Don't Be Anxious For Anything

Trust in God. The Bible reminds us not to be anxious for anything. Have patience.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I shall will Good morning everybody you are
listening to the voice, Come on dig me now. One
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show man on
Man almost forgot I had one this morning. But I'm okay.
I'll tell you who I am in a little bit.
You know, I get around. Man, it's so much. But man,

(00:21):
good morning everybody. You know today. I was having a
conversation with my wife last night and we were talking
about our plans. You know, we often sit down, you know,
just like a married couple. I mean, you know, you
know we're married. You know, we have children, we have aspirations,
we have hopes, we I mean, we have things we want.

(00:42):
You know, when you're married, you know, I mean it's
important to sit with your partner. I'm not telling you anything,
you don't know. It's common sense. Really, It's important to
sit down with the person that you've chosen and decided
to share your life with it and have multiple conversations
on a lot of things. And we try to make
sure that all of our conversations aren't always just business

(01:05):
related and always kid related, you know, because that that
that becomes it's a part of it, but it weighs
so much on the marriage that because that that's the
grunt work of being married. You know, your children, your family,
your bills, your your mortgage, your your car notes, you

(01:26):
know the what's due, what's coming up, and if you're
not careful, you'll you'll start that becomes the focal point
of you all's conversation. And this woman or man or
person that you've decided to have this life with, all
of a sudden, they're an extension of your business, and

(01:47):
you guys become business partners or whatever, and and and
just gets so anywhere. I'm just saying that that is
important to sit down and have these conversations, but it's
even more important to have the other conversations. You know.
It's it's important with the person that you're planning on
making the run to sit down and talk about other things,

(02:08):
you know, on a more upbeat note. You know, we
were having a conversation that she was reminding me of
what she loved about me, and then I, in turn
was turned around telling her the things that I admired
about her and loved about her. And we kind of
have these all the time, you know, when we sit

(02:28):
down and we talk about the things that we still
enjoy about one another, or we may talk about some
of the things that we miss in one another. But
we constantly had these conversations about appreciation. You know, it's
so important man that the other person feels appreciated. So
these things are important. But we got into the conversation

(02:50):
deeper last night, and I was telling her about this
idea that I had and that I wanted her to
help me with and make a phone call for me
because she knows these people. And I was going to
be doing this, and then my wife reminded me of something,
not once again. You know, as always, you know, when
I'm talking to you, I just keep it as real

(03:11):
as I can. I don't know the Bible inside out.
I can't quote to you scriptures and tell you exactly
where it is. I just you know, I heard her
say it, but it kind of blew by me. I
was I was telling about something I wanted to make happen,
and she reminded me that there's a scripture somewhere and
somebody emailed it to me today. I'm sure. Well, the

(03:33):
Bible reminds us not to be anxious for anything. Don't
be anxious for something, and you know, it really mattered
to me at that point yesterday that she bought this
to my attention, because how many times I've been guilty
of that in my past and I've learned better now,
but every now and then I need to be reminded,

(03:54):
you know, And I think what that what she was
saying to me was, you know, I've gotten to a
point in my life, and we all should get to
a point where. You know, you've heard old people say this.
If you're gonna pray about something, then don't worry about it.
And if you're gonna worry about it, don't pray about it.
Back to this, be anxious for nothing, don't If you're

(04:19):
going to him, trust in God didn't do that, and
trusting in him means sometimes you got to be patient.
God has never been too late. You don't know the
plan he has, You don't know. You don't really always
know his will. You definitely don't know his route, his
way of doing anything. So he's always on time. He's

(04:43):
always been there on time for me, He's always been
there on time for you. How many times have you
thought it was over only to find out it's really
just begun. How many times have people wrote you off
though those of you who have lost jobs but you
are still maintaining. But man, God has already began to

(05:08):
turn around process for many of us. Some of us
lost jobs and now have better jobs. Some of us
lost jobs and now has forced us to rekindle that
dream and that vision for business we had. It's sometimes
the mishap is the thing you need to make something

(05:28):
good happen. See a lot of times we get so
comfortable in our life where we we get complacent, we
just settling in and when this is it and this
is what I'm doing. But in actuality, God has a
tremendous amount of abundance for you. He has an amazing
amount of things. He has all these boxes packaged up

(05:51):
with your name on him that he's willing to ship
if you would just align yourself with some of his
wills so you could get some of these things. How
many times have you thought it was over and it
didn't really go over. How many times have you thought well,
this is it and it wasn't it at all? Well,
how many times do you thought, well, it don't look

(06:12):
like this gonna work out, and it didn't work out,
but then something better came along. How many times has
that happened. You've got to realize this. Man. I was
talking to a family who had got displaced from the
Katrina thing that happened down there in New Orleans. And man,
when they said, yeah, we got a displaced from Katrina,

(06:32):
and I braced myself because old what was me? Here
comes this story. I gotta hear this, and I gotta
be encouraging, think of something. It was totally different. They
totally totally blew me away. Man. The brother said, Man,
is actually the best thing that ever happened to my family.
And I went whoa, And he said, yeah, man, he said,

(06:53):
because what happened was he said, I got settled in.
He said. Plus, I was doing some things i'll side
of my marriage down there. He said, I was doing
some stuff in the streets I ain't need to be doing.
He said, Man, it all got washed away. We thought
our life would never be the same. But he said, man,
my life ain't need to be the same. He said, Man,

(07:13):
Now we live up here in Texas. We got a house.
Don't know nobody, he says, I ain't got nobody I
know to get into trouble with. He said, Man, I
don't rediscovering my wife how beautiful she really is, how
much my family really was counting on me. And he said, man,
it's straightened me up. Man, he says, so I gotta
tell you, Steve, it was the best thing that ever
happened to me. Now that's not always the case, but

(07:36):
it's how you look at a situation. But just don't
be anxious for anything, because God got a fix for
you if you just let him work. So just stay
on course, stay focused, don't lose faith, don't be anxious. Man,
just stay in the wheel. Let God work with you.
He got some great stuff in store for you.