Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 09.27.24

Today in Closing Remarks, the message is clear about hope.  It is a very important thing!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. You ready to take us out? Yeah, I
was thinking of a couple of things. I've been watching
a lot of people who you know, on the news

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and stuff like this, who seem that that that are
in such despair, you know, and I've listened. I was
watching somebody online the other day talking about how hopeless
their life seemed to them. I want to offer people

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something to think about. Be very very conscious of the
word hopeless, you know, be very very conscious of feeling hopeless,

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because it can happen if you're not careful. And I've
had to end my life on several times. Become very
acutely aware of this trick that the devil uses. And
if the devil can get you to feel like it's hopeless,

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oh man, he's got you. He's got you right where
he wants you. I remember several times, man, when I
was homeless, Man, when I just didn't see this career
going the way I wanted it to go. I was
just in some dark places, man. You know, look, man,

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when you don't have a house to go to at
the end of the day, it's it's it's a it's
a it's a debilitating thought repeatedly to go wowd to
not be able to say I'm going home. Cause you know,
I mean, no matter how rough a day you have,
if you have the comfort to say, man, well skip

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all this, I'm going home, and you can turn that
key and get into this place that you stay as
no matter what it looks like or how small or
how big, it's your home. If you can turn that
key and go in there and shut that door and
lock out them troubles for a minute, it gives you
a moment to regroup yourself. So not having the comfort

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of saying I'm going home was rough on me at times,
and it was times where the devil would get into
my mind and say, man, it ain't no way out
of this. You just homeless. You not getting these gigs.
Ain't nobody calling you all this? You want to be

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on TV, you want to be a star, Steve, this
is hopeless. I had to catch myself because hope is
a very important thing to cling on to, because sometimes
you only have hope to cling on to, and you've

(03:21):
got to keep hope alive. I remember when Jesse Jackson
used to say it, keep hope alive, keep hope alive.
People don't know how really important that is. To keep
hope alive, not faith, not belief, not being factual that
I know this is gonna happen. But if you can

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just say the mere words, man, I hope I be okay. Man,
I hope this workout. I hope God hear me. I
hope I get a break. I hope this don't last
too much longer. Just say hope. Just say it. I'm

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telling you, man. Clinging on to that word hope. Hope
is the beginning of faith, because, like I say all
the time, sometimes I used to hope I got a
bike for Christmas. I used to hope I would get
a toy. I used to hope you know that I graduated,
I hope I get a job one day. Well, eventually,

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as I got older, all that hope and I used
to do, eventually I learned how wow, this is really faith.
Faith is a belief in things that you cannot see.
But it begins with hope, because when you're young, it's
just hope. I hope Santa Claus bring me this. I

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hope I get a bike. Man, I hope I get
that doll house. I hope I get that oven this year.
I hope, I hope he asked me out. I hope
she say yes. I hope she will be my Valentine.
I used to hope, hope for so many things, man,
But as I got older, I understood that hope was

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just the pure essence. There's a scripture, man, I wish
I could think of it right now. Faith is the
substance of things hope for it. That's it, and the
evidence of things not seen. Faith is the substance of
things hope for. That's why you got to keep saying

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our hope even if you ain't strong enough to believe hope.
It's the substance of faith. Because faith is the substance
of things hope for. You can't have faith without first hoping.
I hope this happened. Well. Faith is a belief in
things that you cannot see. So what are you hoping

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it to? What are you thinks that you cannot see
something you hope for? You got to keep hope alive, y'all.
When you feel like you ain't gonna make it, just
keep saying our hope. Lord, I hope God, I hope Lord, Please,
I hope. And I'm telling you he'll come to you.
He'll come to you. And faith is the substance of things. Hope,

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For hope turns into faith if you just keep saying it.
Keep hope alive, y'all. Always just keep saying you hope.
That's the beginning of things happening and changing in your life.
Those are my closing remarks. And they'll hope that did
something for somebody. Hey, listen, y'all, talk to God. He'd
love to hear from you today. See him all for all.

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