Creating a Devotional Lifestyle
Brilliant Perspectives
Graham Cooke
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast, where we're learning how to live in victory no matter what life throws our way. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm your host, Jalen Bowden, and today we'll be hearing about how to build a devotional lifestyle with God, |
| 0:16.0 | because you've already been placed in the safety of the father's heart. And now, you're simply learning |
| 0:23.0 | how to stay in that place with him and how to joyfully abide there together. You ready to get |
| 0:29.2 | started? Let's jump in with Graham Cook. The way you come into salvation is the way salvation |
| 0:36.7 | is sustained. You didn't wake up one |
| 0:39.6 | morning and think, sheesh, it's Thursday, it's sunny, I think I'll get saved. You weren't even |
| 0:47.4 | thinking about getting saved, but God sent some strange person to you who began to talk to you about Jesus, and you saw it, |
| 0:58.0 | and you responded to the initiative God was making. |
| 1:03.3 | So he made the first move on you. |
| 1:05.6 | My daughter used to say, Dad, can you have a word with that Jesus? |
| 1:10.5 | I think he's making a move on me. He is really |
| 1:13.2 | talking to me and I know I have to pay attention. And that's become a joke between us, but |
| 1:18.6 | God is making a move on you. He is wanting something for you. And yeah, he's very intentional about just getting in your face and smiling and saying, |
| 1:32.7 | how about you don't do that? |
| 1:35.0 | Graham, why are you so attracted to negativity? |
| 1:38.6 | Why are you so attached to anxiety? |
| 1:41.6 | And then suddenly it's like, yeah, I am. So what. And then he says, so let's do something about it. |
| 1:48.1 | So he initiates, we respond. And that's basically how your whole relationship with God goes. |
| 1:55.0 | He makes the first move and you respond to it. And then he responds to your response. |
| 1:59.9 | So you respond to his response. And then he responds to your response, you respond to his response, and that |
| 2:02.7 | becomes a devotional lifestyle. Any theology that's complex probably needs to be dismantled a little |
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