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Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 8.26.26 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Come on. Uh-huh. I sure will. Good morning, everybody. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: listening to The Voice. Come on, dig me now. One
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  Speaker 1: and only Steve Harvey. Got a radio show. Here we
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  Speaker 1: go today. I think I have something for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people today. At least I hope I do. And
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  Speaker 1: this is about on your journey. And this is about
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  Speaker 1: something that happens to us all. I mean, what happens
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  Speaker 1: to all of us from time to time when we
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  Speaker 1: get discouraged? What happens to all of us when we
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  Speaker 1: feel like quitting? What happens to all of us when
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  Speaker 1: we have that turn back moment? What happens to all
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  Speaker 1: of us when it don't seem like it's going to
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  Speaker 1: pan out? Because I want you to understand something that everyone,
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  Speaker 1: every single living soul has those thoughts about something at
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  Speaker 1: some point in their life. I mean, you know, look,
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  Speaker 1: I've oftentimes been discouraged about things not happening as fast
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  Speaker 1: as I'd like them or things don't pan out the
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  Speaker 1: way I would like for them to have panned out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's so many times. to get discouraged. But
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  Speaker 1: what my encouragement to you is when discouragement comes is
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  Speaker 1: understand this. It is a part of the growth process.
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  Speaker 1: It is a test. It is a test of your faith.
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  Speaker 1: How bad you want it. Do you really believe? That's
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  Speaker 1: all faith is, is simply, and I've said this how
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  Speaker 1: many times, faith is the belief in things that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot see. So when discouragement comes, setbacks comes, it is
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  Speaker 1: a test of your faith. At least it's been that
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  Speaker 1: way for me. Now, other people can explain it another way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not other people. I can only give it to
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  Speaker 1: you the way it's come to me and throughout my life.
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  Speaker 1: And man, oh man, oh man, discouragement sometimes is tough
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  Speaker 1: to deal with. Because it seems at times when you
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  Speaker 1: are discouraged, that is so absolute that this means the end.
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  Speaker 1: And if you allow it to set in, it can
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  Speaker 1: be just that the end of you when merely, merely
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  Speaker 1: it was a test. That's all it is. But the
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  Speaker 1: majority of people that I know who are not successful,
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  Speaker 1: or who have told me the story of how they
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  Speaker 1: gave up, it was because at a moment of discouragement
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  Speaker 1: that they allowed it to set in, and it became
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  Speaker 1: so engulfing that it became the reason why you shouldn't finish.
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  Speaker 1: And then they started justifying it with, here's the one
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  Speaker 1: that I hate to hear. Well, if it's God's will,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, if it's God's will that you fail, If
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  Speaker 1: it's God's will that you're not successful, if it's God's
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  Speaker 1: will that you lay down and give up, it's God's
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  Speaker 1: will that you allow yourself to amount to not to
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  Speaker 1: not reach your potential. That's God's will. That's not the
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  Speaker 1: God I know. That's not the God I serve. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the God I've read about. That's not the God
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  Speaker 1: I believe in. I'm sorry. I just my mother always
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  Speaker 1: taught me something that he didn't bring me this far
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  Speaker 1: to leave me. I just don't believe that. Not for
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  Speaker 1: a second. Now, have I convinced myself of some things? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Have I allowed the devil to come into the picture
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  Speaker 1: and paint a different one for me? Yep. Yep. I've
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  Speaker 1: done all of that. But you can't blame that on God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: come on. So. When discouragement comes, try to look at it,
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  Speaker 1: if you can, as a test of your faith. And
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  Speaker 1: you merely have to pass the test. It could be
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  Speaker 1: for a day, a half a day, a few hours,
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  Speaker 1: a week, a few weeks. It don't matter. Don't nobody
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  Speaker 1: know how long the test period is. Your job is
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  Speaker 1: to keep the faith and keep moving. Keep the faith
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  Speaker 1: and keep moving. Keep working. Keep believing. Keep hope alive.
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  Speaker 1: That's your job. If you do that, that's how you
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  Speaker 1: pass the test. It could be over tomorrow. It could
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  Speaker 1: be over in two weeks. It could be over in
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  Speaker 1: a month. You don't know. But all you got to
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  Speaker 1: do is wake up and keep the faith and fight
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  Speaker 1: the discouraging feelings. And how do you do that, Steve? Now,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. This is the part I know about
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  Speaker 1: for sure, because how many times I've had to fight
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  Speaker 1: off discouragement. in order to get to where God wanted
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  Speaker 1: me to be. What do you do when you become discouraged? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think of the outcome. When I get discouraged about
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  Speaker 1: a task, I think about the outcome. Man, what would
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  Speaker 1: it be like if I were to complete the task?
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  Speaker 1: What would it be like, man? What would the outcome
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  Speaker 1: be for me if I hung on in there, if
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  Speaker 1: I didn't give up? If I imagine I imagine if
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  Speaker 1: I don't quit, I imagine if I don't give up,
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  Speaker 1: what would it be like? Man, suppose everything I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: for comes true. But if I don't quit and give up,
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  Speaker 1: that might just be the case. I start talking to
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  Speaker 1: myself like that. I think of what the upside is.
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  Speaker 1: What's the upside to staying with it? You see, all
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  Speaker 1: this is the same thing. I'm just giving you different
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  Speaker 1: ways to look at it. I'm saying the exact same
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  Speaker 1: thing over and over, but I'm just trying to find
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  Speaker 1: a switch that connects in your mind where you can say, okay, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to hang in there. Because if you think
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  Speaker 1: of the outcome and the outcome is appealing to you,
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  Speaker 1: if you imagine what it would be like if you
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  Speaker 1: don't give up or you don't quit, if you think
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  Speaker 1: only of what the upside is to stay in with it.
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  Speaker 1: And then I go, where can this lead to? If
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  Speaker 1: I stay with it, man, and the outcome comes true,
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  Speaker 1: where else could that lead me to? Because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's always more to it. So where else could this
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  Speaker 1: lead me to? What are the possibilities, man? What are
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  Speaker 1: the limitless possibilities? What could God possibly have in store
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  Speaker 1: for me? If I just hang in there, if I
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  Speaker 1: pass this test of faith, if I just pass this test,
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  Speaker 1: that ain't going to be the only one. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to get past this one. No. Then you go
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  Speaker 1: hit a smooth plane. Then it's going to be another one.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be another one. Life ain't nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a series of tests, man. Man, when you're thinking about
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  Speaker 1: giving up, when you're discouraged, think of the outcome. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: what it would be like if you don't quit, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't give up. What's the upside to staying with it?
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  Speaker 1: Where can this all lead to? What can this get
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  Speaker 1: you to? If you do this and you get to
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  Speaker 1: where you think you want to be, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: what's after that? What are the limitless and endless possibilities
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  Speaker 1: of holding on to your faith? What could really be
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  Speaker 1: out there for me, man, if I just passed this test?
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  Speaker 1: You've got to talk yourself into hanging in there. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.