- Listen to me, man, you have a great life in front of you. But, your great life is in front of you, it's not behind you. What you did back there ain't got nothing to do with what God got for you.
What you did back there was learn the lessons to get you to where you are, at this particular moment, right here. But, what God got for you, do you know, man, that you can actually mess your life completely up, you can jack it all the way up, and you can turn around and get it right? Do you understand that?
(audience applauding) Do you understand that you could've had a baby, out of wedlock and still be all right? Do you know that you can be divorced multiple times, and still be okay? Do you understand that you can not have a degree, and still be just fine?
You wanna know how I know? 'Cause I'm telling you what I know. I lost everything twice!
I don't know if you've ever lost everything before, but I been bottomed out twice. I done seen rock bottom two times. I been through some walls up in here, man.
I'm just trying to tell you, man, God is really with you. (audience applauding) You ain't gotta believe me, you ain't gotta believe me, but keep doing it without God, let me know how it work for you. Matter of fact, write a book on how to make it without God.
'Cause I wanna read it, I wanna read the first page, and then, I wanna read the last page, 'cause there ain't gonna be but two. (audience applauding) You can jack your life all the way up, God is in the forgiving business. You can make all the mistakes you wanna make, or think you shouldn't make, God is in the get it together business.
If you got dreams and visions, I got news for you, God is in the make your dream come true business. He did it for me, how he won't do it for you? A lot of y'all are better than me, I'm just gonna flat out tell you.
Most of y'all ain't done what I had to do to get to where I am today, you just ain't had to do this type of dirt. You ain't been homeless, you ain't had to scrap like me. Most of y'all didn't come from, you're not old as me.
I've overcome it all, because I have a relationship with Him. And you can listen to me and tell that I'm not a perfect person. I am not a perfect Christian, I have my flaws, I am a flawed human being, but guess what?
You are too. You ain't got it all together, I dare you to say you do. I make a lot of money, man, but guess what?
I ain't got it all together, I'm hurtin', I'm hurtin, man. Everybody trippin' through something, everybody, I don't care who you are, you're going through something, but if you got God, you can make it. I'm just telling you this little piece of information.
I don't see most of y'all most of the time, so you're sitting here, you're kinda lookin' at me a little bit, "Aw, why Steve talkin' like this to us? " I'm just tryna put you on game, 'cause let me tell you, all y'all wanna be successful, and you wanna be happy, but you gotta get there. There's a short cut to getting there, the short cut to getting there is the relationship with God.
If you try it without Him, you gonna fail miserably, you gonna sink, man, it's gonna be ugly for you. Now, this what you gotta do, identify your gift, and get busy with it. God gave all of you a gift!
Identify your gift, it is the thing that you do the absolute best, with the least amount of effort, that's your gift. Get busy at that. If it's drawing, if it's teaching, if it's sharing, if it's caregiving, He put that gift inside of you.
He didn't hide it under a rock, or put it under the mountain, or put it on a mountain somewhere, He put the gift in you. You look at me any kinda way you want to, what I'm just telling you is real. That's how you become successful, identify your God given gift, what he gave you at birth.
If you do that, God will open up the windows of Heaven, and pour out a blessing that you won't have room enough to receive. I am telling you, that is a fact.
