You Keep Losing to People Who Shouldn't Even Have Power Over You | Eric Thomas

APOC Ministry

Eric Thomas

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

There's a moment in the Bible where a group of religious men tried to use Jesus' name as a trick, and the demon looked at them and said, "Jesus I know. Paul I know. But who are YOU?" That's the question this message answers. Not who you say you are. Who you actually ARE, in power. Dr. Eric Thomas, breaks down why so many people have the knowledge of God, the church attendance, the vocabulary, and still keep losing. The problem isn't your faith. It's that you haven't activated what God already gave you. In this message you'll discover: → Why David didn't pray Goliath down — and what he actually did → The difference between a form of godliness and real power → How a single phone call saved $15,000 (and what that has to do with your spiritual authority) → Why "playing small" isn't humility — it's robbing the Kingdom → What it looks like to stop letting people with no authority rule your life The power belongs to you. This message will show you how to pick it back up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE + turn on notifications so you never miss a message: https://www.youtube.com/@APOCMinistry?sub_confirmation=1 📱 JOIN THE APOC COMMUNITY — Download the App: Search "APOC Ministry" in your app store 🙏 SUBMIT A PRAYER REQUEST: https://apocministry.org 💸 PARTNER WITH THE MISSION — Give Online: https://apocministry.org/giving 📖 SERMON NOTES + RESOURCES: https://apocministry.org/sermons 🎙️ LISTEN ON PODCAST: https://apocministry.org/podcast 📲 STAY CONNECTED WITH ET: https://www.instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher https://www.twitter.com/etthehiphoppreacher ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 TIMESTAMPS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 ABOUT ERIC THOMAS — ET THE HIP HOP PREACHER Eric Thomas is a world-renowned motivational speaker, best-selling author, educator, and pastor. Known for his raw, high-energy delivery, ET has spoken to millions across schools, corporations, sports organizations, and churches worldwide. His message bridges the streets and the sanctuary — and has helped people at every level unlock their next level. ⛪ ABOUT A PLACE OF CHANGE MINISTRY (APOC) APOC is a Saturday Sabbath church located in Grand Ledge, Michigan, led by Pastors Eric & Dede Thomas and Associate Pastor TJ Tyus. APOC is more than a church, it's a community actively serving, growing, and reaching people with the transforming power of the gospel. Join us every Saturday at 11AM ET, in person or online. 🌐 apocministry.org

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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,
0:18.9	our commute to work. And so, guys, thank you so much. Look, you know,
0:22.9	we have one goal here, and that is to meet your spiritual needs. And so we hope that this message
0:28.7	helps you in your everyday walk, helps you in your transformation. And most importantly,
0:33.7	we hope that it helps you to make the rest of your life the best of your life.
0:39.6	We got into something last week, and I promise you, I didn't even, I didn't plan on going there,
0:44.8	but because it was resurrection weekend, God just gave me that word. And I want to continue that
0:51.0	word today. If you don't mind, just, if you don't mind, and some of you may be uncomfortable with it, but I want to invite you word today. If you don't mind, just if you don't mind. And some of you may be
0:54.4	uncomfortable with it, but I want to invite you to go to another level in your experience with God.
1:01.3	Amen. And can you just say with me, God, I want the power. Hallelujah. Praise God. God. I want the power. Praise God. I'm going to share something
1:15.0	with you from the word. Is that okay? Okay. I said I'm going to share something with you from the
1:19.9	word. Is that okay? Hallelujah. So we're going to go to the book of Acts this morning in the 19
1:27.4	chapter. But I want to say this to you book of Acts this morning, the 19th chapter.
1:27.9	But I want to say this to you, saints, what I have discovered is that there is a difference between knowledge and understanding the word of God and actually applying it.
1:42.9	Praise God.
1:43.9	And we want the knowledge, but we also wants the application.
1:47.9	Praise God.
1:48.8	Come on, somebody.
1:49.9	Praise God.
1:50.6	So let me tell you why I'm saying this to you because I just left Houston, Texas,
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