Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 08.01.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody,
you all listening to the voice, come on, dig me now,
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man,
old Man, oh Man symbolizes just one thing to me. Man,
It's just a constant remind of exactly how good God

(00:21):
has been to me over the years. And I'm thank
him for it too, because I realize every day that
I wake up that I would be nothing without him.
That everything I am, that's any good in me, I
owe to him. Now. Have I made some mistakes along
the way? Yep, bunches, bunches and bunches. And will I

(00:41):
continue to make mistakes along the way? Yep? Not as many,
hopefully as I have in the past, because a lot
of stuff I know better now. But you're still going
to make mistakes now, you know. Hopefully I've limited the
amount of intentional errors in my life. I've wiped quite

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a few of those out, but from time to time,
because we're human, we're going to make a mistake every
now and then. The trick, what it is, y'all, is
not to let the devil deceive you into thinking that
once you make that mistake that that's it. You can't
do it. And you falling off the wagon, you can't
reboard it. That's the biggest trick that he uses. He

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makes you think that if you keep stumbling, that you
can't run the race. It kind of reminds me of
a marathon runner. From time to time, I watch them
on TV, and you'll see some people who finish the race,
you know, in a nice pace. You see people finish

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the race sprinting towards the finished line. But every now
and then you'll watch a marathon and you'll see a
runner and the runner is in really, really bad shape.
The key is they finish the race. See, you don't
get disqualified in the marathon because you stumble, You don't.

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They don't. They don't take your opportunity to finish the
race because you keep falling. That's not the key. The
key is finishing. And a lot of times what the
devil does is he makes you think that because you
keep stumbling, because you're swaying from side to side, that

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you know you out the race. Well, that's not the case.
And see and then this thing called life, let me
help you understand something. Everybody falls, Nobody sprints to the
tape in this one, nobody just runs free and clear.
That as some people running faster than you and all
like this, and some people gonna get to the end
before you let them go ahead. And when the end come,

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the end come. I ain't in a rush. You get
to the end. But in this race, though, when you're
stumbling and you're falling, it's a part of it. No
one gets through this race without stumbling and falling, swaying
from side to side. So don't let the enemy to
see you in the thinking that it's over. I try

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to be encouraging to people because I don't want people
to get stuck on this thing, you know. And my
walk is very different from a lot of people's walks.
And then I know a lot of people who walking
in faith the way I'm walking in faith. But my
thing in the morning is just to remind those that
is not a perfect walk man, that it's not something

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that's set up where you're gonna be skipping through life
scott free without any pitfalls. You know. I keep saying
it over and over and over again, because, like I said,
when I was in DC, my boy Hondo said this
to me, and it just kind of stuck with me
that the road to construct the road to successes. Always
the construction. You have to figure and count on the

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setbacks and the pitfalls. But it's those people that that
that that are that fight through will be the victors
in the end. You cannot give up, man, Stop going
somewhere and sitting down every time something goes down. It's
going to go down. It's a part of it. It's
going to happen. It's going to occur that are going

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to be setbacks. If you go and sit down every
time there's a setback, that's not how this works. It
is designed that way. If success were easy, everybody would
be successful. But success is just reserved for those who
are willing to fight through, who refuse to settle for mediocrity,

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who wants something more. Now, don't get me wrong. Success
is defined by each individual. So what I may consider
to be successful, you may not consider that. You know
what Bill Gates considered successful. I might not consider what
Michael Jordan considered successful. I might not consider what you

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consider successful. Your boss might not consider. You have to
define what that is for yourself. It may not be
monetary at all. You know, your level of success could
be tied up in community service. It could be tied
up in family, It could be tied up in the church.
Your level of success could be tied up into boys clubs,

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It could be any number of things. Whatever your level
of success is, you have to determine what that is
you and the best way to determine that is to
get in touch with your maker, who created you, to
find out what your mission and your purpose is so
he can put you on track. I just had this

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conversation with my son and we were talking about getting
on the path that God has set up for you.
So many times we find ourselves fighting through life because
of so much uncertainty, because we have no idea where
we're headed. It's like one of my sayings that I

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have at my mentoring camp for boys is is that
a boy without a male role model is like an
explorer without a map. See if you don't have a
map laid out in front of you of where you're
going when you wake up every day. That pretty much

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explains the feeling of confusion, the lasadaisical attitude, the lack
of purpose, to not understanding your mission because you don't
have not gotten in touch with your creator to find
out exactly what your path in life is what are

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you supposed to be doing? The more the moment you
can identify that is the moment that you get started
waking up with purpose, with the sense of direction. When
you kill the sense of I don't know what's next
or what to do. Now, there's going to be some
confusing moments no matter what happened, it's going to be
some uncertainty. But at least you'll know where you're going.

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So if you're tied, awaking up, feeling loss, abandon, confuse,
don't know what to do, don't know what you're supposed
to be doing, refer back to your maker because when
he created you, he had a plan for you. When
he created you, he had a path for you. Now

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we've made some decisions to get off of both of those,
the mission and the path. But God can get you
right back on track. Do that today, Ask him what
you're supposed to be doing and listen. God has all
the answers if you form the relationship okaying as the
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