September 26, 2023 • 7 mins
Faith without work is dead. Dream big and have faith, however, you better put in the work.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody, you all
listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey oh Man got a radio show.
Man got a radio show, and a whole lot mold too, Man.
God is good to me. I have no other explanation,
if I have no other explanation of my existence and
(00:22):
where I stand in this thing called life, except if
it was not for the goodness of God Almighty. If
it was not for His grace and his mercy, there
is no way I could exist the way that I do.
I will not be who I am or where I am.
I am who I am and where I am simply
(00:43):
because God.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Is who he is.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
If it was not for God, I would have no
testimony for you, because I would have failed every single
test plain, pure and simple. I can sit here today
until you flat out that it is purely because of
God's grace and mercy that I exist today, because of
(01:09):
His favor. See now, He shows us favor in life
because of a combination of things I've discovered. And this
is not the whole answer to life. I can assure
you as not, but this is a combination that I've
grown to understand better and better, and I wish I
had gotten it earlier in my life. But here it is.
(01:33):
If you take faith and you combine it with an
incredible work ethic, then God has the greatest opportunities to
show you favor. That's the best way I can explain
(01:55):
success to you from my standpoint.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It is the combination.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Should have faith and work that produces the most opportunities
for God to.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Show you favor.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
See a lot of times we want God to bless us,
but we ain't doing nothing for him to bless So
now we sideways.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
In the equation a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But see, if you had the faith in God that
God can do anything but fail, that God will get
you through, that God will see you through. That the
God is the God you serve, is the greatest giver
of all good things. If you kept that faith intact
through it all, and you produced an incredible work ethic
(02:41):
that allows the most opportunities for God to show you favor.
See without that what you want God to do? See,
you can have faith and be sitting at the house
watching TV. There's nothing being produced, no opportunities for God
to show you favor.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And you got to do some things.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Man, that you are uncomfortable doing, or don't feel like doing,
or something that don't have the right payoff right in
front of your face, with the faith that it'll pay
off later on. See, too many people are working for
the right now reward, and the right now reward is
not how it works.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Sometimes the reward is coming later on up the road.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But the only way you can know that is if
you got to You got to apply the faith and
see the reason. You don't know that that it's coming
like that, or you have to have faith to believe
that it's coming. Because faith is the belief in things
that you cannot see.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's what faith is. You know you're standing at let
me give you exam.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You're standing at the crosswalk with a walk sign on
it and the sign flashing on the corner. Don't walk
then that the signs say walk. What do you think
your chances are making it across that street is? We're
pretty good because guess what the signs say walk. You
can see the other side. There's other people in the
(04:11):
cross walk walking, So guess what you strike out blindly?
It don't take a lot of faith to get across
that streets.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's not what I'm talking to you about.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm talking about the faith, the belief in things that
you cannot see, the faith that what I'm doing today,
I believe in my heart of heart that God wouldn't
bring me this far to leave me. That God is
a true and living God, that he keeps his promises,
that later on, there's things that I'm working towards right
now gonna pay off later on. See, too many people
(04:45):
want the reward right now. See, that's not the exhibition
of faith. If it's the right thing to do, if
it's if it's a good thing to do, if it's
a just thing to do. See, if it's sin in it,
it ain't God. You can just clear it on up
right there. You can stop all the wondering. If that's
(05:05):
his voice talking to you, if it's the right thing
to do, if it's sin in it, it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
God talking to you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Kill it. You can shut it down. You ain't got
to wonder about it. Go down there, secret venge that
ain't God. Go tell them off when you see him.
That ain't God. Anything that's got seining in it is
not God's voice telling you to do it. So you
can kill that conversation today. That's how you know. But
if you aligning yourself up man, and you and what
(05:34):
you're doing is just and right and correct and pleasing
in the sight of God, it'll pay off for you
later on. And see, here's the best way I can
tell to his Another one when you're going somewhere, when
you're on the road to going somewhere, and you know
(05:55):
the somewhere that you're trying to get to. Let's say
you've set a goal or vision for you. If you
know where you want to get to, you got a
good idea, and you own your way to going there.
Listen to me when it gets hard, and it is
going to get hard, when it gets difficult, and it
is going to get difficult, when it becomes challenging, and
(06:17):
it is going to become challenging when it becomes.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All three of those things.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
When it don't look like it's gonna happen, don't stop
and complain so much. But see, I know he don't
bless me. But in the middle of it, man, I
felt a little heavy. And you got to be careful
when it gets hard for you, because you'll find yourself complaining.
And when you complain, and see, what you can't do
is you can't complain so much that you forget that
(06:46):
the place that you're trying to go to, you actually
own your way there still. See, don't get caught up
into complaining and then lose sight of your blessing that's
actually happening to you. What really, man, of all the
times to register a complaint to God, to sit up
and go, hey, man, I wanted to ease back into
(07:08):
this thing. Ease back in, man, you in. It's a
tornado world around you. You ain't got time to ease back in.
You got to go on and jump back in it.
It is what it is. To whom much is given,
much is required. Always appreciate the blessings. Don't get so
caught up in the complaints that you lose sight of
the blessings. Man, God got a lot for you in
your life. Man, but you got to have them two things, y'all.
(07:30):
You got to take that faith and you got to
ply a crazy work ethic to it. And that creates
the most opportunities for God to show you favor. And
when God starts showing your favor, Man, all them seeds
you planted that, all of that wheat you've been sowing,
all of that hard work. You've been put in God
(07:51):
to pay it off, and he'll pay it off in
ways that you don't even see coming. Okay, cool,
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody, you all
listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey oh Man got a radio show.
Man got a radio show, and a whole lot mold too, Man.
God is good to me. I have no other explanation,
if I have no other explanation of my existence and
(00:22):
where I stand in this thing called life, except if
it was not for the goodness of God Almighty. If
it was not for His grace and his mercy, there
is no way I could exist the way that I do.
I will not be who I am or where I am.
I am who I am and where I am simply
(00:43):
because God.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Is who he is.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
If it was not for God, I would have no
testimony for you, because I would have failed every single
test plain, pure and simple. I can sit here today
until you flat out that it is purely because of
God's grace and mercy that I exist today, because of
(01:09):
His favor. See now, He shows us favor in life
because of a combination of things I've discovered. And this
is not the whole answer to life. I can assure
you as not, but this is a combination that I've
grown to understand better and better, and I wish I
had gotten it earlier in my life. But here it is.
(01:33):
If you take faith and you combine it with an
incredible work ethic, then God has the greatest opportunities to
show you favor. That's the best way I can explain
(01:55):
success to you from my standpoint.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It is the combination.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Should have faith and work that produces the most opportunities
for God to.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Show you favor.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
See a lot of times we want God to bless us,
but we ain't doing nothing for him to bless So
now we sideways.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
In the equation a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But see, if you had the faith in God that
God can do anything but fail, that God will get
you through, that God will see you through. That the
God is the God you serve, is the greatest giver
of all good things. If you kept that faith intact
through it all, and you produced an incredible work ethic
(02:41):
that allows the most opportunities for God to show you favor.
See without that what you want God to do? See,
you can have faith and be sitting at the house
watching TV. There's nothing being produced, no opportunities for God
to show you favor.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And you got to do some things.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Man, that you are uncomfortable doing, or don't feel like doing,
or something that don't have the right payoff right in
front of your face, with the faith that it'll pay
off later on. See, too many people are working for
the right now reward, and the right now reward is
not how it works.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Sometimes the reward is coming later on up the road.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But the only way you can know that is if
you got to You got to apply the faith and
see the reason. You don't know that that it's coming
like that, or you have to have faith to believe
that it's coming. Because faith is the belief in things
that you cannot see.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's what faith is. You know you're standing at let
me give you exam.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You're standing at the crosswalk with a walk sign on
it and the sign flashing on the corner. Don't walk
then that the signs say walk. What do you think
your chances are making it across that street is? We're
pretty good because guess what the signs say walk. You
can see the other side. There's other people in the
(04:11):
cross walk walking, So guess what you strike out blindly?
It don't take a lot of faith to get across
that streets.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's not what I'm talking to you about.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm talking about the faith, the belief in things that
you cannot see, the faith that what I'm doing today,
I believe in my heart of heart that God wouldn't
bring me this far to leave me. That God is
a true and living God, that he keeps his promises,
that later on, there's things that I'm working towards right
now gonna pay off later on. See, too many people
(04:45):
want the reward right now. See, that's not the exhibition
of faith. If it's the right thing to do, if
it's if it's a good thing to do, if it's
a just thing to do. See, if it's sin in it,
it ain't God. You can just clear it on up
right there. You can stop all the wondering. If that's
(05:05):
his voice talking to you, if it's the right thing
to do, if it's sin in it, it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
God talking to you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Kill it. You can shut it down. You ain't got
to wonder about it. Go down there, secret venge that
ain't God. Go tell them off when you see him.
That ain't God. Anything that's got seining in it is
not God's voice telling you to do it. So you
can kill that conversation today. That's how you know. But
if you aligning yourself up man, and you and what
(05:34):
you're doing is just and right and correct and pleasing
in the sight of God, it'll pay off for you
later on. And see, here's the best way I can
tell to his Another one when you're going somewhere, when
you're on the road to going somewhere, and you know
(05:55):
the somewhere that you're trying to get to. Let's say
you've set a goal or vision for you. If you
know where you want to get to, you got a
good idea, and you own your way to going there.
Listen to me when it gets hard, and it is
going to get hard, when it gets difficult, and it
is going to get difficult, when it becomes challenging, and
(06:17):
it is going to become challenging when it becomes.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All three of those things.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
When it don't look like it's gonna happen, don't stop
and complain so much. But see, I know he don't
bless me. But in the middle of it, man, I
felt a little heavy. And you got to be careful
when it gets hard for you, because you'll find yourself complaining.
And when you complain, and see, what you can't do
is you can't complain so much that you forget that
(06:46):
the place that you're trying to go to, you actually
own your way there still. See, don't get caught up
into complaining and then lose sight of your blessing that's
actually happening to you. What really, man, of all the
times to register a complaint to God, to sit up
and go, hey, man, I wanted to ease back into
(07:08):
this thing. Ease back in, man, you in. It's a
tornado world around you. You ain't got time to ease back in.
You got to go on and jump back in it.
It is what it is. To whom much is given,
much is required. Always appreciate the blessings. Don't get so
caught up in the complaints that you lose sight of
the blessings. Man, God got a lot for you in
your life. Man, but you got to have them two things, y'all.
(07:30):
You got to take that faith and you got to
ply a crazy work ethic to it. And that creates
the most opportunities for God to show you favor. And
when God starts showing your favor, Man, all them seeds
you planted that, all of that wheat you've been sowing,
all of that hard work. You've been put in God
(07:51):
to pay it off, and he'll pay it off in
ways that you don't even see coming. Okay, cool,
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