October 31, 2024 • 10 mins
Prayer changes things straight up! It gives us the ability to talk to God. It works for Steve, why not you. Talk to Your Creator, he'd love to hear from you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. Y'all
don't know y'all at all at all. So don't given
a million bus busy sea listening to to I don't
(00:39):
joy Joy. You gotta do turn o love, turn to
(01:41):
turn the mouth the turn. You've probably got to turn
the mouth, mount turn the water jumpo loo. Come come
on you think that? Uh? I sure will? Hey, good
(02:03):
morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, Come on, dig
me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
I've been saying it like that since I got it too.
All right, got a good one for you today. Yesterday
the other day, I was talking to you about the
most effective weapon available to us as human beings, I
(02:24):
think is prayer. I think prayer helps us in so
many ways. But right now, what I want to do
is I want to show you how prayer pays off.
I want to show you what good it can do
for you. Even me, I use it every day, and
the days I don't use it, I feel it that that,
(02:45):
you know, the days that I go, you know, without
talking to him as much, I notice it. I feel it.
I feel a certain kind of way, you know, those
that doubts starts slipping in again. That uneasy feeling of
uncertainty slips in again, That wondering what I'm gonna do
starts slipping in again. Happens to me, happens to everybody. Man,
(03:05):
I think, I really, really do you know, if people
would just keep it real with each other, stop being
this Christian this superman, because you ain't you ain't. There's
a scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one,
and that's everybody that cover all of us thought it.
So sometimes I think we're a little too hard on
(03:28):
each other with that too, Seeing that's how we not perfect,
we immediately want to just just oh man, you just
want to kill when we find somebody do something wrong.
Bell If we go public, everything go public now it
called social media. But anyway, I just want to talk
to you about how prayer pays off. It's called it
(03:48):
all eye and money. People got money, call it all eyes.
So return on investment. People always looking for a return
on investment. You know, nobody, nobody in business really gives
you money without understanding the return on investment. They don't
even give money to charities unless they think it can
do something with the bottom line. A lot of companies
(04:10):
work like that, I found out out myself. Sad, but
it is true. So since everything is expected to work
on a return on investment, I assume because we're human beings.
So since we are human beings, whether you're in business
or not, you still in the business of living. I
think when you pray, you should expect a return on
(04:32):
your investment. You talk to it, you spend time opening
up to him. You bowed your head to him, you
humbled yourself, you got on your knees. I mean, but
really we talking God here. So really, what you're doing
ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you. The little
bit that you do do on his behalf, it just
(04:54):
pales in comparison with what he does. But let's just
say you want to call yourself invested, let me show
you how it pays off. This because see for me,
this is for me now, prayer pays off in different ways.
That's what I had to learn. See, I was praying,
but I was asking him specifically for what I wanted.
I had the audacity, though, to turn around and tell
(05:17):
him how to do what I wanted. That's amazing, man.
I can't tell you how many blessings I block come
in my way by putting my faith in what I
said I wanted and how I wanted him to do it.
I want you to give me this. I want that
person to go away. I want this person to accept
everything you say. Then I want to go over here
(05:39):
and I want this deal to happen like this, and
I want that person to just step aside and let
me through. And then I want that I was I
had it mapped out. God must have been chuckling really hard.
He had to been gonna. Boy, I made you to
be funny. But boy, you funny now. So you're gonna
tell me how to do it. And you've all heard
this right here. If you want to make God telling
(06:00):
me your plan, well that's what I did. And that's
how we pray. A lot of times we pray, and
we pray. In the prayer, we're telling him how to
work it out. Well, here's a deal. This is what
I've learned. Prayer pays off in different ways. There's a
different return of my investment when I pray. See, sometimes
(06:21):
when I'm praying for something, a situation to dissolve itself
or go away, sometimes I get courage out of the prayer.
Prayer provides me courage. That's just to go on and
look at it. I guess face it. Then. Sometimes when
I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer gives me hanging power. Sometimes, man,
(06:48):
it just I look up and I'm just handling it better.
Sometimes prayer gives you laugh at off power. Sometimes, man,
you just got to laugh at off whatever, man you
trip it? Do you know what that is? If you
could do that? You know. Sometimes it gives you a
(07:11):
show of strength power. Sometimes prayer allows you to have
the appearance that you got it all together. Nobody got
to know the world winning. The tornado, the hurricane that's
swirling in your life, You standing over that like the
eye the hurricane, you just and it's all swelling around you.
But you standing there like the eye, you just as calm.
(07:33):
That's what prayer does. So when you pray, man, it
builds up a lot of things in you. You know
what it's done for me. Prayer has built up character
in me. It's made me have more character because I'm
able to stand stronger on the things I say because
I've been praying, because I've been asking God for all
(07:53):
of those return of investments, I've been asking God for courage.
I've been asking God for hanging in that power. I've
been asking him to give me the power to walk away.
I've asked him to give me ignored power. I've asked
him to help me laugh it off. I've asked him
to show me strength. But you know what I was doing,
I was really praying, not really for them things be
real with you. I was asking him to help me. Lord,
(08:16):
help me. You ever done that? You have asked God
for help, and then all of a sudden, the list
of these things show up. See, sometimes how you want
the problem to be solved ain't the best way. There's
a lesson to be learned when we make mistakes. And
sometimes you got to stay in that fire and you
got to learn that lesson. But guess what, though, when
you come out of it, you're gonna be better for it.
(08:37):
You gonna know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray.
He's solid. His word is true, It lasts forever. He
do what he said he gonna do now all day,
all night, twenty four seven. He do it all day,
all night, and then some more. His word don't ever change.
It's true. It works for me. It worked for you.
(08:58):
It worked for Jake's It worked for Old Steam, It
worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula White, It
worked for Billy Graham, It worked for Mother Teresa. It
worked for Gandhy, It worked for the Princess Arabs. It worked, man,
it worked for you. What you're waiting for? Why don't
(09:19):
you put praying your game? Watch what happened to you?
You sitting in that jail cell and you struggling with it,
and they telling you blood in, blood out, you can't
get in you. That's foolishness, man, What you mean God
can get you out of anything. Look, man, if you
done read your Bible, he'dne got Some people got some
sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about. If
Daniel was in the Lions then and Jonah was in
(09:41):
the belly of the whale, what you're talking about? Where
you are you just sitting in the cell with some
dudes around, You're talking about what they gonna do? Man,
you got to be real. God can't nothing to do nothing.
Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give
you the strength to handle prayer change his things. Man,
you're listening Hard Morning Show,
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. Y'all
don't know y'all at all at all. So don't given
a million bus busy sea listening to to I don't
(00:39):
joy Joy. You gotta do turn o love, turn to
(01:41):
turn the mouth the turn. You've probably got to turn
the mouth, mount turn the water jumpo loo. Come come
on you think that? Uh? I sure will? Hey, good
(02:03):
morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, Come on, dig
me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
I've been saying it like that since I got it too.
All right, got a good one for you today. Yesterday
the other day, I was talking to you about the
most effective weapon available to us as human beings, I
(02:24):
think is prayer. I think prayer helps us in so
many ways. But right now, what I want to do
is I want to show you how prayer pays off.
I want to show you what good it can do
for you. Even me, I use it every day, and
the days I don't use it, I feel it that that,
(02:45):
you know, the days that I go, you know, without
talking to him as much, I notice it. I feel it.
I feel a certain kind of way, you know, those
that doubts starts slipping in again. That uneasy feeling of
uncertainty slips in again, That wondering what I'm gonna do
starts slipping in again. Happens to me, happens to everybody. Man,
(03:05):
I think, I really, really do you know, if people
would just keep it real with each other, stop being
this Christian this superman, because you ain't you ain't. There's
a scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one,
and that's everybody that cover all of us thought it.
So sometimes I think we're a little too hard on
(03:28):
each other with that too, Seeing that's how we not perfect,
we immediately want to just just oh man, you just
want to kill when we find somebody do something wrong.
Bell If we go public, everything go public now it
called social media. But anyway, I just want to talk
to you about how prayer pays off. It's called it
(03:48):
all eye and money. People got money, call it all eyes.
So return on investment. People always looking for a return
on investment. You know, nobody, nobody in business really gives
you money without understanding the return on investment. They don't
even give money to charities unless they think it can
do something with the bottom line. A lot of companies
(04:10):
work like that, I found out out myself. Sad, but
it is true. So since everything is expected to work
on a return on investment, I assume because we're human beings.
So since we are human beings, whether you're in business
or not, you still in the business of living. I
think when you pray, you should expect a return on
(04:32):
your investment. You talk to it, you spend time opening
up to him. You bowed your head to him, you
humbled yourself, you got on your knees. I mean, but
really we talking God here. So really, what you're doing
ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you. The little
bit that you do do on his behalf, it just
(04:54):
pales in comparison with what he does. But let's just
say you want to call yourself invested, let me show
you how it pays off. This because see for me,
this is for me now, prayer pays off in different ways.
That's what I had to learn. See, I was praying,
but I was asking him specifically for what I wanted.
I had the audacity, though, to turn around and tell
(05:17):
him how to do what I wanted. That's amazing, man.
I can't tell you how many blessings I block come
in my way by putting my faith in what I
said I wanted and how I wanted him to do it.
I want you to give me this. I want that
person to go away. I want this person to accept
everything you say. Then I want to go over here
(05:39):
and I want this deal to happen like this, and
I want that person to just step aside and let
me through. And then I want that I was I
had it mapped out. God must have been chuckling really hard.
He had to been gonna. Boy, I made you to
be funny. But boy, you funny now. So you're gonna
tell me how to do it. And you've all heard
this right here. If you want to make God telling
(06:00):
me your plan, well that's what I did. And that's
how we pray. A lot of times we pray, and
we pray. In the prayer, we're telling him how to
work it out. Well, here's a deal. This is what
I've learned. Prayer pays off in different ways. There's a
different return of my investment when I pray. See, sometimes
(06:21):
when I'm praying for something, a situation to dissolve itself
or go away, sometimes I get courage out of the prayer.
Prayer provides me courage. That's just to go on and
look at it. I guess face it. Then. Sometimes when
I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer gives me hanging power. Sometimes, man,
(06:48):
it just I look up and I'm just handling it better.
Sometimes prayer gives you laugh at off power. Sometimes, man,
you just got to laugh at off whatever, man you
trip it? Do you know what that is? If you
could do that? You know. Sometimes it gives you a
(07:11):
show of strength power. Sometimes prayer allows you to have
the appearance that you got it all together. Nobody got
to know the world winning. The tornado, the hurricane that's
swirling in your life, You standing over that like the
eye the hurricane, you just and it's all swelling around you.
But you standing there like the eye, you just as calm.
(07:33):
That's what prayer does. So when you pray, man, it
builds up a lot of things in you. You know
what it's done for me. Prayer has built up character
in me. It's made me have more character because I'm
able to stand stronger on the things I say because
I've been praying, because I've been asking God for all
(07:53):
of those return of investments, I've been asking God for courage.
I've been asking God for hanging in that power. I've
been asking him to give me the power to walk away.
I've asked him to give me ignored power. I've asked
him to help me laugh it off. I've asked him
to show me strength. But you know what I was doing,
I was really praying, not really for them things be
real with you. I was asking him to help me. Lord,
(08:16):
help me. You ever done that? You have asked God
for help, and then all of a sudden, the list
of these things show up. See, sometimes how you want
the problem to be solved ain't the best way. There's
a lesson to be learned when we make mistakes. And
sometimes you got to stay in that fire and you
got to learn that lesson. But guess what, though, when
you come out of it, you're gonna be better for it.
(08:37):
You gonna know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray.
He's solid. His word is true, It lasts forever. He
do what he said he gonna do now all day,
all night, twenty four seven. He do it all day,
all night, and then some more. His word don't ever change.
It's true. It works for me. It worked for you.
(08:58):
It worked for Jake's It worked for Old Steam, It
worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula White, It
worked for Billy Graham, It worked for Mother Teresa. It
worked for Gandhy, It worked for the Princess Arabs. It worked, man,
it worked for you. What you're waiting for? Why don't
(09:19):
you put praying your game? Watch what happened to you?
You sitting in that jail cell and you struggling with it,
and they telling you blood in, blood out, you can't
get in you. That's foolishness, man, What you mean God
can get you out of anything. Look, man, if you
done read your Bible, he'dne got Some people got some
sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about. If
Daniel was in the Lions then and Jonah was in
(09:41):
the belly of the whale, what you're talking about? Where
you are you just sitting in the cell with some
dudes around, You're talking about what they gonna do? Man,
you got to be real. God can't nothing to do nothing.
Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give
you the strength to handle prayer change his things. Man,
you're listening Hard Morning Show,
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