Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.14.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will. Hey, good 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

(00:20):
the other day, I was talking to you about the
most effective weapon available to us as human beings, I
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

(00:43):
the days I don't use it, I feel it that that,
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 doubt starts slipping in again, that uneasy feeling of
uncertain and he slips in again, that that wondering what
I'm gonna do starts slipping in again. Happens to me,

(01:06):
happens to everybody, man, 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, that's everybody, that that cover all of us

(01:26):
though it so sometimes I think we're a little too
hard on 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

(01:49):
called it 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

(02:11):
of companies 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

(02:34):
on 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
doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you. A
little bit that you do do on his behalf, it

(02:55):
just pays in comparison with what he does. But let's
just say you call yourself invested. Well, 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

(03:18):
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

(03:40):
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 laugh

(04:02):
telling 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,

(04:22):
sometimes 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

(04:47):
me hanging power. Sometimes, man, 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,

(05:10):
sometimes it gives it gives you a 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

(05:33):
like the eye, you just as calm. 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

(05:53):
been asking God for all 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

(06:16):
was asking him to help me, Lord, 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

(06:37):
of it, you're gonna be better for it. 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. It worked

(07:00):
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 you

(07:21):
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 lot some
sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about. If
Daniel was in the lions den and Jonah was in

(07:43):
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,
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