Don't Give Up

Failure and messing up gets you one step closer to getting it right. You cannot get the victory if you quit. In order to have a testimony, you must pass the test. Don't you ever give up!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh. I shall 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. Yeah I do, man,
God is good. Hey today, I just want to get
right to it because this has really been pressing me.
I woke up and this was on my mind and

(00:21):
I wanted to share it with you because I know
this for a fact. See I've lived this for a fact,
and you know the majority of things I talk about
in the morning before we get started with the regular show.
It's something that I've experienced. I can only tell you

(00:42):
what I know, and so I've really really understood why
God has had my life go the way that is gone.
Because if I didn't have all these tests in my life,
if I didn't have all these tests that I passed,
all these tests that I failed, if I didn't have
all of those the good and the bad, what could

(01:07):
I share with you in the morning. What could I
tell you about hanging What could I tell you about
failing and then winning? What could I tell you about
hanging in now when all hope was gone? How could
I share that with you Unless I've had those moments myself.

(01:28):
I don't care what happens to you. I don't care
what you're going through. Don't you dare dare give up?
Under no circumstances. Don't you dare dare ever give up?
It is the biggest trick that the enemy has is

(01:53):
making us think we ain't gonna make it, to water
down the illusion that there is a possibility that you
might still have a chance to get over. The biggest
trick he uses is when you make a mistake and
you fall, He gets you to start to thinking it's final,

(02:16):
that there is no resurrection, there is no redemption, there
is no recovery. He just makes you think it's final.
He is the master deceiver. Don't you dare dare ever
give up? I don't care what besets you, befalls you,
trips you up, what circumstantial situations may arise. Don't you

(02:39):
dare dare ever give up? Because listen to me. These
are tests that you are going through. And these tests,
whether you pass the test or appears that you failed
the test, the test accomplishes the mission if you're smart
about it. If you pass the test. Let's say you're

(03:04):
going through a situation and you get over, and it
goes the way you want it to do. Then what
you've learned is if you hang in there, there's a
light at the end of the tunnel. Okay, mission accomplished.
If you fail the test and it doesn't go the
way you want it and it goes there will opposite

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and it turns out into a negative result. And in
response you were looking for is a no. That's not final.
That doesn't mean it's over, that doesn't mean it's time
to turn back. It simply means that now you have
learned a valuable experience. You have learned a valuable lesson.

(03:51):
You now know what not to do. You are now
because you know what not to do, another step closer
to getting it right. Listen to me, it has to
happen this way. You have to have the rain in
your life to get the flowers in your life. You

(04:13):
got to have the darkness in your life to appreciate
the sunshine in your life. You got to have woes
and worries to appreciate the joys. It is merely a test.
So when you get through failing and you get through stumbling,

(04:35):
and you get through messing it up, all that's getting
you one step closer to getting it right, Oh, my
relationship ended. I'll never be able to find another person
like that. Not only will you not be able will
not only will you be able to find a person
like that, you can find a person that far better

(04:58):
than that if if you don't give up. But see,
sometimes you got to go through the bad ones to
get to the good ones. Don't you dare dare ever
give up? I don't care what happens to you if
you lose a love one. And Lord knows, I've lost
some people I've loved dearly with every inch in me.

(05:23):
I've lost my mother, my father, my brother, and my
best friend. I don't know. I know people who have
lost their children. Goodness, man, I can't even imagine that,
but they kept on going. What you're giving up for? Oh?
I got you miss them, and I got you grieving,

(05:46):
But I got news for you. Don't you let the
devil make you think it's over for you because somebody
else ain't still here. It was their time. Now. I'm
not trying to lessen to blow for you, but I'm
trying to get you up on your feet so you
can stop all this old woe is me because the
things is happening to you You're not the first person
that's happened to Come on, now, let's get a grip.

(06:07):
Let's wrap your mind around this thing. You have got
to move forward if it's just in memory of those people.
I was on one of the commercial breaks on Family
Feud the other day and somebody asked me something and
I forgot the question, but my answer was, I've always
wanted my mother and father to be proud of me,

(06:27):
and in that absence and their demise, I'm hoping just somehow, man,
that they watching me, that they see their boy, that
I'm down here, that I'm doing better, that I'm making
something about myself, that I'm loving my wife, that I'm
taking care of my kids. It's at my old man
to see that about me. You know. I want my

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mother to see I'm trying to give my life together
over here, you know, saying I'm trying to be a
better person. My mom was a Sunday school teacher for
forty years. She'd been praying for me for long time.
I just hope, man, and that's all I'm doing. It's
just hoping that they see me so they ain't be
proud of me. See you, you you you you got

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to understand that when you make these mistakes, that when
you fall and stumble and you get it all so wrong,
it ain't over for you. Don't you dare dare dare ever?
Give up? Don't stop thinking, man, because it ain't happening
just the way you wanted to that it ain't meant
to be devil. He got so many tricks to deceive you.

(07:33):
You know why you're being tested right now, because there
is no testimony without the test You got to go
through something. It's all good man telling you. I just
wanted to share that with you. Don't you give up
out there. I don't care what's happening. Don't, don't, don't,
don't get deceived. The victory's coming, but you ain't gonna

(07:54):
get it if you quit. Hang on, y'all,