Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 10.06.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you. Ah huh, I sure will. Good morning
everybody you are listening to the voice, Come on dig
me now. One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man.
If y'all only knew, I think I'll tell it to
you this morning. Man started off real crazy. But it's

(00:22):
just those little mishaps where we as people who are
striving to be successful, that makes all the difference in
the world. When you have those little minor things that
come up, you can't let the minor things stop you.
You've got to keep pressing forward. Now. Could I have
played the role of where is my car? Where is

(00:45):
my car? Oh? Where is my car? Instead of hustling
and grab a cab? So what am i? Am I
above a cab ride now? Or do I have to
look at the bigger picture and say, okay, I could
act like a little spoil brat some type of star
and go I don't ride in cabs or where's my car?

(01:05):
And then go to blaming people for not having a car.
Or do I make the adjustments because ain't like I
ain't been in a cab before? Now, slow down, Ain't
like I ain't never been in a in a beat
up car before? Slow down. Ain't ever like I ain't
never had a car and rode a bus before. Slow down,
ain't like I ain't never been homeless before, and aint
have nowhere to go? Slow down. So in those moments

(01:28):
right there, always remember where you come from, but even
more importantly, always remember where you trying to go, because
it's important for me that I get here as many
mornings as I possibly can. It's important because that's the goal.
And so many people allow a minor things to stop
them on their road to success. And I'm giving you

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this example today not to say, hey, look at me,
but to say to you, hey, listen to me. There
are going to be a lot of things that's gonna
happen along your way to being successful. And if you
allow the small things to stop you, there's no way
you'll make it. You've got to always press forward and
stop looking at the situation for what it is, and look,
sometimes you have to take your eye off right now

(02:10):
and put your eye in the future. You know, God
has blessed me in so many ways. I mean, what
can I say? You know, I ask God for this
syndicator show. He gives me a syndicated show. Niact like
I don't want to come to it. Hold on, man,
slow down. Did not you ask for this? Do I
not realize that there are certain people, man, who look
forward to this message in the morning. I've heard it

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from people, so from the hundreds that I've heard it for,
that could represent thousands for all I know. So if
I think somebody's counting on me, I got to try
to get there and give something. So today I didn't
have any time at all to think about what I
might say. I just walk right in and the jingle
was playing, and so I decided to just tell you

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about my day and maybe you can relate it to
something you going through along the way, Because no matter
who you are, you're going to have some moment man,
where things are going to happen. And like I always
tell my kids, and I just had this conversation with
my little girl, it ain't that things ain't gonna happen.
It's how you handle what happens that matters. But it
don't matter. It's how you handle what happens that's the

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determining factor on where you get in life and how
soon you get there and how long you stay there.
That will always be a mishap. Something that's gonna throw
you off. There will always be something man that could
deter you. That will be something somewhere man that will
make you doubt it. Now that you know that's gonna happen,

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then let's talk about how you handle what happens, because
it's going to happen. So now, what do you do
as a person when these moments come about in your life?
How do you handle? Oh? Woe is me? Oh, I
guess it wasn't meant to be. Well. If the Lord
wanted me to have this, I'd have that. How many
damn many times you hear people say that, You know

(04:00):
it really irks me. Man, Stop using God as your excuse.
God ain't no excuse. God is a reason. He's a
reason why the good happens. He's a reason. He's not
an excuse. God don't have no excuses, and none of
his scriptures or writings not that He just don't make excuses.

(04:22):
I would have done this. But you know there's a
scripture that says the poor will all shall always be
amongst us. Why that's got to be you. Yeah, he
said the poor will always be amongst us, Because you
know everybody ain't gonna follow the principles of success. But
he also said he came to give you life and
give it to you more abundantly. He said that too,

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But oh no, you don't want to hear that because
your life kind of trip it out a little bit.
So now what you do with it? Now you twist
it and you go to that one little scripture that say, well,
the poor shall always be amongst us. Well, that's put
in there because that suggests in case, see that's a
just in case y'all don't want to follow the scriptures.

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That's just in case you don't understand that faith without
works is dead. That's just in case you have not
because you ask. Now, it's just in case you don't believe,
and shall not doubt he got all that in that.
But in case you don't want to do that, there
is a scripture that tells you what will happen if
you don't do it, And here it is the poor

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shall always be amongst us. But then you get that
when they say, well, that's I guess that's the Lord's will.
Lord's will, really, really, really really that's amazing. I just
don't believe that about him. I don't believe that God
created your life. To be a life of misery. I
think that we make decisions along the way that cause

(05:47):
us to have lives of misery. But I really really
just don't believe that God created you for that. I've
heard Nelson Mandela speak, and you know you gotta go.
While all those years in prison, man, what was it about.
When you hear him speak, you understand what it was about.

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He said, he always knew he would be free one day.
Now what he said he never knew was he said,
he never knew that he would be the president of
that country. Oh my goodness, what a long way around.
But he could have set there and got involved in
prison activities that wasn't up to Paw and things like that.

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And they said whenever young inmates used to come in.
He was telling the story one time of how young
inmates used to come into the prison. They all sit
around and talk to him about what they were doing
and how many kids they had in their lives, and
it helped them keep track of it outside a little bit,
and it kept a sense of time for them, and
it reminded me to talk about what they left behind,
and it kept them going because something was greater on

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the other side. Had he allowed that to stop him.
Had he allowed the imprisonment, which is a pretty major deal. Oh,
by the way, then guess what he would have never
been the Nelson Mandela that we know today, a martyr,
a leader, a great force. People want to go around him.
Even people that imprisoned him could not understand his staunch strength,

(07:19):
his faith, his unwavering commitment. They couldn't understand it. So
things are going to happen in your life, but it's
how you handle what happens doesn't matter. So keep pushing, y'all.
Don't let the little things get in the way, Okay,
And if you just sometimes you just don't know. I
got in a cab thinking I wasn't gonna make it,
but at least let's go see, let's try. I made it. Now.

(07:40):
Guess what that gives me? Another piece of information that
I have and all I had to see it again today?
Guess what I said today? Man, sometime when it looked
like you ain't gonna make it, just go ahead on anywhere. Now.
I could still be back there at the hotel talking
about where my car, but I got up in here
made it. So now what y'all gonna do with it?
Let's go listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.