Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.7.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh huh, I sure will.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody, y'all listening to the voice. Come on
dig me now one and on Steve Harvey got a
radio show. Hell Man back in business too, Man Man,
How good is God? I mean, really, if you think
about it in spite of all that's going down in
your life. First of all, it could be worse. But secondly,

(00:26):
sometimes you have to remember. And I've just had to
have this conversation with myself this morning. That's how I'm
fresh on this one right here. When a challenge faces you,
are you going through a difficult moment, or you didn't
hit a bump in the road in the middle of that,
if you could manage to be grateful, it would take

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you a long way. Gratitude is a powerful resource if
you can be grateful in the middle of it. Gratitude
is a powerful resource when it's dim for you. And
then got a little bumpy on the road, and he
ran into some obstacles, and you done ran up into
some detailed signs, and your journey ain't smooth as it

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was last week or last year. You gotta be grateful
for the things that are going right and that have
gone right.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
And for the thing that's wrong right now to get right? Man?
Can I share that with you? Man? Is that a
tough one to learn? It is for me. It has
been one of my toughest challenges is to learn how
to be grateful because it's a powerful resource, but how
to be grateful in moments of despair when it ain't

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going right. See here's a mistake I would make. See
when something go wrong, I want to focus on the
wrong so much in an attempt to fix it. But
even then, the focus ain't always in to fix it.
The focus becomes, Man, this is bad. Man, I can't
believe this is happening. Why just keep going down? That

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doesn't fix anything, you know, mealing over it, going over
what's wrong, explaining it, sharing it with your friends, you know,
making it sound worse than it is, tell the story
for pity from other people. All of that, right there,
has nothing to do with the fix. Sometimes you're just

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mulling over it. You're just making it worse. You're just
making it a bigger problem. You're manifesting it into your atmosphere,
You're putting it out there in your spirit. Now all
of a sudden it consumes your day. Next thing you
know you're having a bad day. If you're having a
bad day, it's because you've been having some bad thoughts.
So what I've had to learn how to do, and

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what I'm working on this morning is I'm working on
the situation that Ben cropped up. I was going kind
of smooth here for a minute and now then got
real bumpy in the road, you know, and all this here.
So what I'm thinking about now though, is even though
I've hit a bumping the road, and even though I
done ran into a detour, and even though I've hit

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this lull, I'm going down into a valley, I ain't
up on the peak. Can I not still be grateful
for all the things that God has given me, for
all the things He's done for me, for all the
things He's bought me through, And realizing that even this
that's happening to me again is going to pass to

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He gonna get me through that too. Come on, man,
God is a good god man. It's a lot to
be grateful for. So while I'm tripping on this bumping
the road out and here, what I got to remember
is all the things He's done for me. And like
I say, my saying is join depression cannot reside in
the same place. So instead of being down about this
new bumping the road, if I'm constantly filling my mind

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with the thoughts of how good he's been to me,
of what all he's done for me, of all the
things he's brought me through, of all the blessings he's
presented me with. When I go down that list, I
really don't have a lot of time to mull over
the situation. Now. Do I have to fix this bump
in the row? Of course I do. Are There's some

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things I'm going to have to do to straighten it out.
Of course it is. But Steve just going to get
the business of doing it and straighten it out. What
you mulling over and worrying about it for you know,
old people. I heard old people say something when I
was growing up in the church. They say, if you're
gonna pray about it, don't worry about it. But if
you're gonna worry about it, don't pray about it. That's
an amazing thing. And prayer just happens to be my

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weapon of choice. Now, it ain't always been that way.
I want you to understand that my first weapon of
choice was you do it to me, I do it
to you. You called me out, I call you out.
You say something bad about me, I've tried to find
you say something bad about you. That was my weapon
in the past. How did that work out for you, Steve?
Not so good? Because you know what, I spent a

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lo lot of time fighting back, kicking back, swinging back,
when I could have spent all that time climbing. See,
all you trying to do at the end of the day, folks,
is have a better life than the one you got.
All you trying to do is to improve your position
in life. You know, it's not my business to make
sure you don't get where you going. I ain't got

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no time for that. It's not my job to assure
that you ain't as high as me. I ain't got
no time for that. Your real mission and purpose is
to have the best life that you can have, To
ascend to the highest plateau that you can get to,
to make your family as comfortable as you can, to
provide as much as you can for your family. But legally, see,

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those of us are sitting up here trying to come
up with sideways. You can ask a couple million men
sitting in prison today how they wish they hadn't have
done that, And they'll tell you, Oh, man, I wish
I never had did it. I knew not to go
down there. Something told me not to go down there. Man.
If I could change things, I would. But they sitting
somewhere doing some time that had they made another decision,

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they wouldn't have to do now. That don't make them
throw away people, nah, man, because everybody make mistakes, and
God is in the forgiving business. And some of us
have done some things that really broke the law, and
a whole lot of other things and deserve to do
some time. But through the grace of God, we didn't.
But now we sit up here we pass judgment on
people who got to do some matter. I don't care.

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I don't care what you've done. God can forgive anything.
But our position, our motivation in life is to try
to have the best life we can have and provide
for those around us and make it comfortable. If that's
your ambition, you don't have time to worry about or
concern yourself with another person. And I wasted time doing that,

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and that's not the way to get it done. It's
simply mine to your business. Taking care of you and
getting yourself right and tight is twenty four to seven.
So that's a full time job. So what I had
to learn was and what I've the reason I've chosen
prayers as my weapon of choice now is that now
prayer helps me that I don't have to fight back. Now,

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if I get cornered, I'm gonna fight you. I ain't
even gonna lie to you. And I'm still working on
some things that trigger me. You know, you know, you know,
and and so I'm I'm slowly getting better at that.
But I've learned that my weapon of choice is prayer now.
So when it happens ugly for me, I pray about it.

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When it gets tight and dismal for me, I pray
about it. And the thing about prayer, man, is prayer
changes things. Yes it does. Now read about it and
try it. That's the deal, Okay, come on, Prayer is
a wonderful weapon. To the Steve Harvey Morning Show