Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.03.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you, I'm sure will Good morning everybody. You'll
listening to the voice? Come on, dig me now? Want
it on the Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah,
man boy, God has been good to me. Man, I
can't really count at all. You can't either, you know,

(00:22):
it's all in perspective. You really can't count all that
God has done for you if you look at every
little thing. It's unbelievable the things He's done for us.
How many times you know, we got through something without
even talking to him about it. He just he just
blessed us with it. How many you know. It's just
it's so much that the fact that you wake up

(00:44):
in the morning, the fact that you still have a
place to stay, the fact that you know may be
struggling out here, but guess what, you still going to work.
You know, you live in check to check, but you're
making it all. You got all the plates spinning, you know,
it's hard. You got a lot of plate spinning, but
you keep them up there every now and near one break,
but he put two more back up there. It look
a little bit better. And you got to get to

(01:04):
spending them so it all works. And then you got
a lot of people who just can't seem to mentally
put it together as to you know, why their life
isn't in a position that they wanted to be. We
talk about this oftentimes, but don't want to try another
angle with you to day. You know, maybe it's you.

(01:28):
Have you ever thought about that? Maybe it's you. Maybe
it's no external force that's at fault, like you keep
making the excuse to be. You know, so many people
out here. Well, if this hadn't have done this, if
he hadn't have done that, if she hadn't have done that,
I would have been further along. I wasted all my time,

(01:49):
my years with this man and he did this, and
I could have been here and I could have been there.
And this woman she did this to me. And if
she hadn't have done that, I could have been here
and could have been there. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's
not really that external force that you keep making it
out to be. See, I've done this to myself before.

(02:13):
Once again, I'm talking to you about something I know about.
I've done this to myself before. I've had the reason
I wasn't where I wanted to be. I had it
figured out as some external force I had worked it
out in my mind, clearly it wasn't me because of

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so and so or if this hadn't happened, and if
they hadn't have done this, I would have been further
along up the road. That's what I was saying. But
hold on, man, boy learned a valuable lesson. Man. See,
if you don't ever let it go, it's gonna be
hard for you to go. If you don't ever let

(02:59):
it go, it's gonna be hard for you to go.
I was listening to Bishop td Jake's one day and
I heard him say, you can't drive your car if
you gonna keep looking in the rear view mirror. You
go outside and try that. Try to drive your car,

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but keep your eye in the rear view mirror. All
you looking at is where you're being. All you looking
at in that rear view mirror is where you passed
or should have passed, something you should have moved on from.
All you're doing is looking in that real view mirror
at what happened back now. If you don't stop looking

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in the rearview mirror, you're gonna crash your car over
and over and over again. All you got to slow
it down. So bad in order for you to keep
looking in that rear view mirror. If you don't learn
to let it go, it's be hard for you to

(04:01):
go forward because you keep reviewing the past. The past
is the past, and I know it's hard. Man. I
watched a show and this lady said, well, I just
can't ever forgive them for that, or guess what, guess
what God may have already forgiven that person. That person

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may be extremely remorseful, could have gone to God and
got in forgiveness for it years ago. But you you
sit here and you keep hanging on to the back.
I can't ever forgive that. Then I heard Bishop Jakes
come on the show one time and say something that
really really struck home. You keep drinking the poison waiting

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on your enemy to die. He said that. I just
shook my head and went, wow, you drinking the poison
waiting on your enemy to die. Revenge is poison to you.
You know, if hatred is poisoned to you. Unforgivingness when

(05:11):
you won't forgive a person, that person could be going
on with they life made the right with God. Don't
know how you feeling. They skipping through life? Now? You
make adjustments every time you see them. And it takes energy. Man,
it takes so much energy to hate. It takes so
much energy not to forgive to Now they come in

(05:32):
the room. You got to avoid them. Stay over here,
Oh here they come. Now you got to make a
situation over here. They come into the house, his family reunion.
Oh oh, here they come. Or where they gonna be
in the basement. I'm going to be on the third floor.
I want to go out here and get some barbecue.
She out there at the barbecue, staying, Oh lord, I
don't want a barbecue. I just eat to take a
set of people. Man, take themselves all out of position,

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trying to make adjustments, when if you it would simplify
your life, if you would let just let it go.
Maybe you ain't where you need to be because of
them external forces altogether. Maybe you not where you need
to be because of you, because you won't let it go,
you won't move forward. Look at this, ladies, Let's say

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you've been in a situation with a man for years.
It didn't work out. For whatever the reason, it just
didn't work out. I got what you say he did,
I got what he did, I got he all of
that YadA, YadA YadA. When you get through, did not
God get you through it? Did not he allow you

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to survive it? I got you, got some cuts on you,
I got you been a little bit bruised. But did
he not get you through it? So now that he's
freed you from it, now he done went on. He
got a whole nother family over there somewhere. Now he
trying to make it right because maybe he learned the
mistake he made and now he trying to be a

(07:00):
better man. He just trying to get it right now.
But you sitting there holding on to it, You drinking
the poison, waiting on your enemy to die. So now,
instead of you enjoying the blessing of finally being free
from a situation that was not healthy for you, you create
an even more unhealthy situation in your mind by hating,
by having revengeful thoughts, by hoping he fall on his face.

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Maybe you even doing something to the other situation to
make sure they struggle. Oh man, you drinking the poison,
waiting on your enemy to die. Maybe you ain't where
you ought to be in life, not because of your
external forces, but maybe it's you if you don't let
it go. It's gonna be hard for you to go.

(07:45):
You can't keep driving your car looking in the rear
view mirror. Come on, man, Forgiveness is not for the
other person. Forgiveness is for you. Steve Harvey Morning Show