When Your Life Doesn't Match Your Vision (Do This)
APOC Ministry
Eric Thomas Ph.D
4.8 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When your internal picture and your actual life don't agree, frustration, doubt, and stagnation creep in. In today's message, ET testifies about a fourth-quarter heart check with God—where the views dipped, pressure mounted, and comparison tried to set the tone. Instead of forcing outcomes, he asked for wisdom (James 1:5), stopped chasing human approval (Gal. 1:10), and watched God confirm direction with undeniable signs.
This talk will push you to pick a side: talkers or builders. Keep that praise on repeat, protect your environment from doubt, and align your plan with God's plan—so the picture in your mind and the life you live finally match.
Key Scriptures:
Deut. 11:24 • Josh. 1:3 • Isa. 58:11 • Psalm 1:3 • Mark 5:38–43 • James 1:5–8 • Gal. 1:10 • Prov. 3:5–6 • Matt. 7:7–8
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, what's up? It's your boy, E.T. Pastor of a place to change ministries. Thank you so much for |
| 0:06.8 | tuning into this podcast. You know, so many people have said to me, E, we love the normal service, |
| 0:11.8 | but the podcast, we can wash dishes, wash clothes, work out to it, drive up and down the road, |
| 0:18.8 | our commute to work. |
| 0:22.1 | And so, guys, thank you so much. |
| 0:27.0 | Look, you know, we have one goal here, and that is to meet your spiritual needs. |
| 0:31.6 | And so we hope that this message helps you in your everyday walk, helps you in your transformation. |
| 0:32.7 | And most importantly, we hope that it helps you to make the rest of your life the best of your life. |
| 0:39.2 | And so today, if you don't mind, I want to do something different. I don't want to necessarily |
| 0:42.9 | preach. There's a scripture that said, and they overcame by the blood of the lamb, and by the |
| 0:47.8 | word of their, come on, and by the word of there, I just want to testify today, if you don't mind. |
| 0:53.9 | I want to testify, and I'm |
| 0:55.7 | hoping with my testimony, praise God, that it's going to shift something in your life. So it was |
| 1:01.4 | probably this time of the year last year. I can't give you a specific time or date, but it was in the |
| 1:05.8 | fourth quarter. And when the fourth quarter comes, it's one of those things where I'm like |
| 1:10.6 | looking over my whole year |
| 1:11.9 | and I'm going, all right, God, am I where I need to be or did I fall short? This is that time of the |
| 1:18.4 | year for me where I'm kind of like, you know, doing my investigation. Praise God. And I got to the end of |
| 1:24.1 | last year and it was like, yep, it's some things that need to change. Praise God, it's some things that need to change. And I knew there was some things that need to change, but my wife agitated the change. Praise God. Hallelujah. My wife was just doing all, you know, what she does. Amen. She has a gift of details. She has a gift. It's a gift, y'all. I didn't know |
| 1:46.9 | it was a gift. I wish I would have known earlier, amen, that it was a gift. Amen. Praise God. I'm being |
| 1:53.2 | honest. If I would have known earlier it was a gift from God, I would have approached it differently. |
| 1:59.0 | I would have approached it differently. But it agitated me for years because I thought it was her gift. |
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