Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 09.02.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning
everybody you're listening to the voice, come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man o,
man o, man. Wow. I think about all the things

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God has done for me is overwhelming at times. And
I want everybody to have that feeling and to sharing
that feeling of completion and satisfaction. And the only reason
I got this, and it's the thousandth time I've said it,
is because I formed a relationship with my creator. Period.
That's it. That's that's it. I can't tell you as

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anything else else. You know, I've always had a strong
work ethic. My father put that in me. My father's
conversation with me growing up was always constantly about work hard,
don't be lazy, be a man, do what you say
you're gonna do. YadA YadA, YadA, YadA YadA. Man. I
was so tired my father at times. I was going, Man,
what is with this dude? Right here? Man, every time

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we have a conversation, it's got to be about work.
It's got to be about, you know, man, doing your best,
trying hard, you know, working and being honest, do what
you say you're gonna do. But that was his mission.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that now.
I can't even I can't even put it into words
when I think about my old man and what he

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was to me, and I just, man, I'm so grateful
for that balance I had in my life. And then
my father was a fighter. He fought on the weekends.
You know. My father used to come home with his
clothes toe off of him. He put a fresh shirt on,
and he go back. My mom used to talk about

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my father fighting all the time, slick, while you're always fighting.
You know a little bit of that rubbed off on
me too. You know that kind of got into me
and I didn't understand that. But then on the same turn,
my mother was a Sunday school teacher for forty years,
so her conversation was never about fighting or anything. It
was all about love and understanding and doing another that

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you would have to do unto you. My mom was
a Sunday school teacher, so I learned about faith. I
had to go to Sunday school, prayer meeting, Bible study,
young people meeting, choir rehearsal. You know, I was a
church man so much I was actually looking as there's
got to be an alternative to this, you know. I
want you know I was a little kid even I
was thinking at one point maybe I ought to look

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into hell because there's got to be something cooler than
this going on every day. It had got that crazy
for me. But the balance between those two people created
who I am today. And I want you to understand
that the things that you are in your past have
helped create who you are today. If you view it
the right way, everything that has happened to you in

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your past has happened to you for a read and
it's usually for the good if you view it that way.
But if you, on the other hand, are a type
of person who can't move forward because you are allowing
your past to stop you from having your future, then you,

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my friend, are doing a disservice to your life. You
are not honoring God's blessings. You are not taking advantage
of the gain, knowledge, wisdom, and experience of your life. Example,
if you are a woman and you are always talking

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about a former relationship what he did to me. If
he had not did this to me, I wouldn't be
in this place today. I thought I had a man. Now,
I ain't got no man ah llah lah lah lah
lah I. You know he came along and I was

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doing just swell. He just came in and he just
lied to me. He lied to me, nod. He did
this to me. Then he cheated, then he left. All
of that that you're saying can very well be true.
Have you thought that maybe maybe somewhere in God's infinite wisdom,

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that he knew that you had made a mistake in
picking him anyway? Maybe he knew you had made a
mistake in saying yes or I do to him anyway,
or come on, move in? And so what he did
was based on your decision now to say yes, I do,

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or come on, let's move in together. That was your decision.
You ain't go to him about this one. You made
this decision based on that decision, and all the negative
things that started happening. He allowed you to get away
from it. Now how you got away from it, it's
always not the choice of ours. See, you stuck on

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the fact that he left, that he walked out. But
let me share this with you. When he was there,
how good was he to you? How good was he
for you? See, you got to stare at You got
to look at the blessing. The blessing is. Now you
are on your own. Now you walk in your house.

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Ain't nobody in there with a disruptive spirit. Now you
go home. You could take your clothes off, walk around
like you want to. Now you go home, you can
sit down and look at TV or catch your breath
if you want to. Your kids don't have to see
y'all arguing all the time. Have you looked at the

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blessing in it? But now if you gonna keep looking
at the negative, then guess what. Now you can't move
forward because you keep allowing your past to keep you
from moving forward. If God has brought you through it,
why don't you move on from it? Look, you got

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through it. He gone, he ain't coming back. He got
somebody else. So you gonna sit there and just keep
tripping cauts. He gone and he got somebody else. Hey,
pick yourself up. Thank God for the blessing. It didn't
feel like a blessing. Why you was going through it
and all the pain of him leaving and the divorce
and all that messed you up? Got it? When you

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get through it, all of that, you ain't the first
one being left. You ain't the first one being divorced.
You ain't the first one been in a bad relationship.
Pick yourself up, thank God for the blessing, and move
forward in your life, because maybe when you quit complaining,
maybe you'll find out that God has something in store

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for you that he wants you you to have, but
he can't give it to you if you ain't grateful.
So God gives you a blessing, but because you don't
see it as a blessing, you ain't grateful for it. Now,
guess what, You steady asking God to do something for you,
but you ain't thanking him for what he's done for you,
but you steady wanting him to do more. How does

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that work? How does that work? Man? That he should
keep on giving you things when you ain't even working
with the stuff he done gave you. And I don't know.
And I'm just using that one example. It could go
for me and too, vice versa, and so on and
so forth. I'm just using that as an example. Now,
why I laid on that one so long? You have

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to take that over God. That's all just set. I
ain't pointing fingers at nobody in nothing, because I've been
guilty on both sides of the coin. Who am I,
But I'm just sharing with you what I had to do.
I had to learn to stop allowing my past to
interfere with my future. He could Eve Harvey Morning Show