# Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 10.6.26 An episode of [Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1405629617), 6 Oct 2026, 8:02. Audio: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/29a55d79-8fdc-4bd2-b91f-ae390045e4d4/72bd5dc8-9434-45e3-ab0a-b4db0123db8e/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=37d55ddc-192c-43d2-82c0-ae390045e4de See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Transcript [0:00] Speaker 1: Uh-huh, I sure will. Good morning, everybody. You all listen [0:08] Speaker 1: to the voice. Come on, dig me now. One and only, [0:12] Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Got a radio show. [0:14] Speaker 2: Uh-huh. [0:15] Speaker 1: Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah, man. [0:18] Speaker 2: Boy, boy, boy, boy. Man, God has been good to me. [0:23] Speaker 2: I can't even. I can't even put it into words, man. [0:28] Speaker 2: But I try, though. I try, I try, I try. [0:31] Speaker 2: God does things for me just right on time. He's [0:34] Speaker 2: so cool with it. And I happen to run across [0:39] Speaker 2: Joel Osteen on television, like I often do all the time. [0:44] Speaker 2: And I was sitting there and he had such a [0:49] Speaker 2: timely message for me. A part of it was something [0:52] Speaker 2: that I've said oftentimes about. [1:19] Speaker 2: He said that when you get closer to it, the [1:23] Speaker 2: more difficult it becomes. [1:26] Speaker 1: Did you hear me? [1:27] Speaker 2: He said, the closer you get to what it is [1:30] Speaker 2: you want or you need or you have to have [1:34] Speaker 2: or you would love to be, it gets a little [1:38] Speaker 2: bit more difficult when you get closer. He told this [1:43] Speaker 2: story that's in the Bible that I'd never heard before. [1:48] Speaker 2: This is what he said. He said there was a [1:50] Speaker 2: man who was paralyzed and he had heard that Jesus [1:58] Speaker 2: was speaking at a house. And so he wanted to [2:03] Speaker 2: get there. So he convinced four of his friends to [2:08] Speaker 2: put him on a stretcher and carry him for hours [2:14] Speaker 2: to get to this house where Jesus was speaking. He [2:19] Speaker 2: said that along the way, these friends said that that [2:26] Speaker 2: they went along because he has so much faith that [2:29] Speaker 2: if he could just get to him, it could be [2:32] Speaker 2: better that he could, if he could just get over [2:35] Speaker 2: there and he could. [2:36] Speaker 1: See him, that he might have a shot at getting healed. [2:39] Speaker 2: And so he said they took out along the way [2:42] Speaker 2: and they walked and they walked and they walked for hours. [2:45] Speaker 2: And then when they got there, the house was completely [2:50] Speaker 2: filled with people. There was absolute, it was packed wall [2:54] Speaker 2: to wall. There was absolutely no way for the men [2:57] Speaker 2: to get him on that stretcher in to see Jesus. [3:01] Speaker 2: This is a story that, uh, Joel Osteen said is [3:05] Speaker 2: in the Bible and we was telling it. No, I'm [3:07] Speaker 2: just repeating the parts of it. I got gathered. And [3:11] Speaker 2: so he said, they sat there and they went, wow, man, [3:14] Speaker 2: we walked all this way and it's full. [3:18] Speaker 1: And we can't get there. [3:20] Speaker 2: He said, and then the guy with the affliction told [3:25] Speaker 2: the four men, if you get up on the roof [3:29] Speaker 2: and cut a hole in it and lower me down, [3:35] Speaker 2: I bet I could see him then and I bet [3:37] Speaker 2: it'll be all right. Now, he then said, you must [3:42] Speaker 2: imagine how these four men must have felt. [3:45] Speaker 1: When you carry somebody for hours. [3:50] Speaker 2: On the way they had to carry, some cloth connected [3:52] Speaker 2: by a couple of sticks, said the men's shoulders had [3:55] Speaker 2: to be bruised, had to have deep gouges in them, [3:59] Speaker 2: not cuts, but just indentations where they had carried the [4:03] Speaker 2: weight of this grown man for so many hours. And [4:05] Speaker 2: they looked at him in disbelief, like, man, what are [4:08] Speaker 2: you talking about? We done walked all this far. He said, yeah, [4:11] Speaker 2: but if you get up on that roof and you [4:13] Speaker 2: cut a hole in it, And lower me down. [4:17] Speaker 1: I could see him. And when he see me. It'll [4:20] Speaker 1: be alright. [4:22] Speaker 2: After sitting there. And imploring the men. They went up [4:26] Speaker 2: and did just that. And in the story. That Joel [4:30] Speaker 2: Osteen said. The man was healed. But the point he [4:34] Speaker 2: was making was. He was saying that. The closer you get. [4:39] Speaker 2: To what it is you really want. The more difficult [4:42] Speaker 2: it's going to become. But you've got to push through. [4:46] Speaker 2: So if you don't push through, you never know. So [4:48] Speaker 2: you can't get right to the answer. And because it [4:51] Speaker 2: gets really difficult, start creating those little sayings that we [4:55] Speaker 2: got as people. Well, I guess it wasn't meant to be. [5:00] Speaker 2: I guess it wasn't the Lord's will. No, man, I [5:04] Speaker 2: guess you should not give up right now. I guess [5:07] Speaker 2: you should keep pressing. I guess you should do more [5:10] Speaker 2: because see in all of us, in all of us, [5:13] Speaker 2: when you've had enough, I want you to know something. [5:16] Speaker 1: You do have a little bit more in all of us. [5:20] Speaker 1: You can do one more. [5:22] Speaker 2: You know, that's one of my favorite things that I [5:24] Speaker 2: heard Joel Osteen said, and it kind of made me [5:26] Speaker 2: feel good. He said, I always feel like I can [5:31] Speaker 2: do one more anything. And I tell my friends all [5:34] Speaker 2: the time, I can do one moment. I could do [5:37] Speaker 2: one more day. I can do one more anything. Now, [5:42] Speaker 2: here was the jewel that I never really knew that [5:47] Speaker 2: Joel Osteen and God sent to me. [5:51] Speaker 1: I needed to hear. [5:53] Speaker 2: He said that no matter what you're going through, no [5:57] Speaker 2: matter how long the challenges you've been facing, God has [6:02] Speaker 2: an end date for it all. [6:05] Speaker 1: Did you hear me? [6:06] Speaker 2: No matter what you're going through, no matter what challenge [6:09] Speaker 2: you're facing, no matter what situation you've gotten yourself into, [6:13] Speaker 2: God has an ending date. All you got to do [6:18] Speaker 2: is keep pressing forward. All you got to do is [6:21] Speaker 2: hang in there. All you got to do is don't [6:24] Speaker 2: give up. All you have to do is don't turn back. [6:28] Speaker 2: There is an end date for all of it. even [6:33] Speaker 2: when you think you've had enough and boy, have I [6:38] Speaker 2: had this conversation with God on several things that I've [6:43] Speaker 2: been going through and I'm go, I've even told him, look, [6:46] Speaker 2: I got it, man. He said, just keep hanging on. [6:51] Speaker 2: There is an end date to whatever it is you're [6:54] Speaker 2: going to. There's an end date to your illness, your sickness, your, [6:59] Speaker 2: You're tired of being tired. There's an end date to [7:03] Speaker 2: this relationship that you can't seem to get through beyond over. [7:12] Speaker 1: That's like a cancer to you. [7:14] Speaker 2: There's an end date, but you've got to hang in there. [7:19] Speaker 1: You've got to keep pushing forward. You cannot turn around. [7:24] Speaker 2: You must not go back because when God gets you [7:27] Speaker 2: through this, And you break through to the other side. [7:32] Speaker 2: The reward and the benefit is far greater than the struggle. [7:39] Speaker 2: I oftentimes look at some of the things that God [7:42] Speaker 2: has brought me through in my worst times. And when [7:46] Speaker 2: he brought me through, I went, wow, man, now that [7:49] Speaker 2: I understand that, now that I'm on the other side [7:52] Speaker 2: and I have the benefit of the reward for it, [7:55] Speaker 2: would you do it all again to get there? [7:57] Speaker 1: Yes, I would. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.