Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 11.19.25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. Wow, it's been a good day. Thank you
guys for listening as usual. All right, Steve, it's on you.
You're up. You know we were talking earlier and Junior,
I forgot what was your initial question? What was your
initial question? Oh? It was a how do we know
if what we want in life is what God wants

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for us? How do we know if what we want
in life God wants for us? My quick response was
you ain't gonna get it. And then as we were
talking off air, Carla said to me, Carla said, remember
the saying, if you want to make God laugh, tell
him your plans. My grandma used to tell me that. Yeah, yeah,

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you know. And I got to thinking about that, which
leads to my closing remarks. Me being a comedian for
the early part of my career, I must haven had
God on flow hollering because I can't tell you the
plans I came up with, only to find out it

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wasn't God's plan for me, and what I had to
eventually learn what I didn't know when the beginning is, Hey, Steve,
why don't you ask God what he has for you?
Instead of all the time going to God telling God
what you want from him. Steve, why don't you start

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asking God what he has or wants for you because
his plan is going to be better than the one
you had. But I didn't do that. I just didn't
do it. For years. I just went to God with
what I wanted. And here was the dumber thing. Most
of the time, I didn't even go to God. I

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just went after what I wanted. Somebody out there know
what I'm talking about, And boy, let me tell you something.
It's just because I've understood the power of being authentic
with people and not being fakean acting like I've always
had it together. No, no, I haven't. I've made thousands

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of mistakes. I have messed it up so many times. Hey, man,
if you all knew all the mistakes I made, it's
actually a miracle that I'm here today. It really I
kid you not, And I'm not blowing it up for
radio purposes. If God had dealt with me according to

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my iniquities, if God had if God had shown me
no grace and extended to me no mercy and just
dealt with me as I was, as I be in
a world of trouble, man, I would be in a
world of trouble. But I got news for you, so

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would you. Hey, mister and mis righteous, who send them
talking about? Well? Oh lord, what did Steve do? No? No,
what did you do? See all this point and fangle
business right here? I stopped doing that to people because
I found out very quickly. Man, it's a lot of
fangle point can come my way too. So in not

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asking God what he had for me or wanted for me,
I pursued a lot of stuff that wasn't good for me.
I pursued people that wasn't good for me. I pursued
businesses that wasn't good for me, or I had to
learn the business. Hey, why did I think I should
own a carpet installation company? Why did I think that?

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Why did I think I was actually gonna get rich
selling to Dick Gregory Bohemian diet? Why did I get
into amweight thinking this was my ticket? I'm gonna draw
these circles in these living room I'm gonna become a
direct diamond distributor. I'm'a be by, i'm'a be like Don

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and Georgia hell, and I'm gonna have all these people
in Orlando following me, and I'm gonna get up and
give's speeches like Dexter Wansol and Bill Britt and Don
and Georgia Hall. I had all the motivational tapes, man,
I was listening to it all. I'm gonna be a
megastar Amway distributor. I didn't ask God one time if

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that's what I should do. He just set there with
his arms fold hollering, laughing at me. If you want
to make God laugh, tell him your plan. The whole
time I was in them living rooms drawing them circles,
he had to be on the floor laughing or I
was good at it, though, because my real gift was

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standing up in front of people entertaining. So my presentation
of circles, oh, man, I turned it into a routine.
I didn't even know it. I was the most captivating
Amway consultant ever born. You couldn't stand up in front
of a living room full of people and draw them
circles better than Steve Harvey. I wasn't getting a lot

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of people that signed up, but I wasn't selling enough
soap powder. That was my plan. My plan, man, I
can't tell y'all y'all had so many plans that went
around you. How many people I've picked that I thought

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was for me. God, I can't say no names, but
Lord have mercy. And it just didn't work out. And
as I look back on it, Lord, God Almighty, didn't work.
Then I forced some things in my life. I just
forced some relationships. I forced some stuff and aught none
of it worked until I stopped and started saying, Okay, God,

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what you got for me? And now it seems like
everything I do works. It don't. But that's what it
appears to other people. Somebody told me the other day, Man, Steve,
everything you touched turned the goal. Now I just started
touching what God telled me to touch. That's really the fact,

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and it just looked like it. But I've made enough
mistakes to learn that. Talk to God today. Ask God
to order your steps, and you'll have a much better
and more fulfilling life and save yourself a lot of pain.
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