Brilliant Perspectives

For the month of October, I’m going to be highlighting the theme of “Empowering Grace.”There are a lot of misunderstandings about what grace actually is, what it means, and what it does not mean.I hope you’ll stay with us over the course of this month, as we unpack this topic with Graham. There are sure to be new insights and fresh perspectives waiting for you, and I believe you'll be richly blessed and encouraged in your relationship with the Three.Enjoy and take delight in the Father as you receive from today’s message. This episode is an excerpt from Graham's “The Nature of Freedom: Letter 5."  CHECK OUT THE FULL BOOK in print, eBook and audiobook form, here on our site: BrilliantBookHouse.com.Soak in this word, meditate upon this month, and we’ll see you again next week for a continuation in our theme of “Empowering Grace.”––## STAY CONNECTED with Graham and Team Brilliant by signing up for our weekly newsletter "Brilliant News."  Every week it features Graham’s podcasts, videos and articles. Plus FREE resources, upcoming sales and special offers, invitations to our challenges and special events, and more! When you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping on your first order in our store.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!––Visit Graham's BLOGExplore his online community at BRILLIANT TVOr visit our STORE to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings

Today I'm sharing Graham's prophetic word from our Live Online Challenge event last week, "Expectation: The Power in Taking God for Granted."This word had thought-provoking truths and powerful keys. It’s actually one of my favorite words that Graham has given in a while.As you partake of this, I encourage you to listen with your heart, let it sink in to your spirit, and afterward, discuss the things that stood out to you with the Holy Spirit. He will help you uncover the meaning of its truths in your own life, and unpack the connotations and expectations present in this word.ALSO: Here's a link to the pdf transcript of this prophetic word, which includes space for your notes and Graham's "Seven Steps to Inherit These Promises" activation to help you use this word for yourself.––## STAY CONNECTED with Graham and Team Brilliant by signing up for our weekly newsletter "Brilliant News."  Every week it features Graham’s podcasts, videos and articles. Plus FREE resources, upcoming sales and special offers, invitations to our challenges and special events, and more! When you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping on your first order in our store.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!––Visit Graham's BLOGExplore his online community at BRILLIANT TVOr visit our STORE to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings

In a continuation from the previous podcast, we have Part 2 today. ## ANNOUNCEMENT! ## Graham is doing a Live online event this Wednesday through Friday (that’s Sept 22-24), from 10 AM to 11 AM Pacific Time.It’s not too late to join. These have been a massive catalyst for those that attend. I hope you’ll join us.You can check the Live Event out here.––In today’s podcast segment Graham discusses how rejoicing is meant to strengthen us and refresh us when going through hard situations. It acts as a powerful antidote to a downcast spirit, and to any negativity or feelings of oppression. Rejoicing is thus a key agent in our process, meant to enthrone us on God’s faithfulness in the midst of our battles. There is still a lot more to this message to hear, including a prophetic word from Graham, so check it out on BrilliantTV to keep going. ––Visit Graham's BLOGExplore his online community at BRILLIANT TVOr visit our STORE to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings

This episode points out the importance of living in an atmosphere of joy in the Lord, and how that is created in our lives.It raises expectations of what’s possible – of how we can walk securely and immovably in our relationship with Jesus, and the simple and beautiful truths and practices in our walk with Him that fashion sustainable, life-giving joy in all of our days. Yes, even on the hard ones.Receive this with an open heart, and allow your spirit to dream and imagine what it could be like for you if you settled into these truths and they became a part of your every day experience in God.This message from Graham is taken from the “REGENERATE” series Graham has been doing this year. You can view that series here. ## STAY CONNECTED with Graham and Team Brilliant by signing up for our weekly newsletter "Brilliant News."  Every week it features Graham’s podcasts, videos and articles. Plus FREE resources, upcoming sales and special offers, invitations to our challenges and special events, and more! When you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping on your first order in our store.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!––Visit Graham's BLOGExplore his online community at BRILLIANT TVOr visit our STORE to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings

In this message, we’re engaged to reflect and change our lens. Instead of having expectations of difficulty and stress in areas we need to grow, Graham reveals how our expectation can shift as we behold the truth of the new man in Jesus correctly. What before seemed like inevitable hardships and difficulty can instead be traded for Jesus’s invitation to “find rest for our souls, because His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.”Graham poses some freeing thoughts: What if God put you into Christ so that your first encounter is always with the one who has overcome the world? What if that was your primary expectation?What if mindsets of expecting hardship and difficulty are from the old man, and the Holy Spirit has encounters for you that will reframe such thinking? This message originates from letter 7 of Graham’s renowned book, “The Nature of Freedom.” If you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you to get a copy, or download the audiobook, found here. Graham also created a video series on BTV based on the letters in this book. This one is titled “Freedom from Difficult Expectations”, found under the series “Get Unstuck and Live a Lifestyle of Encounter,” on BTV. ## STAY CONNECTED with Graham and Team Brilliant by signing up for our weekly newsletter "Brilliant News."  Every week it features Graham’s podcasts, videos and articles. Plus FREE resources, upcoming sales and special offers, invitations to our challenges and special events, and more! When you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping on your first order in our store.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!––Visit Graham's BLOGExplore his online community at BRILLIANT TVOr visit our STORE to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings.

In this message you’ll see the beauty of the fullness of Christ in us, which the Father already deposited in our spirit at salvation. The Father is delighted in the process of our discovery, and desires a life of impact to overflow with ease, from this place of wonder and completeness.The place of increase in our walk with God is founded upon that internal discovery of the overwhelming and abundant riches God has already placed in us in Jesus. One of the things it leads us into is what Graham says in this message, "All of us want to live a life of impact and be effective in communicating the kingdom of God to the world around us.”KEY SCRIPTURES:Philemon 6Luke 17:212 Pet 1:3Col 2:9-10This message comes from the BTV series titled “The Place of Increase," namely the episode “What Good Things are Already in Me?” ––## STAY CONNECTED with Graham and Team Brilliant by signing up for our weekly newsletter "Brilliant News."  Every week it features Graham’s podcasts, videos and articles. Plus FREE resources, upcoming sales and special offers, invitations to our challenges and special events, and more! When you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping on your first order in our store.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!––Visit Graham's BLOGExplore his online community at BRILLIANT TVOr visit our STORE to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings.

Patience is the seed bed for real growth in Christ because it is entirely about the delight in waiting for Him and knowing that a favorable outcome is guaranteed because we are His habitation.

Prayers of promise are our relational reality with God. He expects us to take full advantage of our promises.CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE EVENT! I’m featuring this message "Prayers of Promise" from BTV today because of our LIVE online event starting tomorrow, Aug 18th at 10 AM Pacific time.  Graham is going live in a 3 day event titled "PRAYING WITH GOD."The premise is that there’s only one prayer for us to pray… and it’s the one that Jesus is praying.Discover why certain prayers seem to go unanswered.Learn to pray with the confidence of Jesus, who knew the Father always heard him.Learn how to pray crafted prayers that are fully in line with God’s will for you.Be entered for daily giveaways and prizes!This new, LIVE challenge airs this Wednesday, August 18th through Friday, August 20th at 10am Pacific time each day. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO! :)In this podcast message, Graham shares how the promises from God in scripture are meant to be part of our relational reality with Him, and that God expects us to appropriate the advantage of His promises into our situations, living from expectation in Him. 

Graham teaches on praying from a place of confidence and peace, where we no longer hope to find an answer but are invited to dwell in it, and how to pray fully in line with God's will for you.

When God promises you something, *everything* is in that promise. The baseline for all promises is: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”