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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you. Uh huh, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What an amazing blessing. God has given me, my health,
my dreams, all of it. God gave it to me.
I accept it. I work hard, but man, oh man,
oh man, I work hard. It's something that He gave
me a gift. And that's what I want to talk
to you about today. Because God has gifted everyone, so
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I can't help but believe it. You are gifted in
some way. Something about you is specially and unique. That
doesn't mean you're the only one that can sing? Are
you the only one that can write? Are you the
only one that can draw? You the only one that
can decorate? Are you the only one that can network?
Or you're the only one that does not what it means?
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Or you have a great scientific mind, or you can
figure things out, or you're good at problems solving. You're
not the only one, but you are a unique individual.
Nobody will travel the exact path that you on. Nobody
will have everything happen in a series of circumstances in
the order that you're going to have it happen to you.
That's what I mean when I say that you are unique.
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But now because you are gifted, you know you have
something you have to do. You know, there's a scripture.
It's in Proverbs, Proverbs eighteen and sixteen. I've been trying
to be a little bit better at that for you,
you know. So when I have an idea and I
know where it is, I have somebody look the scripture
up from me handed to me. So it's in Proverbs
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eighteen sixteen. And this is the layman's term of it.
It says a man's gift make room for him and
brings him before great men. It is your gift that
will make room for you. Now my interpretation of this
is this. Now I could be wrong. Please go to
your local church, center, god, temple, mosque, whatever you do,
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and go get clarification. But what my gift has done
in making room for me is I've taken it almost
in the literal sense. My gift has actually made room
for me. It has cleared paths for me. My gift
has opened up doors for me. That's what I take
it as. It'll make room for you. My gift has
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broadened my ability to travel. My gift has opened my
eyes to fashion. My gift has caused me to be
able to provide for my family. My gift has caused
me to be able to reach more people. That's what
I'm saying in terms of it will make room for you.
That it may be another interpretation. I'm just telling you
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how I took it. That has worked out pretty good
for me to that understanding. But I'm pretty sure Bishop Jakes,
Joel Oldstein, Kennef oh My, you know, God, Glenn Staples,
Bishop Glenn Stable, these guys give you much better understanding
of it. I'm just giving it to you way. I
know how sold.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I just like to keep it right there. But and
then it says that it brings you before great men.
I mean, you know, it's gonna take you places. It's
gonna take your places you never thought of going. You're
gonna meet people because of your gift. I told my son,
who two of them are good photographers. You'll be taking
pictures of great men. And then I mess with them.
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You already take the pictures, say your daddy. You know
I'm messing with them like that. But that's just me
and them, just kicking it. But you know, but one day,
who knows, you could be shooting the president. You know,
you could be shooting some foreign dignitaries. You know, you
could be shooting great sport events. You know, you never
know where it could take you. But that's your gift.
What you gotta do is you got to get to
move and though. See, you can't have your gift and
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not do nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
See. You know what that reminds me of.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's something that my father used to say, get up
off your butt because you're sitting on a gold mine.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He say that all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Boy, get up off your butt and move it, because
you sitting on a gold mine. I never really quite
got that when I was little, but now that I'm
an adult, I got it full well. See, a lot
of you are sitting. You're sitting on a talent or
a gift that you have. You're sitting on an ability.
I don't care if it's making cakes or pies. That's
a gift, man, that's a talent. I don't care if
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it's the ability to do hell, that's a gift man.
Half of you are gifted. A lot of us are gifted,
and we're sitting on it, looking at other people wondering
what can I do to make it?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You already got something to make it.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
With if you would just get up off your behind, man,
quit sitting on that gold mine.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Some of you are tech savvy, just a whiz is.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
When it comes to engineering and putting stuff together and
cables and wires and computers and stuff. And now you
steady looking around trying to figure out, Man, wonder what
I can go do? How about you go do that?
You know it ain't that hard, man, if you were
just take note of what God has given you all.
He has given you a gift already. He has already
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given you a talent. Now the fact that you ain't
using it and you sitting on your tail somewhere, Now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Who fathers what we're talking about? What you blaming God
for that?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Man? I tell you what, I sit around people all
the time who are gifted, and I'm looking at their gifts,
and they steady complaining about what they don't have, but
will not get up off there behind and use the
gifts that God gave them.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And it's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's gotta be frustrating for you if you're doing it,
because it's frustrating for me when I see it. So
when these people come to me and ask me for help,
I just keep going the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Help yourself, man, do for you, use your gift.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's a cat sitting behind the wall right now that's
locked up. That's so good at artistry. It's cats in
that tattooing everybody. Man, get out, do it the right
way quick say. Selling drugs, Man, you ain't going nowhere
selling no drugs.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You going to jail.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And if that don't do it, somebody gonna get tired
of you selling drugs because they're gonna want to sell
them over and they gonna kill you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Let's just keep this thing real for just a second. Here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Come on, man, get up off your butt, because you
sitting on the gold mine, and you sit up here.
Somebody always looking for a short cut to the top.
Ain't no shortcut. Somebody told me.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This the other day.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The road to success is always under construction. It ain't paved.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's got detour signs on it. It's got slow men working.
Sometime they flip the stop sign. You gotta sit there
and wait. Sometime they got slow. There's traffic, there's accidents,
somebody on the road holding up things with a flat tie,
its nails, its gravels. This spike is everything. The road
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to success is always under construction. It ain't getting ready
to be easy just because you done decided to do it.
But don't sit around on your behind and complain all
the time about what you don't have. My daddy said it, Man,
get up off your butt because you sitting on a
gold mine.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You got a gift, you got a talent, you got.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Something that you can do that could make a way
for you, but you won't do it. It is within you.
Stop looking around. Here's where people waste the most time
on the road to success, looking around at somebody else,
trying to figure out, Man, how can I do what
they did?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Do what you do? You ain't jay Z, You ain't sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I got a couple of your homies told you you
rap better than him, But you not, jay Z, really
you not.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know, all of us can shot at him, but
we ain't rich at Prior.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
A nice shot Steve, Bernie dl all of we took
some great shots at it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We not him. Do what you can do?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Do you do your gift quick complaining about what you
don't have get up off your butt because you sitting
on a gold mine. Here me to the
Speaker 2 (08:00):
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