Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 09.19.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, I sure will. Good morning everybody you are
listening to the voice, come on, dig me now what
it only? Steve Harvey got a radio show? Man. I
love it when I run up into people and they
say that to me. They say, hey, Steve Harvey got

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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 got to
keep going anyway. And that's my words this morning to

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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 less. You know, if your prayer is asking

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for God's blessings, you got to give him something to
work with. Now. You know, you 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

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end could be. If you turn 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. They get tough

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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 where in

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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
that not giving my all, it cost me a number

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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 at the time it was major.
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?

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Provided one thing, you never give up. You never turn
around and go back. Had I written myself off because
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

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wanted to accomplish, and you failed at it. Now you
write yourself off as a failure. 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

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written myself as a failure, and I wouldn't be here today.
When I didn't become a 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

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would have written myself as 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. Oh, I got a list for you.
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

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a story filled with mishaps. I have a story filled
with failures. Couple of things now, the grace of God
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 un to stand

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why we do the things we do. In all of
my shortcomings, 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 written myself as a failure the first time.

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I could have. 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. But

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how I still get here today. 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

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because he said we wasn't gonna be perfect. So in
all of your imperfections, your creator 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. With that in mind,

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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 to God, there's
no money required. He just gives you the grace freely.

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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 a loophole in the contract with
him that allows you to make mistakes, that allows you

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to get it wrong, that allows you to fail time
and time and time again. 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,

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and God will give it to you at the right time.
But you got to be ready. Oh, 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.
So you make the mistakes to learn the lessons. Lord,

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ain't God been good to me? I ain't gonna lie
to you. Cool me with the Steve Harvey Morning Show.