to you is when discouragement comes is
(01:31):
understand this. It is a part of the growth process.
It is a test. It is a test of your faith.
How bad you want it, do you really believe? That's
(01:51):
all faith is is simply, and I've said this how
many times. Faith is the belief in things that you
cannot see. So when discourage comes, setbacks comes, it is
a test of your faith. At least it's been that
way for me. Now other people can explain it another way.
I'm not other people. I can only give it to
(02:12):
you the way it has come to me and throughout
my life and man or man or man discouragement sometimes
it's tough to deal with because it seems at times
when you are discouraged that is so absolute that this
means the end, and if you allow it to set in,
(02:36):
it can be just that the end of you, when
merely merely it was a test, that's all it is.
But the majority of people that I know who are
not successful, or who have told me the story of
how they gave up, it was because at a moment
of discouragement that they allowed it to set in and
(03:00):
it became so engulfing that it became the reason why
you shouldn't finish. And then they started justifying it with
hitt one that I hate to hear. Well, if it's
God's will, excuse me. If it's God's will that you fail.
If it's God's will that you're not successful. If it's
(03:23):
God's will that you lay down and give up, it's
God's will that you allow yourself to amount to, not
to not reach your potential. That's God's will. That's not
the God I know. That's not the God I served,
that's not the God I've read about. That's not the
(03:44):
God I believe in. I'm sorry. I just my mother
always taught me something that he didn't bring me this
far to leave me. I just don't believe that, not
for a second. Now. Have I convinced myself for some things, yep?
Have I allowed the devil to come into the picture
(04:04):
and paint a different one from it? Yep? Yep, I've
done all of that. But you can't blame that on God. Now,
come on, so when discouragement comes, try to look at
it if you can, as a test of your faith,
and you merely have to pass the test. It could
(04:27):
be for a day, a half a day, a few hours,
a week, a few weeks, it don't matter. Don't nobody
know how long the test period is. Your job is
to keep the faith and keep moving. Keep the faith
and keep moving, keep working, keep believing, keep hope alive.
That's your job. If you do that, that's how you
(04:50):
pass the test. It could be over tomorrow, it could
be over in two weeks, it could be over in
a month. You don't know. But all you got to
do is wake up and keep the faith and fight
the discouraging feelings. And how do you do that? Steve?
Now here we go. This is the part I know
about for show because how many times I've had to
fight off discouragement in order to get to where God
(05:13):
wanted me to be. What do you do when you
become discouraged? Well, I think of the outcome. When I
get discouraged about a task, I think about the outcome. Man,
what would it be like if I were to complete
the task? What would it be like? Man? What would
the outcome be for me? If I hung loan in there?
(05:36):
If I didn't give up? If I imagine, I imagine
if I don't quit, I imagine, if I don't give up,
what would it be like? Man? Suppose everything I'm hoping
for comes true? But if I don't quit and give up.
That might just be the case. I start talking to
(05:59):
myself like that, I think of what the upside is.
What's the upside to stay in with it? You see,
all this is the same thing. I'm just giving you
different ways to look at it. I'm saying the exact
same thing over and over. But I'm just trying to
find the switch that connects in your mind where you
can say, Okay, man, I'm gonna hang in there. Because
(06:21):
if you think of the outcome, and the outcome is
appealing to you, if you imagine what it would be
like if you don't give up or you don't quit,
if you think only of what the upside is to
stay in with it, And then I go, where can
this lead to? If I stay with it, man, and
(06:42):
the outcome comes true? What else could that lead me to?
Because I mean, there's always more to it. So where
else could this lead me to? What are the possibilities? Man?
What are the limitless possibilities? What could God possibly have
in store for me? If I just hang in there,
(07:03):
if I pass this test of faith, if I just
pass this test, now, it ain't gonna be the only one.
But you gotta get past this one. No, then you
gonna hear the smooth plane. Then it's gonna be another one.
It's gonna be another one. Life ain't nothing but a
series of tests. Man. Man, when you're thinking about giving up,
(07:24):
when you're discouraged, think of the outcome. Imagine what it
would be like if you don't quit, if you don't
give up, what's the upside to staying with it? Where
can this all lead to? What can this get you to?
If you do this and you get to where you
think you want to be? Oh my god, what's after that?
(07:45):
What are the limitless and endless possibilities of holding on
to your faith? What could really be out there for me? Man?
If I just pass this test, you gotta talk yourself
into hanging in there. You listenings The Steve Harvey Morning
Show
Come on, ah huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harley got a radio show. Here
we go today. I think I have something for a
lot of people today, at least I hope I do.
(00:21):
And this is about on your journey, And this is
about something that happens to us all. I mean, what
happens to all of us from time to time when
we get discouraged. What happens to all of us when
we feel like quitting, What happens to all of us
(00:43):
when we have that turnback moment. What happens to all
of us when it don't seem like it's going to
pan out? Because I want you to understand something that everyone,
every single living soul, has those thoughts about some thing
at some point in their life. I mean, you know, look,
(01:05):
I've oftentimes been discouraged about things not happening as fast
as I like them. All things don't pan out the
way I would like for them to have panned out.
I mean, it's so many ways to get discouraged. But
what my encouragement to you is when discouragement comes is
(01:31):
understand this. It is a part of the growth process.
It is a test. It is a test of your faith.
How bad you want it, do you really believe? That's
(01:51):
all faith is is simply, and I've said this how
many times. Faith is the belief in things that you
cannot see. So when discourage comes, setbacks comes, it is
a test of your faith. At least it's been that
way for me. Now other people can explain it another way.
I'm not other people. I can only give it to
(02:12):
you the way it has come to me and throughout
my life and man or man or man discouragement sometimes
it's tough to deal with because it seems at times
when you are discouraged that is so absolute that this
means the end, and if you allow it to set in,
(02:36):
it can be just that the end of you, when
merely merely it was a test, that's all it is.
But the majority of people that I know who are
not successful, or who have told me the story of
how they gave up, it was because at a moment
of discouragement that they allowed it to set in and
(03:00):
it became so engulfing that it became the reason why
you shouldn't finish. And then they started justifying it with
hitt one that I hate to hear. Well, if it's
God's will, excuse me. If it's God's will that you fail.
If it's God's will that you're not successful. If it's
(03:23):
God's will that you lay down and give up, it's
God's will that you allow yourself to amount to, not
to not reach your potential. That's God's will. That's not
the God I know. That's not the God I served,
that's not the God I've read about. That's not the
(03:44):
God I believe in. I'm sorry. I just my mother
always taught me something that he didn't bring me this
far to leave me. I just don't believe that, not
for a second. Now. Have I convinced myself for some things, yep?
Have I allowed the devil to come into the picture
(04:04):
and paint a different one from it? Yep? Yep, I've
done all of that. But you can't blame that on God. Now,
come on, so when discouragement comes, try to look at
it if you can, as a test of your faith,
and you merely have to pass the test. It could
(04:27):
be for a day, a half a day, a few hours,
a week, a few weeks, it don't matter. Don't nobody
know how long the test period is. Your job is
to keep the faith and keep moving. Keep the faith
and keep moving, keep working, keep believing, keep hope alive.
That's your job. If you do that, that's how you
(04:50):
pass the test. It could be over tomorrow, it could
be over in two weeks, it could be over in
a month. You don't know. But all you got to
do is wake up and keep the faith and fight
the discouraging feelings. And how do you do that? Steve?
Now here we go. This is the part I know
about for show because how many times I've had to
fight off discouragement in order to get to where God
(05:13):
wanted me to be. What do you do when you
become discouraged? Well, I think of the outcome. When I
get discouraged about a task, I think about the outcome. Man,
what would it be like if I were to complete
the task? What would it be like? Man? What would
the outcome be for me? If I hung loan in there?
(05:36):
If I didn't give up? If I imagine, I imagine
if I don't quit, I imagine, if I don't give up,
what would it be like? Man? Suppose everything I'm hoping
for comes true? But if I don't quit and give up.
That might just be the case. I start talking to
(05:59):
myself like that, I think of what the upside is.
What's the upside to stay in with it? You see,
all this is the same thing. I'm just giving you
different ways to look at it. I'm saying the exact
same thing over and over. But I'm just trying to
find the switch that connects in your mind where you
can say, Okay, man, I'm gonna hang in there. Because
(06:21):
if you think of the outcome, and the outcome is
appealing to you, if you imagine what it would be
like if you don't give up or you don't quit,
if you think only of what the upside is to
stay in with it, And then I go, where can
this lead to? If I stay with it, man, and
(06:42):
the outcome comes true? What else could that lead me to?
Because I mean, there's always more to it. So where
else could this lead me to? What are the possibilities? Man?
What are the limitless possibilities? What could God possibly have
in store for me? If I just hang in there,
(07:03):
if I pass this test of faith, if I just
pass this test, now, it ain't gonna be the only one.
But you gotta get past this one. No, then you
gonna hear the smooth plane. Then it's gonna be another one.
It's gonna be another one. Life ain't nothing but a
series of tests. Man. Man, when you're thinking about giving up,
(07:24):
when you're discouraged, think of the outcome. Imagine what it
would be like if you don't quit, if you don't
give up, what's the upside to staying with it? Where
can this all lead to? What can this get you to?
If you do this and you get to where you
think you want to be? Oh my god, what's after that?
(07:45):
What are the limitless and endless possibilities of holding on
to your faith? What could really be out there for me? Man?
If I just pass this test, you gotta talk yourself
into hanging in there. You listenings The Steve Harvey Morning
Show
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