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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, come on, dig me now. One and
only Steve Harley got ready on the show. I was
had my head down and I was thinking of what
I wanted to say this morning. But it kind of, uh,
(00:25):
it's kind of be something.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I've lived for a long time, and you know, for
a long time, you know, I had a lot of
faith in people. You know. 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 knowing, uh, scriptures
and things like that. Not not a lot of them,
(00:47):
but you know, the ones I retained. But having her
as a mother was was a huge help and understand
about faith. But even 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
(01:07):
this person, or if I could just sit down with
that person, or man if I could just get this
person to hear my ideal, or 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. I was, like everybody else, I thought that way.
You know, I actually thought that if I could get
(01:29):
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
you out there possibly have felt that way before? You know,
(01:51):
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. You know. 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
(02:12):
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 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
(02:34):
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 this is what it is. He's very clear. Now,
you can deviate off your end of a bargain, but
(02:54):
it don't stop what he says from being true. But
if he asked you to do something, If 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
(03:15):
as you're not doing it the way you're supposed to,
the results are not going to be what you wanted
to be. And I did this for years and years
and years, 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
(03:37):
was going on, and then he made it, made me
aware of the problem, and then man, Lord have mercy.
I was in a 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,
(03:57):
I had to learn something, manlearn 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 in some trouble. Get yourself in a situation. Oh man,
you start looking around. Man, the feeld get real clear
when you're in trouble. The feel clear is out. When
(04:20):
you're in doubt, when you don't know what to do,
when you need help it get real clear on the
play and field, then, don't it. Ah. But when things
is going right, it's time for a party. We throwing
a celebration. We gonna We're gonna do one down here.
Oh man, there's plenty of people on the field. But
but get yourself in a situation. You find out rather
(04:40):
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 where it counts the most.
Now is that to say that there are people that
you can't trust. No, that's not what I'm saying. I
(05:02):
ain't say you can't trust it, but you can't dump
your faith in them. I got it all riding on
what he say. I got it all riding on what
she say. 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
(05:24):
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.
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
(05:46):
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
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
(06:09):
was the only one, was the only one who was
just right there, right there, all the way through. Now,
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
(06:30):
a situation, you understand. But what He will do is
protect you during that period. He'll cover you during that
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
(06:50):
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,
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
(07:11):
some people I thought were friends of mine just sort
of casually remove themselves from the situation. Then I said, okay.
Me and Marjorie looked around and 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,
(07:33):
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 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
(07:55):
does count the most, it really really does. You're listening
to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, come on, dig me now. One and
only Steve Harley got ready on the show. I was
had my head down and I was thinking of what
I wanted to say this morning. But it kind of, uh,
(00:25):
it's kind of be something.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I've lived for a long time, and you know, for
a long time, you know, I had a lot of
faith in people. You know. 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 knowing, uh, scriptures
and things like that. Not not a lot of them,
(00:47):
but you know, the ones I retained. But having her
as a mother was was a huge help and understand
about faith. But even 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
(01:07):
this person, or if I could just sit down with
that person, or man if I could just get this
person to hear my ideal, or 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. I was, like everybody else, I thought that way.
You know, I actually thought that if I could get
(01:29):
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
you out there possibly have felt that way before? You know,
(01:51):
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. You know. 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
(02:12):
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 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
(02:34):
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 this is what it is. He's very clear. Now,
you can deviate off your end of a bargain, but
(02:54):
it don't stop what he says from being true. But
if he asked you to do something, If 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
(03:15):
as you're not doing it the way you're supposed to,
the results are not going to be what you wanted
to be. And I did this for years and years
and years, 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
(03:37):
was going on, and then he made it, made me
aware of the problem, and then man, Lord have mercy.
I was in a 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,
(03:57):
I had to learn something, manlearn 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 in some trouble. Get yourself in a situation. Oh man,
you start looking around. Man, the feeld get real clear
when you're in trouble. The feel clear is out. When
(04:20):
you're in doubt, when you don't know what to do,
when you need help it get real clear on the
play and field, then, don't it. Ah. But when things
is going right, it's time for a party. We throwing
a celebration. We gonna We're gonna do one down here.
Oh man, there's plenty of people on the field. But
but get yourself in a situation. You find out rather
(04:40):
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 where it counts the most.
Now is that to say that there are people that
you can't trust. No, that's not what I'm saying. I
(05:02):
ain't say you can't trust it, but you can't dump
your faith in them. I got it all riding on
what he say. I got it all riding on what
she say. 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
(05:24):
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.
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
(05:46):
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
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
(06:09):
was the only one, was the only one who was
just right there, right there, all the way through. Now,
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
(06:30):
a situation, you understand. But what He will do is
protect you during that period. He'll cover you during that
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
(06:50):
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,
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
(07:11):
some people I thought were friends of mine just sort
of casually remove themselves from the situation. Then I said, okay.
Me and Marjorie looked around and 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,
(07:33):
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 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
(07:55):
does count the most, it really really does. You're listening
to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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