Setbacks Occur

Even though setbacks occur, that does not mean that the race is over. Keep moving.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I shall well, good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one and
only Steve Arvey got a radio show. Man, Old Man.
Old Man symbolizes just one thing to me. Man, It's
just a constant remind of exactly how good God has
been to me over the years. And I'm thank him

(00:21):
for it too, because I realize every day that I
wake up that I would be nothing without him. That
everything I am, that's any good in me, I owe
to him. Now. Have I made some mistakes along the way? Yep, bunches,
bunches and bunches. And will I continue to make mistakes
along the way? Yep? Not as many, hopefully as I

(00:45):
have in the past, because a lot of stuff I
know better now. But you're still going to make mistakes now,
you know. Hopefully I've limited the amount of intentional errors
in my life. I've wiped quite a few of those out,
but from time to time, because we're human, we're going

(01:07):
to make a mistake every now and then. The trick
what it is, y'all, it's not to let the devil
deceive you into thinking that once you make that mistake
that that's it. You can't do it. You're falling off
the wagon. You can't reboard it. That's the biggest trick
that he uses. He makes you think that if you
keep stumbling, that you can't run the race. It kind

(01:32):
of reminds me of a marathon runner. From time to time,
I watch him on TV, and you'll see some people
who finish the race, you know, in a in a
nice pace. You see people finish the race sprinting towards
the finished line. But every now and then you'll watch

(01:53):
a marathon and you'll see a runner and the runner
is in really, really bad shape. The key is they
finish the race. See, you don't get disqualified in the
marathon because you stumble, You don't. They don't. They don't

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take your opportunity to finish the race because you keep falling.
That's not the key. The key is finishing. And a
lot of times what the Devil does is he makes
you think that because you keep stumbling, because you're swaying
from side to side, that you know you out the race. Well,

(02:36):
that's not the case. And see and then this thing
called life, let me help you understand something. Everybody falls.
Nobody sprints to the tape in this one. Nobody just
runs free and clear. Some people running faster than you
and all like this, and some people gonna get to
the end before you. Let them go ahead. And when
the end come, the end come. I ain't in the

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rush to get to the end. But in this race, though,
when you're stumbling and you're falling, it's a part of it.
No one gets through this race without stumbling and falling,
swaying from side to side. So don't let the enemy
deceive you into thinking that it's over. I try to

(03:17):
be encouraging to people because I don't want people to
get stuck on this thing, you know. And my walk
is very different from a lot of people's walks. And
then I know a lot of people who walking in
faith the way I'm walking in faith. But my thing
in the morning is just to remind those that is
not a perfect walk man, that it's not something that's

(03:38):
set up where you're gonna be skipping through life scot
free without any pitfalls. You know. I keep saying it
over and over and over again, because, like I said,
when I was in DC, my boy Hondo said this
to me, and it just kind of stuck with me
that the road to construct. The road to successes always
under construction. You have to figure and count on the

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setbacks and the pitfalls. But it's those people that that
that that fight through will be the victors in the end.
You cannot give up, man, Stop going somewhere sitting down.
Every time something goes down. It's going to go down.
It's a part of it. It's going to happen. It's

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going to occur that are going to be setbacks. If
you go and sit down every time there's a setback,
that's not how this works. It is designed that way.
If success were easy, everybody would be successful. But success
is just reserved for those who are willing to fight through,

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who refuse to settle for mediocrity, who wants something more. Now,
don't get me wrong. Success is defined by each individual.
So what I may consider to be successful, you may
not consider that. You know what Bill Gates considers successful.
I might not consider what Michael Jordan considers successful. I

(05:07):
might not consider what you consider successful. Your boss might
not consider. You have to define what that is for yourself.
It may not be monetary at all. You know, your
level of success could be tied up in community service.
It could be tied up in family. It could be
tied up into church. Your level of success could be

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tied up into boys clubs, It could be any number
of things. Whatever your level of success is, you have
to determine what that is you and the best way
to determine that is to get in touch with your maker,
who created you, to find out what your mission and
your purpose is so he can put you on track.

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I just had this conversation with my son and we
were talking about getting on the path that God has
set up for you. So many times as we find
ourselves fighting through life because of so much uncertainty, because
we have no idea where we're headed. It's like one
of my own sayings that I have at my mentoring

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camp for boys is is that a boy without a
male role model is like an explorer without a map.
See if you don't have a map laid out in
front of you of where you're going when you wake
up every day, that pretty much explains the feeling of confusion.

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The laxidaisical attitude, the lack of purpose to not understanding
your mission because you don't have not gotten in touch
with your creator to find out exactly what your path
in life is. What are you supposed to be doing?
The moment you can identify that is the moment that

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you get started waking up with purpose, with the sense
of direction. When you kill the sense of I don't
know what's next or what to do. Now, there's going
to be some confusing moments no matter what happened, it's
going to be some uncertainty, but at least you'll know
where you're going. So if you're tied a waking up
feeling loss, abandon confused, don't know what to do, don't

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know what you're supposed to be doing, refer back to
your makeup. Because when He created you, he had a
plan for you. When he created you, he had a
path for you. Now we've made some decisions to get
off of both of those, the mission and the path.
But God can get you right back on track. Do

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that today, asking what you're supposed to be doing and listen,
God has all the answers if you form the relationship. Okay,