May 28, 2024 • 10 mins
Prayer changes things. Hoping is the beginning. Turn hope into belief and belief into faith. Hope helps.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Y'all know what y'all don't know y'all at all, So
don't given them black a million.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Bus buss boozy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Listening to show, I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Joy, Yeah, Joy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You got to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You gotta turn well, I can't to turn the mouth.
(01:42):
Turn you probably got to turn the mouth, turn out
the water the way up. Come come on, you'll think that.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Uh huh, I sure will come on to everybody you
are listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
One and only.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Steve Harvey, Oh yeah, man, got a radio show. Do
you understand that. I'm telling you. God been big in
my life. I'm not gonna kid you. I'm telling you,
and He'll do the same thing for you. God God
is a gentleman, you know. I want to I want
to point that out to you. God is an absolute gentleman.
(02:30):
He will not come in unless he's invited. He don't
just barge into your life. He gives us the power
of choice. You know, if you say you got it,
I don't need you, he lets you have it. If
you say I need you, come see about me. He
right there. It's just a real simple thing. Man. So
(02:54):
always say to people this if you've gotten yourself into something,
please know I have. I I was stuck. I thought
a couple of times, well might not make it past
this one. But then if I don't make it past it,
what's gonna happen? And then I held on to this
(03:18):
little thing that my mother kept talking to me about.
She said, sometimes some when you ain't got nothing else
in you, just hope, she said, just hope it'll be
all right, you know. And what I've learned in my
life is that hope is the beginning of faith. Hope
is just is their possibility out there for me. I
(03:41):
show hope, something happened. See hope, Hope is okay, man,
Because like I say, for me, the way I've lived
my life, hope was the beginning of faith. It was
just the idea. It's just the thought that something could
change for me, that something could be a little bit
different from me, that maybe, man, just maybe for some reason,
(04:06):
I could be saved, I could be rescued. Things could
turn around, it could hit any other direction. Maybe I
could quit messing up. Maybe somebody will forgive me, Maybe
somebody will will just say all right. I don't know,
but I can't count the times I've been in that position.
But then once I hope a little bit, and then
(04:27):
I remember also my mother, because she was a Sunday
school teacher, she taught me the most valuable lesson I've
ever learned in my life. Nothing has been greater in
my life than my faith. She taught me to pray.
Mama used to say, when it get real, dog for
your son, prayer change is things, she said. When you
seem like you lost and you can't find your way,
(04:49):
stop and pray, she said, because prayer change is things.
You know, when you get a point in your life
when you've done all you can do and you can't
do no more, and you just don't know what to
do next, she says, stop, son, pray and combine that
prayer with that hope that you got, she said, because
(05:10):
that hope is to beginning of faith. She said. If
you pray just hoping, she's saying, to God come through
for you. That'll give you confidence that he can do
it again. And then after a while, you quit hoping,
she's saying, you start believing. She saying, that's when you're
on to something. If you can turn that hope into belief,
(05:30):
that hope into faith, the ability to believe in something
that you can't see. But the key though the faith
is you're believing in something that you can't see. See
hoping a little bit different from me Now, I'm pretty sure,
Like I say oftentimes to tell a lot of people
who can explain this thing a lot better than I
can to you, but just from my side of it,
(05:53):
being as real as I can be rich you See,
hope helps. Man. If you ain't strong enough to have faith,
have hope, and then if you pray with some hope
and God answers your prayer, then that hope gains a
little confidence and after a while that confidence becomes faith.
Now theyin't just hoping, but I'm believing. I'm believing in
(06:16):
something that I cannot see. Faith has been the key
to my entire existence, even when I didn't have any
It was faith, as I look back on it, that
has gotten me here, and not just faith, but my faith. See,
(06:37):
you will only get to where you're going in your
life based on your faith.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
See.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
A lot of people get the word faith confused, like
what's your faith? And then they start going down this
whole list of all these different religions out here, But
really an essence. Man, when I talk to people about faith,
I'm talking to you about your your belief. How much
do you believe in the unseen? How much do you
(07:06):
believe in the things you can't see? How much do
you believe in the impossible? How much do you believe see?
Because faith is the belief in things that you cannot see.
Faith is the core of all that is happening to
(07:26):
me today. It is the faith that I have in
my relationship with God that enables me to just oftentimes,
if I stay on the right course and believe a
certain way and act a certain way, his blessings just poor.
They just come. And it comes in a lot of
(07:49):
little ways too. I've started to notice, see it ain't
just a lot of people think blessings is money. No, man,
that ain't it. It's coverage. It's every time my plane
and safe. It's every time they predict bad weather and
I get up in the sky and it don't be
no bad weather. You know, this is this is favor.
(08:11):
These are blessings that get poured out to me. Somebody
call me and offer me something, not money, but an opportunity,
you know. Somebody say, hey, man, I don't know, but
I sent this to you, I thought you might be
interested in it. Somebody will send me a scripture, or
somebody will send me something that's favor, and it always
(08:33):
comes at a time when I need it the most.
That's favor, that's pouring out blessings. Now I'm also the
recipient of a lot of other blessings too. You know,
I've been blessed with health. That's amazing blessing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Man.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I've been blessed with a spirit of not quitting. I've
been blessed with the ability to shoulder huge amounts of responsibility.
Blessings come a lot of ways. But once you tie
in to God, Once you tie in and you start
doing the best you can do, and you start asking
(09:11):
for him to make you a better person, to help
shape and mold you into the kind of man or
person that he wants you to be. You be amazed
what God can do with you. Man, if you just
invite me in and allow him to be a part
of your life. I mean, what you got to lose
out there? Come on, if you're sitting in the cell
this morning, why would you not change. You have a
(09:35):
chance to turn your life around with a relationship with God.
What you're waiting on. Are you gonna just keep doing
it like that? Huh? Really? Come on, man, why would
you do that to yourself? Why would you not allow
God to be a part of your life so you
can get the way he wants you to be. God
got some big plans for you. If he didn't, you
wouldn't keep waking up
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Show
Today show is pre recorded.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Y'all know what y'all don't know y'all at all, So
don't given them black a million.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Bus buss boozy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Listening to show, I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Joy, Yeah, Joy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You got to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You gotta turn well, I can't to turn the mouth.
(01:42):
Turn you probably got to turn the mouth, turn out
the water the way up. Come come on, you'll think that.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Uh huh, I sure will come on to everybody you
are listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
One and only.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Steve Harvey, Oh yeah, man, got a radio show. Do
you understand that. I'm telling you. God been big in
my life. I'm not gonna kid you. I'm telling you,
and He'll do the same thing for you. God God
is a gentleman, you know. I want to I want
to point that out to you. God is an absolute gentleman.
(02:30):
He will not come in unless he's invited. He don't
just barge into your life. He gives us the power
of choice. You know, if you say you got it,
I don't need you, he lets you have it. If
you say I need you, come see about me. He
right there. It's just a real simple thing. Man. So
(02:54):
always say to people this if you've gotten yourself into something,
please know I have. I I was stuck. I thought
a couple of times, well might not make it past
this one. But then if I don't make it past it,
what's gonna happen? And then I held on to this
(03:18):
little thing that my mother kept talking to me about.
She said, sometimes some when you ain't got nothing else
in you, just hope, she said, just hope it'll be
all right, you know. And what I've learned in my
life is that hope is the beginning of faith. Hope
is just is their possibility out there for me. I
(03:41):
show hope, something happened. See hope, Hope is okay, man,
Because like I say, for me, the way I've lived
my life, hope was the beginning of faith. It was
just the idea. It's just the thought that something could
change for me, that something could be a little bit
different from me, that maybe, man, just maybe for some reason,
(04:06):
I could be saved, I could be rescued. Things could
turn around, it could hit any other direction. Maybe I
could quit messing up. Maybe somebody will forgive me, Maybe
somebody will will just say all right. I don't know,
but I can't count the times I've been in that position.
But then once I hope a little bit, and then
(04:27):
I remember also my mother, because she was a Sunday
school teacher, she taught me the most valuable lesson I've
ever learned in my life. Nothing has been greater in
my life than my faith. She taught me to pray.
Mama used to say, when it get real, dog for
your son, prayer change is things, she said. When you
seem like you lost and you can't find your way,
(04:49):
stop and pray, she said, because prayer change is things.
You know, when you get a point in your life
when you've done all you can do and you can't
do no more, and you just don't know what to
do next, she says, stop, son, pray and combine that
prayer with that hope that you got, she said, because
(05:10):
that hope is to beginning of faith. She said. If
you pray just hoping, she's saying, to God come through
for you. That'll give you confidence that he can do
it again. And then after a while, you quit hoping,
she's saying, you start believing. She saying, that's when you're
on to something. If you can turn that hope into belief,
(05:30):
that hope into faith, the ability to believe in something
that you can't see. But the key though the faith
is you're believing in something that you can't see. See
hoping a little bit different from me Now, I'm pretty sure,
Like I say oftentimes to tell a lot of people
who can explain this thing a lot better than I
can to you, but just from my side of it,
(05:53):
being as real as I can be rich you See,
hope helps. Man. If you ain't strong enough to have faith,
have hope, and then if you pray with some hope
and God answers your prayer, then that hope gains a
little confidence and after a while that confidence becomes faith.
Now theyin't just hoping, but I'm believing. I'm believing in
(06:16):
something that I cannot see. Faith has been the key
to my entire existence, even when I didn't have any
It was faith, as I look back on it, that
has gotten me here, and not just faith, but my faith. See,
(06:37):
you will only get to where you're going in your
life based on your faith.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
See.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
A lot of people get the word faith confused, like
what's your faith? And then they start going down this
whole list of all these different religions out here, But
really an essence. Man, when I talk to people about faith,
I'm talking to you about your your belief. How much
do you believe in the unseen? How much do you
(07:06):
believe in the things you can't see? How much do
you believe in the impossible? How much do you believe see?
Because faith is the belief in things that you cannot see.
Faith is the core of all that is happening to
(07:26):
me today. It is the faith that I have in
my relationship with God that enables me to just oftentimes,
if I stay on the right course and believe a
certain way and act a certain way, his blessings just poor.
They just come. And it comes in a lot of
(07:49):
little ways too. I've started to notice, see it ain't
just a lot of people think blessings is money. No, man,
that ain't it. It's coverage. It's every time my plane
and safe. It's every time they predict bad weather and
I get up in the sky and it don't be
no bad weather. You know, this is this is favor.
(08:11):
These are blessings that get poured out to me. Somebody
call me and offer me something, not money, but an opportunity,
you know. Somebody say, hey, man, I don't know, but
I sent this to you, I thought you might be
interested in it. Somebody will send me a scripture, or
somebody will send me something that's favor, and it always
(08:33):
comes at a time when I need it the most.
That's favor, that's pouring out blessings. Now I'm also the
recipient of a lot of other blessings too. You know,
I've been blessed with health. That's amazing blessing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Man.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I've been blessed with a spirit of not quitting. I've
been blessed with the ability to shoulder huge amounts of responsibility.
Blessings come a lot of ways. But once you tie
in to God, Once you tie in and you start
doing the best you can do, and you start asking
(09:11):
for him to make you a better person, to help
shape and mold you into the kind of man or
person that he wants you to be. You be amazed
what God can do with you. Man, if you just
invite me in and allow him to be a part
of your life. I mean, what you got to lose
out there? Come on, if you're sitting in the cell
this morning, why would you not change. You have a
(09:35):
chance to turn your life around with a relationship with God.
What you're waiting on. Are you gonna just keep doing
it like that? Huh? Really? Come on, man, why would
you do that to yourself? Why would you not allow
God to be a part of your life so you
can get the way he wants you to be. God
got some big plans for you. If he didn't, you
wouldn't keep waking up
Speaker 2 (09:59):
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