April 24, 2024 • 10 mins
Being grateful at all times is an effective way to be positive. Gratitude is the attitude that affects your altitude.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Y'all don't know y'all after all, so.
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Don't given them all.
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Black a million bus bussy?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh yeah, listening to show, I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Joy, Yah yeah, joy, you.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Don't you love? You gotta turn. I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
To turn the mouth. Turn you probably got to turn
the mouth. Moun a word the money up? Come come out?
You think that?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Uh huh, I sure will come on and everybody you
are listening to the voice, Oh come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show,
borl bor Oh boy, I can't even tell you man.
I've been doing some thinking and and one of the
(02:23):
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 at all times
is very difficult to do. I find that to be
(02:46):
true with myself. Now there are others that might be
able to do it, but just from talking and listening
and living and learning, being grateful at all times is
difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Because it's such an act of faith in knowing that
no matter what's going on, it's going to be alright,
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
(03:24):
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 horribly
(03:45):
one sided. So it is difficult. It's 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 circumstances.
(04:09):
Oftentimes it's 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 whether the storm, or trying to just
brace yourself to try to get through it, and in
doing that, you don't It's hard to be grateful. It's
(04:31):
hard 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
(04:52):
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 tests that I have
to pass in order to graduate to the next grade,
and that in order to be allowed to move to
(05:13):
the next level. 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 it's painful, you know, It's like
a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've
(05:36):
been told and every documentary 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.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And so I know that this.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Process is tough when you're going through some pain, But
when you're purging your system, when you when you're having
to pass 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
(06:14):
where you find the gratitude. That's where I found the gratitude.
I hope I'm explaining this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying
until I get it. But that's where you find the gratitude.
The second part of it is is that God has
never left me in all the things I've done, in
(06:35):
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
of other people, not doing it deliberately or in a
(06:56):
vindictive way, because I've never had that spirit. I'm not
a thingtive 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. I mean, can I just be real with
you with that? I mean, how many times we'dne all
(07:16):
done that? Look, it doesn't it don't make you a
bad person, you know, good people do bad things all
the time. I just happened to have come to the
realization that unknowingly and and not and not with malice
intent towards a person, I've hurt people looking at something
(07:40):
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. So what I'm saying, God
(08:00):
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 has any Now that may not be the way
you want it or the way you liked, but guess what,
you can't do wrong and not pay for that. Now
(08:22):
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 it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever 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 gonna 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 weren't supposed to.
(09:01):
I know you got with her when you know you
wasn't supposed to. And I know you got with him
when you know you wasn't supposed to. So I tell
you what I'm gonna do. I'm a fire warning shot,
and maybe you'll slow your role this time. But we
keep on though.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
See see, see that's what happens. See we just.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Keep on and then the next thing, you know, we
get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy, I won't out
of this.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well see, you done dug this hole pretty deep and
he gonna get you out. But it'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 gonna
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
(09:49):
up again. He always gives us a mercy. He always
gives us his grace. He always does that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You're listening
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Eating show
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all after all, so.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Don't given them all.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Black a million bus bussy?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh yeah, listening to show, I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Joy, Yah yeah, joy, you.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Don't you love? You gotta turn. I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
To turn the mouth. Turn you probably got to turn
the mouth. Moun a word the money up? Come come out?
You think that?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Uh huh, I sure will come on and everybody you
are listening to the voice, Oh come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show,
borl bor Oh boy, I can't even tell you man.
I've been doing some thinking and and one of the
(02:23):
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 at all times
is very difficult to do. I find that to be
(02:46):
true with myself. Now there are others that might be
able to do it, but just from talking and listening
and living and learning, being grateful at all times is
difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Because it's such an act of faith in knowing that
no matter what's going on, it's going to be alright,
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
(03:24):
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 horribly
(03:45):
one sided. So it is difficult. It's 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 circumstances.
(04:09):
Oftentimes it's 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 whether the storm, or trying to just
brace yourself to try to get through it, and in
doing that, you don't It's hard to be grateful. It's
(04:31):
hard 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
(04:52):
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 tests that I have
to pass in order to graduate to the next grade,
and that in order to be allowed to move to
(05:13):
the next level. 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 it's painful, you know, It's like
a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've
(05:36):
been told and every documentary 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.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And so I know that this.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Process is tough when you're going through some pain, But
when you're purging your system, when you when you're having
to pass 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
(06:14):
where you find the gratitude. That's where I found the gratitude.
I hope I'm explaining this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying
until I get it. But that's where you find the gratitude.
The second part of it is is that God has
never left me in all the things I've done, in
(06:35):
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
of other people, not doing it deliberately or in a
(06:56):
vindictive way, because I've never had that spirit. I'm not
a thingtive 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. I mean, can I just be real with
you with that? I mean, how many times we'dne all
(07:16):
done that? Look, it doesn't it don't make you a
bad person, you know, good people do bad things all
the time. I just happened to have come to the
realization that unknowingly and and not and not with malice
intent towards a person, I've hurt people looking at something
(07:40):
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. So what I'm saying, God
(08:00):
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 has any Now that may not be the way
you want it or the way you liked, but guess what,
you can't do wrong and not pay for that. Now
(08:22):
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 it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever 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 gonna 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 weren't supposed to.
(09:01):
I know you got with her when you know you
wasn't supposed to. And I know you got with him
when you know you wasn't supposed to. So I tell
you what I'm gonna do. I'm a fire warning shot,
and maybe you'll slow your role this time. But we
keep on though.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
See see, see that's what happens. See we just.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Keep on and then the next thing, you know, we
get caught. Now, Oh Lord, have mercy, I won't out
of this.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well see, you done dug this hole pretty deep and
he gonna get you out. But it'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 gonna
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
(09:49):
up again. He always gives us a mercy. He always
gives us his grace. He always does that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You're listening
Speaker 3 (10:00):
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