Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 08.12.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
After spending some time last week with myself, I came
away with some great takeaways and it's a it's really
really hard, I know, for the average person to take
time to their self. It's really really hard for me
because I have so many things attached to my life.

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I have such a huge life, and I realized it,
and I do realize that when I try to set
this life down sometimes and just give it a rest.
Everybody needs a rest. Everybody needs a break, everybody needs
some time to they self. But my team did the

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best they could without bothering me with stuff that was
the day to day. They only text me if it
was pressing and they had to have a response, and
I'm the only one that can give them a response.
So they played it so I wasn't bombarded with a
lot of stuff last week. I was still a lot

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of requests was coming in, but not the usual amount.
And even though what I'm telling you, I know it's
difficult to do. It's difficult to just take some time
for yourself, but it's imperative. And I discovered that I
really have to do it more and I really really
have to discover that I have to just do more

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or more things for me. I do so much and
a lot of women can relate to this, and a
lot of men. You do so much for other people
that you look up at the end of the day
and you ain't done nothing for yourself. You take care
the kids, you take care of the house, You take
care of your man, You take care of your wife,

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You take care the kids. You go to work, you
take care of them, bills. You come home, you take
care of the yard. Something happening with the car, you
gotta go see about that. Something happening up at the school,
you gotta go see that. Then if you got a
child that's got some extra curriculum activities, now you got
to support that because that's your job, because your child
can't get that unless you take them there. And it's

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just it gets to be a lot. But you can't
forget about you because without you, this whole thing don't
really work. So every now and then, I can't tell
you how often, or I can't tell you how to
make it happen, but you've got to take some time
to get with just yourself. And you know what it

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does like, it's sort of refreshing because you get to
reintroduce yourself to yourself. You know, it's kind of good
to get to know yourself, think your thoughts, respond the
way you want to respond. Respond, Sit where you want
to sit, look out the window, look out at the water,
look out at the park, look out in your backyard,

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and just have your own thoughts. That is such a
cool thing to do. You don't spend a lot of
time meditating and praying. You know, I finally took me
a long time, but I just learned this a couple
years ago. The difference between meditation and prayer. Prayer is
talking to God. Prayer is talking to God, putting in

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request of God, telling God about your gratitude, your thoughts,
your dreams, your ambitions, your goals. Is saying thank you.
Prayer is talking to God. But meditating is different. Meditating
is listening to God. Get yourself somewhere in a steal
place and be quiet and ask God and ask his

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spirit to just talk to you, to calm you, to
give you peace, to keep you enclosed in your right mind,
to just give you a to help you with your decisions,
you know, to just sit there and listen to what
he has to say. Bishop Kenneth Olmar in Las Air

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just taught me one of the most valuable lessons I've
ever heard. You know how you have people come up
to you and they may say God told me to
tell you this, or God told me to tell you that.
You've ever heard people come up to you like that.
I'm always leery when people come up to me and say, oh,
I'm glad I met you, because God wanted me to
tell you this. You know what he told me that

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rings true. I was asking, I said, man, how do
you know it's God just telling you something? Bishop Kenneth
Omer said, because God's voice has no sin in it.
Because I've heard people say, I'm gonna go down there
and tell him. The Lord talk to me, and I'm
gonna go down there and tell them what's on my mind.

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God ain't never told you to go down there and
telling people off. God ain't never told you to go
down there and show them who the boss is. God
don't tell you to go down there and bust out
no cardwindw God ain't told you to post something wrong
about a person. God ain't never told told you to
seek revenge. God ain't never told you to go down

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there and show nobody up, embarrass nobody God's voice has
no sin in it. So when people come up to
you and they talk to you and they say that
God told me to tell you this, you know, it's
always interesting. Because I talk to God every day, I
hardly ever miss a day. So when a person comes
up to me and tell me what God told him,
he didn't even tell me that I would be talking

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to you today. And now some people do have messages,
but a lot of them don't, so be conscious of it.
Take some time out for yourself, don't forget to pray, meditate,
spend some time alone, get to know yourself, and remember
something about prayer. Prayer works, So don't forget to pray,
don't be ashamed to pray, and don't ever be too

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proud to pray, because prayer, prayer changes things. Okay, those
are my closing remarks today. Hey, look, talk to God today, y'all.
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