Consistent in His Character

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What if the Fruit of the Spirit isn't just about becoming more like Jesus, but about discovering how beautifully consistent God's heart has always been toward you? Graham Cooke opens this month's focus with a stunning revelation: when we practice the fruit of the spirit, we're learning to become "consistent in His character"—constant and unchanging like He is.

Key Scriptures:

+ Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

+ 1 Corinthians 13:1-8. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing...Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

+ Isaiah 61:2. To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.

+ James 1:2. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials.

+ Romans 8:38-39. 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.

Want to explore more?

📚 Browse Graham Cooke’s books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/

🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God’s love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/

As always, thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	Hey friends, you're listening to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast.
0:04.7	I'm your host, Jalen Bowden, and this month we're exploring something so foundational and yet so often profoundly misunderstood.
0:14.5	We're diving deeply into the fruit of the spirit, and I want to take a moment to set this up properly,
0:20.3	because this specific
0:21.9	teaching holds so much personal significance for me. I remember one of my first days here at Brilliant.
0:29.4	As I was chatting with Graham in my brand new office, I'd mentioned to him that I was so excited
0:34.3	to start reading his books on the prophetic. And of course, in his very wise and very gentle way,
0:41.4	Graham smiled and he said,
0:43.2	you know, I think the fruit of the spirit
0:45.2	would be a great place for you to start.
0:47.7	Because before you can truly engage with God's voice,
0:51.5	you have to actually know what it sounds like. And the fruit of the spirit,
0:56.3	that is the way he speaks. It's the way we can expect him to interact with us all of the time.
1:03.6	And understanding what he's really, truly like, that's the starting point for everything.
1:10.7	That's how my journey at Brilliant all began.
1:13.9	And I hope these teachings over the next few weeks feel as special to you as they have been for me.
1:20.7	Now, without further ado, let's dive in with Graham Cook.
1:27.1	Let me read you this, Galatians 5 verse 22.
1:31.6	But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
1:58.0	Against such things, there is no law. Does that mean? Nothing works against the
2:08.5	fruit of the spirit. So when you actually practice the fruit, the fruit of the, I almost said
2:16.5	spruit of the spirit. So I'm just getting it out of the way I almost said spruit of the firit.
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