[Music] I'm gonna tell you something you got to have a tremendous work ethic to be successful in here in other words and you can relate to this you got a lot of dog in you you really do man if you want to be successful because this it's gonna be a lot of trying time so you have to have a tremendous work ethic but you've got to have faith faith without works is dead you hear it all the time you go to church and you learn all these scriptures but then you're on apply not only to
your life you're looking at a man who has made the simple application of three or four scriptures and maxed them out to get him Albert Einstein say it once he said imagination is everything it's the preview to life's coming attractions everything you have everything we have in this world somebody imagined it it's your imagination is tremendous 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 we're really gaga for you is really in your imagination that is a scripture that Albert Einstein took this quote from it's like the book to see the secrets or the top-selling motivational books ever but if you the book the secret is our biblical everything comes from the Bible you really don't need self-help books you don't need the magic of thinking being the power of positive thinking how to win friends and influence people think and grow rich the winner's circle I've read
of 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 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 the 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 turn daddy but when I wrote it on
the paper it wasn't factual it was just hoping you just gotta start with the hope faith is the substance of things that you're hopeful is just hope something gel there what happened is through grace and favor he give you a couple of them things you hopeful and then you supposed to start believe indeed because nine turns in the 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 evidence of things not seen because you'd only want to 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 can't nobody see with 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 is dead how many times man have you had a tremendous idea something you thought was the one and you wouldn't 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 the Tim and they shot it down and you thought since there was your loved ones and new friends
and they got your best interests at heart you believe them you was wrong they thought 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 yahoo uri everybody knows somebody suffers I got something with your brain right now you're gonna let the fact that you got some bills stop you from opening the
business to thing to God to put in your imagination so you're gonna squash that cuz you got bills everybody got feels [Music] your real life is in your imagination can you can you can you grab what I'm telling you so I don't know what you thought I was gonna say to you I'm just a real dude I don't even have the education you all have my school that's one hanging out no education I don't use full syllable words what I look 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 was Deva hell I'm 60 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 believing they turned him down everywhere kind of Sanders didn't get a franchise - he was in his 60s Kentucky Fried Chicken sell no chicken than anybody in the world today so if you sitting there
thinking cuz you got a little gray on you are 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 you sittin up in here like like God can't do nothing 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 knee business I'm in the wrong
business ain't nothing wrong with wanting something but going down to these churches y'all sittin up in here going down to let keeping you in neat little boxes God got a big life for you the smallest scripture I ever read changed my life the scripted real song you have not called you a do you know the difference that that could make in your life I'm just giving you real talk I'm just trying to tell you how I got you see I have no education when the last time you really asked you 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 in in your picture didn't I just tell you hearing in your job title the lifeguard got 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 seven TV show called I only need one one show pay me enough money I need to fold
for my wife 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 my imagination is a preview to life's coming to traction but what that really means is is God showing you a preview of what he has for you so now if you have not called you a snob do you understand if you up your ass he has to up his give this period this is simple stuff that anybody can apply you ain't even
gotta 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 have not caused your ass now put asking God for a little bitty stuff Lord Jesus help me make my rent don't they always all y'all got somewhere to stay how about this why you keep asking for rent watch your ass for mortgage if he gonna give you the money for a place to stay what difference do it make the dime
but if you keep saying read anything you keep giving you read if you ask for mortgage he'd give your mortgage but you have not cross your hands nothing 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 cop just a new
car how you can't get that from God now why cuz you ain't asking you keep asking them for stuff that fit in your paycheck your paychecks a 2015 Lexus so you go down and ask him for that and guess what you get a 2015 Lexus you up your ask you have now this ain't a magic trick man I get tired of rich people talking to people and they make you buy these programs and stuff so they can drag you out for eight years I've asked God [Music] everything he hasn't given to me it's on the
way when I was homeless I lived in a car for three years I made some decisions in my life man and threw myself off a cliff my decision in October 8 1985 I walked into a comedy club for the first time only there from a girl [Music] I 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 the ladies 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 wonder I was sauced and live stand-up for the first time they had 10 acts supposed to go up 9 of a winner 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 and Steve Harvey's here come on up now 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 Harlan laughing they bought all 10 of us back up on stage they had a clap off I warned the clap off I warned $50 I cried from Cayuga Falls to Cleveland the girl kept saying why are you crying a table $50 I said now you understand there's way more than 50 this dis what'd I do she said what you mean that's what you do this is just your first time you don't understand something happened to me I won't ever tonight I went to work the next day
October 9th 1985 and quit my job now I don't recommend that you do it that way because two years later I was homeless okay because the first year comedy I made $3,400 the next year I made 4800 and I mean $5,300 I got a wife a set of twins I'm sending every dollar I got to them so I tried to live on fifty seventy five dollars a week gas was 38 7 gallon back then I just stayed in my car so I lived in my car for 3 years 3 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 leg 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 say yeah throw him back I had to throw
him back because I used to stop at rest areas with the cast iron grills I kept trying holding my car I start a fire that he fished that some days I wouldn't need so that they thought I was just fishing but I was eating so I said one dancing leg you know what one day man I'm gonna give myself some land so fast-forward god bless you 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 say $250,000 I said
I'm going to give me some land that's all I wanted cuz you know what the one thing I wanted I didn't care if I put a house on her than that I just wanted to be a staying somewhere and couldn't nobody run me off I just wanted [Music] you know Marilyn as it whirled I heard so sick of just kidding just getting run off with head time I stopped got this money my saving money save $250 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 rolling hills had a pond dude took me over there 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 six hundred thousand dollars man I ain't got that kind of money he said well how much do you have I got 250,000 he said let me think about it and I was standing there and then I stopped us in sir can I ask you a question man how many acres of
land is dead he said this is six acres six six years ago I just asked God just give me six say 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 is crazy so I thought about it I said man what could we work out right before I got ready said the guy that took me over there said Steve let me show you something right quick it took me over this Hillbillies house took me over this hillbilly house named Jerry Kimball I was
real nervous about meeting man lying like we talked but mess around turned out to be one of the finest men I've ever met in my life became a father figure to its old white lady it took me off me show me this land and it was massive it had three lakes on it had rolling hills that had trees it was unbelievable I said man this is incredible I said no 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 mic him cut a deal he said well it made himself 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 see if you can bring me 250,000 cash by tomorrow I give you this 16 acres I showed up next day $250,000 16 acres see that's Grayson favor right there that's what that is so my first piece of land was 250 acre 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 so then I got to thinking I said hold up man you mean you have not cause you ask now I asked for six six years ago he showed me six but he gave me 16 next thing you know I had 270 acres of land 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 was like God had no plans for me that's the wrench that I have my mentoring campus I bring a thousand black boys out there with a thousand single mothers and that was the purpose at a trench I never go to enter 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 y'all you can't even see his way but you gotta start the hustle you gotta give God something to
work with look if you start hustling and grind him 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 that's what I don't ever go there to use that land for fishing or not but I'm changing boys lives over there my story is really a story about faith really is man I come up the dirt I have no college degree all of my children do I got seven kids on Sunday last one on the college I've got three boys two boys come out of
my house I got a daughter and come out of Spelman and Berkeley I got two daughters went to Hampton and I got data and then graduated from Ohio State I made sure all my kids were to college cuz I know they gots to had an education but daddy you didn't go to college when your ass ain't got no jokes [Applause] it's been important for me to empower my children but not only my children to thousands of young people across the country and education is the key for a lot of people but when I speak into
colleges and stuff I tell people number one thing in your world is not your education is your dream so what you dreaming about charlie what you steal a dream about me what does 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 back why would you not go and see what God really got for you for you lead this word why would you hang on to a job here's what happens with the job if you live in
paycheck to paycheck right now when you retire they're gonna give you one third of what you can't live on they're gonna give you gold watch on a turkey and they're gonna set you on out to past if I was you before I leave this world I 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 told you to 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 reason I know I'm telling the truth is cause you sittin 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 do with you yet he got something else for you so why don't you go see what that is then you owe yourself something go be free go see what God got for you I'll steal that's easy for you to say you rich how did you hear me I lived in a car for three years I
took on October 8th I won $50 October 9th I quit how big a jump you wanted you ain't even got dude a lot of y'all got savings you may not have three years I'll but you only need a little bit just jump go see what God got for you quit sitting here in your life posturing like it's okay quit funk in the faint quit faking the phone quick quick wit got people thinking you something you ain't man when you really know you won't be so Mills I'm just telling you just like it is you ain't
got to believe me but you look at me I'm telling you is proof in this here now that the god you serve really will give you what you asked for he will I'm not sure preacher I'm a hood dude that the master round with no education the mess when I got to the top of the TV world ballin out of control and I'm telling you I was homeless and leading a clown and I ain't got no education now y'all in here got degrees I see it on you I feel when I'm around educated people I
know you know how to study and math I can look at you and I'm so proud of you but hey man the next level go make yourself some money Bible says a male without a dream or vision Shall Perish it never mentions if you don't have an education [Music] you [Music]
