Ebbs & Flows of Life in the Spirit

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Times of quiet renewing are not about the absence of activity. When God guides us out of a fast flow and into a slower ebb, it is a time where His beauty can transform our fellowship and enlarge our hearts.

Key Scriptures:

+ Leviticus 26:34-35. Then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.

+ Ephesians 3:17-18. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height …

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives Podcast.
0:04.7	I'm your host, Jalen Bowden, and this month we're talking all about life in the spirit.
0:12.0	This is a topic really dear to my heart, and we're starting by answering the question,
0:17.6	what is going on during those seasons when my relationship with God is slowing down?
0:24.0	And maybe you can relate to this, but I used to be terrified when I found myself inside
0:29.3	of those seasons.
0:31.0	I felt like they were somehow a consequence, and that I must have been doing something
0:35.7	wrong or maybe I just wasn't doing enough.
0:40.1	But let me share with you the truth that finally set me free from that fear, and it's
0:45.5	that life in the spirit comes with seasons of both ebbs and flows.
0:51.6	They're both essential aspects of our relationship with God, and the key to thriving in those ebbs
0:57.4	and seasons is to recognize that times of rest and refreshing are rhythms we were built
1:04.1	for.
1:05.8	Feel free to soak in this beautiful teaching as we dive in with Graham Cook.
1:15.2	All of life has an eb and a flow.
1:18.5	One of the laws of life in the spirit is you cannot ever be in a permanent flow of
1:24.8	the spirit because there are rhythms to the ways of God.
1:30.0	We see it all around us in nature.
1:32.9	The tide comes in, the tide goes out.
1:36.1	The phases of the moon range from unseen to brilliant.
1:41.4	The seasons have times of fruitfulness and of rest.
1:46.4	In Leviticus 26, 34, 35, God instructed Israel to give the land a time of rest, an eb
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