You're Not Ready for the Breakthrough | What Has to Happen FIRST | Eric Thomas

Search Me, O God

You’ve been praying for a breakthrough and asking God to rebuild what’s broken, but nothing seems to be changing. If you’re honest, you’re beginning to wonder why God is making you wait.

In this powerful message, Dr. Eric Thomas takes us deeper into the 52 Day Challenge to reveal what must happen before the breakthrough. God is not waiting for your circumstances to line up. He is waiting for you to stop hiding.

Before Nehemiah rebuilt the wall in 52 days, he spent four months sitting, weeping, mourning, fasting, praying, and seeking God. During those four months, God was not only preparing the plan. He was preparing the man.

God builds the heart before He builds the wall.

You can move to a new city, begin a new relationship, or start a new job, but if you carry the same heart into a new environment, the same patterns will eventually return. You cannot build something new with an old heart.

Through personal testimony about learning to affirm his son, grieving what needed to die within him, and finally giving God complete access, ET reveals why many people are still waiting for change. It is not because they are not praying. It is because they are still hiding.

In Genesis 3, after Adam sinned, he hid from God. God never stopped walking through the garden, but humanity stopped allowing Him complete access.

David understood this when he prayed:

“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Psalm 139:23–24

God must do something in you before He can do something through you. That begins when you permit Him to examine the real you: your motives, thoughts, fears, desires, habits, wounds, pride, intentions, and blind spots.