Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 07.29.24

Not having God in your life is like not having a parachute when you fall.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
All at all, So don't given them black a million
bus buss boozyad listening to show, don't joy?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yah yeah, Joy, you go do that. You gotta turn

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I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Got to turn the mouth turn my probably got to
turn mouth to turn the water of the money. Jup.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Look me.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Come come on your uh huh, I sure will. Good
morning everybody. You all listening to the voice, come on
dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey man oh
man got a radio show. Yeah, I do. God so
big to me, man, I just have to tell you

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about it. I can't help it. It's rather obvious to
me how big, how good God is. He's absolutely tremendous.
He's off the chain, you know, man, I want to
share something with you today. You know, if you're out there,
start your mission today. Why don't we all decide together

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better yet? Let's just kill that cause you don't that
just individually? Look you listening, everybody's got something that's on
the table that they haven't yet attacked yet. What are
you waiting for? Start your mission today? Stop the procrastination now,
and if you and if you allow prassic excuse me,

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if you allow procrastination to set in, then that that
allows then which is a weakness, you know, but that
allows the devil then to just really do his thing,
because an idle mind is the devil's playground. So if
you ain't working on your goals, dreams, aspirations or visions,
you just you're just waking up seeing how today gon

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and go or the devil he got plenty for it
for you to do. See. But if you get your
mind right on your goal and your focus and your purpose,
then you can go on about your business. Then when
the distraction comes, you can catch yourself. Now, don't mean
you ain't gonna fall privy or fall prey to some
of your distractions, because you will, but you will have

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a goal in mind and aspiration that makes you go.
Hold on, man, I got to stay focused here because
what I really want while I'm really trying to go
the thing that I'm really after, this new little thing
that's being introduced, this don't fit into the equation. Man,
Let me keep it moving, or you may step up
off the line for a little while. You know, Like

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I said yesterday, the thing about God is He's so
forgiving that if you get out of line, he'll hold
your place. See that's the real cool thing. A lot
of people do that for you too. Like I said,
if you're at the movie theater, or you at the
amusement park and you're in the line and you forget something,
if you politely ask the person behind you, hey, man,
I gotta run to my car left something, would you
hold my place? Most people say fine, Ye'll go ahead,

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and when you come back, they don't have a problem.
See your problem is is you want to get out
the line, go do something, then come back and just
get up in the line further up than you were,
or cut somebody. Now you got a problem because see
everybody looking at you now like joy, woa partner where
you come from? You know the line start back here?
But see the thing with God is God don't do that.

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God don't say the line start back here. God holds
your place. When you make a mistake and you fall
off the line, God holds your place. But if you
ain't got no dreams, aspiration, if you ain't got no place,
what he holding for you? See, I mean he got
a place for you, but you got to come to it.
See some people if well, here's what I'm saying. If

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you got a goal of aspiration to dream and you
fall off track momentarily, you can get back to that
because God knows where you left off. Now you may
have to accomplish a few more things since you stopped
for a long period of time, but God knows where
you left off, you can get back on track. I look, man,
this dream of being on TV since I was a kid,

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and it got off track. Now it got off track.
I just kept it as one of the dreams. And
in some real dog moments when it looked like it
wasn't gonna happen, all I was hanging on to was
just to hope that one day it could. But that's
what faith is really about. Faith is the belief in
things that you cannot see. But faith gives you the

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confidence to keep hoping. Man, Sometimes it just keep hope alive.
Sometimes you heard Jesse Jackson say it, just keep hope alive. Sometimes, man,
it's just the hope. I was hanging on a hope,
And I'm talking about when it got real ugly and
funky out there for me, when it looked like I
wasn't gonna ever make it and all of the facts

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was in and everything pointed in the direction. You not
gonna make it. You done really messed up this time.
Then I sat there and I just hung on to
the hope. But man, that's what I'm saying. If you
got a dream on aspiration or vision or something, when
you fall off track and you want to go get
back in line, God holds your place. He knew I

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was off tracking, out of line, but he said, okay,
here's where we stopped. You want to be on TV. Now,
when you get it together and you quit tripping, and
you come and your turn to me, I'm gonna hold
your place, put you back in line. Then we're gonna
finish the journey. That took me a lot longer to
get here than I wanted to. But then it was
necessary because I needed all of the mishaps to happen
to me along the way. So when I got on

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the radio one day, which I didn't I see coming,
Steve Harvey got a radio show, y'all. That's why I
say it every day. See, because of this radio show
that I didn't see coming. Now I have stories to tell,
and I can tell you about me better. I can
tell you about anybody, And I don't been through enough
whereas relatable, where enough people can go mad that happened

(07:19):
to me. Appreciate you saying that that's what it was for. See,
I get it now. See at the time, though I
didn't like what was happening to me. At the time,
I was really in total disagreement with God on a
lot of stuff He was pulling off on me. But
in essence I was really pulling it off on myself.
But through his grace and mercy, he kept me through
all of my mistakes, all my bad decisions, all my miscalculations,

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all my misfires, all the times I knowingly stepped out
there and did wrong. He forgave me, he said, because man,
if you ever come to me, I have a plan
for you that is going to be far and a bud.
It will supersede everything you've ever dreamed of. That's what
I did. I just got sick of me. Goodn't sick

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of me? And I turned it over to God. And
then God started working And here I am today. Now
He threw with me. Yet Nope, have I arrived yet? Nope?
But guess what the journey is cool? And then you
know what I found out that's kind of what it's
like in life. If you done walked off the cliff

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in life and you ain't got no God in your life,
it's like not having a parachute. You step off the
cliff and you just free falling. We all now that
fag gets you closer to the grave, right see, we
all heading to the grave from the moment we're born.
But the cool thing about a relationship with God is
when you step off the cliff and you got God

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here a parachute. You still going down, but it's a
nice ride. You guide and you're glide, and you're softly,
you enjoy You look around, you're smiling. You're meeting other
people along the way. You're floating over here to ski
a little while. You over there at the beach for
a little while. You mess around over here, you get
to go out the country a little bit on your

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parachuting and all that, and God just helps you your
descent appear more like a rise and more like a
euphoric fall. Instead of not having no God in your
life and you just walking off that cliff every day
free falling. Ain't got no cord you steady pulling, you
hollering the whole way because you to mess around with

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yourself and ain't let God come into your life and
provide a parachute for you. I would rather have a
parachute since I got to jump every day, than to
not have one. God has been like a parachute for me.
Ask me where that came from. I can't tell you.
But like I always say, most good things that happen

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in my life that I can't explain is usually him.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
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