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Put God First, Inspirational Speech 2018

Let me take this moment to wholeheartedly congratulate each and every one of you, today. Voice Reading
You graduated. You did it. You made it. Congratulation to you. Voice Reading
And you did it all by yourself, nobody helped you. Voice Reading
No...that's not - that's what you know - that's what I thought when I was young, I started to really make it as an actor. Voice Reading
I came in, I talked to my mother, I said 'Ma, did you think that this was going to happen, I'd be so big and I'll be able to take care of everybody and I can do this and I can do that.' Voice Reading
And she said, 'Boy, stop it right there. Stop it right there. Stop it right there'. Voice Reading
She said, "If you only knew, how many people they have been praying for you. Voice Reading
How many prayer groups she put together, how many prayer clothes she gave me, how many times she splashed me with holy water to save my sorry behind," as she said it. Voice Reading
She said, Oh, you did it all by yourself, I'll tell you what you can do by yourself: You can go outside and get a mop and bucket and wash them windows - you can do that by yourself, superstar. Voice Reading
So, I'm saying that to say 'I want to congratulate all the parents and friends and family and aunties and uncles and grandmother and grandfathers, and teachers and, friends and enemies - all the people that helped you to get where you are today, congratulations to you all.' Voice Reading
I'm going to tell about two to three stories. Voice Reading
I'm going to keep it really short. Voice Reading
I remember my graduation speaker, got up there and went on forever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Voice Reading
So I'm going to keep it short. Voice Reading

NUMBER ONE: PUT GOD FIRST. Voice Reading
Put God first in everything you do. Voice Reading
Everything that you think you see in me. Voice Reading
Everything that I've accomplished, everything that you think I have - and I have a few things. Voice Reading
Everything that I have is by the grace of God. Understand that. It's a gift. Voice Reading
Forty years ago, March 27, 1975 - it was 40 years ago just this past March, I was flunking out of college. Voice Reading
I had a 1.7 grade point average, I hope none of you can relate. Voice Reading
I had a 1.7 grade point average, I was sitting in my mother's beauty shop. Voice Reading
They still call the beauty shop now, what they call it? Yeah, and I was sitting in a beauty parlor. Voice Reading

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