Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 06.27.24

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
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Come out you. I sure, well, a good morning everybody.
You're listening to the voice, come on digny now one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. I was
had my head down and it was thinking of what

(02:18):
I wanted to say this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
But it kind of it's kind of be something I've
lived for a long time, and you know, for a
long time, you know, I had a lot of faith
in people. You know, it's strange too because you know,
you know, my mother was a Sunday school teacher, so
of course I grew up around knowing, uh, scriptures and

(02:44):
things like that. Not not a lot of them, but
you know, the ones I retained. But having her as
a mother was was a huge help and understand about faith.
But even with that, as I grew up, I began
to put a lot of faith in people, and you know,
I figured, uh, you know, just like everybody else. You know,

(03:04):
man if I could just meet this person, or if
I could just sit down with that person, or man
if I could just get this person to hear my idea,
or man if just if this person could hear my track,
or man if I could just get this in the
hands of somebody in the know. I was, like everybody else,
I thought that way. You know, I actually thought that

(03:26):
if I could get in a certain situation with a
certain person, that if a certain person were to meet me,
that you know, it could change everything for me. Oh man,
Oh how wrong I was? Oh how wrong I was?
How long did I spend feeling that way? And how
many of you out there possibly have felt that way before?

(03:49):
You know, like even in a relationship, this is the
person for me, and you know, you just lay claim
to that, you know, not necessarily being a fact, but
you just lay claim to it. This is the person
for me, This is the person that I want to
spend the rest of my life with.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Sometimes you know, we just lay claim and stuff and
it's not always what's in our best interest or it's
not always a fact. It's just what we decided we
want it. And I was guilty of that, just like
anybody else. And I spent a lot of years in
my life putting faith in people. Man, if I could
tell you anything this morning, it's to stop putting your

(04:25):
faith in people and put your faith in God where
it counts the most. I mean, you can get something
out of this one. See, here's a deal about a
relationship with God. It's the same all the time. He
never changes. His word is one hundred percent absolute. His
word doesn't have loopholes in it, none of that. It's

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this is what it is. He's very clear. Now, you
can deviate off your end at a bargain, but it
don't stop what he says from being true. But if
he asked you to do something, if God asks you
to to be a certain way, to do a little
something a certain way, and you don't do it that way,
then you know, you could still possibly get by for

(05:08):
a while. But don't you understand that his end of
the deal stays the same, and as long as you're
not doing it the way you're supposed to, the results
are not going to be what you wanted to be.
And I did this for years and years and years,
and I counted on people, and you know I got
myself in a lot of situations, and I got out
one a dire situation that I'd been in for a

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number of years. But he had protected me from years
prior to that. I didn't even know what was going on,
and then he made it, made me aware of the problem.
And then, man, Lord have mercy, I was in a
dismal situation. And then at the end of the year,
I was free, free from it all. But it was
a decision that I had made that led up to that,

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and in going through that process, I had to learn something.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
I learned a lot about people. See, if you want
to learn about your friends, if you want to learn
about your people people around you, get yourself in some trouble,
get yourself in a situation, Oh man, you start looking around.
Man the feeld. Get real clear when you're in trouble.
The feel clear is out. When you're in doubt, when

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you don't know what to do, when you need help it,
get real clear on the play and field. Then don't it. Ah.
But when things is going right, it's time for a party.
We throwing a celebration. We gonna We're gonna do one
down here. Oh man, there's plenty of people on the field.
But but but get yourself in a situation. You find
out rather quickly it oh no, oh no, everybody ain't here.

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And that's when I started learning. And I'm telling you,
I had to start learning this for real until I
finally got it to stop putting my faith in people
and put all the mind in God where it counts
the most. Now is that to say that there are
people that you can't trust. No, that's not what I'm saying.
I ain't say you can't trust it, but you can't
dump your faith in them. I got it all riding

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on what he say. I got it all riding on
what she say. No, no, uh uh no, I hear
you saying it. But I'm gonna keep my own this
situation because I hear you saying it. But I'm gonna
take this faith of mine and instead of putting it
in people, I'm gonna put it in God where it

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counts the most. Because his word is absolute. What he
says he's gonna do, he gonna do what he say.
He's not gonna tolerate. He's not gonna tolerate. Now, you
can make it, you can make it tolerable for yourself.
But he's not gonna tolerate it. And that's just the
end of the line. And so you know, I'm wondering
how many people out there find themselves in a situation
like me. Or maybe you've gotten yourself in a situation

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because you put your faith in some people and now
you wound up in a different type of situation. Now,
let me ask you where the people at. The only
one that I found when I was in my deepest trouble,
when me and my wife were in our darkest situation,
was God. It was the only one, was the only

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one who was just right there, right there, all the
way through. Now, let me explain something to you. Because
you have this relationship with God, it does not mean
it does not mean now that itet, it won't still
be a situation, you understand. But what He will do

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is protect you during that period. He'll cover you during
that period that it is a situation. He will give
you the strength to overcome the situation when it turns
into a situation. Then when he cracks it open for
you and the sun is bright and shining, what he
don't want you to do is when it gets sunny again,

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to forget about him who was there when it was
dark for you. See, I used to do that too,
you know I was Oh, man, I did it. I'm
telling you right now, I did it. But I'm telling
you man, when I learned a very serious lesson and
I watched some people I thought were friends of mine
just sort of casually remove themselves from the situation, then

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I said, okay. Me and Marjorie looked around. We said, okay,
it's just me, you and God. And when we started
conducting ourselves accordingly. So when it's sunny for us, we
remember God. We stay prayerful, we keep talking to him.
We thank him for the sunshine, we thank him for
the dark days that he allowed us to do, who

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allowed us to survive it and turn it into sunny days.
And we talked to him constantly to protect us of
our future enemies. And that's what the deal is. So
if I was everybody, I would stop putting your faith
in people and put your trust in God where it
really does count the most, it really really does.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
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Speaker 1 (09:59):
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