Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 9.10.26

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I sure will. Good morning, everybody. You all listen to
the voice. Come on, dig me now. One and only,
Steve Harvey. Oh, yeah, man. Got a radio show. Do
you understand that? I'm telling you, God been big in
my life. I'm not going to kid you. I'm telling you,
and he'll do the same thing for you. God is

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a gentleman, you know. I want to point that out
to you. God is an absolute gentleman. He will not
come in unless he's invited. He don't just barge into
your life. He gives us the power of choice. You know,
if you say you got it, I don't need you.

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He lets you have it. If you say I need you,
come see about me. He right there. It's just a
real simple thing, man. So always say to people this.
If you've gotten yourself into something, and please know I have,
I was stuck. I thought a couple of times, well,

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might not make it past this one. But then if
I don't make it past it, what's going to happen?
And then I held on to this little thing that
my mother kept talking to me about. She said, sometimes, son,
when you ain't got nothing else in you, just hope.
She said, just hope it'll be all right. You know,

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and what I've learned in my life is that hope
is the beginning of faith. Hope is just, is there
a possibility out there for me? I sure hope something happened. See, hope,
hope is okay, man. Because like I say, for me,

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the way I've lived my life, hope was the beginning
of faith. It was just the idea that, It's just
a thought that something could change for me, that something
could be a little bit different for me, that maybe, man,
just maybe for some reason I could be saved. I
could be rescued. Things could turn around. It could head

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in the other direction. Maybe I could quit messing up.
Maybe somebody will forgive me. Maybe somebody will just say,
all right, I don't know. But I can't count the
times I've been in that position. But then once I
hope a little bit, and then I remember also my
mother because she was a Sunday school teacher. She taught

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me the most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life.
Nothing has been greater in my life than my faith.
She taught me to pray. Mama used to say, when
it get real dark for you, son, Prayer changes things.
She said, when you seem like you lost and you
can't find your way, stop and pray. She said, because

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prayer changes things. You know, when you get a point
in your life when you've done all you can do
and you can't do no more and you just don't
know what to do next. She said, stop, son, pray.
And combine that prayer with that hope that you got.
She said, because that hope is the beginning of faith.

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She said, if you pray just hoping, she said, a
God come through for you. That'll give you confidence that
he can do it again. And then after a while,
you quit hoping. She's saying you start believing. She said,
and that's when you're on to something. If you can
turn that hope into belief, that hope into faith, the

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ability to believe in something that you can't see. But
the key, though, to faith is you're believing in something
that you can't see. See, hoping a little bit different
for me. Now, I'm pretty sure, like I say, oftentimes
I tell a lot of people who can explain this
thing a lot better than I can to you. But
just from my side of it, being as real as

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I can be with you. See, hope helps, man. If
you ain't strong enough to have faith, have hope. And
then if you pray with some hope and God answers
your prayer, then that hope gains a little confidence. And
after a while, that confidence becomes faith. Not a just hoping,
but I'm believing I'm believing is something that I cannot see.

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Faith has been the key to my entire existence. Even
when I didn't have any, it was faith. As I
look back on it, that has gotten me here and
not just faith, but my faith. See, you will only
get to where you're going in your life. Based on

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your faith. See, a lot of people get the word
faith confused. Like, what's your faith? And then they start
going down this whole list of all these different religions
out here. But really, in essence, man, when I talk
to people about faith, I'm talking to you about your,
your belief. How much do you believe in the unseen?

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How much do you believe in the things you can't see?
How much do you believe in the impossible? How much
do you believe? See, because faith is the belief in
things that you cannot see. Faith is the core of
all that is happening to me today. It is the

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faith that I have in my relationship with God that
enables me to just oftentimes believe. If I stay on
the right course and believe a certain way and act
a certain way, his blessings just pour. They just come.
And it comes in a lot of little ways, too.

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I've started to notice. See, it ain't just a lot
of people think blessings is money. No, man, that ain't it.
It's coverage. It's every time my plane lands safe. It's
every time they predict bad weather and I get up
in the sky and it don't be no bad weather.
You know, this is favor. These are blessings that get

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poured out to me. Somebody call me and offer me something.
Not money, but an opportunity. You know, somebody say, hey, man,
I don't know, but I sent this to you. I
thought you might be interested in it. Somebody send me
a scripture or somebody send me something. That's favor. And
it always comes at a time when I need it

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the most. That's favor. That's pouring out blessings. Now, I'm
also the recipient of a lot of other blessings too.
You know, I've been blessed with health. That's amazing blessing, man.
I've been blessed with a spirit of not quitting. I've
been blessed with the ability to shoulder huge amounts of responsibility. See,

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blessings come a lot of ways. But once you tie
into God, once you tie in and you start doing
the best you can do and you start asking for
him to make you a better person, to help shape
and mold you into the kind of man or person
that he wants you to be. You'd be amazed what

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God can do with you, man, if you just invite
him in and allow him to be a part of
your life. I mean, what you got to lose out there?
Come on. If you're sitting in the cell this morning,
why would you not change? You have a chance to
turn your life around with a relationship with God. What
you waiting on? Are you going to just keep doing
it like that, huh? Really? Come on, man. Why would

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you do that to yourself? Why would you not allow
God to be a part of your life? So you
can get to where he wants you to be. God
got some big plans for you. If he didn't, you
wouldn't keep waking up. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
Morning Show.