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I got something I want to share with you today. I was I was in the gym this morning and trained son send him a text, And he sent him a text this morning of a dude in the gym lifting up huge weights, dumb bails doing a bench press like, you know, just huge dumb baills, you know stuff I ain't doing, you know, hundreds some pounds, not really sure was huge. I've never seen dumb balls this big. And the man was pressing him and Lee's son took a picture of him, and he sent this to his father this morning.
His father shared it with me.
I want to share it with y'all because, man, I can't tell you how it's explained so much of your life. And when he showed the man lifting this excessive weight in the gym, he said, wow, pop, look at this dude right here. The caption he put under it, well, don't pray for it to be easier, pray for you to be stronger. Ain't that cold?
See?
I was thinking about that as soon as he said it, I said, Man, I gotta go on the radio. I gotta tell everybody what I see. Now, don't pray for it to be easier, pray for you to be stronger. Okay, let me tell you how important that is now. I just heard it that way today, and I'm sharing it with you immediately because you know what that has.
It's gonna help me a lot, because oftentimes I've.
Done it indirectly, and then sometimes I've done it all the wrong. I've sometimes I've actually prayed for it to be stronger, but I've also prayed sometimes for it to be easier. I have done that and been guilty of it myself. But from now on, after hearing that, I'm changing my prayer because see, you can't have it both ways. You can't be strong and weak at the same time. Now, if you keep asking God to make it easier, what you are not asking him for is for you to be able to handle whatever happens. So the next thing that come along that you ain't worked your muscles on to prepare you for, that's gonna sink you too. So what I learned by that is sometimes I even I got to change my prayer too. Now I do most of the time. But I'm a human being and sometimes I just want it to go away. But now, what I really need to pray for is to strength all the time to deal with whatever besets me, whatever comes my way. Because to become successful, and we've talked about this how many times, it's hard. So since knowing is gonna be hard, why not ask for the strength to handle that. See, stop praying for weaker moments, Stop praying for it to be easier. Stop asking God to make your weight playing and easy.
Okay, now what now?
You ain't worked your muscles out to learn how to handle nothing. I was at it this morning. I put a little more weight on it. In order to grow, I got to change. And you can't change if you're gonna stay the same. You can't keep picking up the same forty pound dumb bills. And you want some moriss, you gonna keep getting it. If you keep doing what you've been doing, you gonna keep getting what you've been getting.
You cannot grow without the change.
So when we talking to God and we're asking God to make it easy for us.
Where it growth at? Where to change at?
No, you got to ask God to make you stronger, not to make the situation weaker.
I'm changing my prayers. Man, I'm going at him now.
With just just make me strong enough to handle whatever happened, whatever come my way.
Give me the strift to handler.
And now whatever I see in front of me that I'm trying to go after, that's gonna require more.
Give me the strift to do that too.
Help me be a stronger man, Help me be a stronger person. Help me be a stronger woman, a stronger boy, a stronger girl, a stronger student, a stronger boss, a stronger employee, a stronger leader, a stronger follower.
Give me that, Give me strift to do that.
Stop asking for it to be simple and easy and paved the way what you want, Man, road to success is always under construction. Always. It ain't ever paved and smooth and easy. Look here, man, go out there to days try to be successful. See what you're gonna run into. Man, it's orange barrels, it's workers, it's detours. It's got craters in the road with no wanting signs on it. That's how hard it is to be successful. The road to success is always under construction. It ain't finish smooth out for you. You got to ask God for strength. Be what you're supposed to be. Now, listen, look at him. When you make a mistake, and you're gonna make them.
We all do. We fall down, but we get up.
A saint is just a sinner who felled down, but he didn't stay there. That's all a saint is. All these Christians running their mouth with you about how fired up and saved they on all this, got all that, but them people, Them people make mistakes all the time, all the time. And see the moment we as Christian people start telling telling people the truth about being a Christian, most people can get interested in it. But if you gonna tell everybody this lie that you're over here living this perfect life and everything and ever since you came to God, your life been smooth and you don't have no and He done took all your pains.
Await, what what? Who are you? Where that life at? You're talking about Heaven now, ain't you? But I heard you had to die to go there? So what you're really talking about?
Come on, man, I'm talking to the cat that's in some real pain right now, that's in some real trouble right now. The dude is at the crossroad right now. The dude has been struggling and dealing with it for a long time. I'm talking to the cat that's out there, been trying to figure out what's wrong, man, Why I can't seem to get it right. That's who I'm talking to. I'm saying, come over here and give God a try. Come over here with your imperfect self, with your imperfect ways, and watch him change some things about you. Watch him give you the strength. See what he did for me. Let me okay, see, best way I can do is just tell you what happened to me. See what it did for me was he just took me and took how it was and made me better with it. I'm still an aggressive man. I'm probably not gonna ever stop being aggressive. But he took that aggression and he starts shaping it. Now for the first twelve minutes in the morning, be aggressive about me, Be aggressive about the feelings you got towards me, your father, your leader, your God, your savior.
Be aggressive, man. Tell people how you made it Steve aggressively.
Since you want to, Since you aggressive and you've been aggressive, I made you be aggressive with that. Now, since you like that, tell it like it is, Steve, Then tell the truth of how it really is, how I do for you, what I done for you.
Tell everybody you know what I've.
Done for you in a plain, simple way so they can feel you. See, he ain't changed me. He just made me better with it. When you get loud, hey man, every now and then and get loud for me. You know you want to tell some jokes, you real funny, tell something funny, but let it be so more people can hear it.
See, that's what he for me.
So if all you catch out there that's scared to come on over here because you scared it's gonna change you, turn you into some little punk. Now you got to come over here and beat this little meek lamb laid off the slaughter every Sunday. That ain't what it is over here. God looking for men, God looking for for real soldiers out here. See everybody I talk to you don't want to hear about Christianity. So I ain't got nothing from there. How about that? How about that? I'm cool with that. See every Christian ain't turning another cheek. I ain't there. You slap me, man, I ain't man, I'm sorry, I don't I don't know. I ain't there yet. But see I'm a work in progress. He ain't through with me yet. I might get to the point where I can turn my other cheek. I doubt it. I ain't. I ain't looking for I ain't praying for that one. I'm I don't for real about you, man. I'll be praying for most dreams. So when I when you do slap me, when I come back around, I come back nice hard slap me.
You won't slap me twice. I can promise you that. Where am I going with this? Steve Huh? I'm sorry, y'all. Just remember what I told you to The Steve Harvey Morning Show