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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on. Uh-huh. I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, good morning, everybody. You're listening to The Voice. Come on,
dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey. Got a
radio show. I've been saying it like that since I
got it, too.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I got a good one for you today. Yesterday, the
other day, I was talking to you about the most
effective weapon available to us as human beings, I think,
is prayer. I think prayer... Helps us in so many ways.
But right now, what I want to do is I
want to show you how prayer pays off.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I want to show you what good it can do
for you. Even me. I use it every day. And
the days I don't use it, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know, the days that I go, you know, without
talking to him as much, I notice it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I feel it. I feel a certain kind of way.
You know, that.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Doubt starts slipping in again. That uneasy feeling of uncertainty
slips in again. That wondering what I'm going to do
starts slipping in again. It happens to me. It happens
to everybody, man, I think. I really, really do. You know,
people would just keep it real with each other. Stop
being this Christian, this Superman, because you ain't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You ain't. There's a scripture that says there's none perfect. No,
not one. That's everybody. That covers all of us, don't it?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So sometimes I think we're a little too hard on
each other with that, too, seeing as how we're not perfect.
We immediately want to just, oh, man, you just want
to kill when we find somebody do something wrong. It's
better if we go public. Everything go public now because
of social media. But anyway, I just want to talk
to you about how prayer pays off. It's called ROI
(01:50):
in money. People got money, call it ROI, so return
on investment. People are always looking for a return on investment.
You know, nobody in business really gives you money without
understanding the return on investment. They don't even give monies
to charities unless they think it can do something with
the bottom line. A lot of companies work like that.
(02:12):
I found that out myself. Sad, but it is true.
So since everything is expected to work on a return
on investment, I assume because we're human beings. So since
we are human beings, whether you're in business or not,
you're still in the business of living. I think when
you pray, you should expect a return on your investment.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You talked to him.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You spent time opening up to him. You bowed your
head to him. You humbled yourself. You got on your knees.
I mean, but really, we're talking God here. So really,
what you're doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you.
The little bit that you do do on his behalf,
it just pales in comparison with what he does. But
(02:58):
let's just say you want to call yourself invested. Well,
let me show you how it pays off. This is because, see,
for me, this is for me now. Prayer pays off
in different ways. That's what I had to learn. See,
I was praying, but I was asking him specifically for
what I wanted. I had the audacity, though, to turn
around and tell him how to do what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's amazing, man.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I can't tell you how many blessings I blocked coming
my way by putting my faith in what I said
I wanted and how I wanted him to do it.
I want you to give me this. I want that
person to go away. I want this person to accept
everything you say. Then I want to go over here
and I want this deal to happen like this. And
(03:43):
I want that person to just step aside and let
me through. And then I had it mapped out. God
must have been chuckling really hard. He had to be going, boy,
I made you to be funny, but boy, you funny now.
So you're going to tell me how to do it.
And you've all heard this right here. If you want
to make God laugh, tell him your plan. Well, that's
(04:04):
what I did. And that's how we pray a lot
of times. We pray and we pray in the prayer.
We're telling him how to work it out. Well, here's
the deal. This is what I've learned. Prayer pays off
in different ways. There's a different return of my investment
when I pray. See, sometimes when I'm praying for something,
(04:25):
a situation to dissolve itself or go away, sometimes I
get courage out of the prayer. Prayer provides me courage.
That's just to go on and look at it, I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Face it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Then sometimes when I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer
gives me hanging power. Sometimes, man, it just I look
up and I'm just handling it better. Sometimes prayer gives
you laugh it off power. Sometimes, man, you just got
to laugh it off. Whatever, man, you trip it. Do
(05:06):
you know what that is? If you could do that?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You know, sometimes it gives you a show of strength, power.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Sometimes prayer allows you to have the appearance that you
got it all together. Nobody got to know the whirlwind,
the tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life. You
standing over there like the eye of the hurricane. And
it's all swirling around you, but you standing there like
the eye. You just as calm. That's what prayer does.
(05:37):
So when you pray, man, It builds up a lot
of things in you. You know what it's done for me?
Prayer has built up character in me. It's made me
have more character because I'm able to stand stronger on
the things I say because I've been praying. Because I've
been asking God for all of those return of investments.
(05:57):
I've been asking God for courage. I've been asking God
for hanging that power. I've been asking him to give
me the power to walk away. I've asked him to
give me ignored power. I've asked him to help me
laugh it off. I've asked him to show me strength.
But you know what I was doing? I was really praying,
not really for them things, be real with you. I
was asking him to help me. Lord, help me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You ever done that? You ever asked God for help
and then all of a sudden a list of these
things show up?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
See, sometimes how you want the problem to be solved
ain't the best way. There's a lesson to be learned
when we make mistakes. And sometimes you got to stay
in that fire and you got to learn that lesson.
But guess what, though? When you come out of it,
you're going to be better for it. You're going to
know more about it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Come on, y'all. Pray. He's solid. His word is true.
It lasts forever.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He do what he say he going to do now
all day, all night. 24 seven. He do it all day,
all night. And then some more. His word don't ever change.
It's true. It works for me. It worked for you.
It worked for Jake's. It worked for old steam. It
worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula white. It
(07:07):
worked for Billy Graham. It worked for mother Teresa. It
worked for Gandhi. It worked for princes, Arabs. It worked, man.
It worked for you. What you waiting for? Why don't
you put prayer in your game? Watch what happened to you.
You sitting in that jail cell and you struggling with
it and they telling you blood in blood out. You
(07:29):
can't get in you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's foolishness, man. What you mean? God can get you
out of anything.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Look, man, if you done read your Bible, he done
got some people out in some sticky situations. I don't
know what you're talking about. If Daniel was in the
lion's den and Jonah was in the belly of the whale,
what you talking about? You just sitting in a cell
with some dudes around you talking about what they going
to do. Man, you got to be real. God can't
nothing do nothing. Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you.
God won't give you the strength to handle. Prayer changes things, man.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on. Uh-huh. I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, good morning, everybody. You're listening to The Voice. Come on,
dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey. Got a
radio show. I've been saying it like that since I
got it, too.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I got a good one for you today. Yesterday, the
other day, I was talking to you about the most
effective weapon available to us as human beings, I think,
is prayer. I think prayer... Helps us in so many ways.
But right now, what I want to do is I
want to show you how prayer pays off.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I want to show you what good it can do
for you. Even me. I use it every day. And
the days I don't use it, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know, the days that I go, you know, without
talking to him as much, I notice it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I feel it. I feel a certain kind of way.
You know, that.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Doubt starts slipping in again. That uneasy feeling of uncertainty
slips in again. That wondering what I'm going to do
starts slipping in again. It happens to me. It happens
to everybody, man, I think. I really, really do. You know,
people would just keep it real with each other. Stop
being this Christian, this Superman, because you ain't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You ain't. There's a scripture that says there's none perfect. No,
not one. That's everybody. That covers all of us, don't it?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So sometimes I think we're a little too hard on
each other with that, too, seeing as how we're not perfect.
We immediately want to just, oh, man, you just want
to kill when we find somebody do something wrong. It's
better if we go public. Everything go public now because
of social media. But anyway, I just want to talk
to you about how prayer pays off. It's called ROI
(01:50):
in money. People got money, call it ROI, so return
on investment. People are always looking for a return on investment.
You know, nobody in business really gives you money without
understanding the return on investment. They don't even give monies
to charities unless they think it can do something with
the bottom line. A lot of companies work like that.
(02:12):
I found that out myself. Sad, but it is true.
So since everything is expected to work on a return
on investment, I assume because we're human beings. So since
we are human beings, whether you're in business or not,
you're still in the business of living. I think when
you pray, you should expect a return on your investment.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You talked to him.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You spent time opening up to him. You bowed your
head to him. You humbled yourself. You got on your knees.
I mean, but really, we're talking God here. So really,
what you're doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you.
The little bit that you do do on his behalf,
it just pales in comparison with what he does. But
(02:58):
let's just say you want to call yourself invested. Well,
let me show you how it pays off. This is because, see,
for me, this is for me now. Prayer pays off
in different ways. That's what I had to learn. See,
I was praying, but I was asking him specifically for
what I wanted. I had the audacity, though, to turn
around and tell him how to do what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's amazing, man.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I can't tell you how many blessings I blocked coming
my way by putting my faith in what I said
I wanted and how I wanted him to do it.
I want you to give me this. I want that
person to go away. I want this person to accept
everything you say. Then I want to go over here
and I want this deal to happen like this. And
(03:43):
I want that person to just step aside and let
me through. And then I had it mapped out. God
must have been chuckling really hard. He had to be going, boy,
I made you to be funny, but boy, you funny now.
So you're going to tell me how to do it.
And you've all heard this right here. If you want
to make God laugh, tell him your plan. Well, that's
(04:04):
what I did. And that's how we pray a lot
of times. We pray and we pray in the prayer.
We're telling him how to work it out. Well, here's
the deal. This is what I've learned. Prayer pays off
in different ways. There's a different return of my investment
when I pray. See, sometimes when I'm praying for something,
(04:25):
a situation to dissolve itself or go away, sometimes I
get courage out of the prayer. Prayer provides me courage.
That's just to go on and look at it, I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Face it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Then sometimes when I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer
gives me hanging power. Sometimes, man, it just I look
up and I'm just handling it better. Sometimes prayer gives
you laugh it off power. Sometimes, man, you just got
to laugh it off. Whatever, man, you trip it. Do
(05:06):
you know what that is? If you could do that?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You know, sometimes it gives you a show of strength, power.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Sometimes prayer allows you to have the appearance that you
got it all together. Nobody got to know the whirlwind,
the tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life. You
standing over there like the eye of the hurricane. And
it's all swirling around you, but you standing there like
the eye. You just as calm. That's what prayer does.
(05:37):
So when you pray, man, It builds up a lot
of things in you. You know what it's done for me?
Prayer has built up character in me. It's made me
have more character because I'm able to stand stronger on
the things I say because I've been praying. Because I've
been asking God for all of those return of investments.
(05:57):
I've been asking God for courage. I've been asking God
for hanging that power. I've been asking him to give
me the power to walk away. I've asked him to
give me ignored power. I've asked him to help me
laugh it off. I've asked him to show me strength.
But you know what I was doing? I was really praying,
not really for them things, be real with you. I
was asking him to help me. Lord, help me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You ever done that? You ever asked God for help
and then all of a sudden a list of these
things show up?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
See, sometimes how you want the problem to be solved
ain't the best way. There's a lesson to be learned
when we make mistakes. And sometimes you got to stay
in that fire and you got to learn that lesson.
But guess what, though? When you come out of it,
you're going to be better for it. You're going to
know more about it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Come on, y'all. Pray. He's solid. His word is true.
It lasts forever.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He do what he say he going to do now
all day, all night. 24 seven. He do it all day,
all night. And then some more. His word don't ever change.
It's true. It works for me. It worked for you.
It worked for Jake's. It worked for old steam. It
worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula white. It
(07:07):
worked for Billy Graham. It worked for mother Teresa. It
worked for Gandhi. It worked for princes, Arabs. It worked, man.
It worked for you. What you waiting for? Why don't
you put prayer in your game? Watch what happened to you.
You sitting in that jail cell and you struggling with
it and they telling you blood in blood out. You
(07:29):
can't get in you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's foolishness, man. What you mean? God can get you
out of anything.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Look, man, if you done read your Bible, he done
got some people out in some sticky situations. I don't
know what you're talking about. If Daniel was in the
lion's den and Jonah was in the belly of the whale,
what you talking about? You just sitting in a cell
with some dudes around you talking about what they going
to do. Man, you got to be real. God can't
nothing do nothing. Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you.
God won't give you the strength to handle. Prayer changes things, man.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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