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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh, I sure will. Good morning everybody you
are listening to the voice, Oh, come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show,
borl bor Oh boy, I can't even tell you. Man.
(00:20):
I've been doing some thinking and and one of the
things that I wanted to mention today to you as
one of the principles of success, being grateful at all
times is difficult to do. Being grateful at all times
(00:44):
is very difficult to do. I find that to be
true with myself. Now there are others that might be
able to do it, but just from talking and listening
and living and learning, being grateful at all times is
difficult to do. But it's necessary because it's such an
(01:06):
act of faith in knowing that no matter what's going on,
it's going to be alright. And it's hard to see
that when things are not going in your favor, when
things have turned so dramatically the other way, and it
seems as though you're the only one in the situation
(01:28):
where you're involved with other people, or someone got an
accusation against you falsely, or somebody trying to do something
to you unjustifiably, whatever the case may be. When it's
happening to you. It does appear to you that, oh,
my goodness, man, this is horribly one sided. So it
(01:49):
is difficult. It's hard to do to be grateful at
all times, but it's so necessary. And I just want
to point out a couple of things to you. First
of all, the difficulty in being grateful in hard times
is that number one, the present circumstances. Oftentimes it's just
(02:11):
so pressing and so overwhelming that a lot of your
energy is devoted to trying to come up with the
solution for that, or trying to muster the strength to
whether the storm, or trying to just brace yourself to
try to get through it, and in doing that, you don't.
It's hard to be grateful. It's hard to be grateful
(02:33):
in pain, and I know it is. But here is
the trick for me. This is what I've had to
learn how to do, and I guess it takes practice
to get here. It's not nothing you just start doing
right away. You got to practice it in small increments
to really get it. What I've always had to say
(02:54):
to myself and what I've learned to say to myself
is this is happening to me because God is working
me through something. This is happening to me because it's
some form of tests that I have to pass in
order to graduate to the next grade, and that in
order to be allowed to move to the next level.
(03:16):
This is happening to me because there's something I need
to purge my life, of my body, of my spirit,
of something's purging in me. And when you purge something,
it's it's painful. You know, it's like a person getting
off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've been told and
(03:38):
every documentary I've ever watched it it's an agonizing process
to go cold turkey, to withdraw, to pull away after
you've been doing something so long. And so I know
that this process is tough when you're going through some pain.
But when you're purging yourself system, when you're when you're
(04:02):
when you're having to pass a test, when you're about
to make when when you're being made ready for the
next level, that moment right in there, in realizing that
that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude. That's
where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining this correctly.
I'm gonna keep trying until I get it. But that's
(04:24):
where you find the gratitude. The second part of it
is is that God has never left me in all
the things I've done, in all the mistakes I've made,
all the lies I've told, all the situations I've gotten
myself into from being greedy and wanting too much for
(04:47):
me at the expense sometimes of other people, not doing
it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because I've never
had that. I'm not a vindictive or mean person, but
sometimes in my life, in wanting to do what I
(05:08):
wanted to do, I didn't totally weigh out the cause
and effect of the other person. I mean, can I
just be real with you with that? I mean, how
many times we'dne all done that? Look, it doesn't It
don't make you a bad person. You know, good people
do bad things all the time. I just happened to
have come to the realization that unknowingly and and not
(05:33):
and not with malice intent towards a person, I've hurt
people looking at something I wanted to do without really
looking at what the cause and effect would be on
the other person. So in doing some of these things,
I've created situations for myself. But God, through his grace
(05:56):
and mercy, has allowed me to even get beyond that.
So what I'm saying that God has never left me
in spite of myself. He's always gotten me through. So
that's the other part of it too. See that no
matter what you're going through, you've got to understand that
God has always gotten you through it now has any
(06:16):
Now that may not be the way you want it
or the way you liked, But guess what, you can't
do wrong and not pay for that. Now that that's
not how this works. That's never going to be the case.
But the great thing about God is he fires warning
shots at us all the time. He gives us an
opportunity to stop. You know, He don't fully punish us
right away every time we do something wrong. Now does it?
(06:40):
You know eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever
it is you're doing. You do understand that, don't you.
But the first time, that close call, that was a
warning shot for you to stop. Look, I know you're
not perfect. I know we all sinn us down here,
so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time, I
know you was looking at her when you weren't supposed to.
I know you say I had something to him when
(07:01):
you wasn't supposed to. I know you got with her
when you know you wasn't supposed to. And I know
you got with him when you know you weren't supposed to.
So I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm a
fire warning shot, and maybe you'll slow your role this time.
But we keep on though. See see, see that's what happens. See,
we just keep on and then the next thing, you know,
we get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy. I won't
(07:24):
out of this. Yeah, well see you done dug this
hole pretty deep and he gonna get you out. But
it's some things that's got to go down now because
you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See, had
you stopped the first time, you felt bad about it
and said you wasn't gonna do it no more, the
situation wouldn't be as critical. But because we don't stop,
and we go again. But God always forgives, He always
(07:49):
allows us to get back up again. He always gives
us mercy, He always gives us his grace. He always
does that. Listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on, uh, I sure will. Good morning everybody you
are listening to the voice, Oh, come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show,
borl bor Oh boy, I can't even tell you. Man.
(00:20):
I've been doing some thinking and and one of the
things that I wanted to mention today to you as
one of the principles of success, being grateful at all
times is difficult to do. Being grateful at all times
(00:44):
is very difficult to do. I find that to be
true with myself. Now there are others that might be
able to do it, but just from talking and listening
and living and learning, being grateful at all times is
difficult to do. But it's necessary because it's such an
(01:06):
act of faith in knowing that no matter what's going on,
it's going to be alright. And it's hard to see
that when things are not going in your favor, when
things have turned so dramatically the other way, and it
seems as though you're the only one in the situation
(01:28):
where you're involved with other people, or someone got an
accusation against you falsely, or somebody trying to do something
to you unjustifiably, whatever the case may be. When it's
happening to you. It does appear to you that, oh,
my goodness, man, this is horribly one sided. So it
(01:49):
is difficult. It's hard to do to be grateful at
all times, but it's so necessary. And I just want
to point out a couple of things to you. First
of all, the difficulty in being grateful in hard times
is that number one, the present circumstances. Oftentimes it's just
(02:11):
so pressing and so overwhelming that a lot of your
energy is devoted to trying to come up with the
solution for that, or trying to muster the strength to
whether the storm, or trying to just brace yourself to
try to get through it, and in doing that, you don't.
It's hard to be grateful. It's hard to be grateful
(02:33):
in pain, and I know it is. But here is
the trick for me. This is what I've had to
learn how to do, and I guess it takes practice
to get here. It's not nothing you just start doing
right away. You got to practice it in small increments
to really get it. What I've always had to say
(02:54):
to myself and what I've learned to say to myself
is this is happening to me because God is working
me through something. This is happening to me because it's
some form of tests that I have to pass in
order to graduate to the next grade, and that in
order to be allowed to move to the next level.
(03:16):
This is happening to me because there's something I need
to purge my life, of my body, of my spirit,
of something's purging in me. And when you purge something,
it's it's painful. You know, it's like a person getting
off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've been told and
(03:38):
every documentary I've ever watched it it's an agonizing process
to go cold turkey, to withdraw, to pull away after
you've been doing something so long. And so I know
that this process is tough when you're going through some pain.
But when you're purging yourself system, when you're when you're
(04:02):
when you're having to pass a test, when you're about
to make when when you're being made ready for the
next level, that moment right in there, in realizing that
that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude. That's
where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining this correctly.
I'm gonna keep trying until I get it. But that's
(04:24):
where you find the gratitude. The second part of it
is is that God has never left me in all
the things I've done, in all the mistakes I've made,
all the lies I've told, all the situations I've gotten
myself into from being greedy and wanting too much for
(04:47):
me at the expense sometimes of other people, not doing
it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because I've never
had that. I'm not a vindictive or mean person, but
sometimes in my life, in wanting to do what I
(05:08):
wanted to do, I didn't totally weigh out the cause
and effect of the other person. I mean, can I
just be real with you with that? I mean, how
many times we'dne all done that? Look, it doesn't It
don't make you a bad person. You know, good people
do bad things all the time. I just happened to
have come to the realization that unknowingly and and not
(05:33):
and not with malice intent towards a person, I've hurt
people looking at something I wanted to do without really
looking at what the cause and effect would be on
the other person. So in doing some of these things,
I've created situations for myself. But God, through his grace
(05:56):
and mercy, has allowed me to even get beyond that.
So what I'm saying that God has never left me
in spite of myself. He's always gotten me through. So
that's the other part of it too. See that no
matter what you're going through, you've got to understand that
God has always gotten you through it now has any
(06:16):
Now that may not be the way you want it
or the way you liked, But guess what, you can't
do wrong and not pay for that. Now that that's
not how this works. That's never going to be the case.
But the great thing about God is he fires warning
shots at us all the time. He gives us an
opportunity to stop. You know, He don't fully punish us
right away every time we do something wrong. Now does it?
(06:40):
You know eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever
it is you're doing. You do understand that, don't you.
But the first time, that close call, that was a
warning shot for you to stop. Look, I know you're
not perfect. I know we all sinn us down here,
so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time, I
know you was looking at her when you weren't supposed to.
I know you say I had something to him when
(07:01):
you wasn't supposed to. I know you got with her
when you know you wasn't supposed to. And I know
you got with him when you know you weren't supposed to.
So I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm a
fire warning shot, and maybe you'll slow your role this time.
But we keep on though. See see, see that's what happens. See,
we just keep on and then the next thing, you know,
we get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy. I won't
(07:24):
out of this. Yeah, well see you done dug this
hole pretty deep and he gonna get you out. But
it's some things that's got to go down now because
you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See, had
you stopped the first time, you felt bad about it
and said you wasn't gonna do it no more, the
situation wouldn't be as critical. But because we don't stop,
and we go again. But God always forgives, He always
(07:49):
allows us to get back up again. He always gives
us mercy, He always gives us his grace. He always
does that. Listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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