July 9, 2018 • 8 mins
God makes a cake for all of us and we may not like the ingredients but it is His will. Listen to see the parallelism to our lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh. I shall well, a good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, Come on dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay today,
you know this week, I've just been on it, so
today is no different what I'm trying to do. I'm
telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself. I'm more determined to
(00:24):
share the principles of success. I'm more determined to help
and guide and teach as many people as I can
the things that I've learned. And I mean, man, I've
been through it. I have really been through it. I
kid you not. You know. I used to say, Okay, God,
you know, why is all this happening to me? But
as I uh, I've gotten older, I understand that was
(00:48):
the ingredients. I needed the ingredients to be this cake.
I needed all those ingredients stirred up. I need all
of that different flavors, the stuff that I didn't think tastes.
So all that stuff had to come into the bowl
in order for me to get to where I am today.
As much as I did not like the taste of
(01:10):
the ingredients, little did I know God was making this cake,
not me. But what he did was and you've heard
you the old saying God could turn lemons lemons into lemonade.
Well that's what he was doing now. At the time,
it all had a little funky lemonade lemony flavor to it,
(01:31):
with some other stuff in it too. I didn't care
for it. But little did I know, Little did I
know that I needed everything that happened to me to
happen to me in the exact order that had happened,
in the exact array of things that happened for me
to have a knowledge I have today, the experience, the attitude,
(01:52):
but so I could turn around and share that information. Okay,
got that out the way. I've learned this. This, This
is what I want to give to you today. I
want you to understand something that discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire. Discipline determined your destiny, not your desire.
(02:18):
You've heard me say this how many times on the show. Okay,
here we go again, Steve, I got it. Faith without works,
it's dead. But let me tell you something. To be
a hard worker, you've got to be disciplined. That's one
of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through to
my sons that an undisciplined man is headed to a
life of justice. I can't even tell you, man, you're
(02:41):
gonna throw yourself down a cliff if you're not a
young man or a man that possesses discipline. Because they
got something for undisciplined people. They got some street laws
for undisciplined people, and they got some federal laws and
state laws for undisciplined people. Sway them signs is outside
(03:01):
on the freeway, We're gonna let you go fast. But
seventy is the limit. Seventy fast enough, really, really, if
you're disciplined enough of a person to leave your house
at the time you're supposed to leave your house, seventy
miles per hour is absolutely enough. But if you're an
undisciplined person, if you don't have the wherewithal to leave
(03:23):
your house on time, to make to get ready to
go where you want to go, see the desires where
you want to go, the discipline is how you get there.
You know, you understand, you can wanta go to see
your family in California all you want, but the flight
leaves at one eighteen. You leave your house at twel
(03:45):
or thirty. They told you you must check in one
hour before your flight. Now, if you ain't got the
discipline to get to the airport to check in one
hour before your flight, leaving your house forty five minutes
before the flight departs, what you think gonna happen? Your
desire to go see your family in l A is
(04:06):
going to be thwarted because you lack the discipline to
prepare yourself and get yourself ready to do the things
that you have to do to make your desires come true.
I'm telling you discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
You can write down a list of stuff you want
to do all day, but if you don't produce and
(04:27):
show the discipline necessary to get there, what you think
gonna happen? Huh? Okay? I want to be rich, Okay,
I want to make four hundred thousand in a year. Okay,
I want to be the best player that there is. Okay,
but you don't want to practice. See the cat that's
(04:49):
disciplined enough to show up at practice, the shooting jumpers
when everybody gone home, that's the guy that's gonna be
the best. The guy that puts us and that's never
late for practice. The guy that stay need to playbook
that's the guy that's gonna make it. That's the guy
that's gonna make not the guy that's talking crack I
stalk the next smack. I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl,
I'm gonna make the All Star Team. I'm gonna be
(05:10):
All American. That's that's just what you're saying. Hey, you know,
you can say a lot of stuff, but discipline determines
your destiny, not your desire. So now let's talk about
this discipline. What is that, really, Steve. That's your work ethic,
that's your hunger, that's that's your will that that's what
(05:36):
you do. That's how hard you're willing to demonstrate. See
it's a live demonstration. Now. Discipline is how hard you're
willing to demonstrate the attributes and the traits to be
what you wanna be. Did you hear me? It is
(06:00):
your willingness to conduct yourself in a manner that is
above and beyond what they what what they say is necessary. Okay,
let me see if I can come up with an
example for that. So I was watching the NFL Combines
on TV. Now this is a good example right here. Now,
you can want to be in the NFL. All you want.
(06:23):
But they got this thing called the NFL Combines where
they bring in some of the top players at every
position to come in and they're gonna run a forty
yard dash, they're gonna do a standing broad jump, they're
gonna do a standing vertical leap. Uh, They're gonna do drills,
running drills, cutting drills. They can determine if a linebacker
(06:47):
got stiff hips by making him back pedal, point him
in one direction, and throw the football in another direction.
How does he turn his body? Now you can say
you can tell everybody that your college you want to
play pro football. You tell everybody that high school, you
tell him in Peewee you wanta play pro football. But
they got tests for you though. It's called the combines.
Now you get out here and you have a bad
(07:08):
combine day, ain't nobody trying to hear that. Let me
tell you how excuses don't work with people when they're
just trying to get when they're trying to win in
the NFL. The fact that you had a bad day
at the combine and you don't run your best forties
and you just keep telling them you could do better,
they don't want to hear that because see, what ain't
nobody gonna pay you for is to play on Sunday.
(07:30):
And that's one of your bad days. Now, we were
paying you to play on Sundays, but because you keep
having these bad days, because you ain't disciplined enough to
put in the work to make sure that your maximum
can be put can be called upon at any time.
Now you have to combine with some slow times that
(07:51):
go on your record. You have to combine. You don't
jump as high as you did when you was at
the gym class. Well, hold up, man, this is show
day now in the NFL. Sunday is show day. What
they can't run the risk of is paying you your money.
And your bad day happened to be on Sundays after
we didn't cut your check. No, no, no, We're looking
(08:13):
for people who limit them bad days, who got the
discipline to work hard, to make an effort for you.
Understand what I'm saying to your folks, Please understand this
discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. You you can,
you can want it all you want, But if you
ain't working, if you ain't grinding, if you ain't gritting
(08:34):
your teeth, if you ain't hurting, if you ain't sweating
real bad, if you always somewhere, got to chill, You
got to have a cold one, you got to smoke one,
you always, you gotta do all them things. Can't tell
you something you ain't gonna make it. Discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire.
Uh huh. I shall well, a good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, Come on dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay today,
you know this week, I've just been on it, so
today is no different what I'm trying to do. I'm
telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself. I'm more determined to
(00:24):
share the principles of success. I'm more determined to help
and guide and teach as many people as I can
the things that I've learned. And I mean, man, I've
been through it. I have really been through it. I
kid you not. You know. I used to say, Okay, God,
you know, why is all this happening to me? But
as I uh, I've gotten older, I understand that was
(00:48):
the ingredients. I needed the ingredients to be this cake.
I needed all those ingredients stirred up. I need all
of that different flavors, the stuff that I didn't think tastes.
So all that stuff had to come into the bowl
in order for me to get to where I am today.
As much as I did not like the taste of
(01:10):
the ingredients, little did I know God was making this cake,
not me. But what he did was and you've heard
you the old saying God could turn lemons lemons into lemonade.
Well that's what he was doing now. At the time,
it all had a little funky lemonade lemony flavor to it,
(01:31):
with some other stuff in it too. I didn't care
for it. But little did I know, Little did I
know that I needed everything that happened to me to
happen to me in the exact order that had happened,
in the exact array of things that happened for me
to have a knowledge I have today, the experience, the attitude,
(01:52):
but so I could turn around and share that information. Okay,
got that out the way. I've learned this. This, This
is what I want to give to you today. I
want you to understand something that discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire. Discipline determined your destiny, not your desire.
(02:18):
You've heard me say this how many times on the show. Okay,
here we go again, Steve, I got it. Faith without works,
it's dead. But let me tell you something. To be
a hard worker, you've got to be disciplined. That's one
of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through to
my sons that an undisciplined man is headed to a
life of justice. I can't even tell you, man, you're
(02:41):
gonna throw yourself down a cliff if you're not a
young man or a man that possesses discipline. Because they
got something for undisciplined people. They got some street laws
for undisciplined people, and they got some federal laws and
state laws for undisciplined people. Sway them signs is outside
(03:01):
on the freeway, We're gonna let you go fast. But
seventy is the limit. Seventy fast enough, really, really, if
you're disciplined enough of a person to leave your house
at the time you're supposed to leave your house, seventy
miles per hour is absolutely enough. But if you're an
undisciplined person, if you don't have the wherewithal to leave
(03:23):
your house on time, to make to get ready to
go where you want to go, see the desires where
you want to go, the discipline is how you get there.
You know, you understand, you can wanta go to see
your family in California all you want, but the flight
leaves at one eighteen. You leave your house at twel
(03:45):
or thirty. They told you you must check in one
hour before your flight. Now, if you ain't got the
discipline to get to the airport to check in one
hour before your flight, leaving your house forty five minutes
before the flight departs, what you think gonna happen? Your
desire to go see your family in l A is
(04:06):
going to be thwarted because you lack the discipline to
prepare yourself and get yourself ready to do the things
that you have to do to make your desires come true.
I'm telling you discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
You can write down a list of stuff you want
to do all day, but if you don't produce and
(04:27):
show the discipline necessary to get there, what you think
gonna happen? Huh? Okay? I want to be rich, Okay,
I want to make four hundred thousand in a year. Okay,
I want to be the best player that there is. Okay,
but you don't want to practice. See the cat that's
(04:49):
disciplined enough to show up at practice, the shooting jumpers
when everybody gone home, that's the guy that's gonna be
the best. The guy that puts us and that's never
late for practice. The guy that stay need to playbook
that's the guy that's gonna make it. That's the guy
that's gonna make not the guy that's talking crack I
stalk the next smack. I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl,
I'm gonna make the All Star Team. I'm gonna be
(05:10):
All American. That's that's just what you're saying. Hey, you know,
you can say a lot of stuff, but discipline determines
your destiny, not your desire. So now let's talk about
this discipline. What is that, really, Steve. That's your work ethic,
that's your hunger, that's that's your will that that's what
(05:36):
you do. That's how hard you're willing to demonstrate. See
it's a live demonstration. Now. Discipline is how hard you're
willing to demonstrate the attributes and the traits to be
what you wanna be. Did you hear me? It is
(06:00):
your willingness to conduct yourself in a manner that is
above and beyond what they what what they say is necessary. Okay,
let me see if I can come up with an
example for that. So I was watching the NFL Combines
on TV. Now this is a good example right here. Now,
you can want to be in the NFL. All you want.
(06:23):
But they got this thing called the NFL Combines where
they bring in some of the top players at every
position to come in and they're gonna run a forty
yard dash, they're gonna do a standing broad jump, they're
gonna do a standing vertical leap. Uh, They're gonna do drills,
running drills, cutting drills. They can determine if a linebacker
(06:47):
got stiff hips by making him back pedal, point him
in one direction, and throw the football in another direction.
How does he turn his body? Now you can say
you can tell everybody that your college you want to
play pro football. You tell everybody that high school, you
tell him in Peewee you wanta play pro football. But
they got tests for you though. It's called the combines.
Now you get out here and you have a bad
(07:08):
combine day, ain't nobody trying to hear that. Let me
tell you how excuses don't work with people when they're
just trying to get when they're trying to win in
the NFL. The fact that you had a bad day
at the combine and you don't run your best forties
and you just keep telling them you could do better,
they don't want to hear that because see, what ain't
nobody gonna pay you for is to play on Sunday.
(07:30):
And that's one of your bad days. Now, we were
paying you to play on Sundays, but because you keep
having these bad days, because you ain't disciplined enough to
put in the work to make sure that your maximum
can be put can be called upon at any time.
Now you have to combine with some slow times that
(07:51):
go on your record. You have to combine. You don't
jump as high as you did when you was at
the gym class. Well, hold up, man, this is show
day now in the NFL. Sunday is show day. What
they can't run the risk of is paying you your money.
And your bad day happened to be on Sundays after
we didn't cut your check. No, no, no, We're looking
(08:13):
for people who limit them bad days, who got the
discipline to work hard, to make an effort for you.
Understand what I'm saying to your folks, Please understand this
discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. You you can,
you can want it all you want, But if you
ain't working, if you ain't grinding, if you ain't gritting
(08:34):
your teeth, if you ain't hurting, if you ain't sweating
real bad, if you always somewhere, got to chill, You
got to have a cold one, you got to smoke one,
you always, you gotta do all them things. Can't tell
you something you ain't gonna make it. Discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire.
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