Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 8.26.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on. Uh-huh. I sure will. Good morning, everybody. Y'all
listening to The Voice. Come on, dig me now. One
and only Steve Harvey. Got a radio show. Here we
go today. I think I have something for a lot
of people today. At least I hope I do. And

(00:21):
this is about on your journey. And this is about
something that happens to us all. I mean, what happens
to all of us from time to time when we
get discouraged? What happens to all of us when we
feel like quitting? What happens to all of us when

(00:42):
we have that turn back moment? What happens to all
of us when it don't seem like it's going to
pan out? Because I want you to understand something that everyone,
every single living soul has those thoughts about something at
some point in their life. I mean, you know, look,

(01:05):
I've oftentimes been discouraged about things not happening as fast
as I'd like them or things don't pan out the
way I would like for them to have panned out.
I mean, it's so many times. to get discouraged. But
what my encouragement to you is when discouragement comes is

(01:30):
understand this. It is a part of the growth process.
It is a test. It is a test of your faith.
How bad you want it. Do you really believe? That's

(01:51):
all faith is, is simply, and I've said this how
many times, faith is the belief in things that you
cannot see. So when discouragement comes, setbacks comes, it is
a test of your faith. At least it's been that
way for me. Now, other people can explain it another way.
I'm not other people. I can only give it to

(02:11):
you the way it's come to me and throughout my life.
And man, oh man, oh man, discouragement sometimes is tough
to deal with. Because it seems at times when you
are discouraged, that is so absolute that this means the end.

(02:32):
And if you allow it to set in, it can
be just that the end of you when merely, merely
it was a test. That's all it is. But the
majority of people that I know who are not successful,
or who have told me the story of how they
gave up, it was because at a moment of discouragement

(02:57):
that they allowed it to set in, and it became
so engulfing that it became the reason why you shouldn't finish.
And then they started justifying it with, here's the one
that I hate to hear. Well, if it's God's will,
excuse me, if it's God's will that you fail, If

(03:18):
it's God's will that you're not successful, if it's God's
will that you lay down and give up, it's God's
will that you allow yourself to amount to not to
not reach your potential. That's God's will. That's not the
God I know. That's not the God I serve. That's

(03:40):
not the God I've read about. That's not the God
I believe in. I'm sorry. I just my mother always
taught me something that he didn't bring me this far
to leave me. I just don't believe that. Not for
a second. Now, have I convinced myself of some things? Yep.

(04:01):
Have I allowed the devil to come into the picture
and paint a different one for me? Yep. Yep. I've
done all of that. But you can't blame that on God. Now,
come on. So. When discouragement comes, try to look at it,
if you can, as a test of your faith. And

(04:23):
you merely have to pass the test. It could be
for a day, a half a day, a few hours,
a week, a few weeks. It don't matter. Don't nobody
know how long the test period is. Your job is
to keep the faith and keep moving. Keep the faith
and keep moving. Keep working. Keep believing. Keep hope alive.

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That's your job. If you do that, that's how you
pass the test. It could be over tomorrow. It could
be over in two weeks. It could be over in
a month. You don't know. But all you got to
do is wake up and keep the faith and fight
the discouraging feelings. And how do you do that, Steve? Now,
here we go. This is the part I know about

(05:05):
for sure, because how many times I've had to fight
off discouragement. in order to get to where God wanted
me to be. What do you do when you become discouraged? Well,
I think of the outcome. When I get discouraged about
a task, I think about the outcome. Man, what would

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it be like if I were to complete the task?
What would it be like, man? What would the outcome
be for me if I hung on in there, if
I didn't give up? If I imagine I imagine if
I don't quit, I imagine if I don't give up,
what would it be like? Man, suppose everything I'm hoping

(05:52):
for comes true. But if I don't quit and give up,
that might just be the case. I start talking to
myself like that. I think of what the upside is.
What's the upside to staying with it? You see, all
this is the same thing. I'm just giving you different
ways to look at it. I'm saying the exact same

(06:12):
thing over and over, but I'm just trying to find
a switch that connects in your mind where you can say, okay, man,
I'm going to hang in there. Because if you think
of the outcome and the outcome is appealing to you,
if you imagine what it would be like if you
don't give up or you don't quit, if you think
only of what the upside is to stay in with it.

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And then I go, where can this lead to? If
I stay with it, man, and the outcome comes true,
where else could that lead me to? Because I mean,
there's always more to it. So where else could this
lead me to? What are the possibilities, man? What are

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the limitless possibilities? What could God possibly have in store
for me? If I just hang in there, if I
pass this test of faith, if I just pass this test,
that ain't going to be the only one. But you
got to get past this one. No. Then you go
hit a smooth plane. Then it's going to be another one.
It's going to be another one. Life ain't nothing but

(07:18):
a series of tests, man. Man, when you're thinking about
giving up, when you're discouraged, think of the outcome. Imagine
what it would be like if you don't quit, if
you don't give up. What's the upside to staying with it?
Where can this all lead to? What can this get
you to? If you do this and you get to

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where you think you want to be, oh, my God,
what's after that? What are the limitless and endless possibilities
of holding on to your faith? What could really be
out there for me, man, if I just passed this test?
You've got to talk yourself into hanging in there. You're
listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.