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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all bay at all, So don't given them.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Black the million Bush listen to me to show to.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Joy, Yeah, Joy.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Show.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You know you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Turn you love, you gotta turn.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I got to turn the mouth turn. You probably got
to turn the.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Mouth out, turn the money up. Look, come on, come
on you, I sure will.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come
on dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey Man
got a radio show, borl bor Oh boy. I can't
even tell you man. I've been doing some thinking and
and one of the things that I wanted to mention
(02:25):
today to you as one of the principles of success,
being grateful at all times is difficult to do. Being
grateful at all times is very difficult to do. I
find that to be true with myself. Now there are
(02:48):
others that might be able to do it, but just
from talking and listening and living and learning, being grateful
at all times is difficult to do. But it's not
necessary because it's such an act of faith in knowing
that no matter what's going on, it's going to be alright.
(03:11):
And it's hard to see that when things are not
going in your favor, when things have turned so dramatically
the other way, and it seems as though you're the
only one in the situation where you're involved with other people,
or someone got an accusation against you falsely, or somebody
(03:32):
trying to do something to you unjustifiably, whatever the case
may be, when it's happening to you, it does appear
to you that, oh, my goodness, man, this is horribly
one sided. So it is difficult. It's hard to do
to be grateful at all times, but it's so necessary.
(03:54):
And I just want to point out a couple of
things to you. First of all, the difficulty in being
grateful in hard times is that number one, the present circumstances.
Oftentimes it's just so pressing and so overwhelming that a
lot of your energy is devoted to trying to come
(04:16):
up with the solution for that, or trying to muster
the strength to whether the storm, or trying to just
brace yourself to try to get through it, and in
doing that, you don't It's hard to be grateful. It's
hard to be grateful in pain, and I know it is.
But here is the trick for me. This is what
(04:39):
I've had to learn how to do, and I guess
it takes practice to get here. It's not nothing you
just start doing right away. You got to practice it
in small increments to really get it. What I've always
had to say to myself and what I've learned to
say to myself is this is happening to me because
God is working me through something. This is happening to
(05:03):
me because it's some form of tests that I have
to pass in order to graduate to the next grade,
and that in order to be allowed to move to
the next level. This is happening to me because there's
something I need to purge my life, of my body,
of my spirit, of something's purging in me. And when
(05:26):
you purge something, it's it's painful. You know, It's like
a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've
been told and every documentary I've ever watched it it's
an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw, to
pull away after you've been doing something so long. And
(05:48):
so I know that this process is tough when you're
going through some pain, but when you're purging your system,
when you when you're having to pass a test, when
you're about to make when you're being made ready for
the next level, that moment right in there, in realizing
(06:12):
that that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude.
That's where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining
this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I get it.
But that's where you find the gratitude. The second part
of it is is that God has never left me
(06:32):
in all the things I've done, in all the mistakes
I've made, all the lies I've told, all the situations
I've gotten myself into, from being greedy and wanting too
much for me at the expense sometimes of other people,
(06:52):
not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because
I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive or
mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting to
do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally weigh
out the cause and effect of the other person. I mean,
(07:12):
can I just be real with you with that? I mean,
how many times we done all done that? Look, it
doesn't it don't make you a bad person. You know,
good people do bad things all the time. I just
happened to have come to the realization that unknowingly and
and not and not with malice intent towards a person.
(07:37):
I've hurt people looking at something I wanted to do
without really looking at what the cause and effect would
be on the other person. So in doing some of
these things, I've created situations for myself. But God, through
his grace and mercy, has allowed me to even get
(07:57):
beyond that. So when I'm saying that God has never
left me in spite of myself, He's always gotten me through.
So that's the other part of it too. See that
no matter what you're going through, you've got to understand
that God has always gotten you through it now has
any Now it may not be the way you want
it or the way you liked, but guess what, you
(08:19):
can't do wrong and not pay for that. Now that
that's not how this works, that's never going to be
the case. But the great thing about God is he
fires warning shots at us all the time. He gives
us an opportunity to stop. You know, He don't fully
punish us right away every time we do something wrong.
Now does it? You know eventually you're going to get
(08:40):
caught doing whatever it is you're doing. You do understand that,
don't you. But the first time, that close call, that
was a warning shot for you to stop. Look, I
know you're not perfect. I know we all sinners down here,
so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time. I
know you was looking at her when you weren't supposed to.
I know you said something to him when you wasn't
supposed to. I know you got with her when you
(09:02):
know you wasn't supposed to. And I know you got
with him when you know you weren't supposed to. So
I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm a fire
warning shot, and maybe you'll slow your roll this time.
But we keep on though. See see, see that's what happens.
See we just keep on and then the next thing,
you know, we get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy.
I want out of this.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well see, you done dug this hole pretty deep, and
he gonna get you out. But it's some things that's
got to go down now because you didn't pay attention
to the warning shot. See, had you stopped the first time,
you felt bad about it and said you wasn't gonna
do it no more, the situation wouldn't be as critical,
but because we don't stop and we go again. But
God always forgives, He always allows us to get back
(09:49):
up again. He always gives us a mercy. He always
gives us his grace. He always does that. You're listening
to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh,
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all bay at all, So don't given them.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Black the million Bush listen to me to show to.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Joy, Yeah, Joy.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Show.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You know you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Turn you love, you gotta turn.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I got to turn the mouth turn. You probably got
to turn the.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Mouth out, turn the money up. Look, come on, come
on you, I sure will.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come
on dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey Man
got a radio show, borl bor Oh boy. I can't
even tell you man. I've been doing some thinking and
and one of the things that I wanted to mention
(02:25):
today to you as one of the principles of success,
being grateful at all times is difficult to do. Being
grateful at all times is very difficult to do. I
find that to be true with myself. Now there are
(02:48):
others that might be able to do it, but just
from talking and listening and living and learning, being grateful
at all times is difficult to do. But it's not
necessary because it's such an act of faith in knowing
that no matter what's going on, it's going to be alright.
(03:11):
And it's hard to see that when things are not
going in your favor, when things have turned so dramatically
the other way, and it seems as though you're the
only one in the situation where you're involved with other people,
or someone got an accusation against you falsely, or somebody
(03:32):
trying to do something to you unjustifiably, whatever the case
may be, when it's happening to you, it does appear
to you that, oh, my goodness, man, this is horribly
one sided. So it is difficult. It's hard to do
to be grateful at all times, but it's so necessary.
(03:54):
And I just want to point out a couple of
things to you. First of all, the difficulty in being
grateful in hard times is that number one, the present circumstances.
Oftentimes it's just so pressing and so overwhelming that a
lot of your energy is devoted to trying to come
(04:16):
up with the solution for that, or trying to muster
the strength to whether the storm, or trying to just
brace yourself to try to get through it, and in
doing that, you don't It's hard to be grateful. It's
hard to be grateful in pain, and I know it is.
But here is the trick for me. This is what
(04:39):
I've had to learn how to do, and I guess
it takes practice to get here. It's not nothing you
just start doing right away. You got to practice it
in small increments to really get it. What I've always
had to say to myself and what I've learned to
say to myself is this is happening to me because
God is working me through something. This is happening to
(05:03):
me because it's some form of tests that I have
to pass in order to graduate to the next grade,
and that in order to be allowed to move to
the next level. This is happening to me because there's
something I need to purge my life, of my body,
of my spirit, of something's purging in me. And when
(05:26):
you purge something, it's it's painful. You know, It's like
a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've
been told and every documentary I've ever watched it it's
an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw, to
pull away after you've been doing something so long. And
(05:48):
so I know that this process is tough when you're
going through some pain, but when you're purging your system,
when you when you're having to pass a test, when
you're about to make when you're being made ready for
the next level, that moment right in there, in realizing
(06:12):
that that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude.
That's where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining
this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I get it.
But that's where you find the gratitude. The second part
of it is is that God has never left me
(06:32):
in all the things I've done, in all the mistakes
I've made, all the lies I've told, all the situations
I've gotten myself into, from being greedy and wanting too
much for me at the expense sometimes of other people,
(06:52):
not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because
I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive or
mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting to
do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally weigh
out the cause and effect of the other person. I mean,
(07:12):
can I just be real with you with that? I mean,
how many times we done all done that? Look, it
doesn't it don't make you a bad person. You know,
good people do bad things all the time. I just
happened to have come to the realization that unknowingly and
and not and not with malice intent towards a person.
(07:37):
I've hurt people looking at something I wanted to do
without really looking at what the cause and effect would
be on the other person. So in doing some of
these things, I've created situations for myself. But God, through
his grace and mercy, has allowed me to even get
(07:57):
beyond that. So when I'm saying that God has never
left me in spite of myself, He's always gotten me through.
So that's the other part of it too. See that
no matter what you're going through, you've got to understand
that God has always gotten you through it now has
any Now it may not be the way you want
it or the way you liked, but guess what, you
(08:19):
can't do wrong and not pay for that. Now that
that's not how this works, that's never going to be
the case. But the great thing about God is he
fires warning shots at us all the time. He gives
us an opportunity to stop. You know, He don't fully
punish us right away every time we do something wrong.
Now does it? You know eventually you're going to get
(08:40):
caught doing whatever it is you're doing. You do understand that,
don't you. But the first time, that close call, that
was a warning shot for you to stop. Look, I
know you're not perfect. I know we all sinners down here,
so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time. I
know you was looking at her when you weren't supposed to.
I know you said something to him when you wasn't
supposed to. I know you got with her when you
(09:02):
know you wasn't supposed to. And I know you got
with him when you know you weren't supposed to. So
I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm a fire
warning shot, and maybe you'll slow your roll this time.
But we keep on though. See see, see that's what happens.
See we just keep on and then the next thing,
you know, we get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy.
I want out of this.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well see, you done dug this hole pretty deep, and
he gonna get you out. But it's some things that's
got to go down now because you didn't pay attention
to the warning shot. See, had you stopped the first time,
you felt bad about it and said you wasn't gonna
do it no more, the situation wouldn't be as critical,
but because we don't stop and we go again. But
God always forgives, He always allows us to get back
(09:49):
up again. He always gives us a mercy. He always
gives us his grace. He always does that. You're listening
to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
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