Good and Bad Things Happen

Don't ever give up. Have faith because God got you.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I show will a good morning everybody you're
listening to the voice, come on, dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man, If
if I had time enough to tell the whole trip,
the whole journey, and y'all would be sitting up in
there going okay to Steve, are we gonna play the

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show this week? But man, it's been a lot of
amazing things has happened to me over the years, and
not all of them good. It's been some amazingly bad
things that have happened too. But I just come on
in the morning as a reminder to everybody of the

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actual goodness of God that you know, man, that these
mistakes that you're making, that these setbacks that you keep having,
that these falls that keep occurring in your life, that
they all are leading you somewhere. If you just don't
ever give up. That's the key. You can never ever

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give up because you don't know how the trip has
been laid out for you. You know, if somebody had
told me years ago when I had the dream of
being on TV and then I thought about being one
of one of the best comedians I could be, you know,
when I when I started. Somebody had told me everything

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that was gonna have to happen in order for me
to get there, I would have changed it. I would
have I would have said, Okay, well I ain't gonna
be that. How about this? See, and no one can
know all of the events of their life ahead of time.
You know, it'd be so nice, wouldn't it. You know,
to prepare for it, see it coming, be aware of

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the haters, always knowing when the backstabbing moment is coming
in your life, always knowing when you're gonna get black
inside it by the enemy. We are really great to
know that, wouldn't it. Well, that's not how it works.
So since no one knows exactly the challenges and the

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pitfalls and the detools that's going to be set them,
it's it's it's imperative that you just don't give up.
Because see, knowing these things, we as human beings by nature,
would choose another route. But it ain't the route God
God for you, though. See the route God God for you.

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If you if you're trying to do the right thing,
if you're doing the best you can, if you ain't
out here just intentionally just messing over folks, If you're
using faith, and that's the belief in things that you
cannot see. If you have something on the inside of
you to keep saying there's got to be more to
life than that, then that's that's you. You, my friend,

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have a great chance here. And if you've ever had
that feeling and gave up on it, just get it back,
Just ask for it back, Just say, hey, man, I'm
getting back to the way I used to be because
there's a change that's available in your life. But you
gotta take it. You gotta take a shot at it. Folks.
There's a chance for you to get it right, but

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you gotta take a shot at it. Folks. There's a
chance for you to turn this whole thing around with
God's help, but you gotta take a shot at it.
You see, this decision is yours. The decision to lay
down and give up, that's yours. It ain't it just
got too hard for me. Life too much, man, life hard,
and too much for everybody. What I gotta get you

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to see? My father used to always tell me. It says, son,
best lessons in life to burn your value and learn
the most is a bout lesson. I didn't quite understand
that being young, but I showed God it now ain't
no lesson like a bout lesson, the one you pay for.
Those are the ones that hold to you, that stick
to you, that that started turning you into who you're

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gonna be. Those are the character builders. See, you got
to be forged to get to where you want to
go in life. So that's what the challenges and missteps
is for. That's what the failing is about. Now, I
know you don't like it. I didn't. I know you're
not comfortable with I wouldn't. I know you wish it
was over sooner than later. I always do. I always

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wanted to be over sooner than later because the later
manager seems like it's so much I gotta go through.
But let me tell you something, Man, if you can,
if you can forge your way through it and understand
that you are forged in life, I don't know. I
was on TBN one time when I was doing one
of my motivational speeches, and I began to wonder about

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this experience I had. It Ford Motor Company and my
last job after the auto industry started going down, my
last job was in the fountry and my job was
to stand at the end almost where the engines first
come out of the furnace. See, the engines are poured
into a mold. It's hot, melted down metal whatever they

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call it, lava or whatever. They poured into a mole
and it goes into this furnace that's extremely hot. And
my job was after the heat was applied to the
engine block, it would come through and it would go
through a hardening stage. But the way it was hardening,
they would cool it. Suddenly they would flush it with water.

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It was just blast water on it. But the fire
and the high temperature is what made the engine block solidified.
It's because it's gotta get real hot, get melted down first.
Then it's gotta get poured into a mole. Then it's
gotta be pressured, hit with water and all of this,

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and then it could and it's real hot. Now it's
still hot even though there's water been shutter. But when
it comes out the end of the side, there's a
lot of flashing in it. And flashing is a metal
from that ton dripped through the cast molding on it,
just like flecks of extra pieces of metal. My job
was to hit this engine block in the front, which

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is huge, heavy rubber mallet knock all the flashing off
the front and when it came around back to bam,
hit it real hard again on the backside. And that
became the core of what the car is. A car
without a great engine is nothing. It's just a pretty
looking vehicle over there. But if it can't do what

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it was made to do because the engine block then cracked.
So you can have a car look real good, but
if it freezes an engine block crack your car, you
can it's over man. You gotta get a new block.
The block is the core. But in order for you
for the car to do what it's got to do,
it's gotta have strong engine in it. In order for
the engine to be strong, it's got to be forged

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and steal, come through fire, get poured in a mole,
cooled off, heated, knocked around, beat on the front end,
beat on the back end in order for it to
be what it's gonna be. The maul of the story, folks,
is you got to get forged in fire to be
what you gonna be. You got to get beat up,
you got to get pressure washed, you got to have

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heat on you. You You gotta get melted down. You gotta
get poured into a mole. That's how you become who
you are. So the tough things that you're going through,
the difficult challenges and the setbacks. I know a brother
who went to prison, man, And the whole reason he
ended up going to prison because he was looking out
the loop window, looking out in the yard at him
working out. And then the next thing you know, man,

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this brother decided that he was gonna go out there
and work out. Well, guess what, he's one of the
top trainers in country today.