If you could get a couple of things from me. If you could gather this piece of information
Albert Einstein said once
He said imagination is everything
It's the preview to life's coming attractions. I want you to get this now
Imagination is everything it's the preview to life's coming attractions
Because if you think about it
Everything you have everything we have in this world somebody imagined it
It's your imagination is tremendous somebody was sitting on the phone when they talking with a cord to the wall
And said, man, I wish I could just go outside with this phone. Everybody in here got a cell phone
Somebody imagined that somebody got tired of riding in a wagon
Cross-country from slavery to freedom somebody said I wish we had something that made these wheels move by the self we drive cars
People got tired of driving from New York to LA somebody said, I wish we could fly we got airplanes
Imagination is everything it's to preview to life's coming attractions
Your real life the one God really got for you is in your imagination
It is not in your current situation or your current paycheck
And if you've been living like that you have been restricted yourself to a commonality that is really not yours
Because what really God got for you is really in your imagination. There is a scripture that
Albert Einstein took this quote from it's like the book the secret the secrets wanted top-selling
Motivational books ever, but if you read the book the secret. It's all biblical
Everything comes from the Bible you really don't need self-help books. You don't need the magic of thinking big the power of positive thinking
how to win friends and influence people think and grow rich the winner's circle I've read them all all that information is in
Proverbs all of it, but let me give you this scripture you've all heard this right
Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen
So when I told you a minute ago
You've got to have a tremendous work ethic, but you got to have a lot of faith
I talked to so many people who get older like some of us are and they've lost their faith. Well faith is really simple
It's that faith is the substance of things hoped for all that mean is in the beginning. You just hope something pop off
You know you just kind of hope something happen for you. I was hoping I would get on TV
I wrote it on a piece of paper when I was 10. I want to be on TV the problem
I had when I wrote it at 10 was I suffered from a severe stuttering problem
I could not talk outside of my house so can you imagine when I wrote on a piece of paper
I want to be on TV and turned that in
But when I wrote it on the paper it wasn't factual
It was just hoping
You just got to start with the hope
Faith is the substance of things that you hoped for, you just hope something jump. What happened in through Grace and favor
He give you a couple of them things you hope for and then you're supposed to start believing then
Because not turns into faith
But if you take the scripture faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen
What is the evidence of things not seen? I just told it to you
Albert Einstein said imagination
Is everything it's the preview to life's coming attraction
But guess what?
your imagination really is
It's the evidence
of things not seen
Because your imagination you know why it's the evidence of things not seen because you the only one who can see it
Your imagination is actually God showing you a preview of a coming attraction
That he has for you the moment you don't believe in your imagination you negate what he got for you
Your
Imagination is to preview to life's coming attraction. It is the evidence of things not seen
Because nobody can see it but you, your problem is you keep telling your imagination to the wrong people
See if you want to kill a big dream tell it to a small-minded person
It's dead how many times man have you had a tremendous idea?
Something you thought was the one and you went and told it
To your loved ones and your so-called friends, and they shot it down
I mean you was convinced that it was just oh man
I just came to you and you told it to them and they shot it down
And you thought since there was your loved ones and their friends
And they got your best interests at heart you believe them you was wrong
They taught you let them talk you out of what God got for you some of y'all still sitting here
With the ambition of opening a business one day
But you scared to go start the business cuz you got a job and you got bills rich people got bills
Everybody got bills hell I got bills
You who, you everybody owes somebody something. I got something with the bank right now
You're gonna
let the fact that you got some bills stop you from opening the business the thing to God then put in your
Imagination so you're gonna squash that cuz you got bills
Everybody got bills
Your real life is in your imagination
What I'm sharing with you is stuff that everybody can apply today
If you are sitting in here thinking that you're too old to listen. to what Steve, hell I'm 60. I'm 60 years old I know
You can't believe it I know
He's so fly I know
But I'm sixty, but I still rely on my imagination
See if you think you're too old to make it. Let me give you a prime example
Colonel Sanders
Colonel Sanders has been frying chicken his whole life
He was telling everybody he had the best chicken in the world ain't nobody believe him they turned him down
everywhere Colonel Sanders
Didn't get a franchise until he was in his 60's
Kentucky Fried Chicken sell more chicken than anybody in the world today
So if you sitting there thinking cause you've got a little gray on you
You too late
As long as God waking you up in the morning that's the sign that he ain't through with you
So what you trippin for you sittin up in here like like God can't do nothin for you cuz you 60
Man, you know what I'm asking God for right now
And I'm 60 if you could see my vision board you would be you would be blown away
Cuz I got enough right now. I really know, but I ain't in the need business. I'm in the want business
Ain't nothing wrong with wanting something. Quite going down to these churches y'all sittin up in here going down to keeping you in these
Little boxes God got a big life for you
The only person ain't get done the look, and I love Church don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking Church
Don't you don't don't tweet that
No stay don't care for the church no more. I didn't say that
But don't go down there memorize all these scriptures, and then don't apply none of them to your life
That's what I'm talking about quit going down there
Just to go and just get a couple of scriptures and apply them to you. Let me get you one
That's real simple these principles of success
They've taken all of these scriptures
And they putting them in books and they call them you know thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill the magic of thinking big by
David Schwartz
But everything in there is the scripture they just reworded it because people don't know how to read the Bible
Like I can't really read the King James
version I can't
Four verses of that I go to sleep
Cause hence
Furthermore
Whatsoever
Whosoever who who is you talking about?
I need a name dog not not whomsoever
Cuz I'm thrown off. I didn't do good with reading and comprehension in school
The smallest scripture I ever read changed my life
The scripture real simple
You have not
Because you ask not
Do you know
The difference that that could make in your life
I'm just giving you real talk now
I'm just trying to tell you how I got here see I have no education
I applaud all of you
With your education I was sitting here talking so many men who have and can corporate America
I'm in all of that cuz I don't have it
But you sit here, and you take what you have and it could be so much more if you would ask
See you have not cause you ask not
When the last time you really asked him for something, or do you keep making requests
That's inside the confines of your paycheck
When you gonna get outside of that didn't I just tell you God ain't in your paycheck
Didn't I just tell you he in your job title
THe life God got for you is in your imagination while you still imagine this stuff
Why you keep dreaming of a summer home why you keep dreaming of
Retirement leaving your grandkids money something that day is now where I think about my grandkids. I got sevenTV shows
I only need one
One show paid me enough money. I need four for my wife
Four of them is for Marjorie
The other three is for the grandkids. I just need one
I do not live my life in the confines of what anybody says to me
I let my imagination go and now imagination is a preview to life's coming attraction
But what that really means is is God
Showing you a preview of what he has for you
So now if you have not cause you ask not. Do you understand if you up your ask He has to up his give
Just period this is simple stuff that anybody can apply you ain't even got a had no degree to do this
You don't even have to have no money to do this you can start this today
And change your whole game because you're gonna need grace and favor anyway
You need to dream the faith, and then he put his grace in favor on talking. Your gone
But you gotta ask for something if you up your ask
he got to up his give period
You have not caused your ask not. Quit asking God for a little bitty stuff. Lord Jesus, help me make my rent don't he always
All y'all got somewhere to stay
How about this why you keep asking for rent? Why don't you ask for mortgage?
If he gonna give you the money for a place to stay
What difference do it make to God?
But if you keep saying rent
Ain't he fair, he keep giving you rent
If you ask for a mortgage
He'll give you a mortgage, but you have not cause your ask not
Lord Jesus help me fix my car so I can make it to work
Why do you keep praying over that raggedy car?
Why don't you ask God for a car that don't need fixing?
You know they roll them off the assembly line every day. How you can't get a new car how you serve God?
How you go to church, and you can't get a car just a new car
How you can't get that from God?
No why cause you ain't asking you keep asking him for stuff that fit in your paycheck your paycheck said
2015 Lexus so you go down and ask him for that then guess what you get a 2015 Lexus
You up your ask he up his give you have not cause you ask not
This ain't a magic trick man
Listen
I have asked God for some tremendous stuff
Everything he hasn't given to me. It's on the way
I have no doubt about it
Why would he not?
See I tell you what really prompted just thinking in me when I was homeless I lived in a car for three years
I've made some decisions in my life man and threw myself off a cliff my decision in
October
October 8
1985 I walked into a comedy club for the first time on a dare from a girl
Walked into a comedy club for the first time had never heard of a comedy club
All my life, I wanted to be on TV
Had never heard of a comedy club
October the 8th I walked into hilarities comedy club in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, that's right outside after
I signed up for the following week because I just wanted to see what the comedians did man
I saw live stand-up for the first time
They had 10 acts supposed to go up 9 of them went up the 10th guy got scared and went ran out the door
So I had signed up for the following week the guy says listen
We lost our 10th act we're going to go to the phones. We're going to go to the week from next week
If Steve Harvey's here come on up now and the crowd starts clapping
I was eating a chicken wing and
Drinking some grapefruit juice and I turned to the girl and I said, it's a dude in here got the same name I got
She say you the stupidest bastard I know
So I ran up on stage
I'm doing I don't even know what to do, but I just started
Talking about boxing and stuff that happened to me audience was hollering laughing
They bought all ten of us back up on stage. They had a clap off. I won the clap off. I won $50
I cry
From Cuyahoga Falls to Cleveland the girl kept saying why are you crying it ain't but $50 I said no you don't understand
This way more than 50
This what I do, she said what you mean that's what you do? That's just your first time
You don't understand something happened to me. I won amateur night. I went to work the next day
October 9th
1985 and quit my job
You've all seen this book I got out and this video called jump. Oh, I jumped. Now I don't recommend
That you do it that way
Because two years later, I was homeless
Yeah, because the first year comedy I made
$3,400 the next year I made
$4800 and the third year I made $5300, I got a wife a set of twins
I'm sending every dollar I got to them
So I tried to live on 50 75 dollars a week gas was 38 cents a gallon back then I just stayed in my car
So I lived in my car for three years
Three years I lived in my car
And what happened was
I just said man
So I used to fish all the time to eat because I'm a fisherman I'm a bass fisherman
So I used to stop at lakes and ponds and just fish and every night every month I get runoff from somebody's left
Hey get away from here. Hey move along. That's not yours. Hey
Stop fishing here. I just get run off
And he didn't understand at one time I had fish on the line. They said you got fish on that line
I said yeah throw him back
I had to throw him back because I used to stop at rest areas with little cast iron grills
I kept charcoal in my car. I start a fire and I eat fish. Some days I wouldn't eat
So that they thought I was just fishing, but I was eating so I said one day I said man
You know what one day, man
I'm gonna get myself some land. I'm buy myself a piece of dirt
So fast-forward God bless me I get on TV when I'm 38. I'm on Showtime at the Apollo
Lord have mercy. They gave me my money. I saved my money up I saved
$250,000 I said, I'm going to get me some land. I went to Texas
and I'm about to buy some land, but before I went to buy the land I was curious
I just had the thought I said man how much land is on earth?
How many acres is on earth because you know it's not gonna change
You know God lets you fly God let you dive on the water God don't let you make dirt
Can't make dirt, so I looked it up
It's roughly over just a little bit over 36 billion acres of land
36 billion acres of land
So I just got a little bit more curious, and I said well, how many people on earth?
I looked it up
And it was about 6 billion people on earth
So I did some Steve Harvey thinking I said okay if it's 36 billion acres of land
And it's about 6 billion people on earth everybody ought to have 6 acres of land. I just mean you know I just
just thinking
So I asked God could I have 6 acres?
That's all I wanted because you know the one thing I wanted I didn't care if I put a house on it or nothing
I just wanted to be a staying somewhere and couldn't nobody run me off. I just wanted
You know man
I was in world of hurt
So sick of just getting run off man every time I stop some
Got this money, man. I saved my money I saved
$250,000
I'm going and I'm looking for some land
The first day I get there. I see a piece of land in Texas so beautiful
I couldn't believe it had rolling hills had a pond on it. Where I could fish of the dude took me over there
I look at the land, and I'm looking I said man. This is great right here. I said sir, how much is this right here?
He said well
It's about
$600,000
I said man, I ain't
I ain't got that kind of money
He said well, how much do you have? I said I got $250,000
Said well
Let me think about it, man. He said let me think about it and I was standing there
And then I stopped I said sir can I ask you a question man? How many acres of land is that?
He said this is six acres
Six
Six years ago
I just asked God
Just give me six
I didn't want a whole lot of acres. I just wanted my cut
Just give me my six
And so I said ain't this crazy, so I thought about it
I said man, what can we work out right before I got ready to say it the guy that took me over said Steve
Let me show you something right quick. He took me over this hillbillies house. Took me over this hillbilly house named Jerry Campbell
Now I don't really care for hillbillies. Cuz you know we don't
Just you know when you know I believe in
I don't believe in all that when I hear that me and you probably ain't gonna work out. I'm from Cleveland. I do things
I don't want no trouble. I met this hillbilly
I was a little nervous about meeting him man
Cuz I ain't like the way he talk but mess around turned out to be one of the finest men I've ever met in my life
Became a father figure to me old white man. He took me to his house. He said let me show you something
He took me over and showed me this land
And it was massive it had three lakes on it it had rolling hills that had trees it was
Unbelievable, man I said man
This is incredible. I said how much is this he said this 16 acres. I say hey, man
I ain't got that kind of money
Let me go on back over here to this dude where I can maybe cut a deal
He said let me ask you something. What was you gonna give that man over there? I said well
I hadn't worked it out yet cuz all I got is
$250,000 he said we'll listen. I'm in a little bit of a tight right now
Said if you can bring me $250,000 cash by tomorrow
I give you this 16 acres
I showed up the next day
$250,000
16 acres see that's grace and favor right there
That's what that is so my first piece of land was 250 acres so I said man
This is the land that I'm gonna save for my family. I'm gonna fish on the rest of my life
I'm gonna be an old man
Now let me tell you something
I'm so busy now. I don't even get to go to that ranch
I never can go and I thought I was gonna be fishing
And save it for my kids rest of life, but God had another plan for me
That's the ranch
that I had my mentoring camp on I bring a thousand black boys out there with a thousand single mothers
And that was the purpose of that ranch. I never go there to fish at all, but see that's what I wanted
I thought that's what it was for but God got another plan his way is way bigger than yours
You can't even see his way
But you gotta start the hustle you got to give God something to work with look if you start hustling and grinding
He'll fill it up for you, but if you ain't got no hustle and no grind
He can't fill it up so guess what I don't ever go there to use that land for fishing or not
But I'm changing boys lives over there. It's been important for me
to empower my children, but not only my children, but thousands of young people across the country
And education is the key for a lot of people
But when I speak at the colleges and stuff. I tell people number one thing in your world is not your education
It's your dream
So what you dreaming about y'all?
What you still dreaming about? What is God still showing you in your imagination?
What are you so afraid of?
Why would you not take that leap and go for it before you mess around and die?
Why would you not go and see what God really got for you before you leave this world
Why would you hang on to a job
Here's what happens with the job
If you live paycheck-to-paycheck
right now
When you retire
They gonna give you 1/3 of what you can't live on now
They're gonna give you gold watch and a turkey
And they're gonna set you on out to pasture if I was you before I leave this world
I'd go see what God really got for me. Just take a chance
Now here's why you should take the chance
Name me one time God has not pulled you through
Just name it. Name the one thing God has never pulled you through if he ain't pulled you through it
He's currently pulling you through it right now and the reason
I know I'm telling the truth because you're sitting in here. If God was through with you
He wouldn't wake you up no more when he wakes you up is because he ain't through with you yet
He got something else for you, so why don't you go see what that is?
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