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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Hey, good morning everybody.
You're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. I've
been saying it like that since I got it too.
All right, got a good one for you today. Yesterday
(00:20):
the other day, I was talking to you about the
most effective weapon available to us as human beings, I
think is prayer. I think prayer helps us in so
many ways. But right now, what I want to do
is I want to show you how prayer pays off.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I want to show you what good it can do
for you. Even me.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I use it every day, and the days I don't
use it, I feel it that that, you know, the
days that I go, you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Know, without talking to him as much, I notice it.
I feel it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I feel a certain kind of way, you know, those
that doubt starts slipping in again, that uneasy feeling of
uncertainty slips in again, that wondering what I'm gonna do
starts slipping in again. It happens to me, It happens
to everybody. Man, I think, I really really do you know,
if people would just keep it real with each other,
stop being this Christian, this Superman because you ain't.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You ain't.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one,
that's everybody, that cover all of us. Thought, So sometimes
I think we're a little too hard on each other
with that too, seeing that's how we not perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We immediately want to just just.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh man, you just want to kill when we find
somebody do something wrong. Spell if we go public, everything
go public now it called social media. But anyway, I
just want to talk to you about how prayer pays off.
It's called it all eye and money. People got money,
call it all eyes. So return on investment. People always
looking for a return on investment. You know, nobody, nobody
(02:00):
in business really gives you money without understanding the return
on investment. They don't even give money to charities unless
they think it can do something with the bottom line.
A lot of companies work like that. I found out
out myself. Sad, but it is true. So since everything
is expected to work on a return on investment, I
(02:21):
assume because we're human beings. So since we are human beings,
whether you're in business or not, you still in the
business of living. I think when you pray, you should
expect a return on your investment. You talk to him,
you spend time opening up to him, you bowed your
(02:42):
head to him, you humbled yourself, you got on your knees.
I mean, but really we talking God here. So really,
what you're doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you.
A little bit that you do do on his behalf,
it just pays in comparison with what he does. But
let's just say you want to call yourself invested, Well,
(03:02):
let me show you how it pays off. This because see,
for me, this is for me now, prayer pays off
in different ways.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's what I had to learn.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
See, I was praying, but I was asking him specifically
for what I wanted. I had the audacity, though, to
turn around and tell him how to do what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's amazing. Man. I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How many blessings I block come in my way by
putting my faith in what I said I wanted and
how I wanted him to do it. I want you
to give me this. I want that person to go away.
I want this person to accept everything you say. Then
I want to go over here and I want this
deal to happen like this, and I want that person
(03:45):
to just step aside and let me through. And then
I want that I was, I had it mapped out.
God must have been chuckling really hard. He had been gonna, boy,
I made you to be funny. But boy, you funny now.
So you're gonna tell me how to do it all?
I heard this right here. If you want to make
God laugh telling me your plan, well that's what I did.
(04:05):
And that's how we pray. A lot of times we pray,
and we pray. In the prayer, we're telling him how
to work it out. Well, here's the deal. This is
what I've learned. Prayer pays off in different ways. There's
a different return of my investment when I pray. See,
sometimes when I'm praying for something, a situation to dissolve
(04:27):
itself or go away, sometimes I get courage out of
the prayer. Prayer provides me courage that's just to go
on and look at it. I guess face it. Then.
Sometimes when I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer gives
(04:48):
me hanging power. Sometimes, man, it just I look up
and I'm just handling it better. Sometimes prayer gives you
laughing off power. Sometimes, man, you it's got to laugh
at off whatever man you trip it. Do you know
what that is?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
If you could do that?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You know, sometimes it gives you a show of strength power.
Sometimes prayer allows you to have the appearance that you
got it all together. Nobody got to know the world wining,
the tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life. You
standing over that like the eye the hurricane, you just
(05:30):
and it's all swelling around you. But you standing there
like the eye, you just as calm. That's what prayer does.
So when you pray, man, it builds up a lot
of things in you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know what it's done for me. Prayer has built
up character in me.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's made me have more character because I'm able to
stand stronger on the things I say because I've been praying,
because I've been asking God for all of those return
of investments. I've been asking God for courage. I've been
asking God for hanging in that power. I've been asking
him to give me the power to walk away. I've
asked him to give me ignored power. I've asked him
(06:08):
to help me laugh it off. I've asked him to
show me strength. But you know what I was doing,
I was really praying, not really for them things be
real with you. I was asking him to help me, Lord,
help me. You ever done that? You have asked God
for help? And then all of a sudden, the list
of these things show up. See, sometimes how you want
the problem to be solved ain't the best way. There's
(06:28):
a lesson to be learned when we make mistakes. And
sometimes you got to stay in that fire, and you
got to learn that lesson. But guess what, though, when
you come out of it, you're gonna be better for it.
You gonna know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray.
He's solid. His word is true. It lasts forever. He
do what he said he gonna do now all day,
(06:49):
all night, twenty four seven. He do it all day,
all night, and then some more. His word don't ever change.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's true. It works for me. It worked for you you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It worked for Jake's It worked for Old Steam, It
worked for Kirk Franklin, It worked for Paul or White,
It worked for Billy Graham, It worked for Mother Teresa,
It worked for Gandhy, It worked for the Princess Arabs.
It worked man, it worked for you. What you're waiting for,
(07:21):
why don't you put prayer in your game. Watch what
happened to you? You sitting in that jail cell and
you struggling with it, and they telling you blood in,
blood out, you can't get in you. That's foolishness, man,
What you mean God can get you out of anything. Look, man,
if you don't read your Bible, he'd got some people
lot some sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about.
If Daniel was in the lions den and Jonah was
(07:43):
in the belly of the whale, what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Where you are?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You just sitting in the cell with some dudes around.
You're talking about what they gonna do. Man, you gotta
be real. God, it can't nothing to do nothing. Nobody
can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give you
the strength to handle prayer change his.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Things, man. Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Hey, good morning everybody.
You're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. I've
been saying it like that since I got it too.
All right, got a good one for you today. Yesterday
(00:20):
the other day, I was talking to you about the
most effective weapon available to us as human beings, I
think is prayer. I think prayer helps us in so
many ways. But right now, what I want to do
is I want to show you how prayer pays off.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I want to show you what good it can do
for you. Even me.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I use it every day, and the days I don't
use it, I feel it that that, you know, the
days that I go, you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Know, without talking to him as much, I notice it.
I feel it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I feel a certain kind of way, you know, those
that doubt starts slipping in again, that uneasy feeling of
uncertainty slips in again, that wondering what I'm gonna do
starts slipping in again. It happens to me, It happens
to everybody. Man, I think, I really really do you know,
if people would just keep it real with each other,
stop being this Christian, this Superman because you ain't.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You ain't.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one,
that's everybody, that cover all of us. Thought, So sometimes
I think we're a little too hard on each other
with that too, seeing that's how we not perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We immediately want to just just.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh man, you just want to kill when we find
somebody do something wrong. Spell if we go public, everything
go public now it called social media. But anyway, I
just want to talk to you about how prayer pays off.
It's called it all eye and money. People got money,
call it all eyes. So return on investment. People always
looking for a return on investment. You know, nobody, nobody
(02:00):
in business really gives you money without understanding the return
on investment. They don't even give money to charities unless
they think it can do something with the bottom line.
A lot of companies work like that. I found out
out myself. Sad, but it is true. So since everything
is expected to work on a return on investment, I
(02:21):
assume because we're human beings. So since we are human beings,
whether you're in business or not, you still in the
business of living. I think when you pray, you should
expect a return on your investment. You talk to him,
you spend time opening up to him, you bowed your
(02:42):
head to him, you humbled yourself, you got on your knees.
I mean, but really we talking God here. So really,
what you're doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you.
A little bit that you do do on his behalf,
it just pays in comparison with what he does. But
let's just say you want to call yourself invested, Well,
(03:02):
let me show you how it pays off. This because see,
for me, this is for me now, prayer pays off
in different ways.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's what I had to learn.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
See, I was praying, but I was asking him specifically
for what I wanted. I had the audacity, though, to
turn around and tell him how to do what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's amazing. Man. I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How many blessings I block come in my way by
putting my faith in what I said I wanted and
how I wanted him to do it. I want you
to give me this. I want that person to go away.
I want this person to accept everything you say. Then
I want to go over here and I want this
deal to happen like this, and I want that person
(03:45):
to just step aside and let me through. And then
I want that I was, I had it mapped out.
God must have been chuckling really hard. He had been gonna, boy,
I made you to be funny. But boy, you funny now.
So you're gonna tell me how to do it all?
I heard this right here. If you want to make
God laugh telling me your plan, well that's what I did.
(04:05):
And that's how we pray. A lot of times we pray,
and we pray. In the prayer, we're telling him how
to work it out. Well, here's the deal. This is
what I've learned. Prayer pays off in different ways. There's
a different return of my investment when I pray. See,
sometimes when I'm praying for something, a situation to dissolve
(04:27):
itself or go away, sometimes I get courage out of
the prayer. Prayer provides me courage that's just to go
on and look at it. I guess face it. Then.
Sometimes when I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer gives
(04:48):
me hanging power. Sometimes, man, it just I look up
and I'm just handling it better. Sometimes prayer gives you
laughing off power. Sometimes, man, you it's got to laugh
at off whatever man you trip it. Do you know
what that is?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
If you could do that?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You know, sometimes it gives you a show of strength power.
Sometimes prayer allows you to have the appearance that you
got it all together. Nobody got to know the world wining,
the tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life. You
standing over that like the eye the hurricane, you just
(05:30):
and it's all swelling around you. But you standing there
like the eye, you just as calm. That's what prayer does.
So when you pray, man, it builds up a lot
of things in you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know what it's done for me. Prayer has built
up character in me.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's made me have more character because I'm able to
stand stronger on the things I say because I've been praying,
because I've been asking God for all of those return
of investments. I've been asking God for courage. I've been
asking God for hanging in that power. I've been asking
him to give me the power to walk away. I've
asked him to give me ignored power. I've asked him
(06:08):
to help me laugh it off. I've asked him to
show me strength. But you know what I was doing,
I was really praying, not really for them things be
real with you. I was asking him to help me, Lord,
help me. You ever done that? You have asked God
for help? And then all of a sudden, the list
of these things show up. See, sometimes how you want
the problem to be solved ain't the best way. There's
(06:28):
a lesson to be learned when we make mistakes. And
sometimes you got to stay in that fire, and you
got to learn that lesson. But guess what, though, when
you come out of it, you're gonna be better for it.
You gonna know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray.
He's solid. His word is true. It lasts forever. He
do what he said he gonna do now all day,
(06:49):
all night, twenty four seven. He do it all day,
all night, and then some more. His word don't ever change.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's true. It works for me. It worked for you you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It worked for Jake's It worked for Old Steam, It
worked for Kirk Franklin, It worked for Paul or White,
It worked for Billy Graham, It worked for Mother Teresa,
It worked for Gandhy, It worked for the Princess Arabs.
It worked man, it worked for you. What you're waiting for,
(07:21):
why don't you put prayer in your game. Watch what
happened to you? You sitting in that jail cell and
you struggling with it, and they telling you blood in,
blood out, you can't get in you. That's foolishness, man,
What you mean God can get you out of anything. Look, man,
if you don't read your Bible, he'd got some people
lot some sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about.
If Daniel was in the lions den and Jonah was
(07:43):
in the belly of the whale, what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Where you are?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You just sitting in the cell with some dudes around.
You're talking about what they gonna do. Man, you gotta
be real. God, it can't nothing to do nothing. Nobody
can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give you
the strength to handle prayer change his.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Things, man. Steve Harvey Morning Show
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