There is nothing stopping you from having the best life that you want to have. Go get it.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Y'all know what's y'all don't know y'all at all, So.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Don't give them.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Black all bu bussing boy listening to to.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I don't Joy? Yeah, Joy, you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Know you love you you. You gotta turn.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
To turn the mouth turn, probably got to turn the mouth,
turn the water of the mony upo me, come me
come out.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You think that?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody, y'all listening
to the voice come on dig me now. One and
only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah, I do.
Took me when I said, but I do like I
say always. It just is a constant reminder of how
good God has been. So my question to you is
(02:24):
what's stopping you from having the life that you want?
What's stopping you from having the life that you want?
I know a lot of people who have given up
on achieving the life of their dreams, but I know
they'd still want them if they could get to them.
(02:45):
But they just allowed to settle for so many reasons.
So who I'm talking to is you today? What's really
at the core of stopping you? What is that? Is
it your friends or your associates, Is it the fear
of what you think somebody else will think of you
(03:05):
if you decide to change. Is it what I used
to call the call of the wile? Is it the
fact that you keep thinking that the thing that you're
doing that's providing you these momentary moments of pleasure that
really ain't really good or healthy for you, you don't
want to stop doing that because you've got just a
little bit more something else you want to do. I
(03:27):
call that the call of the while. You know it's
just out there. Them streets is calling you, Them lights
is calling you. You know, them girls is calling you.
Them guys that's on the wrong side keep calling you.
You can't seem to make a decision by the right guy.
You keep picking the wrong guy all the time. What
is it that's stopping you from having the life that
you really want to have? So whatever the reason you're choosing,
(03:51):
that's the reason that's stopping you from having the life
that you want to have. It's no good because at
the end of the day, here's the real See, God
is available, and God is available for all of us,
and God has a plan for all of us, and
God wants the very best for all of us. That's
the truth of the matter. So now what we're gonna
(04:13):
do to get started having that life? First of all,
if it's your friends, I want you to understand something.
Your friends can't save you. A lot of your friends
offer no real help for you. Most of your friends
don't have the answer themselves. I mean, it's just a
wide range of reasons and misery love company. So usually
(04:34):
when your friends are in a bad position, they kind
of like company in that bad position. Your friends ain't
going to church, You're gonna be their friend. They don't
really want you to go to church. You know your
friends don't pray, so why would they offer up prayer
as a solution to you. You know, your friends don't
really really get the fact that if you treat people better,
(04:59):
people would treat you you better. So what's that? So
your friends are a lot of times the reasons, you know,
to peer pressure of what and then the thought in
your mind of what they gonna think once they find
out I don't do what they do anymore. Who cares
what they think other than you? I mean, really, you
(05:19):
can't let what somebody thinks of you stop you from
having the best life you wanted to have. If I
went by that theory right there, wouldn't I wouldn't even
be on this mic this morning. I would have never
become a stand up I would had I listened to
the people around me who clearly told me when I
quit my job to pursue this, boy, don't you quit
(05:40):
your job? You got a family, Boy, don't you do this.
You ain't got no bit that, ain't no security in that.
Get yourself a job. Go down here, and what's your brothers?
Go to work over here?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Go to I heard all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I didn't let that stop me from pursuing this. Why
would you allow that to stop you from pursuing relationship
with God so you can have the best life you
could possibly have. You gang bang because they've convinced you
that this is the family situation and love that you
don't have, and they've convinced you that this is your
only way, your only source of getting over and then
(06:17):
you drum up these ignorant reasons mans for staying with it.
But they sound so good when you listening to everybody
else you surrounded by telling you why we gang banging,
why we holding this block down, why we slanging this
thing here right here? Why we letting it go like
this here, you keep listening to them when all in
(06:39):
your heart of hearts, you know this's ain't right. You
already know, but you allow that form of the call
of the wile that wanting to be accepted by a
group of people who trying to get you to accept
the way, so you con further they progress to even
prove that you're worthy to be around them, You got
to commit some type of crime to even prove that
(07:01):
you're worthy to be around them. Then when you get
busted on the crime, what happens to that where your
family are Now they don't come down there to see
you because guess what, they can't turn in They idea
to desk at a law enforcement center, So now your
homies can't come visit you. And then you know your
family back out here, they ain't taking care of your
family because it's all about them. Then you learn that
(07:24):
what is it that's stopping you from having the life
that you always wanted to have?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Why are you a repeat offender? Why do you keep
checking yourself back into that institution?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Why?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Man, why won't you get it together? Why won't you
give God a try? Why won't you disassociate yourself. Why
would you continue to be a part of a revolving
door system and becoming a farm system for these institutions
that ain't got nothing for you? But you keep going
back in there. And then every time you go in there,
and now your little homies or your gang bank, little
(08:00):
little silly little friends try to make you think that's
a badge of honor. There ain't no badge of honor. Man,
that's one mold. What's one mode scratch on that record?
That's one mode. That's one more nail in that coffin.
That's one step closer to that third strike where you
ain't gonna ever get out. It's one step closer to
that graveyard you keep on. Why would you not give
(08:22):
God a try? Why would you not go and see
what your life could really be? What is it that's
stopping you? Because see, I got news for you. There's
nothing like waking up free. I don't care who you are.
There's nothing like waking up with the joy in your heart. Now,
if you ain't gonna be free, get the joy in
your heart, the satisfaction of knowing that you're accomplishing something
(08:46):
with your life. Help somebody behind them balls get in
the program, show these young cats when they come in
a better way. But don't you dash sit there, man
and just ride it out, and man, just go and
get the is life that you can have. What you know,
what it feels like to wake up and be on
your way somewhere knowing that you have something to accomplish,
(09:08):
that you can change somebody, that you can stop somebody
from going down the roads you went down. It's a
whole lot of ways to make your life better. But
why would you not go and have the best life
you can have? What is that's stopping you? Really?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Really?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So you think that Satan really has your best interest
at heart, That the little thing your mama kept telling
you about praying you wasn't listening, was you. But you know,
it ain't ever too late to get back to that.
It ain't ever too late to turn around, It ain't
ever too late to get your life together, it ain't
ever too late to seek God, and it ain't ever
too late to pray. Don't forget to pray, don't be
(09:47):
ashamed to pray, and don't be too proud to pray,
because prayer changes things. Prayer change people too. I'm a
witness to.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
That you're listening
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Morning show
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