- Don't forget to pray. But don't be ashamed to pray. And don't be too proud to pray. Because prayer changes things. (audience clapping) Listen to me. I don't care how dark it look for you. I don't care what they done said to you. I don't care what the verdict is. I don't care what the haters say. Prayer change things. I'm talking to a girl, I
grew up on a block man, that it didn't breed success. Lot of people on our block
ain't here no more man. I grew up in a place that
you had to be somethin' else you come up outta there. Prayer changes things. (audience clapping) I was told I would never be nothin'. Prayer changes things. I flunked outta school. Prayer changes things. I'm on my third marriage, lost
everything I've owned twice. I been homeless and lived
in a car for three years. Prayer changes things. (audience clapping) Prayer. The cool thing about
prayer, it's the one thing that's available to
everybody at any given time. Do you know that God ain't
never too busy for you? You know that God actually
knows who you are? Do you know that God actually created you to converse with him? Do you know that God would
actually love to hear from you? Do you know that I like talking
to him even when I don't really need nothing? So when I do need something I don't want to have to
introduce myself to him. (audience clapping) Listen to me man, quit
playing with this here. You not goin' to make it without God. If you've tried it so far, tell me how that's working out for ya. It suck don't it? You need God. Don't you think I got here without him. I've needed him every step of the way. If it wasn't for God I wouldn't
even be standin' here today. I'm telling you right now. You need God. (audience clapping) You need to tell him that you need him. Quit being ashamed about it. And worried about who looking. Go somewhere by yourself
today and tell God you need some help. Tell him that you just tired of trying to figure it out for yourself. He already know you got problems. See, God save anybody. God saved me. Now listen to me. You ain't gotta like
what the way I'm saved. Steve, you be cussing, no,
okay, cool, I got all that. I got all that. I still shoot dice, I got all that. I drink scotch outta cups
straight, I smoke cigars. But guess what? He still saved me. (audience clapping) He saved me to be this way. You can't be tripping
with my walk with him 'cause my path ain't been like yours. So this is my version of Christianity. This is my version of being saved. All you gotta do is get your own version. Quit tripping thinking that God gonna turn you into some Bible
toting, breast beating, that you gotta go around
ring peoples doorbells and trying to convert people. I'm not into soul conversion business. That ain't what he created me for. You wanna go to hell? (smooching) Bye. (audience chuckling) Now if you wanna hear this little message I got for ya, cool, here it is. This is the level of my Christianity. Just get at the level you at. You ain't got to change,
God work with you. God take hard people like me
and turn 'em into Christians. God take soldiers like me
and turn 'em Christians. He take old hoodlums like me
and turn 'em into Christians. He take drug boys and
turn 'em into Christians. He take women off of poles
and turn 'em into Christians. God take women who had
children outta wedlock, turn 'em into Christians. God take anybody that wanna be saved and he save 'em. So just like old people used
to say, "I'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody, about somebody that can save anybody." (audience cheering)
