What You’re Praying For Is Waiting on You | Steve Harvey

That's how God worked why you think in the beginning he said let there be light he could have just lit it up Well, I started one at 10, but I didn't know Just a teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up and I wrote I want to be on TV Kept that piece of paper till I was 27 years old. I got on TV when I was 38. I Wrote it at 10 it happened at 38 I've had a vision board ever since after that. I started making them out. I started putting them on my iPhone when I was Probably 10 11 years ago. I started putting them on my iPhone That was a game change for me in the past How many times have I changed my vision board? Do you know Ellen? Three times since you've been working for me So in four years, I've changed my vision I'm telling you right now because it's the law of attraction what you put out into universe. That's what's gonna come back to you That's a fact That's a fact that ain't no theory. I came up with That's biblical. That's spiritual That's how God worked. Why you think in the beginning? He said let there be light. He could have just lit it up But he was trying to show us something. He said let there be light Then it was like he could have just lit it man There's there's evidence of how this works you don't have to go to college You ain't got to go back and get no degree. You ain't got to do none of that. You got some faith, man Quit going to church memorizing all these scriptures that don't apply none to your life what you down there for? You could judge me. I don't think with all that cussing you gonna make it Well, well, I'll tell you what you better hope like I'm home and when we get up there he grading on the curve Cuz right now I'm telling you right now. I'm about a 70. I'm just hoping that's a low eight You ain't no hundred You ain't even no 99 no 98. It ain't no perfect people man See y'all y'all the people want to be Christians, but you make the walk seem too hard the walk real I Can't stay on that white line every day Sometime I walk next to the line Sometime I just look over at the line. I ain't doing it today And then when I get strong, I step back on the line ask God for forgiveness. Keep on move But he keep on blessing me man, and you can get them same blessings if you quit playing around with it. I Dare you to go home and write down everything you want and read it every morning and every night I dare you to do it in one year Start get your peeing out and check out what you got you end up changing your vision board, too But you got to believe it can happen for you If you don't believe it happened for you, if you don't send it out, it ain't coming back I was 27 when I got into comedy. I won amateur night on October 8th, 1985. I won $50 cried all the way home Because I couldn't believe I had won this $50 and this girl I was riding when she said why you crying it ain't with $50 I said now you don't understand. I was born tonight I'm gonna go do this the rest of my life She said you won $50 and you gonna go do it the rest of your life I said, I've been talking to God my whole life about what he wanted me to do This is I went to work October 9th the next day and quit my job with $50 I jumped immediately But it led to a lot of catastrophes with that decision You ended up homeless. I think Being homeless kind of turned my life around because all the stuff my mother taught me as a Sunday school teacher That I wasn't listening to I was hearing loud and clear Because he had my undivided attention. God broke. God broke me down to get my attention Because all I had was him because I had nothing else I had no car had no money I had no house So I'm sitting up in here, man. I'm just I Was paying real close attention to all the messages. My mama had gave me over the year I started reading the Bible again and started really understanding that I needed some help here three years of homelessness and then a couple of the bad decisions got it together probably about My first car when I was 38 years old first car ever owned in my name bought a car when I was 38 Messed around got a phone call from the Apollo got on TV at 38 Been on TV ever since Yes, he's gonna make crap That was one of the great things about it she was able to see me You know because I wanted I wanted her to see you know, cuz she had prayed for me so hard I just wanted her to see her boy Turned herself into something. I gave money bought him houses cars About my mama house ticket to Texas. She didn't want the house I'm gonna go to church down here. She didn't want the house because it was 700 miles from her church and Then my daddy didn't want the house because they don't play numbers in Texas And I bought the house in the dry county and they ain't got no liquor store So now my father trying to figure out how I'm supposed to live. I can't play numbers and I can't buy liquor So I had to sell the house Give my money back flying back to Cleveland. So all he said I said well daddy what you want me to buy you a new car? And my daddy always wanted a Cadillac. So I bought my daddy a Cadillac Remodel my mama's whole house It was embarrassing She wanted brand-new walnut paneling and brand-new shade carpet Who bought it? So I took that jump. Most people ain't gonna See a lot of times God show you stuff. You don't make a move on it cuz you you scared But you gotta remember something about fear Everything you ever want all your dreams and the best things in the life is on the other side of fear You got to get through this thing now. I Just don't believe Well, I know I wouldn't have got here without faith Faith is a key component to my success. I don't Really know how to I Really, you know people they get a little tired of me sometimes talking about faith, but Reason I talk about faith to everybody's because it's something that anybody can possess You know If I told you you know that you had to meet an agent or you had to meet the right Publishers or the right lawyer your chances of meeting them is slim to none, but that ain't the truth. Anyway Truth of the matter is faith Faith is the belief in things that you cannot see You got to want something that you don't see know how you can get it But you got to but you got to work towards it like it's a possibility That sound crazy, but that's what it is You got to see a future that can't nobody else see and the reason you can see the future is because it's in your imagination Everything God has for you puts in your imagination Albert Einstein said one time that imagination is everything is to preview the life's coming attractions Everything we see in this world came from somebody's imagination Well, let me tell you something about God God places your future what he has for you in your imagination It's that thing you keep imagining Everything you imagine. It's not hocus-pocus. It's real. It's God showing you a preview of a coming attraction He has for you and he puts it in your imagination That's why when you tell it to other people they can't see it because he didn't show it to them He showed it to you If he didn't wanted them to see it he to put it in their imagination But he put this in me when I was 10 years old. I wanted to be on TV. Ain't nobody see that What? 1968 Look black boy. Tell me he won't be on TV. The only person on TV was Bill Cosby. You finna be on TV. How? You can't be on TV. Ain't nobody see it. I ain't bother me Bothered me a little bit cuz I was young but ain't really bothered me But at the time I didn't realize that the reason they didn't see it cuz God ain't sure today. He showed it to me He showed it to me, man so now I Started my mom was Sunday school teacher So I started applying faith the belief in things that you cannot see Now couldn't I see me being on TV and I ain't see how I was gonna get on TV But I just kept believing it was for me. Do you understand what I'm telling you? All of you have the capability of having faith You should use it Why would you not use it? You're tripping You shouldn't be trying to figure out your life. He didn't showed it to you Over and over and over he showed to your Imagination all the time if you keep dreaming of that other job You should go get that other job, but you're gonna be able get that job if you stay on this job. I Don't see how I'm gonna get that job Have you applied? Are you willing to quit and go over there and get the job see that now? That's where that's where faith without works is dead. Now. That's where you guys start putting in some We will you what would you do if God showed it to you and then showed you where did what you got to do to Get it to work part. Are you willing to do that? I Won amateur night October 8th, 1985. I won $50 first time in the comedy club Cried all the way home Girl kept asking me why you crying it ain't but $50. I said now you don't understand. I Said tonight it came to me. This is what I'm gonna do the rest of my life She said with $50 I went to work October 9th the next day and quit my job I Quit my job the next day Ain't nobody see that But I knew this was my route. This is my only route To ever get on TV So I quit my job. I took that jump. Most people ain't gonna See a lot of times guys show you stuff. You don't make a move on it because you you scared But you got remember something about fear Everything you ever want all your dreams and the best things in the life is on the other side of fear You got to get through this thing now so It was I quit ain't nobody see it. I got I lost everything with this decision, but I lost everything But now I have everything But I made a move I'm just telling you man y'all can if I were you if you don't enjoy being normal, I would take a chance