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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Come on you Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning
everybody you're listening to the voice, come on dig he now,
one and only.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I was had my head down and it was thinking
of what I wanted to say this morning. But it
kind of, uh, it's kind of be something I've lived
for a long time, and you know, for a long time,
you know, I had a lot of faith in people.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's it's strange too, because you know, you know, my
mother was a Sunday school teacher, so of course I
grew up around it, knowing, uh, scriptures and things like that.
Not not a lot of them, but you know, the
ones I retained. But having her as a mother was
was a huge help and understand about faith. But even
(00:56):
with that, as I grew up, I began to put
a lot of faith in people. And you know, I figured, uh,
you know, just like everybody else, you know, man if
I could just meet this person, or if I could
just sit down with that person, or man if I
could just get this person to hear my idea, or
(01:16):
man if just if this person could hear my track,
or man if I could just get this in the
hands of somebody in the know.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was, like everybody else, I thought that way.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You know, I actually thought that if I could get
in a certain situation with a certain person, that if
a certain person were to meet me, that you know,
it could change everything for me. Oh man, Oh how
wrong I was? Oh how wrong I was? How long
did I spend feeling that way? And how many of
(01:48):
you out there possibly have felt that way before? You know,
like even in a relationship, This is the person for me,
And you know, you just lay claim to that, you know,
not necessarily being a fact, but you just lay claim
to it. This is the person for me, This is
the person that I want to spend the rest of
my life with.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Sometimes, you know, we just lay claim and stuff, and
it's not always what's in our best interest or it's
not always a fact. It's just what we decided we
want it. And I was guilty of that, just like
anybody else. And I spent a lot of years in
my life putting faith in people. Man, if I could
tell you anything this morning, it's to stop putting your
(02:27):
faith in people and put your faith in God where
it counts the most. I mean, you can get something
out of this one. See, here's a deal about a
relationship with God. It's the same all the time. He
never changes. His word is one hundred percent absolute. His
word doesn't have loopholes in it, none of that. It's
(02:48):
this is what it is. He's very clear. Now, you
can deviate off your end of a bargain, but it
don't stop what he says from being true.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But I asked you to do something.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If God asked you to be a certain way, to
do a little something a certain way, and you don't
do it that way, then you know, you could still
possibly get by for a while. But don't you understand
that his end of the deal stays the same, and
as long as you're not doing it the way you're
supposed to, the results are not going to be what
you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And I did this for years and years and years.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And I counted on people, and you know, I got
myself in a lot of situations. And I got out
one a dire situation that I'd been in for a
number of years. But he had protected me from years
prior to that. I didn't even know what was going on,
and then he made it, made me aware of the problem.
And then man, Lord have mercy. I was in a
(03:46):
dismal situation and then at the end of the year,
I was free, free from it all. But it was
a decision that I had made that led up to that,
and in going through that process, I had to learn something.
And man, I learned a lot about people. See, if
you want to learn about your friends, if you want
to learn about your people people around you, get yourself
(04:09):
in some trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Get yourself in a situation.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh man, you start looking around, man to feel get
real clear when you're in trouble. The feel clear is
out when you're in doubt, when you don't know what
to do, when you need help it, get real clear
on the play and feel then don't it. Oh But
when things is going right, it's time for a party.
We throwing a celebration. We were gonna We're gonna do
(04:34):
one down here. Oh man, there's plenty of people on
the field. But but but get yourself in a situation.
You find out rather quickly that oh no, oh no,
everybody ain't here. And that's when I started learning. And
I'm telling you, I had to start learning this for
real until I finally got it to stop putting my
faith in people and put all the mind in God
(04:57):
where it counts the most. Now is that the say
that there are people that you can't trust. No, that's
not what I'm saying. I ain't say you can't trust him,
but you can't dump your faith in them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I got it all riding on what he say. I
got it all riding on what she say.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No, no, uh uh no, I hear you saying it.
But I'm gonna keep my own this situation because I
hear you saying it. But I'm gonna take this faith
of mine and instead of putting it in people, I'm
gonna put it in God where it counts the most.
Because his word is absolute. What he say he's gonna do,
(05:34):
he gonna do what he says. He's not gonna tolerate.
He's not gonna tolerate. Now, you can make it, you
can make it tolerable for yourself, but he's not gonna
tolerate it. And that's just the end of the line.
And so you know, I'm wondering how many people out
there find themselves in a situation like me, or maybe
you've gotten yourself in a situation because you put your
faith in some people and now you wound up in
(05:56):
a different type of situation. Now, let me ask you
where the people at the only one that I found
when I was in my deepest trouble, when me and
my wife were in our darkest situation, was God. It
was the only one. It was the only one who
was just right there, right there, all the way through. Now,
(06:20):
let me explain something to you. Because you have this
relationship with God, it does not mean, it does not
mean now that it won't get it won't still be
a situation, you understand. But what He will do is
protect you during that period. He'll cover you during that
(06:41):
period that it is a situation. He will give you
the strength to overcome the situation when it turns into
a situation. Then when he cracks it open for you
and the sun is bright and shining, what he don't
want you to do is when it gets sunny again,
to forget about him who was there when it was
dark for you. See, I used to do that too,
(07:03):
you know I was. Oh, man, I did it. I'm
telling you right now, I did it. But I'm telling you, man,
when I learned a very serious lesson, and I watched
some people I thought were friends of mine just sort
of casually removed themselves from the situation, and I said, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Me and Margie looked around.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We said, okay, it's just me, you and God. And
when we started conducting ourselves accordingly. So when it's sunny
for us, we remember God, we stay prayerful, we keep
talking to him. We thank him for the sunshine, we
thank him for the dark days that he allowed us
to do, who allowed us to survive it and turn
it into sunny days. And we talked to him constantly
(07:47):
to protect us of our future enemies. And that's what
the deal is. So if I was everybody, I would
stop putting your faith in people and put your trust
in God where it really does count the most.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It really really does to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on you Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning
everybody you're listening to the voice, come on dig he now,
one and only.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I was had my head down and it was thinking
of what I wanted to say this morning. But it
kind of, uh, it's kind of be something I've lived
for a long time, and you know, for a long time,
you know, I had a lot of faith in people.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's it's strange too, because you know, you know, my
mother was a Sunday school teacher, so of course I
grew up around it, knowing, uh, scriptures and things like that.
Not not a lot of them, but you know, the
ones I retained. But having her as a mother was
was a huge help and understand about faith. But even
(00:56):
with that, as I grew up, I began to put
a lot of faith in people. And you know, I figured, uh,
you know, just like everybody else, you know, man if
I could just meet this person, or if I could
just sit down with that person, or man if I
could just get this person to hear my idea, or
(01:16):
man if just if this person could hear my track,
or man if I could just get this in the
hands of somebody in the know.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was, like everybody else, I thought that way.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You know, I actually thought that if I could get
in a certain situation with a certain person, that if
a certain person were to meet me, that you know,
it could change everything for me. Oh man, Oh how
wrong I was? Oh how wrong I was? How long
did I spend feeling that way? And how many of
(01:48):
you out there possibly have felt that way before? You know,
like even in a relationship, This is the person for me,
And you know, you just lay claim to that, you know,
not necessarily being a fact, but you just lay claim
to it. This is the person for me, This is
the person that I want to spend the rest of
my life with.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Sometimes, you know, we just lay claim and stuff, and
it's not always what's in our best interest or it's
not always a fact. It's just what we decided we
want it. And I was guilty of that, just like
anybody else. And I spent a lot of years in
my life putting faith in people. Man, if I could
tell you anything this morning, it's to stop putting your
(02:27):
faith in people and put your faith in God where
it counts the most. I mean, you can get something
out of this one. See, here's a deal about a
relationship with God. It's the same all the time. He
never changes. His word is one hundred percent absolute. His
word doesn't have loopholes in it, none of that. It's
(02:48):
this is what it is. He's very clear. Now, you
can deviate off your end of a bargain, but it
don't stop what he says from being true.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But I asked you to do something.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If God asked you to be a certain way, to
do a little something a certain way, and you don't
do it that way, then you know, you could still
possibly get by for a while. But don't you understand
that his end of the deal stays the same, and
as long as you're not doing it the way you're
supposed to, the results are not going to be what
you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And I did this for years and years and years.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And I counted on people, and you know, I got
myself in a lot of situations. And I got out
one a dire situation that I'd been in for a
number of years. But he had protected me from years
prior to that. I didn't even know what was going on,
and then he made it, made me aware of the problem.
And then man, Lord have mercy. I was in a
(03:46):
dismal situation and then at the end of the year,
I was free, free from it all. But it was
a decision that I had made that led up to that,
and in going through that process, I had to learn something.
And man, I learned a lot about people. See, if
you want to learn about your friends, if you want
to learn about your people people around you, get yourself
(04:09):
in some trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Get yourself in a situation.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh man, you start looking around, man to feel get
real clear when you're in trouble. The feel clear is
out when you're in doubt, when you don't know what
to do, when you need help it, get real clear
on the play and feel then don't it. Oh But
when things is going right, it's time for a party.
We throwing a celebration. We were gonna We're gonna do
(04:34):
one down here. Oh man, there's plenty of people on
the field. But but but get yourself in a situation.
You find out rather quickly that oh no, oh no,
everybody ain't here. And that's when I started learning. And
I'm telling you, I had to start learning this for
real until I finally got it to stop putting my
faith in people and put all the mind in God
(04:57):
where it counts the most. Now is that the say
that there are people that you can't trust. No, that's
not what I'm saying. I ain't say you can't trust him,
but you can't dump your faith in them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I got it all riding on what he say. I
got it all riding on what she say.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No, no, uh uh no, I hear you saying it.
But I'm gonna keep my own this situation because I
hear you saying it. But I'm gonna take this faith
of mine and instead of putting it in people, I'm
gonna put it in God where it counts the most.
Because his word is absolute. What he say he's gonna do,
(05:34):
he gonna do what he says. He's not gonna tolerate.
He's not gonna tolerate. Now, you can make it, you
can make it tolerable for yourself, but he's not gonna
tolerate it. And that's just the end of the line.
And so you know, I'm wondering how many people out
there find themselves in a situation like me, or maybe
you've gotten yourself in a situation because you put your
faith in some people and now you wound up in
(05:56):
a different type of situation. Now, let me ask you
where the people at the only one that I found
when I was in my deepest trouble, when me and
my wife were in our darkest situation, was God. It
was the only one. It was the only one who
was just right there, right there, all the way through. Now,
(06:20):
let me explain something to you. Because you have this
relationship with God, it does not mean, it does not
mean now that it won't get it won't still be
a situation, you understand. But what He will do is
protect you during that period. He'll cover you during that
(06:41):
period that it is a situation. He will give you
the strength to overcome the situation when it turns into
a situation. Then when he cracks it open for you
and the sun is bright and shining, what he don't
want you to do is when it gets sunny again,
to forget about him who was there when it was
dark for you. See, I used to do that too,
(07:03):
you know I was. Oh, man, I did it. I'm
telling you right now, I did it. But I'm telling you, man,
when I learned a very serious lesson, and I watched
some people I thought were friends of mine just sort
of casually removed themselves from the situation, and I said, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Me and Margie looked around.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We said, okay, it's just me, you and God. And
when we started conducting ourselves accordingly. So when it's sunny
for us, we remember God, we stay prayerful, we keep
talking to him. We thank him for the sunshine, we
thank him for the dark days that he allowed us
to do, who allowed us to survive it and turn
it into sunny days. And we talked to him constantly
(07:47):
to protect us of our future enemies. And that's what
the deal is. So if I was everybody, I would
stop putting your faith in people and put your trust
in God where it really does count the most.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It really really does to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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