Brilliant Perspectives

By Graham CookeReligion & Spirituality Spirituality

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February 07, 2025 Your Life Through His Lens
Your story didn’t begin with you — it began with God’s unwavering love. In this episode, Graham Cooke shares how transformation starts by seeing yourself through His eyes, not through your circumstances. When we embrace His perspective, we step into the freedom and confidence of the story He’s always intended for us.

Key Scriptures:

+ Genesis 1:26. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

+ John 14:23. Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”

+ Deuteronomy 31:8. The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

+ Romans 8:35-39. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? […]

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12 min
January 31, 2025 Being a Much-Loved Child
Overwhelm doesn’t have to define your story. What if God’s peace and provision were your safeguards instead? In this episode, Graham Cooke shares how to approach life’s challenges as God’s much-loved child. Discover how His presence brings clarity, comfort, and provision for every difficulty you face.

Key Scriptures:

+ 2 Corinthians 13:4. For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

+ Romans 8:35-39. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? […] For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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8 min
January 23, 2025 Partnering with God's Delight
Step into the peace and joy of God’s empowering presence. In today’s episode, Graham Cooke invites us to discover the beauty of walking in partnership with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Key Scriptures:

+ Matthew 11:28-30. Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

+ James 1:2-4. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

+ Philippians 4:4. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

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11 min
January 16, 2025 The Door to New Life
When we step into newness of life in Christ, we have full permission to leave the old behind. In this episode, Graham Cooke explores how to recognize the voice of your new nature and embrace the freedom Jesus has already given you. Are you ready to hand Him the key to your past and discover the limitless possibilities of life in Him?

Key Scriptures:

+ Romans 6:4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

+ 2 Peter 1:3. His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

+ John 10:9. I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

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9 min
January 10, 2025 Creating a Devotional Lifestyle
What if a devotional lifestyle isn’t about fitting God into your schedule but inviting Him into every moment? In this episode, Graham Cooke reframes devotion as an ongoing dialogue with a God who always makes the first move, speaking to us in the voice of joy, peace, and kindness. Discover how to respond to His declarations and experience the freedom of living every day in partnership with His delight.

Key Scriptures:

+ John 17:23. I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

+ Isaiah 41:10. ‘Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

+ John 14:27. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

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10 min
January 03, 2025 Tuning Into God
What happens when we feel like God isn’t with us? Today, we explore the importance of tuning in to our new nature in Christ through the art of awareness.

Key Scriptures:

+ Colossians 3:1-3. Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

+ Deuteronomy 31:8. The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

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12 min
December 20, 2024 The Resolutions of God
What if your resolutions weren’t about striving but about discovering what God has already planned for you? In this episode, we explore the difference between doing things for God and doing them with Him.

Key Scriptures:

+ John 17:23. I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
+ Isaiah 41:10. Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
+ John 14:27. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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12 min
December 13, 2024 Practicing Peace
Discover the joy of partnering with God in every moment! In this episode, we explore Matthew 11's invitation to learn from Jesus in rest, seeing every challenge as a chance to embrace His gentle, loving nature.

Key Scriptures:
+ Matthew 11:28-30. Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

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9 min
December 06, 2024 One Unchanging Truth
We don't need to strive for God's love or any aspect of His nature towards us in Jesus. Every day, we are simply learning to trust and celebrate the promise of His unchanging heart.

Key Scriptures:

+ Malachi 3:6. I the Lord am unchanging, therefore, you sons of Jacob, you are not consumed

+ Hebrews 13:8. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever

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10 min
November 21, 2024 Turning Your Heart Toward God Every Day
How do you grow spiritually without striving? How do you hear God’s voice in the noise of daily life? In this episode, Jenny and Theresa answer these questions and more, sharing insights on living in God’s delight and walking in your identity in Christ.

Key Scriptures:

+ Psalm 37:4. Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart.

+ Galatians 2:20. I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me

+ Psalm 25:4. Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths

+ Matthew 7:7-8. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

+ 1 Corinthians 3:16. Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

+ Psalm 91:1-2. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!

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18 min

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Graham Cooke, international speaker and author of 20+ books, has been a much needed guide beyond religious norms into a personal and dynamic relationship with God. His life and ministry are marked by…