You're Trying to Change But Your Heart Isn't Fixed | Why You Keep Repeating the Same Cycle

You're Trying to Change But Your Heart Isn't Fixed | Why You Keep Repeating the Same Cycle

August 29, 2026 · 32 min

About this episode

Dr. Eric Thomas discusses the importance of heart transformation in achieving true change and breaking repetitive cycles in life.

You've been praying for change. Asking God to rebuild what's broken. But nothing seems to be moving. And if you're honest, you're starting to wonder why. In this powerful message, Dr. Eric Thomas delivers one of the most convicting sermons of the year using Psalm 139, Jeremiah 17, and the story of Nehemiah to expose the real reason your breakthrough hasn't come yet. It's not that God isn't ready. It's that your heart isn't. Before Nehemiah rebuilt the wall in 52 days, God spent four months searching his heart. Four months of sitting, weeping, mourning, fasting, and praying. Because God doesn't start with the fruit. He starts with the root. God doesn't start with the wall. He starts with the heart. God builds the heart before He builds the wall. You can move to a new city, start a new job, enter a new relationship, but if you take the same heart with you, the same patterns will return. You cannot build something new with an old heart. God has to do something IN you before He can do something THROUGH you. Through raw personal testimony and transparent teaching, ET reveals why so many believers stay stuck in cycles they were never meant to repeat. It's not because they lack gifts…

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