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EPISODE · Apr 12, 2026 · 1H 3M

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

from APOC Ministry · host Eric Thomas Ph.D.

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

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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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....

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