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Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 12.18.25 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Come on, uh huh, I sure will.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning everybody. You're listening to the.
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  Speaker 1: Voice, Come on, dig me now, one and only see
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  Speaker 1: Harvey got a radio show man.
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  Speaker 2: God is in the blessing business. I'm in the receiving line. Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good feeling. I thank God for waking me
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  Speaker 1: up in the mornings, I really really do. I thank
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  Speaker 1: God for the spirit that he wakes me up with
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  Speaker 1: because I finally, but I finally figured it out. Such
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  Speaker 1: a blessing that shouldn't be taken for granted. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that you are up today, the fact that you just
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  Speaker 1: got off working, you driving home, the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: got a job to come home from, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you got a job to wake up too.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, the fact that you can see.
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  Speaker 1: Think, here, smell, walk, talk, rhyme, reason, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: it's a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Was talking to a partner of mine last night, and
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  Speaker 1: an analogy came to me last night of what my
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  Speaker 1: life has been like, just going over my story with
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  Speaker 1: a friend of mine of all some of the things
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  Speaker 1: I had gone through, and he never knew it because
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  Speaker 1: he said, man, you never told me that we were
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  Speaker 1: just talking. One of the things I remember and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of equated to my life.
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  Speaker 2: Was when I was a little boy.
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  Speaker 1: As she got to the store with my mom and
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  Speaker 1: she would let me buy a jigsaw puzzle. Now, for
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  Speaker 1: those of you, a jigsaw puzzle comes in a box.
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  Speaker 1: There are no instructions. It just comes in a box
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  Speaker 1: and it's simple. You're gonna dump the pieces out in
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  Speaker 1: a pile and you're gonna try to put the pieces
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  Speaker 1: together until it looks like the picture that's on the
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  Speaker 1: cover of the box. That's as simple as it is.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the deal. I would select a jigsaw puzzle
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  Speaker 1: based on the picture that I liked and if I
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  Speaker 1: thought I could do it. Now, if the picture looked
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  Speaker 1: too crazy, if it looked too intricate, I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: that puzzle, you know. And the thing was, back in
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  Speaker 1: the day you got a jigsaw puzzle, you had one
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  Speaker 1: hundred piece puzzles, four hundred piece puzzles.
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  Speaker 2: Man, then they say a thousand piece puzzle. You go ooo.
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  Speaker 1: So those were a little difficult for me when I
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  Speaker 1: was a little boy, so I didn't want that.
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  Speaker 2: As I got a little bit older.
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  Speaker 1: I had more challenging puzzles, you know, four fifty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred piece puzzles, but I always picked a picture of
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  Speaker 1: something I liked.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: You get the jigsaw puzzle, you get it home, you
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  Speaker 1: open it up, jump it out on the table, You
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  Speaker 1: flip all the pieces over so you can see them,
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  Speaker 1: and then I would try to sort them based on
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  Speaker 1: the colors on the box. If it was like a
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  Speaker 1: black section, I'd take all the black pieces and slide
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  Speaker 1: them over there.
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  Speaker 2: If it was some flowers, I'd try to find all.
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  Speaker 1: The pictures with little jigsaw pieces with the little floor,
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  Speaker 1: and I separate them and then I start putting it together.
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  Speaker 1: And the way I started was i'd try to build
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  Speaker 1: a border first, because I knew all the straight edges
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  Speaker 1: had to be side by side at one point. And
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  Speaker 1: it was funny, man, because it's related to my life.
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  Speaker 1: I would start putting the pieces together of the picture
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  Speaker 1: I saw that I liked, and that would be my picture.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't like jigsaw puzzles. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, none of the boys on the street
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  Speaker 1: liked jigsaw puzzles but me, because they just didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to go through the intricate detail of figuring that out.
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  Speaker 1: Really go outside and run or something like that, and
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  Speaker 1: so what happened was, as I got older, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: more difficult and challenging puzzles, but I wouldn't go too far.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted some nice stuff to happen. I had a
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  Speaker 1: picture of what I wanted for my life, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go too far because it was so
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  Speaker 1: challenging and difficult. I couldn't see myself with all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't have the time, the knowledge, the expertise
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  Speaker 1: to figuring all the intricate details. And I discovered something
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  Speaker 1: when I was talking last night. That's what happens in
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  Speaker 1: life to a lot of people. You get bogged down
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  Speaker 1: with the details of coming up and trying to create
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  Speaker 1: the picture that you want for yourself. You put it
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  Speaker 1: to the side, you say, ah, that puzzles are crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Next thing you know, you crumb it up and put
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  Speaker 1: it back in the box. So you go halfway and
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  Speaker 1: you get stuck, and you get to the part where
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  Speaker 1: it ain't a lot of different colors. It's all the same,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a little bit more challenging. So that may
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  Speaker 1: stop you. But it's somewhere in the jigsaw puzzle that
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  Speaker 1: it gets very difficult and challenging. The bigger the picture
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  Speaker 1: you want, But then what all happened in your life.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like what happened in the jigsaw. Once you
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  Speaker 1: get comfortable and you don't mind the challenge, you could
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  Speaker 1: get a bigger picture. But here's the key to it, though,
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  Speaker 1: if you put God in your mix. See, the picture
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  Speaker 1: that I saw for myself as a boy is not
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  Speaker 1: the picture that has happened to me as a man.
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  Speaker 1: Because along the way from boyhood to manhood, from the
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  Speaker 1: time I was telling you understand what happened along the
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  Speaker 1: ride in there was I started putting God in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: And so now the picture that I have now is
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  Speaker 1: not the picture I saw. It's the picture that God saw.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying this analogy is the picture you
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  Speaker 1: have may be difficult to complete, but if you were
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  Speaker 1: to include God in your life, put God in your
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  Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: God will not only help you complete the.
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  Speaker 1: Puzzle, and he gonna add some pieces, he gonna do
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  Speaker 1: some favors, he gonna show some mercy, and you gonna
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  Speaker 1: look up and the picture that you're able to end
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  Speaker 1: up with will be totally different and much more complete,
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  Speaker 1: much more beautiful, a bigger picture than the one you had,
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  Speaker 1: because there's no way that I could have sought a
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  Speaker 1: life that I have today back when I was a boy.
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  Speaker 1: And it amazes me when I hear people say I
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  Speaker 1: always saw this for myself. Ah, I didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't quite see this for myself. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how you can have the ability to see what God
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  Speaker 1: really has for you. But man, he's a master for jigsaw. Man,
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  Speaker 1: he's an incredible puzzle completed. So if you got a
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  Speaker 1: puzzle that's challenging to you, maybe you need to see
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  Speaker 1: what's the picture that God has for your life. If
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  Speaker 1: God were in your life, if you complete it to puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: what would it look like. It'll be a far more
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  Speaker 1: extensive puzzle, and it would be a far more beautiful
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  Speaker 1: piece of scenery than you could have ever imagined. Tears
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  Speaker 1: come in my eyes because I can't believe God bought
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  Speaker 1: me this far. I can't believe that when I opened
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  Speaker 1: up and accepted him and started talking to him, that
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  Speaker 1: he would add all these pieceles to my jigsaw puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: and my jigsaw puzzle would look like this. And I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you I ain't got a whole lot to
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  Speaker 1: do with what out and turned into it's mostly favor
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  Speaker 1: and blessings and grace and mercy of God. And I
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  Speaker 1: looked up and I just got a much bigger jigsaw
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  Speaker 1: puzzle completed.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what, He ain't through with me yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's amazing and exciting about a relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: God could take your jigsaw puzzle and fix it. Here
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  Speaker 2: to the Steve Harvey Morning Show