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Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 07.17.25 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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