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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, I sure will come on. And everybody you
are listening to the voice, oh, come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show,
borl borl boy. I can't even tell you, man. I've
(00:21):
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 is
(00:44):
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 act
(01:06):
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 is 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
(02:11):
is just 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
(02:33):
be grateful 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
(02:54):
to say 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
(03:15):
next level. 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
(03:38):
told and 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 yoursel system, when
(04:01):
you're when you're 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
(04:23):
get it. But that's 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
(04:46):
wanting too much for 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
(05:07):
do what I 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'd have 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
(05:32):
and not 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
(05:55):
his grace 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
(06:16):
any 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.
(06:38):
Now does it? 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 sin us
down here, so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time,
I know you was looking at her when you weren't
(06:58):
supposed to. I know you I said something to him
when 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
roll this time. But we keep on though. See see,
see that's what happens. See we just keep on and
(07:19):
then the next thing, you know, we get caught. Now,
Oh Lord, have mercy. I want 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.
(07:41):
But because we don't stop, and we go again. But
God always forgives, He always allows us to get back
up again. He always gives us mercy, He always gives
us his grace. He always does that. To the Steve
Harvey Morning Show
Come on, I sure will come on. And everybody you
are listening to the voice, oh, come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show,
borl borl boy. I can't even tell you, man. I've
(00:21):
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 is
(00:44):
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 act
(01:06):
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 is 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
(02:11):
is just 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
(02:33):
be grateful 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
(02:54):
to say 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
(03:15):
next level. 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
(03:38):
told and 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 yoursel system, when
(04:01):
you're when you're 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
(04:23):
get it. But that's 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
(04:46):
wanting too much for 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
(05:07):
do what I 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'd have 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
(05:32):
and not 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
(05:55):
his grace 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
(06:16):
any 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.
(06:38):
Now does it? 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 sin us
down here, so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time,
I know you was looking at her when you weren't
(06:58):
supposed to. I know you I said something to him
when 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
roll this time. But we keep on though. See see,
see that's what happens. See we just keep on and
(07:19):
then the next thing, you know, we get caught. Now,
Oh Lord, have mercy. I want 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.
(07:41):
But because we don't stop, and we go again. But
God always forgives, He always allows us to get back
up again. He always gives us mercy, He always gives
us his grace. He always does that. To the Steve
Harvey Morning Show
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