How Many Times Have You Made It

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, Come on dig me now wanted only
Steve Harvey man on Man got a radio show, Got
going for you today? I got going for you today,
O kid you not, because this is coming purely from
self experience, purely, and it just happened to me. It

(00:23):
just happened to me just yesterday. I lived this on yesterday.
You know, I was going through something that I've been
going through for a long long time and just weary
of it all. And I was I've been talking to
God about it, and I mean for for years though,
for years, and I've been saying, Okay, enough is enough,

(00:44):
you know God, I'm really I'm really tired. And so
what happened was I had had to go through some
more of it yesterday again in a situation. But you
but you know what, um after it was over, you know,
I kind of laid in it for a little while.

(01:06):
You know how you've been going through something for so
long and then even if it's over appears to be
over you you still kind of laying it a little bit,
and you know, you have a while. Man, I can't
believe I've been dealing with this this long, even though
even though it's over, this is really good for me.
I don't know how you do it, but this was

(01:26):
so good for you for me. Have you ever counted,
Steve Harvey, how many times you made it? And so
that's what I started doing yesterday, And that's what I
did this morning. When I woke up, I was getting ready,
I was actually taking an inventory account of how many
times I made it. How many times, man, I didn't

(01:51):
have the rent and somehow I came up with it.
How many times I didn't have my house payment and
somehow I came up with it. How many times I
was out of money, did not have enough, didn't didn't
see no way, but somehow I came up with it.
How many times I got sick? I thought, well, man,

(02:12):
this one right here. I don't know what I'm gonna do,
but somehow I got my health back. How many situations
I have found myself in? That was I thought at
the time, detrimental and diabolical and man so sinister at times.

(02:33):
Somehow I made it. I look at all the accidents
I've been in, but he kept me. I made it.
I think about even the simplest times of like stepping
off a curve and almost got hit, but I made it.
I was just tripping the other day. I was I
was thinking about the times that I've been hit by
a car and it could have been worse, but it wasn't,

(02:55):
And I made it through that too. I was thinking about, Man,
when they count you out? Do you know how many
times I've been counted out? He's done, He ain't gonna
be nothing, He ain't nobody. See who I told, y'all
look at over that they counselors. He offered that he
out of here. He ain't gonna make it. He didn't

(03:15):
got fired. Man, You know how many times I've been
counted out? You know how many times they didn't wrote
me off? How many times have you been written off? Man?
But here you still stand? You know you have a
tripped on it. Take an inventory, y'all of how many times?
Count the times you've made it? What about the times man,
when nobody was there to encourage you? But you still

(03:37):
here though you have tripped on that? Ain't nobody called
you and told you good day. No nobody called you
and told you recently thank you. No one's called you
and told you how much you meant to them, how
much you've done for them? A man, you can make it.
Never give up, Keep your head up, man, keep grinding.
But you still here even when nobody. Have you counted
the times man, that you made it in any way?

(04:01):
You count at the times that you felt like quitting.
How about that one you felt like giving up? You
kept going? How about the time this is a good
one right here? How about the times? Man? When when
when when everybody is standing around saying, ain't no way,
ain't no way. Steve, Man, I can't tell you any
times I've heard this ain't no way, and then somehow

(04:23):
there is a way. You know why, because he makes
a way, you understand. You know how many you know
how many times I've heard this one right here? Steve,
listen to me, Man, nobody ever before hasn't done that.
You can't do that. How many times you've heard no?
You w when you know anybody didn't done that? You

(04:46):
can't do that. No one has ever done that. I
made it anyway? You know they don't normally or we
don't normally allow this, but in this case, for you,
we're gonna make an exception. How many times have you
heard that? Oh? I think I'm onto something. How many

(05:09):
times have you heard in your lifetime? We don't normally
or they don't normally allow this, but we're gonna make
this exception in your case. How many times you've ben't
heard that? Have you ever counted the times that you
made it? You know? Everybody out accept me? Ow? How

(05:38):
can that be? You know you're the only one that
got through this? Congratulations? Wow? Man, I don't I don't
hardly see this too many times. But do you realize
that normally this is what happened to people? But man,
y'all don't know how your name came up, but here
you are. Wow, it never happens like that. You have
accounted those times I was doing it yesterday, I was

(06:02):
doing it this morning. I was just taking an inventory
of everybody of how many times I've made it. So
what I learned yesterday was when God gets you through something,
when he pulled you out on the other side, no
matter how difficult or how long it took. When he
gets you out on the other side, why don't you
get up, dust yourself off, and start trotting what you

(06:27):
laying there for? Man, wallowing in it, going over it,
recycling it in your mind. So many people can't move
forward because we keep recycling stuff in our minds when
clearly it's time to move on. It's time to let go.

(06:49):
It's time to go and see what God has for you.
Stop looking at what you lost. What you lost was
probably not yours to have in the first in the
first place. Do you know the things I've lost? I'm

(07:10):
not talking about losing the love of one or mother
or father, nothing like that. I'm talking about innate objects
or situation. Do you know the things I've lost? Man,
I look back on it. I wasn't supposed to have
him in the first place, or they was doing me
no good. I wasn't even what wouldn't mine to to lose,
but I claimed I lost it. Come on, man, taking inventory, everybody.

(07:30):
Start looking at the things man, that God has brought
you through. Start looking at how many times He allowed
you to make it, And get glad about waking up
in the morner. Man, Get glad about your life. Start
feeling something positive about your situation. You cannot expect God
to continue to bless you if you're not grateful for
the things that you have. Why would God sitting down

(07:53):
here looking at you upset, angry, laying in walla of
what you are not grateful for. You just can't find
the scene, to find, no gratitude in your heart about nothing,
but you steady asking God for something. So now you
think God is crazy. You think He's gonna give you

(08:13):
some most stuff to not be grateful for. Are you
kidding me? Why would he do that. He's too full
of too much mercy to send you through that. Over
and over and over. The more I give my child,
the more ungrateful they are, the less gratitude they show.
But I'm gonna keep dumping it on them so they
can keep feeling ungrateful and show like a gratitude. Guy's

(08:34):
not gonna do that to you. Come on, man, have
you ever counted how many times you made it? I
can't count how many times God didn't got me through something.
But when He gets you through it, you can't get
up and get on about your business. Don't lay that
in it. It's over, it's done, you made it, you

(08:54):
survived it. Let's go. Let's go.