September 6, 2024 • 10 mins
Being grateful at all times is an effective way to be positive. Gratitude is the attitude that affects your altitude.
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Come on, you'll think I sure will. Good morning everybody.
You are listening to the voice, Oh come on, dig
me now, one and only Steve Harvey Man got a
radio show, borl bor Oh boy, I can't even tell you. Man.
(02:18):
I've been doing some thinking and and one of the
things that I wanted to mention today to you as
one of the principles of success, being grateful at all
times is difficult to do. Being grateful at all times
(02:42):
is very difficult to do. I find that to be
true with myself. Now there are others that might be
able to do it, but just from talking and listening
and living and learning, being grateful at all times is
difficult to do. But it's necessar because it's it's it's
(03:03):
such an act of faith in knowing that no matter
what's going on, it's going to be all right. And
it's hard to see that when things are not going
in your favor, when things have turned so dramatically the
other way, and it seems as though you're the only
(03:24):
one in the situation where you're involved with other people,
or someone got an accusation against you falsely, or somebody
trying to do something to you unjustifiably, whatever the case
may be. When it's happening to you, it does appear
to you that, oh, my goodness, man, this is horribly
(03:44):
one sided. So it is difficult, it's hard to do
to be grateful at all times, but it's so necessary,
and I just I just want to point out a
couple of things to you. First of all, the difficulty
in being grateful in hard times is that number one,
(04:06):
the present circumstances. Oftentimes it's just so pressing and so
overwhelming that a lot of your energy is devoted to
trying to come up with the solution for that, or
trying to muster the strift to whether the storm, or
trying to just brace yourself to try to get through it,
and in doing that, you don't It's hard to be grateful.
(04:30):
It's hard to be grateful in pain. And I know
it is. But here is the trick for me. This
is what I've had to learn how to do, and
I guess it takes practice to get here. It's not
nothing you just start doing right away. You got to
practice it in small increments to really get it. What
(04:51):
I've always had to say to myself and what I've
learned to say to myself is this is happening to
me because God is working me through something. This is
happening to me because it's some form of tests that
I have to pass in order to graduate to the
next grade, and that in order to be allowed to
(05:12):
move to the next level. This is happening to me
because there's something I need to purge my life, of
my body, of my spirit, of something's purging in me.
And when you purge something, it's it's painful. You know,
It's like a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing.
(05:35):
I've been told and every documentary I've ever watched it
it's an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw,
to pull away after you've been doing something so long.
And so I know that this process is tough when
you're going through some pain, but when you're purging your system,
(05:58):
when you when you're when you're having to pass a test,
when you're about to make when you're being made ready
for the next level. That moment right in there, in
realizing that that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude.
That's where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining
this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I get it.
(06:21):
But that's where you find the gratitude. The second part
of it is is that God has never left me
in all the things I've done, in all the mistakes
I've made, all the lies I've told, all the situations
I've gotten myself into from being greedy and wanting too
(06:44):
much for me at the expense sometimes of other people,
not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because
I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive or
a mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting
(07:05):
to do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally
weigh out the cause and effect of the other person.
I mean, can I just be real with you with that?
I mean, how many times we'd done all done that? Look,
it doesn't it don't make you a bad person. You know,
good people do bad things all the time. I just
happened to have come to the realization that unknowingly and
(07:30):
not and not with malice intent towards a person, I've
hurt people looking at something I wanted to do without
really looking at what the cause and effect would be
on the other person. So in doing some of these things,
I've created situations for myself. But God, through his grace
(07:54):
and mercy, has allowed me to even get beyond that.
So what I'm saying that God is never left me
in spite of myself. He's always gotten me through. So
that's the other part of it too. See that no
matter what you're going through, you've got to understand that
God has always gotten you through it now has any
(08:14):
Now that may not be the way you want it
or the way you liked, but guess what, you can't
do wrong and not pay for that. Now that that's
not how this works, That's never going to be the case.
But the great thing about God is he fires warning
shots at us all the time. He gives us an
opportunity to stop. You know, he don't fully punish us
right away every time we do something wrong. Now does
(08:37):
it you know eventually you're going to get caught doing
whatever it is you're doing. You do understand that, don't you.
But the first time, that close call, that was a
warning shot for you to stop. Look, I know you're
not perfect. I know we all sinners down here, so
I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time, I know
you was looking at her when you wasn't supposed to.
(08:57):
I know you said something to him when you wasn't.
I know you got with her when you know you
wasn't supposed to. And I know you got with him
when you know you wasn't supposed to. So I tell
you what I'm gonna do. I'm a fire warning shot,
and maybe you'll slow your roll this time. But we
keep on though. See see see that's what happens. See
we just keep on and then the next thing, you know,
(09:18):
we get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy, I won't
out of this. Yeah. Well see, you done dug this
hole pretty deep and he gonna get you out. But
it's some things that's got to go down now because
you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See, had
you stopped the first time, you felt bad about it
and said you wasn't gonna do it no more. The
situation wouldn't be as critical. But because we don't stop
(09:41):
and we go again. But God always forgives, He always
allows us to get back up again. He always gives
us a mercy. He always gives us his grace. He
always does that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're listening Morning show
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all at all, So don't given them.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Back A million busy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ye listening to show? Ton't joy? Yeah, Joy, you got.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
To use that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You gotta turn.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Have to turn the mouth turn You probably got to
turn the mouth out the word of the wing up.
Look me, come.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Come on, you'll think I sure will. Good morning everybody.
You are listening to the voice, Oh come on, dig
me now, one and only Steve Harvey Man got a
radio show, borl bor Oh boy, I can't even tell you. Man.
(02:18):
I've been doing some thinking and and one of the
things that I wanted to mention today to you as
one of the principles of success, being grateful at all
times is difficult to do. Being grateful at all times
(02:42):
is very difficult to do. I find that to be
true with myself. Now there are others that might be
able to do it, but just from talking and listening
and living and learning, being grateful at all times is
difficult to do. But it's necessar because it's it's it's
(03:03):
such an act of faith in knowing that no matter
what's going on, it's going to be all right. And
it's hard to see that when things are not going
in your favor, when things have turned so dramatically the
other way, and it seems as though you're the only
(03:24):
one in the situation where you're involved with other people,
or someone got an accusation against you falsely, or somebody
trying to do something to you unjustifiably, whatever the case
may be. When it's happening to you, it does appear
to you that, oh, my goodness, man, this is horribly
(03:44):
one sided. So it is difficult, it's hard to do
to be grateful at all times, but it's so necessary,
and I just I just want to point out a
couple of things to you. First of all, the difficulty
in being grateful in hard times is that number one,
(04:06):
the present circumstances. Oftentimes it's just so pressing and so
overwhelming that a lot of your energy is devoted to
trying to come up with the solution for that, or
trying to muster the strift to whether the storm, or
trying to just brace yourself to try to get through it,
and in doing that, you don't It's hard to be grateful.
(04:30):
It's hard to be grateful in pain. And I know
it is. But here is the trick for me. This
is what I've had to learn how to do, and
I guess it takes practice to get here. It's not
nothing you just start doing right away. You got to
practice it in small increments to really get it. What
(04:51):
I've always had to say to myself and what I've
learned to say to myself is this is happening to
me because God is working me through something. This is
happening to me because it's some form of tests that
I have to pass in order to graduate to the
next grade, and that in order to be allowed to
(05:12):
move to the next level. This is happening to me
because there's something I need to purge my life, of
my body, of my spirit, of something's purging in me.
And when you purge something, it's it's painful. You know,
It's like a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing.
(05:35):
I've been told and every documentary I've ever watched it
it's an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw,
to pull away after you've been doing something so long.
And so I know that this process is tough when
you're going through some pain, but when you're purging your system,
(05:58):
when you when you're when you're having to pass a test,
when you're about to make when you're being made ready
for the next level. That moment right in there, in
realizing that that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude.
That's where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining
this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I get it.
(06:21):
But that's where you find the gratitude. The second part
of it is is that God has never left me
in all the things I've done, in all the mistakes
I've made, all the lies I've told, all the situations
I've gotten myself into from being greedy and wanting too
(06:44):
much for me at the expense sometimes of other people,
not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because
I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive or
a mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting
(07:05):
to do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally
weigh out the cause and effect of the other person.
I mean, can I just be real with you with that?
I mean, how many times we'd done all done that? Look,
it doesn't it don't make you a bad person. You know,
good people do bad things all the time. I just
happened to have come to the realization that unknowingly and
(07:30):
not and not with malice intent towards a person, I've
hurt people looking at something I wanted to do without
really looking at what the cause and effect would be
on the other person. So in doing some of these things,
I've created situations for myself. But God, through his grace
(07:54):
and mercy, has allowed me to even get beyond that.
So what I'm saying that God is never left me
in spite of myself. He's always gotten me through. So
that's the other part of it too. See that no
matter what you're going through, you've got to understand that
God has always gotten you through it now has any
(08:14):
Now that may not be the way you want it
or the way you liked, but guess what, you can't
do wrong and not pay for that. Now that that's
not how this works, That's never going to be the case.
But the great thing about God is he fires warning
shots at us all the time. He gives us an
opportunity to stop. You know, he don't fully punish us
right away every time we do something wrong. Now does
(08:37):
it you know eventually you're going to get caught doing
whatever it is you're doing. You do understand that, don't you.
But the first time, that close call, that was a
warning shot for you to stop. Look, I know you're
not perfect. I know we all sinners down here, so
I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time, I know
you was looking at her when you wasn't supposed to.
(08:57):
I know you said something to him when you wasn't.
I know you got with her when you know you
wasn't supposed to. And I know you got with him
when you know you wasn't supposed to. So I tell
you what I'm gonna do. I'm a fire warning shot,
and maybe you'll slow your roll this time. But we
keep on though. See see see that's what happens. See
we just keep on and then the next thing, you know,
(09:18):
we get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy, I won't
out of this. Yeah. Well see, you done dug this
hole pretty deep and he gonna get you out. But
it's some things that's got to go down now because
you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See, had
you stopped the first time, you felt bad about it
and said you wasn't gonna do it no more. The
situation wouldn't be as critical. But because we don't stop
(09:41):
and we go again. But God always forgives, He always
allows us to get back up again. He always gives
us a mercy. He always gives us his grace. He
always does that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
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