Faith And Work

Add faith to an incredible work ethic and God will show you favor.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will A good morning everybody you're
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 in a whole lot more too, Man.
God is good to me. I have no other explanation.
I have no other explanation of my existence and where

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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 would not be who I am or where I am.
I am who I am and where I am simply

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because God is who he is. 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

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it is purely because of God's grace and mercy that
I exist today because of 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. Um, I can assure you as not, but
this is a combination that I've grown to understand better

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and better, and I wish I had gotten it earlier
in my life. But here it is. If you take
faith and you combine it with an incredible work ethic,
then God has the greatest opportunities to show you favor

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one more time. If you take faith. I said faith
because in the scripture says you can have the faith
of a mustancy, the smallest of all sees. If you
take faith and you combine it with an incredible work ethic,
it allows the most opportunities for God to show you favor.

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That's the best way I can explain success to you
from my standpoint. It is the combination of faith and
work that produces the most opportunities for God to show
you favor. See a lot of times we want God
to bless us, but we ain't doing nothing for Him
to bless. So now we're sideways in the equation a

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little bit. 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 as the
greatest gift of all good things. If you kept that
faith intact through it all and you produced an incredible

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work ethic 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. And you got

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to do some things, 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 will payoff later on. See. Too
many people are working for the right now reward, and
the right now reward is not how it works. Sometimes

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the reward is coming later on up the road. 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 is coming like that,
or you have to have faith to believe that is coming.
Because faith is the belief in things that you cannot see.

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That's what faith is. Look, man, it's easy to believe
in something you can see. That's it ain't ain't nothing?
What what what that take? You know? You're standing that
Let me give you them. You're standing at the crosswalk
with with a walk sign on it and the and
the sign flashing on the corner. Don't walk then that

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the signs say walk. What do you think your chances
are making it across that street? Is well, pretty good
because guess what the signs say walk. You can see
the other side. There's other people in the crosswalk walking,
So guess what. You strike out blindly? It don't take
a lot of faith to get across that street. That's

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that's That's not why I'm talking to you about. 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

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later on. There's things that I'm working towards right now
gonna pay off later on. See, too many people want
to reward right now. They want to go to work Friday.
Get to check sadday. You know, we want to work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
get to check Friday. If somebody come to you and say, hey, man, uh,
if you do this Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then

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you do this Saturday and come back and do this
Monday through Friday in the long running to pay off.
And you say, man, I ain't gonna do all that. 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 just

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cleared on up right there. You can stop all the wondering.
If that's his voice talking to you, if it's the
right thing to do, if it's sin in it, it's
not God talking to you, kill it. You you you
can shut it down. You ain't got to wonder about it.
Go down there, secret venge that ain't God. Go tell
him off when you see him. That ain't God. Anything

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that's God's seeing in it is not God's voice telling
you to do it. So you can you can kill
that conversation to date. That's how you know. But if
you align yourself up, man, and you and what 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 here's here's here's the best way I

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can tell to you. Here's another one. When you're going
somewhere when you're when you're on the road to going somewhere,
and you know the somewhere that you're trying to get to.
Let's say you've set a goal of vision for yourself,
you know where you want to get to. You gotta
got a good idea, and you own your way to
going there. Listen to me when it gets hard, and

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it is going to get hard, when it gets difficult,
and it is going to get difficult, when it becomes challenging,
and it is going to become challenging when it becomes
all three of those things. When it don't look like
it's gonna happen, listen to me, don't stop and complain
so much. But see, I know he didn't bless me.

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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're 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 the
place that you're trying to go to you actually on

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your way there still. See, don't get caught up into
complaining and then lose sight of your blessing. That's actually
happening it to you? What really, man, of all the
times to register a complaint to God, to sit up
and go, hey, man, I did I didn't wanta wanted
to ease back into this thing. Ease back in, man,

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you in It's it's a tornado world around you. 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 into
complaints that you lose sight of the blessings. Man, God
got a lot for you in your life. Man, but
you gotta have them two things, y'all. You gotta take

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that faith and you got to apply a crazy work
ethic to it. And that creates the most opportunities for
God to show your favor. And when God starts showing
your favor, man, all of them seeds you plant, all
of that, all of that which you've been sowing, all
of that hard work you've been put in God to

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pay it off. And he'll pay it off in ways
that you don't even see coming. Okay, Cool,