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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you'll listening to the voice? Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Took me when I said, but I do, like I
say always, it just is a constant reminder of how
good God has been. So my question to you is
what's stopping you from having the life that you want?
What's stopping you from having the life that you want?
I know a lot of people who have given up
(00:39):
on achieving the life of their dreams. But I know
they'd still want them if they could get to them.
But they just allowed to settle for so many reasons.
So who I'm talking to is you today? What's really
at the core of stopping you?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What is that? Is it your friends or your associates.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Is it the fear of what you think somebody else
will think of you if you decide to change.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Is it what I used to call the call of
the wile?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it the fact that you keep thinking that the
thing that you're doing that's providing you these momentary moments
of pleasure that really ain't really good or healthy for
you. You don't want to stop doing that because you've got
just a little bit more something else you want to do.
I call that the call of the while. You know
it's just out there. Them streets is calling you, Them
(01:33):
lights is calling you. You know, them girls is calling you.
Them guys that's on the wrong side keep calling you.
You can't seem to make a decision about the right guy.
You keep picking the wrong guy all the time. What
is it that's stopping you from having the life that
you really want to have? So whatever the reason you're choosing,
that's the reason that's stopping you from having the life
(01:56):
that you want to have. It's no good because at
the end of the day, here's the real deal. See,
God is available, and God is available for all of us,
and God has a plan for all of us, and
God wants the very best for all of us. That's
the truth of the matter. So now what we're gonna
do to get started having that life? First of all,
(02:19):
if it's your friends, I want you to understand something.
Your friends can't save you. A lot of your friends
offer no real help for you. Most of your friends
don't have the answer themselves. I mean, it's just a
wide range of reasons and misery, love company so usually
when your friends are in a bad position, they kind
of like company in that bad position. Your friends ain't
(02:42):
going to church, You're going to be their friend. They
don't really want you to go to church. You know
your friends don't pray, so why would they offer up
prayer as a solution to you. You know, your friends
don't really really get the fact that if you treat
people better, people would treat you better.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So what's that?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So your friends are a lot of times the reasons,
you know, the peer pressure of what and then the
thought in your mind of what they gonna think once
they find out I don't do what they do anymore.
Who cares what they think other than you? I mean, really,
you can't let what somebody thinks of you stop you
(03:24):
from having the best life you wanted to have. If
I went by that theory right there, I wouldn't I
wouldn't even be on this mic this morning. I would
have never become a stand up I would had I
listened to the people around me who clearly told me
when I quit my job to pursue this, boy, don't
you quit your job? You got a family. Boy, don't
(03:44):
you do this? You ain't got no bit that ain't
no security in that. Get yourself a job. Go down here,
and what's your brothers? Go to work over here? Go
to I heard all of that. I didn't let that
stop me from pursuing this. Why would you allow that
to stop you from pursuing your relationship with God so
you can have the best life you could possibly have?
(04:05):
You gang bang because they've convinced you that this is
the family situation and love that you don't have, and
they've convinced you that this is your only way, your
only source of getting over. And then you drum up
these ignorant reasons man for staying with it, But they
sound so good when you listening to everybody else you're
(04:28):
surrounded by telling you why we gang banging? Why we
holding this block down? Why we slanging this thing here
right here? Why we letting it go like this here?
You keep listening to them when all in your heart
of hearts you know this ain't right, You already know,
but you allow that form of the call of the
(04:48):
wile that wanting to be accepted by a group of
people who trying to get you to accept the way
so you can further. They progress to even prove that
you're worthy to be around them, You got to commit
some type of crime to even prove that you're worthy
to be around them. Then when you get busted on
the crime, what happens to that where your family are
(05:09):
Now they don't come down there to see you because
guess what, they can't turn in They idea to desk
at a law enforcement center.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So now your homies can't come visit you.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And then you know your family back out here, they
ain't taking care of your family because it's all about them.
Then you learn that what is it that's stopping you
from having the life that you always wanted to have?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Why are you a repeat offender? Why do you keep
checking yourself back into that institution?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Man, why won't you get it together? Why won't you
give God a try? Why won't you disassociate yourself? Why
would you continue to be a part of a revolving
door system and becoming a farm system for these institutions
that ain't got nothing for you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But you keep going back in there.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And then every time you go in there and the homies
or your gang bangy little little silly little friends try
to make you think that's a badge of honor. There
ain't no badge of honor. Man, that's one mold. What's
one more scratch on that record? That's one mold. That's
one more nail in that coffin. That's one step closer
to that third strike where you ain't gonna ever get out.
(06:18):
It's one step closer to that graveyard. You keep on.
Why would you not give God a try? Why would
you not go and see what your life could really be?
What is it that's stopping you? Because see, I got
news for you. There's nothing like waking up free. I
don't care who you are. There's nothing like waking up
(06:40):
with the joy in your heart. Now, if you ain't
gonna be free, get the joy in your heart, the
satisfaction of knowing that you're accomplishing something with your life.
Help somebody behind them balls, get in the program, Show
these young cats when they come in a better way.
But don't you dash sit there, man and just ride
it out and man, go and get the fullest life
(07:02):
that you can have. What you know what it feels
like to wake up and be on your way somewhere
knowing that you have something to accomplish, that you can
change somebody that you can stop somebody from going down
the roads you went down. It's a whole lot of
ways to make your life better. But why would you
not go and have the best life you can have?
What is that's stopping you?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Really? Really?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So you think that Satan really has your best interest
at heart, That the little thing your mama kept telling
you about praying you wasn't listening was you. But you know,
it ain't ever too late to get back to that.
It ain't ever too late to turn around, it ain't
ever too late to get your life together, it ain't
ever too late to seek God, and it ain't ever.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Too late to pray.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Don't forget to pray, don't be ashamed to pray, and
don't be too proud to pray, because prayer changes things.
Prayer change people too. I'm a witness to that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You're listening to see Harvey Morning Show
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you'll listening to the voice? Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Took me when I said, but I do, like I
say always, it just is a constant reminder of how
good God has been. So my question to you is
what's stopping you from having the life that you want?
What's stopping you from having the life that you want?
I know a lot of people who have given up
(00:39):
on achieving the life of their dreams. But I know
they'd still want them if they could get to them.
But they just allowed to settle for so many reasons.
So who I'm talking to is you today? What's really
at the core of stopping you?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What is that? Is it your friends or your associates.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Is it the fear of what you think somebody else
will think of you if you decide to change.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Is it what I used to call the call of
the wile?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it the fact that you keep thinking that the
thing that you're doing that's providing you these momentary moments
of pleasure that really ain't really good or healthy for
you. You don't want to stop doing that because you've got
just a little bit more something else you want to do.
I call that the call of the while. You know
it's just out there. Them streets is calling you, Them
(01:33):
lights is calling you. You know, them girls is calling you.
Them guys that's on the wrong side keep calling you.
You can't seem to make a decision about the right guy.
You keep picking the wrong guy all the time. What
is it that's stopping you from having the life that
you really want to have? So whatever the reason you're choosing,
that's the reason that's stopping you from having the life
(01:56):
that you want to have. It's no good because at
the end of the day, here's the real deal. See,
God is available, and God is available for all of us,
and God has a plan for all of us, and
God wants the very best for all of us. That's
the truth of the matter. So now what we're gonna
do to get started having that life? First of all,
(02:19):
if it's your friends, I want you to understand something.
Your friends can't save you. A lot of your friends
offer no real help for you. Most of your friends
don't have the answer themselves. I mean, it's just a
wide range of reasons and misery, love company so usually
when your friends are in a bad position, they kind
of like company in that bad position. Your friends ain't
(02:42):
going to church, You're going to be their friend. They
don't really want you to go to church. You know
your friends don't pray, so why would they offer up
prayer as a solution to you. You know, your friends
don't really really get the fact that if you treat
people better, people would treat you better.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So what's that?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So your friends are a lot of times the reasons,
you know, the peer pressure of what and then the
thought in your mind of what they gonna think once
they find out I don't do what they do anymore.
Who cares what they think other than you? I mean, really,
you can't let what somebody thinks of you stop you
(03:24):
from having the best life you wanted to have. If
I went by that theory right there, I wouldn't I
wouldn't even be on this mic this morning. I would
have never become a stand up I would had I
listened to the people around me who clearly told me
when I quit my job to pursue this, boy, don't
you quit your job? You got a family. Boy, don't
(03:44):
you do this? You ain't got no bit that ain't
no security in that. Get yourself a job. Go down here,
and what's your brothers? Go to work over here? Go
to I heard all of that. I didn't let that
stop me from pursuing this. Why would you allow that
to stop you from pursuing your relationship with God so
you can have the best life you could possibly have?
(04:05):
You gang bang because they've convinced you that this is
the family situation and love that you don't have, and
they've convinced you that this is your only way, your
only source of getting over. And then you drum up
these ignorant reasons man for staying with it, But they
sound so good when you listening to everybody else you're
(04:28):
surrounded by telling you why we gang banging? Why we
holding this block down? Why we slanging this thing here
right here? Why we letting it go like this here?
You keep listening to them when all in your heart
of hearts you know this ain't right, You already know,
but you allow that form of the call of the
(04:48):
wile that wanting to be accepted by a group of
people who trying to get you to accept the way
so you can further. They progress to even prove that
you're worthy to be around them, You got to commit
some type of crime to even prove that you're worthy
to be around them. Then when you get busted on
the crime, what happens to that where your family are
(05:09):
Now they don't come down there to see you because
guess what, they can't turn in They idea to desk
at a law enforcement center.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So now your homies can't come visit you.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And then you know your family back out here, they
ain't taking care of your family because it's all about them.
Then you learn that what is it that's stopping you
from having the life that you always wanted to have?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Why are you a repeat offender? Why do you keep
checking yourself back into that institution?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Man, why won't you get it together? Why won't you
give God a try? Why won't you disassociate yourself? Why
would you continue to be a part of a revolving
door system and becoming a farm system for these institutions
that ain't got nothing for you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But you keep going back in there.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And then every time you go in there and the homies
or your gang bangy little little silly little friends try
to make you think that's a badge of honor. There
ain't no badge of honor. Man, that's one mold. What's
one more scratch on that record? That's one mold. That's
one more nail in that coffin. That's one step closer
to that third strike where you ain't gonna ever get out.
(06:18):
It's one step closer to that graveyard. You keep on.
Why would you not give God a try? Why would
you not go and see what your life could really be?
What is it that's stopping you? Because see, I got
news for you. There's nothing like waking up free. I
don't care who you are. There's nothing like waking up
(06:40):
with the joy in your heart. Now, if you ain't
gonna be free, get the joy in your heart, the
satisfaction of knowing that you're accomplishing something with your life.
Help somebody behind them balls, get in the program, Show
these young cats when they come in a better way.
But don't you dash sit there, man and just ride
it out and man, go and get the fullest life
(07:02):
that you can have. What you know what it feels
like to wake up and be on your way somewhere
knowing that you have something to accomplish, that you can
change somebody that you can stop somebody from going down
the roads you went down. It's a whole lot of
ways to make your life better. But why would you
not go and have the best life you can have?
What is that's stopping you?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Really? Really?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So you think that Satan really has your best interest
at heart, That the little thing your mama kept telling
you about praying you wasn't listening was you. But you know,
it ain't ever too late to get back to that.
It ain't ever too late to turn around, it ain't
ever too late to get your life together, it ain't
ever too late to seek God, and it ain't ever.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Too late to pray.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Don't forget to pray, don't be ashamed to pray, and
don't be too proud to pray, because prayer changes things.
Prayer change people too. I'm a witness to that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
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