Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 9.7.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on. Uh-huh. I sure will. Good morning, everybody. You
are listening to The Voice. Come on, dig me now.
One and only Steve Harvey. Got a radio show. Man,
one more time. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah,
I do, man. I thank God for it every day.

(00:20):
You know, um, my message this morning, man, is real clear.
It's something that's been on me to share. And, um,
It's amazing, you know. God can do some amazing things
for you. But what happens along the way is, and

(00:43):
I don't know that I mean to say but, but
the fact that God can do some amazing things for you,
there comes adversity along with it. Every single time. It
just goes without saying. And I was having a fairly,

(01:06):
I mean, well, not fairly, but a hugely successful week.
I had never seen this type of hatred before. I
hadn't seen it. And it's a great trick that the
devil does, you know, when God is blessing you and
giving you Some of some some great opportunities in your life,

(01:26):
as all of you have gone through. And it is
isn't it amazing how some negative thing crops up and
that's what you have to focus on. I found out
that I don't have to, but you wind up focusing
on it and your energy goes over to that to
try to deal with it, counteract, wonder why it was happening.
You got to make phone calls. What was this about? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

(01:50):
And it throws you off the course you are on.
The beginning of the week, I was so grateful. I
was so amazed. I was really thanking God for opportunity.
For this brief moment, the enemy slides this This little
factor in that it causes you to, and it requires

(02:10):
your attention. You have to pay attention because you don't know.
You're going, wow, man, let me see what this could
really be. How much dirt is this really that they're
trying to do? And so it requires your attention. But
in that attention, you lose your focus on really all
the blessings and the good thing that God does for you.

(02:31):
The enemy has an amazing trick that he does that.
And it was, and it was in my head. I
got to tell y'all all week long, man. And I
was doing some amazing stuff. I was having such a
blessed week, man, in terms of press and PR and
where God was taking me. And then when I got back,
I was talking with my wife and then I was

(02:54):
talking to a good friend of ours and they shared something.
That really helped me out. And they said to me,
new level, new devil. You know, it's something really simple.
But new level, new devil. Every time you go to

(03:15):
another level, every time you go a little bit higher.
Every time God has a blessing in store for you,
every time he moves you in position, do you understand
that the enemy's job is to make you not see
the blessing, make you not be grateful for it, lose
your focus and focus on this that I just threw

(03:38):
in your way, this stumbling block, this obstacle, this trickery.
And man, I was, I was, I got, I just
got to tell you, man, I mean, it was so
filled with hatred. I really spent some time addressing it.
I got publicists on the phone. I said, what's happening here?
Y'all not watching this? What was this attack? You didn't

(04:00):
know these angles? And, you know, Steve, chill. New level,
new devil. If you get a promotion on your job,
guess what? Somebody ain't happy that you got the promotion.
So here come the hate. You don't even really know
these people. You have no idea. Every time you make

(04:22):
a decision to make your relationship with your spouse better, man,
this is it. You know what I'm going to start doing?
I'm going to do this, man, so me and my
girl can go on and have this, or me and
my man can go on and have this. Watch what happens.
Every single time, here comes the new level, the new devil,
the trick. You don't need to do that. What you

(04:44):
doing that for her? She don't appreciate it. He ain't
gonna appreciate it. Look over here, man. Look at that
right there. Ain't he not? You know, he missed. He
didn't call you. And he said, there's all types of stuff.
It just happens all the time. And I was sitting
here talking with this friend, really good friend, very spiritual person.
And they said, you know something, Steve, you know, I
was talking to Jesus and said, I was having this

(05:06):
conversation with Christ. And I said, God, for real? You
mean to tell me every time that something good happens
to me? You mean every time I try to go
to the next level, every time you put me on
the next level, you mean to tell me that I
got to go through this right here? Are you for real?

(05:29):
And then my friend said, Jesus said to her, they
did it to me. And we just fell out laughing.
They did it to me. They did it to him.
They did it to him for him to go to
the next level. And, you know, I was just I
was just going over the whole story about the crucifixion

(05:50):
and everything. That had to be amazing, man. Of all
the hate he had endured, all the prosecuting he had
do it. They thought ultimately what we'll do is we'll
nail him on a cross and crucify him. And that'll
be the end of him. And we'll put him in
this tune and we'll put this big stone up there
and that'll be the end of him. But what they

(06:10):
did not know was all you was doing was setting
the tone for the next level because eventually the stone
got rolled away and he went and got placed with
his father where he was headed to. Anyway, he ultimately
knew that his ultimate goal was to get to his father. So,

(06:31):
When you thought you were doing what you were doing
to him and you put him in a tune and
you put the big stone up in there and the
stone got rolled away and he went eventually to where
he was trying to get to. That story is in
place for all of us to remember that when we

(06:53):
are going through some things, could it be because we
are going to a place? You know, it could be
just a place in life. It could be just a
different level in life. That's all it has to be.
But there's going to be the adversarial challenges that come
with it. And those are the moments we must expect

(07:15):
and take them head on and still not lose your
focus or appreciation for what God has done for you.
So in light of all of that, I'm able to
say today that I thank my Heavenly Father. I really
do for all the blessings He's bestowed upon me. And
all of the haters and all of the liars and
all of the backstabbers and all those people. When you

(07:37):
get through lying, when you get through stabbing, when you
get through gossiping and doing what you do. I'm still
going to the next level. I'm still going. You cannot
stop what God has in store for you. No one

(07:58):
can stop that. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.