Brilliant Perspectives

For our theme of “Hope” this month, we have an excerpt from one of Graham’s teachings called “Perfecting the Art of Bouncing Back.”Graham talks about how we as believers learn to grow a steadfast resilience in our walk with Jesus, in the midst of our struggles. He elaborates on how God has a much different and more hopeful perspective on our failures and defeats, and how in our journey of becoming like Him, He is inviting us to know how to turn our setbacks into a comeback. Instead of our defeats taking anything away from us, we can partner with His grace and learn how to use them to our gain.You can find the rest of the message from today on our store, at BrilliantBookHouse.comSTAY 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! Plus, when you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping off your first order in our store.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UPVisit  Graham's blog,  explore his online community at Brilliant TV, or visit our store to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings. 

Graham talks about the foundational importance of rest in a believer’s walk with God. He discusses how rest ought to be a constant in our lives and how rest is both a weapon of warfare, and our vital abiding place from which to engage life from.This episode is an excerpt from one of Graham’s teachings called “The Practice of Rest.” We featured the beginning of this teaching in Ep 71 of our Podcast. This second part features two more audio tracks from it. The full teaching contains several more, found here on BrilliantBookHouse.com.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! Plus, when you sign up, we will send you a coupon for free shipping off your first order in our store. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UPVisit  Graham's blog,  explore his online community at Brilliant TV, or visit our store to browse Graham's books, downloads and audio teachings. 

In this episode, Graham poses the statement: “We are citizens of heaven, living here on earth, which means our life in Christ is lived above our circumstances.” He continues with powerful insights like these: — “Our whole anointing, for every single one of us, is about one thing: how we, as individuals and as a Body, interact with heaven when we are together.” — “The world that we live in tells us what we are not, constantly. But the realm that we inhabit in the Spirit, and are true citizens of, is never about problems, it’s only about promises.” — “If you don’t master intimacy, you won’t last long on any level.” Be blessed!

In this episode, I’m including part of an audio clip where Graham dives into a dialog with co-host Lindsay van Zyl around the prophetic word he gave entitled “Acceptance,” which was the main content for our previous Podcast episode #94. If you haven’t heard that one yet, you might want to go back and listen to it first. Both that episode and this one come from our last Featured Challenge event, “The Way God Walks With Us.” In these dialogs that Graham does on the final day of a Challenge, he breaks down the keys from the prophetic word... the fantastic implications they have in our lives... and their application in our relationship with God. He also shares stories and testimonies that reveal what these truths can look like in our own journey. In this particular discussion, Graham shares about a dream he had with Jesus, and how profoundly it impacted a turning point in his life with God. It’s absolutely lovely, I’m sure you’ll be blessed and left thinking about it for days to come. Enjoy this final episode of special content from our last Featured Challenge. Take what you learn and receive into your own dialog and walk with Jesus. He is waiting for you :) Our next Featured Challenge is coming up! Starting Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00 AM PST. You should check it out. We would love to have you join us. These Challenges have been a massive blessing to the community! To learn more, go to Challenge.GrahamCooke.com. Be blessed and enjoy :)

On our last podcast (Episode #93) we featured content from our featured challenge that was titled: The Way God Walks With Us. In these three-day challenges Graham gives wonderful teachings and insights and on the third day he typically ends with a prophetic word and then he spends time breaking down and unpacking that prophetic word for the remainder of the day. These prophetic words have become a really popular part of our challenges, and for good reason! They carry God’s heart and are spoken in the tone of His love, His gentleness, His kindness. It’s as if you can hear the Father himself, speaking directly to your spirit as you listen to the words.. We encourage you to set your mind and set your heart in a place of receiving. Open up to what God has for you; allow Jesus to lavish His love on you and allow the Holy Spirit to carry and convey the goodness of heaven… May you be richly blessed!

Today's podcast episode is pulled from snippets of one of our Featured Challenges with Graham. This particular Featured Challenge airs Wednesday - Friday, March 17 -19th. The topic of this is around relational learning. The whole idea here is that God is not teaching us the way the world teaches us. He doesn't have an expectation like the world does. The kingdom form of growth and development is not like the world's education system at all... Not the same expectations, not the same pressures, not the same performance mentality. God starts from a place of us already being fully accepted and fully approved in Christ because Christ's righteousness has been given to us and He's paid completely for us. We start out at 100% with God and we get to grow up into all things in Christ. Enjoy!

As part of the new theme we are starting “Freedom” - We are featuring more from one of Graham’s prized books, “The Nature of Freedom.” We have featured some of it in previous podcast episodes. Michael reads part of the Introduction first, so that you as a listener can really consider the implications of what Graham writes here. After, we jump into Graham’s portion, which was pulled from the opening thoughts of Letter #1, and the rest from a passage of Letter #4. Some key scriptures for the letter featured today include: Ephesians 4:20-24; 2 Corinthians 5:14-18; John 14:27; 1 John 4:18; Colossians 3:9-10; Romans 8:1-2

In this episode we’ll wrap up the theme of “Joy” that we’ve been on for the past few weeks. I’m featuring a prophetic word that Graham gave on Brilliant TV, our online mentorship community, about joy. Receiving truth in teaching format is very helpful. Receiving it as a prophetic word is another angle that enhances and increases our understanding and assimilation of truth. There’s a lot of good nuggets in this one. Don’t be overwhelmed. Allow the Holy Spirit to highlight some things to you. Catch the items that stand out and remember those. God can do a lot in us and in our journey with just a few key truths. Here’s a handful of highlights you can expect: + If you hold on to joy with God, your trials will diminish in size and joy will build. + Joy can accomplish things that fearful, reactionary prayers may never achieve. + You can be free by His grace from your thoughts oppressing you, and from any influence of the world, the flesh and the devil on your mind. + The Father wants to put joy and gladness into dry areas of your heart. Enjoy! :)

We are jumping into the third session of our theme of “Joy” this month. In this portion, taken from the message “Joy That Strengthens” on BrilliantTV, Graham really dives in powerfully to the concepts and truths that should define our way of thinking and seeing, in regards to our joy, it’s rightful place in our lives, and it’s enduring power in our circumstances. Enjoy a good challenge and encouragement at the end of this short clip!

In this episode we continue with the theme of Joy from last week, listening to a clip from one of Graham’s teachings found on BrilliantBookHouse.com called “The Practice of Delight.” Some key thoughts that Graham explores in this episode: - “Joy is Who God is, and heaven is full of joy. So joy is the atmosphere of heaven,” ...thus it’s a reality that we can live in because of our citizenship there and our placement in Christ in heavenly places. - In the Holy Spirit, you can make even the smallest thing a delight. - God is FULL of pleasure and joy! He’s the happiest person we can know. - Learn to see the good. Learn to see the joy. Learn to see the pleasure in life, because it enlarges you on the inside. -Learn to take pleasure in your relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit