August 26, 2024 • 10 mins
Maybe your plan isn't what is right for you. Have you ever thought of what God's plan is for you?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what's time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all all at all, So.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Don't given them all.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Black a million bus Bush, Yeah, listening to show to.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I don't Joy?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah? Joy?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You know you love you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Heard you gotta turn.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Okay, I got to turn the mouth the turn.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You probably got to turn the mouth, turn out, turn.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Al the water up.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Come come on, you'll.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Think, huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You are
listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one
and only. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah, man,
Steve Harvey got a radio show. Trying to do something
with it too.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
You know, I was having a conversation the other day
with a young person and they were telling me how
they felt that their life was stuck, that their life
was in a rut, that they didn't know what to
do next. And one of the things that was causing
them this sadness or this depression. I mean, they're really
(02:41):
really into something right now. One of the things that
was causing it was the fact that they had made
a list of things they wanted to accomplish by a
certain age, and that age they just had a birthday
recently and they were.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Looking at the list.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
And the list hadn't been fulfilled, and because that list
hadn't been.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Fulfilled, they were really really sad about it. You know.
One of the things that they had.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
On the list was marriage, kids, and I don't know
everything else that was on the list, but that was
one of them. And because she had reached a certain
age and she wasn't married, and she didn't have the kids,
and she had just celebrated a birthday, she's gone into
this mode of sadness where it's really really taken a
(03:43):
toll on her. And as I was learning about her situation,
I was thinking about it, and I just wanted to
share this with you all this morning that one of
the things about making a list about what you want,
which I happen to be a proponent of, I do
it myself. People have dream boards. I have a goal sheet.
(04:08):
I've been doing it for years. It's a wonderful way
to set goals and to keep it in front of
you as a constant reminder. And I always go over
this gold list every day, you know. I mean I
go with it all the time every day. Sometimes I
miss a day here and there, but mostly every day,
I pull my goal sheet out and I look at it,
(04:28):
I read it. So I was going to these rallies
and I was learning about you know, people who are
successful in how they kept their mind writing possible. And
one of the things I learned was to make these
dream boards, these lists, these goal sheets. And in making
a goal sheet, and you make the sheet according to
what you want, think about one thing when you made
(04:52):
your goal sheet, about what you wanted? Does your goal
sheet have on it what God wants from you? Did
you ask in any of this what was His will
in your life?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You know?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Look, man, what we want oftentimes is not what He
wants for us. And you know, if you're fighting against
what you were created for, if you're fighting against his will,
I mean, what.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Do you want to happen? See? Don't be so hard
on yourself.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
When you look at your goal sheet and you look
at what you've not become what you thought was a
great idea. Don't be so hard on yourself because you
just made a minor mistake. As do most people, we
oftentimes make our goals and set our goals up without
ever considering what is it that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
God wants from us.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
We keep talking about what we want without ever finding
out and knowing what it is God wants for us. Well,
guess what, man, Maybe you're fighting against the grain. Maybe
you just a salmon heading upstream. That's a tough fight upstream.
Not all salmons get up to the spawning grounds, you know.
Some of them don't make it upstream, you know. But
all of them, nearly all of them except the ones
(06:03):
that's killed by pray. When they're spawn they go out
to the ocean. That's cool because you're going because you're
going with the grain. You're going downstream. You're going with
the flow. That's but when it's time to go against
the grain, it's tough. And a lot of us have
just been going against the grain for all of these years.
But you know what, listen, man, I did it. I
(06:23):
know a lot of people who did it. Very few
people get it right from the very beginning. Man, you
got to stumble through life sometimes sometimes you got to
fall through life. You got to make a lot of mistakes, man,
But these mistakes are not failures. You know, when you
fail at something, don't look at it as a failure.
Don't look at yourself as a failure. Because you're thirty
(06:43):
and your goals ain't reached that you had on your list.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That was your list. What about the things that's going right.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Stop looking at what you're not, take some time out
and thank God for what you are. How about the
fact that you keep waking up to be thirty? You
know you get depressed by off these birthdays. You really
want to throw yourself in some depression. Miss a birthday,
You really got a problem. Now look at where you are.
You keep reaching birthdays. That's a glorious blessing. You keep
(07:12):
waking up. You got your health, You've accomplished something. Something
on your list is done. People spend too much time
on the negative side, and you're just throwing yourself into depression.
So what, you want to be married by a certain
age and you wanted to have kids. Okay, cool, you
could have done all that with the wrong person. There's
a blessing in not being married to the wrong person.
(07:33):
There's a blessing in not having kids and nobody to
help you raise it. There's a blessing in that man.
You're talking to somebody who can tell.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It to you.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You can marry the wrong person if you want to.
I'm telling you you're gonna be up in some mess
you can't count on. So instead of being angry because
you're not married, you don't have kids, why don't you
thank God the man. Maybe he spared you from some
misery here. Maybe you could have married the wrong person.
Maybe you'd have kids and you're not really ready to
be a mother or a father. You gotta look at
(08:00):
the upside, man, Quit looking at what you don't have.
Take some time to thank God for what you do have.
When you do that, you make more room for blessings
to flow into your life. I'm not saying how God thinks,
because I really don't know, but I'm telling you if
a person comes to me and I always give a
person something and they never appear grateful, or they never
(08:22):
say thank you, please, know you can quit.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Coming to me now.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I don't notice how God works because I've gone back
to him several times without being grateful or thanking him,
and he's filled my basket up again. So I really
think he's not like that. But I can't make the
call for sure. But I think at one point in
time me it's just me talking. I'd be a little
ticked off at somebody who was always taking, taking, taking,
(08:50):
and never showing any gratitude. At one point in time,
I would just stop the flow of the take you know,
you just you can't take no more from me.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's what I would do. Now.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I'm not calling it like that because I ain't him,
but I know he's merciful, He's full of goodness and
he and he'll forgive you. And thank God he does
that because he's show enough done it for me. But wow, man,
take some time out today and be grateful for what
you have. Stop complaining about where you not and think
about where you are, and then take it from there.
(09:21):
And the next time you make a list, make sure
on that list you have God's will. What does he
want for you? Does God create givet everybody a gift
and a talent? Some of us never apply gifts and talents.
We head off in another direction. Then you wonder why
your life ain't where it's supposed to be. Have you
ever thought about what God gifted you to do? Have
you ever thought about doing that? And still skip what
(09:42):
you want? I wanted to play in the NBA, but
I got to tell you something. At dribbling and shooting
and running all at one time, throwing me off a
little bit you know, they just so I'm doing what
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's pretty cool. You gonna look at it that way.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Okay, you're listening morning show
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what's time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all all at all, So.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Don't given them all.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Black a million bus Bush, Yeah, listening to show to.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I don't Joy?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah? Joy?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You know you love you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Heard you gotta turn.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Okay, I got to turn the mouth the turn.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You probably got to turn the mouth, turn out, turn.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Al the water up.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Come come on, you'll.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Think, huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You are
listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one
and only. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah, man,
Steve Harvey got a radio show. Trying to do something
with it too.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Man.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
You know, I was having a conversation the other day
with a young person and they were telling me how
they felt that their life was stuck, that their life
was in a rut, that they didn't know what to
do next. And one of the things that was causing
them this sadness or this depression. I mean, they're really
(02:41):
really into something right now. One of the things that
was causing it was the fact that they had made
a list of things they wanted to accomplish by a
certain age, and that age they just had a birthday
recently and they were.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Looking at the list.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
And the list hadn't been fulfilled, and because that list
hadn't been.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Fulfilled, they were really really sad about it. You know.
One of the things that they had.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
On the list was marriage, kids, and I don't know
everything else that was on the list, but that was
one of them. And because she had reached a certain
age and she wasn't married, and she didn't have the kids,
and she had just celebrated a birthday, she's gone into
this mode of sadness where it's really really taken a
(03:43):
toll on her. And as I was learning about her situation,
I was thinking about it, and I just wanted to
share this with you all this morning that one of
the things about making a list about what you want,
which I happen to be a proponent of, I do
it myself. People have dream boards. I have a goal sheet.
(04:08):
I've been doing it for years. It's a wonderful way
to set goals and to keep it in front of
you as a constant reminder. And I always go over
this gold list every day, you know. I mean I
go with it all the time every day. Sometimes I
miss a day here and there, but mostly every day,
I pull my goal sheet out and I look at it,
(04:28):
I read it. So I was going to these rallies
and I was learning about you know, people who are
successful in how they kept their mind writing possible. And
one of the things I learned was to make these
dream boards, these lists, these goal sheets. And in making
a goal sheet, and you make the sheet according to
what you want, think about one thing when you made
(04:52):
your goal sheet, about what you wanted? Does your goal
sheet have on it what God wants from you? Did
you ask in any of this what was His will
in your life?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You know?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Look, man, what we want oftentimes is not what He
wants for us. And you know, if you're fighting against
what you were created for, if you're fighting against his will,
I mean, what.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Do you want to happen? See? Don't be so hard
on yourself.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
When you look at your goal sheet and you look
at what you've not become what you thought was a
great idea. Don't be so hard on yourself because you
just made a minor mistake. As do most people, we
oftentimes make our goals and set our goals up without
ever considering what is it that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
God wants from us.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
We keep talking about what we want without ever finding
out and knowing what it is God wants for us. Well,
guess what, man, Maybe you're fighting against the grain. Maybe
you just a salmon heading upstream. That's a tough fight upstream.
Not all salmons get up to the spawning grounds, you know.
Some of them don't make it upstream, you know. But
all of them, nearly all of them except the ones
(06:03):
that's killed by pray. When they're spawn they go out
to the ocean. That's cool because you're going because you're
going with the grain. You're going downstream. You're going with
the flow. That's but when it's time to go against
the grain, it's tough. And a lot of us have
just been going against the grain for all of these years.
But you know what, listen, man, I did it. I
(06:23):
know a lot of people who did it. Very few
people get it right from the very beginning. Man, you
got to stumble through life sometimes sometimes you got to
fall through life. You got to make a lot of mistakes, man,
But these mistakes are not failures. You know, when you
fail at something, don't look at it as a failure.
Don't look at yourself as a failure. Because you're thirty
(06:43):
and your goals ain't reached that you had on your list.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That was your list. What about the things that's going right.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Stop looking at what you're not, take some time out
and thank God for what you are. How about the
fact that you keep waking up to be thirty? You
know you get depressed by off these birthdays. You really
want to throw yourself in some depression. Miss a birthday,
You really got a problem. Now look at where you are.
You keep reaching birthdays. That's a glorious blessing. You keep
(07:12):
waking up. You got your health, You've accomplished something. Something
on your list is done. People spend too much time
on the negative side, and you're just throwing yourself into depression.
So what, you want to be married by a certain
age and you wanted to have kids. Okay, cool, you
could have done all that with the wrong person. There's
a blessing in not being married to the wrong person.
(07:33):
There's a blessing in not having kids and nobody to
help you raise it. There's a blessing in that man.
You're talking to somebody who can tell.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It to you.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You can marry the wrong person if you want to.
I'm telling you you're gonna be up in some mess
you can't count on. So instead of being angry because
you're not married, you don't have kids, why don't you
thank God the man. Maybe he spared you from some
misery here. Maybe you could have married the wrong person.
Maybe you'd have kids and you're not really ready to
be a mother or a father. You gotta look at
(08:00):
the upside, man, Quit looking at what you don't have.
Take some time to thank God for what you do have.
When you do that, you make more room for blessings
to flow into your life. I'm not saying how God thinks,
because I really don't know, but I'm telling you if
a person comes to me and I always give a
person something and they never appear grateful, or they never
(08:22):
say thank you, please, know you can quit.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Coming to me now.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I don't notice how God works because I've gone back
to him several times without being grateful or thanking him,
and he's filled my basket up again. So I really
think he's not like that. But I can't make the
call for sure. But I think at one point in
time me it's just me talking. I'd be a little
ticked off at somebody who was always taking, taking, taking,
(08:50):
and never showing any gratitude. At one point in time,
I would just stop the flow of the take you know,
you just you can't take no more from me.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's what I would do. Now.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I'm not calling it like that because I ain't him,
but I know he's merciful, He's full of goodness and
he and he'll forgive you. And thank God he does
that because he's show enough done it for me. But wow, man,
take some time out today and be grateful for what
you have. Stop complaining about where you not and think
about where you are, and then take it from there.
(09:21):
And the next time you make a list, make sure
on that list you have God's will. What does he
want for you? Does God create givet everybody a gift
and a talent? Some of us never apply gifts and talents.
We head off in another direction. Then you wonder why
your life ain't where it's supposed to be. Have you
ever thought about what God gifted you to do? Have
you ever thought about doing that? And still skip what
(09:42):
you want? I wanted to play in the NBA, but
I got to tell you something. At dribbling and shooting
and running all at one time, throwing me off a
little bit you know, they just so I'm doing what
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's pretty cool. You gonna look at it that way.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Okay, you're listening morning show
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