# Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 9.9.26 An episode of [Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1405629617), 9 Sep 2026, 8:03. Audio: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/29a55d79-8fdc-4bd2-b91f-ae390045e4d4/8a7238a5-f26e-4133-bcc8-b4c001309a51/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=37d55ddc-192c-43d2-82c0-ae390045e4de See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Transcript [0:00] Speaker 1: Come on. [0:01] Speaker 2: Uh-huh. [0:04] Speaker 1: I sure will. Good morning, everybody. Y'all listening to The Voice. [0:09] Speaker 1: Come on, dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey. [0:12] Speaker 1: Got a radio show. I need everybody today, everybody that's listening, [0:20] Speaker 1: I need you to catch fire today. I want you [0:23] Speaker 1: to catch fire today. You want to phrase it another way? [0:28] Speaker 1: I want you to catch on fire today, but I [0:31] Speaker 1: need you to catch fire today. I need today to [0:35] Speaker 1: be the day that you stop complaining and you do something. [0:40] Speaker 1: Do you know why a lot of people can't move [0:42] Speaker 1: forward in their life? Because they complain about their past. [0:45] Speaker 1: They always complain about something that explains the reason why [0:51] Speaker 1: they are. [0:52] Speaker 2: Let me help you with this right here. [0:54] Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop, stop. [1:15] Speaker 1: All that stuff that you're complaining about, everything that you [1:20] Speaker 1: keep allowing to resonate with you as a reason to [1:24] Speaker 1: justify and explain you not being successful. Can I share [1:28] Speaker 1: something with you about all of that? Guess what it is. [1:32] Speaker 1: You didn't got past all of it. You didn't had [1:36] Speaker 1: the baby. You got arrested. They didn't kill you. You [1:39] Speaker 1: didn't finish school, but you're still standing. You met that man. [1:43] Speaker 2: He gone. [1:44] Speaker 1: He involved with two other women right now. Got three [1:46] Speaker 1: other kids. Guess what? [1:48] Speaker 2: You still here and the baby's here. [1:50] Speaker 1: You got over all the injustices that were done to you. [1:54] Speaker 1: You got something happened to you when you was a kid. [1:57] Speaker 1: You're an adult now. Somebody did something to you when [1:59] Speaker 1: you was a little boy. [2:01] Speaker 2: Guess what? You a man now. [2:03] Speaker 1: Some things happen to you that you haven't found closure on. [2:08] Speaker 2: The person that you're looking for closure from has moved on. [2:12] Speaker 1: Can I tell you that everything that has happened to you, [2:15] Speaker 1: do you know you've gotten past it? So why are [2:19] Speaker 1: you steady complaining about what has happened to you that [2:23] Speaker 1: has caused you to be in this position and But [2:26] Speaker 1: do you understand that it's prohibiting you from moving forward? [2:29] Speaker 1: Stop complaining today. Catch fire. Let your past be your past. [2:33] Speaker 1: I've told this to you a hundred times on this radio, [2:36] Speaker 1: but I'm going to say it again. Bishop Jakes told [2:38] Speaker 1: me something, man, that helped me so greatly. You can't [2:43] Speaker 1: drive your car if you're going to keep looking in [2:46] Speaker 1: the rearview mirror. That's why the windshield is huge. The [2:51] Speaker 1: windshield is huge. The rearview mirror is this tiny thing [2:56] Speaker 1: that sits up there. Now, all this for is so [2:59] Speaker 1: you can see stuff that's coming. [3:01] Speaker 2: Up on you. [3:03] Speaker 1: All the rearview mirror for is so you can assure yourself. [3:07] Speaker 2: Oh, listen to this. The rearview mirror is there to [3:10] Speaker 2: assure you that you've cleared something. See, that's what the [3:15] Speaker 2: rearview mirror is for. [3:16] Speaker 1: So when you pass a car and you want to [3:17] Speaker 1: switch lanes, you can glance up there and it says, okay, [3:21] Speaker 1: you're clear now. You passed it. You can switch lanes. [3:24] Speaker 1: That's all the rearview mirror is for. It ain't for [3:27] Speaker 1: you to stare at and dictate your life. What you [3:30] Speaker 1: tripping for, man? Catch fire today. Today, man, quit complaining [3:36] Speaker 1: about everything that happened to you. [3:38] Speaker 2: Life is 10%. [3:39] Speaker 1: What happens to you is 90% what you do about [3:42] Speaker 1: what happens to you. [3:43] Speaker 2: What are you going to do about it? So what? [3:47] Speaker 1: I got all this. Look, man, your story ain't no [3:50] Speaker 1: deeper than nobody else's. I can tell you I was [3:52] Speaker 1: homeless for three years. It's people been homeless for 30 years. [3:58] Speaker 2: How long I'm a ride that out? [4:00] Speaker 1: Well, you know, I can't do nothing right now. I [4:03] Speaker 1: fell on hard times and I lost my place to stay. [4:06] Speaker 1: Where are you staying now? See, the majority of people [4:11] Speaker 1: are staying somewhere right now. [4:13] Speaker 2: I was out there. [4:14] Speaker 1: I didn't have nowhere to go. I'm in a shelter now. [4:17] Speaker 1: You was under the bridge a week ago. You're in [4:20] Speaker 1: a shelter now. Why are you still crying about the bridge? [4:24] Speaker 1: You're in a shelter now. Man. [4:28] Speaker 2: You know how you find your purpose. You get in. [4:31] Speaker 1: Touch with who created you. Because when God made you, [4:37] Speaker 1: he had a purpose in mind. Now, we've ignored it [4:41] Speaker 1: and we haven't tapped into it, but we all had [4:43] Speaker 1: a purpose. [4:44] Speaker 2: You don't. [4:44] Speaker 1: And it's sometimes it take people longer to discover the purpose. [4:48] Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders was frying chicken with a recipe that he [4:53] Speaker 1: was telling people was. [4:54] Speaker 2: The best chicken in the world. [4:56] Speaker 1: Ain't nobody believe him till he turned 70. Why you [5:01] Speaker 1: think the dude that's on the Kentucky Fried Chicken signs [5:04] Speaker 1: is old? [5:06] Speaker 2: That dude ain't 20 up there. [5:08] Speaker 1: He old. [5:09] Speaker 2: He old. But you know what? [5:11] Speaker 1: He had been frying that chicken for 40-some years. They [5:17] Speaker 1: just found out about it when he was 70. But [5:21] Speaker 1: he didn't give up his purpose in life. This dude [5:25] Speaker 1: was just frying chicken. See, people keep looking for their [5:28] Speaker 1: gifts in all kinds of places. When it's right there [5:30] Speaker 1: in you, you ain't got to go to school to [5:32] Speaker 1: find your gift. You're born with the gift that God [5:35] Speaker 1: got for you. You'll go to school to tack it [5:38] Speaker 1: on to something else. But your gift was already given [5:41] Speaker 1: to you. You were born with that. You don't have [5:43] Speaker 1: to go to college to know your gift. Your college [5:46] Speaker 1: allows you to enhance it and to find something to [5:48] Speaker 1: attach it to. And hopefully you get a degree that [5:51] Speaker 1: attaches your gift to a vehicle where. [5:54] Speaker 2: It can work. [5:55] Speaker 1: The problem with college is we go to college and [5:58] Speaker 1: we attach it to what we like or what we [6:00] Speaker 1: might be passionate about, and we ignore the gift we have. [6:03] Speaker 1: You know how many people that graduated from college ain't [6:05] Speaker 1: doing nothing they went to college for? [6:07] Speaker 2: Come on, man. You know why? [6:09] Speaker 1: Because you discover in life your gift. You discover what [6:12] Speaker 1: you was born to do. You know what my major [6:16] Speaker 1: was in college? It was advertising. I can't be at [6:20] Speaker 1: no desk drawing no picture for nobody. But now guess what? [6:23] Speaker 1: I can wake up every day and guess what? I [6:25] Speaker 1: can tell you I advertise. I've been advertising my career. [6:28] Speaker 1: Come see me live. Come see me live at Madison [6:32] Speaker 1: Square Garden. Come see me live at Phillips Arena. Come [6:35] Speaker 1: see me live at Joker's Comedy Club. Come see me [6:37] Speaker 1: live at Percy's. Come see me live at Ellis's Tavern. [6:41] Speaker 1: Come see me live. Come. [6:43] Speaker 2: I've been advertising the whole time. [6:46] Speaker 1: But I had a different purpose in mind because I [6:48] Speaker 1: went and I talked to God. And this is how [6:50] Speaker 1: you do it. You go talk to God and say, hey, God, look, OK, [6:54] Speaker 1: this is the deal. I've been struggling here. I'm over 40. [6:59] Speaker 1: I still haven't found my purpose in life. OK, but [7:02] Speaker 1: so I can quit wasting any more time. Would you [7:05] Speaker 1: help direct me and guide me to my purpose? I [7:08] Speaker 1: know you created me to do something. I just haven't [7:11] Speaker 1: found what it is. And the reason I haven't found [7:13] Speaker 1: what it is, because I've been doing things my way. [7:16] Speaker 1: I ain't been checking with you, conferring with you on anything. [7:19] Speaker 1: I ain't locked in or tried to settle it up [7:21] Speaker 1: with you. I've been just doing my thing. Well, my [7:24] Speaker 1: thing has gotten me as far as it can get me. [7:27] Speaker 1: How about you take over and do your thing? Now, [7:30] Speaker 1: can you direct me in my path? I'm an open book. [7:34] Speaker 1: Treat me like a piece of clay. I'm telling you, man, [7:37] Speaker 1: if you go to God, he'll give it to you. [7:39] Speaker 1: But see, you have not because you ask not. How [7:43] Speaker 1: many times have you asked God for it? This ain't [7:48] Speaker 1: no magic trick, y'all. This is the deal. You got [7:51] Speaker 1: to catch fire today. Catch fire today. I am. [7:55] Speaker 2: I'm excited about today. I've got a lot to do. [7:58] Speaker 2: 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.