Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 9.2.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on uh-huh i sure will good morning everybody you're
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Boy oh boy oh boy i can't even tell you
man um i've been doing some thinking and um And
one of the things that I wanted to mention today
to you as one of the principles of success, being
grateful at all times is difficult to do. Being grateful

(00:41):
at all times is very difficult to do. I find
that to be true with myself. Now, there are others
that might be able to do it, but I, just
from talking and listening and living and learning, being grateful
at all times is difficult to do, but it's necessary

(01:03):
because it's such an act of faith in knowing that
no matter what's going on, it's going to be all right.
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

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only one in the situation where you're involved with other
people or someone got an accusation against you falsely or
somebody 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

(01:46):
horribly one-sided. So it is difficult. It is hard to do,
to be grateful at all times, but it's so necessary.
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

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circumstances oftentimes is just so pressing and so overwhelming that
a lot of your energy is devoted to trying to
come up with the solution for that. or trying to
muster the strength to weather the storm, or trying to
just brace yourself to try to get through it. And
in doing that, it's hard to be grateful. It's hard

(02:33):
to be grateful in pain. And I know it is.
But here is the trick for me. This is what
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

(02:53):
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
me because it's some form of test that I have
to pass in order to graduate to the next grade.
in order to be allowed to move to the next level.

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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 you purge something, it's painful.
You know, it's like a person getting off drugs. The
withdrawal is painful. agonizing i've been told and every documentary

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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 so i know that this
process is tough when you're going through some pain but
when you're purging your system when you're having to pass

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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 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 going to keep trying until
I get it. But that's where you find the gratitude.

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The second part of it is, is that God has
never left me 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

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of other people, not doing it deliberately or in a
vindictive way. Cause 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.

(05:14):
I mean, can I just be real with you with that?
I mean, how many times we done all done that? Look,
it doesn't, you don't make you a bad person. You know,
the good people do bad things all the time. I
just happened to have come to the realization that unknowingly,
And not with malice intent towards a person. I've heard

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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 beyond that.

(06:00):
So what I'm saying is 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, hasn't he? Now,
it may not be the way you want it or
the way you like. But guess what? You can't do

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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 he?
You know, eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever

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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 going to 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

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know you weren'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 going to do. I'm going
to fire a 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. Yeah, well, see,

(07:25):
you done dug this hole pretty deep. And he going
to get you out. But there'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 going
to 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

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up again. He always gives us mercy. He always gives
us his grace. He always does that. You're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.