Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 04.02.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you, h I sure will.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, come
on dig me now, one and only.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I love it when I run up into people and
they say that to me. They say, hey, Steve Harvey
got a radio show. Then they wink at me. I
know they listening. You know, I got a lot off
my chest yesterday. I wanted to clean some things up.
And I appreciate y'all giving me a minute because sometimes,
you know, you just got to say some things out loud.
Not complaining, but hey, just verbalizing, but realizing that I

(00:38):
got to keep going anyway. And that's my words this
morning to you that I want you to keep pushing
no matter what happens. I want to share something with
you that's important, that's very very important. See, you have
to give God something too, black. You know, if your

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prayer is asking for God's blessings, you got to give
him something to work with.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Now. You know, you.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Gotta show the spirit of appreciation or gratitude. You gotta
let him know that you're in it for the long haul,
no matter what happens. Don't turn around. You will never
ever see what the end could be. If you turn

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around and go back, you'll never know what the end
could have been had you stuck it out. You'll never
know how good it could have gotten had you not
just weathered the storm. That's the thing that gets most people.

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They get tough for him, It get hard for him,
and then they let doubts set in, and then those
doubts become facts and the next thing you know, they
give up. Had you not given up, or had you
given your best, what the results or outcome could have been.
I look back on my life on so many occasions

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where in college I wasn't giving my best, I flunked out.
Now it's easy to look at my life now and go, yeah,
but look at you now. But back then, man, it
cost me for so many years that failing to finish

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that not giving my all, it cost me a number
of years. I wish I could say that it didn't
mean nothing, that it was just a blimp on the
radar screen screen, But.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
At the time it was major.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And so you have a lot of decisions in your
life that are happening now. You may be in your twenties,
your late teens, you could be in your early thirties,
and it's happening. But guess what you'll eventually get through it?
Provided one thing, you never give up. You never turn
around and go back. Had I written myself off because

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of one failure? See, and this is where so many
people go wrong at too. You write yourself off after
you failed at something, the one thing you thought you
wanted to accomplish, and you failed at it.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Now you write yourself off as a failure.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now you go settle on into life and just see
what hand you get. Had when I flunked out of college,
had I written myself off as a failure, I wouldn't
be here today. When I lost my carpet cleaner company,
I would have written myself of as a failure. And
I wouldn't be here today. When I didn't become a

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diamond distributed in Amway or a direct distributor in Amway,
even I would have written myself as a failure, and
I wouldn't be here today. When I bought a distribution
kit to become a distributor of the Bohemian Diet and
I didn't make it, I would have written myself as

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a failure. When I became an Al Williams distributor and
I didn't make it, I would have written myself as
a failure and I wouldn't be here today.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh, I got a list for you.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
When I got laid off at for a motor company
and I written myself as a failure, I wouldn't have
made it. Do you need some more? Because I have
a story filled with mishaps. I have a story filled
with failures. Couple of things now, the grace of God

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and his mercy which is available to us all. See
that's the key, y'all, because of his mercy, because of
his willingness to forgive and to even under stand why
we do the things we do. In all of my shortcomings,

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failed marriages I'm talking about, man got it all wrong.
Can't blame nobody else. It's just me, Steve ain't have
it together at that point in life. I've could have
ridden myself as a failure the first time.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I could have.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I just could have gave up on it after the
second one. And please know that this is an admission.
This ain't bragging. So before you start in with me,
understand what I'm saying. I'm pointing out in my life
a series of missteps and failures.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
But how I still get here today.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Couple of things. God's grace and mercy is first. But
that's the key that's for everybody. See if it's God's
willingness to forget you, and God's understanding of why we
do what we do because he said.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
We wasn't gonna be perfect.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So in all of your imperfections, your creator.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Told you you would not be perfect. He's said to you,
it's out there. I don't care which one of the
books you read, it tells you that. So guess what.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
With that in mind, he has a grace that he has.
It's like a grace period. It's like when you don't
pay your insurance premium on the day that is due.
The next day, they don't just cancel your insurance premium.
They have a grace period because they ain't trying to
stop this money from coming in. But when it comes

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to God, there's no money required. He just gives you
the grace freely. It don't cost you nothing. See, you
gotta tap into that, y'all. You gotta get in touch
with that, because that's an important part to making it
understanding that his grace is available. So when you make
a mistake, so when you fail at it He has

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a loophole in the contract with him that allows you
to make mistakes, that allows you to get it wrong,
that allows you to fail.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Time and time and time again.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
But if you never give up, if you keep getting up,
if you keep trying, if you keep striving, if you
keep making the effort to go forward and not go back,
God has a blessing for you, and He has it
in abundance for you, and God will give it to
you at the right time. But you got to be ready. Oh,

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I want it to be successful. But if he had
given it to me back then, I wouldn't have handled
it correctly because I would have made some more mistakes
along the way.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
So you make the mistakes to learn the lessons. Lord,
ain't God been good to me? I ain't gonna lie
to you. Cool It's the Steve Harvey Morning Show.