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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody,
y'all listening to the voice? Come on, dig me now,
want it only? Steve Harvey got a radio show. Hell
Man back in business too, Man Man, how good is God?
(00:22):
I mean, really, if you think about it in spite
of all that's going down in your life. First of all,
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
(00:42):
difficult moment, or you didn't hit a bump in the
road in the middle of that, if you could manage
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. And then got a little
(01:05):
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 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?
(01:28):
Can I share that with you? Man? Is that a
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
(01:48):
when something go wrong, I want to focus on the
wrong so much in an attempt to fix it. But
even then the focus ain't always in to fix it.
The focus comes. Man, this is bad. Man, I can't
believe this is happening. Why this keep going down? That
doesn't fix anything? You know, mealing over it, going over
(02:12):
what's 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,
(02:35):
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
the situation that Ben cropped up. I was going kind
of smooth here for a minute and now then got
(02:57):
real bumpy in the road, you know, and all. So
what I'm thinking about now though, is even though I've
hit a bumping 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
(03:18):
the things that God has given me, for all the
things He's done for me, for all the things He's
brought me through, And realizing that even this that's happening
to me again is going to pass to He gonna
get me through that toude. 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
(03:40):
in 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 to me, of what all he's
done for me, of all the things he's brought me through,
(04:00):
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. Now. 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
(04:22):
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 worry about it,
don't pray about it. That's an amazing thing. And prayer
just happens to be my weapon of choice now that
it ain't always been that way. I want you to
(04:43):
understand that my first weapon of choice was you do
it to me, I do it to you. You called
me out, I call you out. 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 so good? Because
you know what, I spent a lot of time fighting back,
(05:05):
kicking back, swinging back, when I could have spent all
that time climbing. See, all 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
(05:28):
high as me. I ain't got no time for that.
Your real mission and purpose is 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.
(05:51):
You can ask a couple million men sitting in prison
today how they wish they hadn't have done that, 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. Man. If I
could change things, I would. But they sitting somewhere doing
some time that had they made another decision, they wouldn't
(06:12):
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, we didn't. But now we sit up here
and we pass judgment on people who got to do
some Now I don't care. I don't care what you've done.
(06:35):
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
(06:57):
to get it done. It's simply mine to you. Your
business taking care of you and getting yourself right and
tight is twenty four seven. So that's a full time job.
So what I had to learn was and what I've
the reason I've chosen prayer as my weapon of choice
now is that now prayer helps me that I don't
(07:17):
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.
You know, you know, you know, 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
(07:41):
ugly for me, I pray about it. When it gets
tight and dismal 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.
(08:01):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody,
y'all listening to the voice? Come on, dig me now,
want it only? Steve Harvey got a radio show. Hell
Man back in business too, Man Man, how good is God?
(00:22):
I mean, really, if you think about it in spite
of all that's going down in your life. First of all,
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
(00:42):
difficult moment, or you didn't hit a bump in the
road in the middle of that, if you could manage
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. And then got a little
(01:05):
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 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?
(01:28):
Can I share that with you? Man? Is that a
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
(01:48):
when something go wrong, I want to focus on the
wrong so much in an attempt to fix it. But
even then the focus ain't always in to fix it.
The focus comes. Man, this is bad. Man, I can't
believe this is happening. Why this keep going down? That
doesn't fix anything? You know, mealing over it, going over
(02:12):
what's 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,
(02:35):
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
the situation that Ben cropped up. I was going kind
of smooth here for a minute and now then got
(02:57):
real bumpy in the road, you know, and all. So
what I'm thinking about now though, is even though I've
hit a bumping 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
(03:18):
the things that God has given me, for all the
things He's done for me, for all the things He's
brought me through, And realizing that even this that's happening
to me again is going to pass to He gonna
get me through that toude. 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
(03:40):
in 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 to me, of what all he's
done for me, of all the things he's brought me through,
(04:00):
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. Now. 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
(04:22):
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 worry about it,
don't pray about it. That's an amazing thing. And prayer
just happens to be my weapon of choice now that
it ain't always been that way. I want you to
(04:43):
understand that my first weapon of choice was you do
it to me, I do it to you. You called
me out, I call you out. 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 so good? Because
you know what, I spent a lot of time fighting back,
(05:05):
kicking back, swinging back, when I could have spent all
that time climbing. See, all 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
(05:28):
high as me. I ain't got no time for that.
Your real mission and purpose is 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.
(05:51):
You can ask a couple million men sitting in prison
today how they wish they hadn't have done that, 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. Man. If I
could change things, I would. But they sitting somewhere doing
some time that had they made another decision, they wouldn't
(06:12):
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, we didn't. But now we sit up here
and we pass judgment on people who got to do
some Now I don't care. I don't care what you've done.
(06:35):
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
(06:57):
to get it done. It's simply mine to you. Your
business taking care of you and getting yourself right and
tight is twenty four seven. So that's a full time job.
So what I had to learn was and what I've
the reason I've chosen prayer as my weapon of choice
now is that now prayer helps me that I don't
(07:17):
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.
You know, you know, you know, 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
(07:41):
ugly for me, I pray about it. When it gets
tight and dismal 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.
(08:01):
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