Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 09.04.24

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:49):
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Come out your.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Uh huh, I sure will.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Good morning everybody, y'all listening to the voice, come on
dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a
radio show. Man, oh man, oh man, God been good
to me. Man. I can't explain it all really, Hey.
You know, I want to remind everybody of something that
I need reminding of myself all the time. And I'm

(02:27):
I'm dealing with a couple of things now and I
had to remind myself. U you know what I have
to remember. I have to constantly remind myself to stay
in constant communication with God. Constant communication with God. You
know sometimes, you know, I have a tendency and maybe
we do all the people. I don't know, but I

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know for me that when it's going okay, I slack
up in sometimes having conversations with Him because I'm not
coming to him on a daily with something that's pressing
or something, and I find myself slacking up in the communication.
The danger I have learned in that is this, I think,

(03:09):
you know. I mean, we've all heard old people say,
you know, you got to stay prayed up, you know,
and you know prayed up means you know, you got
some stowed up. You just got an abundance of them
where you're putting it in. Because what happens is is
when you're not in constant communication with God, when you're
not constantly praying, doing those good times, that allows for

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the enemy to slip in and do the little things
that can be upsetting. And then the next thing, you
know what, you get several little things in a row.
Now you got an issue you're dealing with.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I have to remind myself when it's going like that, Man,
have I really been praying though? Have I really been
in constant communication with God? Because you know, that helps
God againsts that little bitty stuff coming in. Sometimes it's
big stuff, sometimes it's major stuff. But I've noticed, man,
that when I get on a more of a smooth

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plane in life, I have a tendency to slack up
in that department. And that ain't the time to slack up.
I'm really learning that I have to stay in constant
communication with God because it enables me to ward off
those little things coming up that can get in the way.

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And so I just wanted to make you aware of
that as I'm learning it myself, that staying prayed up
is important that you try to stop prayers, you know,
you try to you know, have some prayers in the bank,
so to speak, and just constant communication with Him because
it'll just safeguard you against a lot of stuff back
doing you. You know, I just wanted to make sure

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you understood that because on your journey, it's gonna be
many obstacles. I've said this one hundred times on the show.
The Road to Success always under construction. I say that
all the time, and it's to let you understand that
it's not going to be easy, but we can make
it more difficult than it has to be, you know,

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when you go out strike out on the journey. You know,
let's say I got in my car. Let's say I'm
in New York and I get in my car and
I say I'm going to LA. I know, if I
drive west and continue to drive west, eventually I should
get to California, or I may wind up in Portland

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or Seattle or something like that. But if I drive west,
I'm going to eventually get to the West Coast. Now
wouldn't it be smarter though? If I mapped out the route,
which saved me a bunch of driving, I don't need

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and figuring that I don't have to calculate when you
know the way to go. You know, if you know
you want to cut cross on the twenty, or you
want to cut cross on the seventy, or you want
to cut cross on the Tin, you know you got

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to devise a route. Now, if I want to go
visit some people I know, then I know I got
to I need to go down. You know. I might
go through Ohio, come down on the eighty, then get
on seventy one and take that all the way down
to the Tin and then ride across. Or I might
take it to the twenty, cut through Texas and then
and then let it link back up on the ten.
I know a lot of different ways, but guess what

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the best way is to map it out. You can
go anywhere, but if you go with a map, it's
more precise. You save yourself a lot of time. And
that's what prayer has taught me that when I willdentify
continuously pray that I stay in it. In the I
stay in a prepared mode, i have more idea of

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where I'm going. I'm more secure with my route. If
you just take off driving heading west. Yeah, you'll eventually
get to the west coast if you out east. But
guess what though, had you mapped it out, you can
see when you veering off, you may stop, come out
and not be paying attention. Next thing you know, you're
on a route and you go on another way. You're

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going north when you could easily still be going west.
You've got to constantly be aware of that. And I'm
just pointing that out to you because I know that
on your journey a lot of times you get sidetracked.
And part of the ways we get sidetracked is we
lose out on that very the very beneficial resource of prayer.
We lose out. Our connection with God gets strained. The

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thicker you can keep the cord connected to God. If
you thin out your communication with God, and instead of
having a big thick cable, now you're dealing with a
little thriat you know, a cable is stronger than thread,
and so it just decreases your opportunity. And so you know,

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I wanted to just make you aware of that, and uh,
you know, to ever be encouraged and to say to
everybody out there and just keep your head up. It
is going to be dark days for you. There are
going to be situations where it's going to be daunting
and hard to face. But man o, man o, man.
Everybody has to face these challenges. Everybody get dark sometimes.

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You know, look, if you didn't lose, if you didn't lose,
you wouldn't even appreciate winning because if it all went
your weight all the time. Do you know how complacent
and content and how easy life would be if it
just went your way all the time. So when it

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kept going your way, you wouldn't even appreciate it because
guess what, it's been going this way the whole time.
So what life does is it has checks and balances.
These hard times are coming, and you need the hard
times to appreciate the good times. You need the clouds
and you need the rain to appreciate the sun and

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the flowers. It's just when it comes to prayer, though,
just stay prayed up, stay constant with it, because the
challenges of life are coming, whether you pray it up
or not, they're coming. Understand that you could pray every
day all day. When you get through praying every day
all day, somethings gonna happen to you. That's gonna be challenging. Now.

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I would rather have been in communication with God on
a regular than wait till every time something pop off
to have to go to and reintroduce myself. Okay, was
over a little around the board with it today, but
that's how it came to me. So that is I
ain't mad at it. Y'all have a great day. We're
gonna have a good one day. Let's go Morning show.