April 21, 2023 • 7 mins
Prayer changes things straight up! It gives us the ability to talk to God. It works for Steve, why not you. Talk to Your Creator, he'd love to hear from you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will. 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. All right,
got a good one for you today. Yesterday the other day,
I was talking to you about the most effective weapon
(00:21):
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 2 (00:35):
I want to show you what good it can do
for you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Even me, I use it every day, and the days
I don't use it, I feel it that that, you know,
the days that I go, you know, without talking to
him as much, I notice it. I feel it. I
feel a certain kind of way. You know, those that
doubts starts slipping in again, that uneasy feeling of uncertainty
(00:58):
slips in again. That that wondering what I'm gonna do
start slipping in again. Happens to me, happens everybody, man,
I think, I really really do you know, if people
would just keep it real with each other, stop being
this Christian, this superman, because you ain't you. Ain't the
scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one, that's everybody,
(01:23):
that cover all of us, don't it. So sometimes I
think we're a little too hard on each other with
that too, seeing that's how we not perfect, we immediately
want to just just oh man, you just want to
kill when we find somebody do something wrong? Bell if
we go public, everything go public now called social media.
But anyway, I just want to talk to you about
(01:44):
how prayer pays off. It's called it all eye and money.
People got money, call it all eyes. So return on investment.
People always looking for a return on investment. You know, nobody,
nobody in business really gives you money without understanding the
return on investment. They don't even give money to charities
(02:05):
unless they think it can do something with the bottom line.
A lot of companies work like that. I found out
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 still in the
(02:26):
business of living. I think when you pray, you should
expect a return on your investment. You talk to him.
You spend time opening up to him, You bowed your
head to him, you humbled yourself, you got on your knees.
I mean, but really we talking God here, So really
(02:46):
what you doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you.
A little bit that you do do on his behalf,
it just pales in comparison with what he does. But
let's just say you want to call yourself invested, Well,
let me show you how it pays off. This because
see for me, this is for me now, prayer pays
off in different ways. That's what I had to learn. See,
(03:08):
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 2 (03:19):
That's amazing. Man.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I can't tell you how many blessings I block come
in my way by putting my faith in what I
said I want it 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,
(03:41):
and I want that person to just step aside and
let me through and then I want it. I was,
I had it mapped out. God must have been chuckling
really hard.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He had to been good. Boy.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I made you to be funny. But boy, you funny now.
So you're gonna tell me how to do it. And
you've all heard this right here. If you want to
make God laugh me, you plan. Well, that's 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
(04:16):
a different return of my investment when I pray. See,
sometimes when I'm praying for something, 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 face it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Then.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
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 at off power. Sometimes, man, you just got to
laugh at off whatever. Man, you trip it. Do you
(05:04):
know what that is? If you could do that? You know,
sometimes it gives you a show of strength power. Sometimes
prayer allows you to have the appearance that you got
it all together.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Nobody got to know. The world winning.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life, You
standing over that like the eye, the hurricane just and
it's all swelling around you. But you standing there like
the eye, you just as calm. That's what prayer does.
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
(05:44):
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.
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
(06:06):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Things be real with you, I was asking him to
help me, Lord, help me.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You ever done that? You have asked God for help?
And then all of a sudden, the list of these
things show up. 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 gotta learn
that lesson. But guess what, though, when you come out
of it, you're gonna be better for it. You gonna
(06:37):
know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He's solid. His word is true. It lasts forever.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He do what he said he gonna do now, all day,
all night, twenty four seven.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
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.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It worked for Jake's It worked for Oh Steve, It
worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula White, It
worked for Billy Graham, It worked for Mother Teresa, It
worked for Gandhy, It worked for the Princes Arabs. It
worked man, It worked for you. What you're waiting for?
(07:18):
Why don't you put praying 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 can't get in you. That's foolishness, man, What you
mean God can get you out of anything. Look, man,
if you done read your Bible, he'dne got some people
lot some sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about.
If Daniel was in the lions den and Jonah was
(07:40):
in the belly of the what you talking about? Where
you are you just sitting in the cell with some
dudes around. You're talking about what they gonna do. Man,
you gotta be real. God can't nothing to do nothing.
Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give
you the strength to handle. Prayer changes things, man,
Uh huh, I sure will. 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. All right,
got a good one for you today. Yesterday the other day,
I was talking to you about the most effective weapon
(00:21):
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 2 (00:35):
I want to show you what good it can do
for you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Even me, I use it every day, and the days
I don't use it, I feel it that that, you know,
the days that I go, you know, without talking to
him as much, I notice it. I feel it. I
feel a certain kind of way. You know, those that
doubts starts slipping in again, that uneasy feeling of uncertainty
(00:58):
slips in again. That that wondering what I'm gonna do
start slipping in again. Happens to me, happens everybody, man,
I think, I really really do you know, if people
would just keep it real with each other, stop being
this Christian, this superman, because you ain't you. Ain't the
scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one, that's everybody,
(01:23):
that cover all of us, don't it. So sometimes I
think we're a little too hard on each other with
that too, seeing that's how we not perfect, we immediately
want to just just oh man, you just want to
kill when we find somebody do something wrong? Bell if
we go public, everything go public now called social media.
But anyway, I just want to talk to you about
(01:44):
how prayer pays off. It's called it all eye and money.
People got money, call it all eyes. So return on investment.
People always looking for a return on investment. You know, nobody,
nobody in business really gives you money without understanding the
return on investment. They don't even give money to charities
(02:05):
unless they think it can do something with the bottom line.
A lot of companies work like that. I found out
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 still in the
(02:26):
business of living. I think when you pray, you should
expect a return on your investment. You talk to him.
You spend time opening up to him, You bowed your
head to him, you humbled yourself, you got on your knees.
I mean, but really we talking God here, So really
(02:46):
what you doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with you.
A little bit that you do do on his behalf,
it just pales in comparison with what he does. But
let's just say you want to call yourself invested, Well,
let me show you how it pays off. This because
see for me, this is for me now, prayer pays
off in different ways. That's what I had to learn. See,
(03:08):
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 2 (03:19):
That's amazing. Man.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I can't tell you how many blessings I block come
in my way by putting my faith in what I
said I want it 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,
(03:41):
and I want that person to just step aside and
let me through and then I want it. I was,
I had it mapped out. God must have been chuckling
really hard.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He had to been good. Boy.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I made you to be funny. But boy, you funny now.
So you're gonna tell me how to do it. And
you've all heard this right here. If you want to
make God laugh me, you plan. Well, that's 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
(04:16):
a different return of my investment when I pray. See,
sometimes when I'm praying for something, 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 face it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Then.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
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 at off power. Sometimes, man, you just got to
laugh at off whatever. Man, you trip it. Do you
(05:04):
know what that is? If you could do that? You know,
sometimes it gives you a show of strength power. Sometimes
prayer allows you to have the appearance that you got
it all together.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Nobody got to know. The world winning.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life, You
standing over that like the eye, the hurricane just and
it's all swelling around you. But you standing there like
the eye, you just as calm. That's what prayer does.
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
(05:44):
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.
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
(06:06):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Things be real with you, I was asking him to
help me, Lord, help me.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You ever done that? You have asked God for help?
And then all of a sudden, the list of these
things show up. 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 gotta learn
that lesson. But guess what, though, when you come out
of it, you're gonna be better for it. You gonna
(06:37):
know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He's solid. His word is true. It lasts forever.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He do what he said he gonna do now, all day,
all night, twenty four seven.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
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.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It worked for Jake's It worked for Oh Steve, It
worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula White, It
worked for Billy Graham, It worked for Mother Teresa, It
worked for Gandhy, It worked for the Princes Arabs. It
worked man, It worked for you. What you're waiting for?
(07:18):
Why don't you put praying 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 can't get in you. That's foolishness, man, What you
mean God can get you out of anything. Look, man,
if you done read your Bible, he'dne got some people
lot some sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about.
If Daniel was in the lions den and Jonah was
(07:40):
in the belly of the what you talking about? Where
you are you just sitting in the cell with some
dudes around. You're talking about what they gonna do. Man,
you gotta be real. God can't nothing to do nothing.
Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give
you the strength to handle. Prayer changes things, man,
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