Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 07.04.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just want to say something encouraging to people, because
so many people out there, you know, I look at
Instagram and I watch people, and I listen to people,
and I get so many calls now and so many
texts and so many things. I run up into people
to say, hey, man, we really look up to you.

(00:22):
Just yesterday, I got off a plane and young man says, sir,
excuse me. I just want you to know we look
up to you. Thank you man for saying some of
the things you say, and that you know that that
really mattered to me. And as I've gotten older, I've
started to understand more and more my position and my

(00:43):
mission in life, and part of it is to be
encouraging and informative for those that still trying to find
their way, because I know what it's like to not
know your way. I know what it's like to feel
the frustration of wanting something to happen and nothing seems
to happen. But all those times that I felt like

(01:05):
nothing was seeming to be happening, it was actually going
down at that very moment. It actually was. It just
takes experienced time and age to look back on and
see exactly what was happening to you was in preparation
of what was going to happen to you later on,
and so it became imperative that you understood that the

(01:34):
things that happened in your past are in direct correlation
with where you wanted to be today. And I wanted
to do these closing remarks to encourage people that there
is a process, that all of us are in a process,
and I have to remind myself of that oftentimes. Also,

(01:55):
how many times have I set a goal for myself
without asking God to give me the proper guidance in
that goal and direction? Because when I asked God for something,
he usually does it in a way that I didn't
even see how, or I didn't even think of. I
give you an example. I put something on my vision

(02:16):
board about six years ago maybe and when it was
involving a franchise. I'll just leave it at that, and
that's what I said, Man, I'd love to have a
franchise like this. I love to have a few of these. Well,
that was my goal and I put it on my
vision board. Years later, I actually ended up doing a

(02:40):
benefit for the franchise. Then I actually formed a relationship
with the guy that owns the franchise, and I started
using some of his facilities to do something else that
God had won wanted me to do that I didn't know.

(03:03):
I'm being very vague because I just don't want to
give up the story, the name. But just understand what
I'm saying. All I wanted was a franchise. What God
intended for me to be was something different. And so
then eventually I ended up owning something of the franchise,

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but it wasn't a franchise. It's the craziest thing. Now.
All of this happened because later on in life, I
stopped worrying about what I wanted and I started asking
God to show me what he wanted from me. And
even though I was in the right direction, I wasn't

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thinking big enough, and what God ended up giving me
was far bigger than what I had wanted. The lesson
I learned is the lesson I'm trying to tell you
about today. You can have your dreams and aspirations as
you should, but open yourself up to the will of
God so you can see what God got for you.
Because I am telling you, man, you can't out plan God,

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you can't out thinking, and you show can't out doing so.
While you on Instagram flexing and fronting and acting like
you this and acting like you this, why don't you
go to God in honesty and tell him the truth. Hey,
you know what, God, I'm really a little bit broken
right now. I'm really been going through some things and
I'm struggling, and Hey God, I just wanted to tell you, Man,

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just between me and you, when I ain't flexing and
I ain't fronting, I'm actually confused. I need some understanding.
I need your wisdom. I need your guidance, man, because
I'm tired of being confusing, but I'm acting like I'm okay.
I need some help. You know something, y'all gonna tell
y'all something. Prayer works, man, Prayer really does work. Prayer

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change is things, but prayer change people too. Think about
that for a minute. Think of all the ways you
try to project yourself, but then the reality of it is. Man,
I've had to slow myself down so many times and say, God,

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make me the man you want me to be. Come on, Man,
just make me who you want me to be. This
idea I have for myself, I could be selling it short.
This idea that I have for myself may not be
in your will. This idea I have for your for
myself may not be in your timing. I'm just asking you, God,
if you could just step ahead from me, man, just

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help me out. I'm tired. I'm tired of getting it wrong.
I'm tired of perpetrating. I'm tired of flexing. I'm tired
of acting like i'm something that i'm not. I'm tired
of showing people the good side so they'll think I'm
just fine. I'm really hurting over here. I really need
some help. I'm just coming to you straight up and
just saying, hey, could you fire me? Because I don't

(06:01):
know how the first the first idea of solving a
problem is the first admitting that you have for y'all.
Think about that today. Okay, those are my closing remarks. Opekay,
help somebody today. Y'all have a great day. Hey, listen,
don't forget talk to God. He would love to hear

(06:21):
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