Fighting From Victory, Not Toward It
Brilliant Perspectives
Graham Cooke
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
What if every problem you face was already in Christ—and already assigned a victory? In this episode, Graham unpacks the powerful truth that our starting place in Jesus is never one of lack, but of triumph. Packed with humor, Scripture, and practical encouragement, this teaching will help you think brilliantly, live joyfully, and approach every situation with confident expectation.
Key Scriptures:
+ Acts 17:28. In Him we live and move and have our being..
+ 2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new...
+ 2 Corinthians 2:14. Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ...
+ 1 Corinthians 15:57. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ...
+ Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...
+ Romans 8:6. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace...
+ John 7:38. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What if the key to handling every challenge wasn't about learning new techniques, |
| 0:06.0 | but simply remembering your starting point in Christ? |
| 0:09.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast, |
| 0:13.0 | where we're learning to live in victory with God no matter what life throws our way. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Graham Cook shares one of the most freeing truths about |
| 0:22.5 | kingdom thinking, that your starting place with God guarantees your outcome. And the best news of all, |
| 0:29.4 | the cross of Christ has already positioned you to win. Here's Graham with more. |
| 0:37.5 | Our starting point is that we're a new creation in Christ. |
| 0:42.1 | All the old has passed away. |
| 0:44.0 | Everything's become new. |
| 0:45.7 | Everything is of God. |
| 0:47.3 | Whatever issue we face, here's the thing. |
| 0:50.8 | Every issue you face, that issue is already in Christ because he's in you. You can't |
| 0:59.6 | have a life in Christ and then have an issue as a separate thing. That's weird thinking. |
| 1:08.1 | Every issue in your life is in Christ because you are. That's a starting point. |
| 1:17.3 | If you're in Christ, so is your situation. Whatever issue we face is already in Christ, that is |
| 1:26.4 | good news. That is good news. |
| 1:30.7 | That's good news. It means you can't fail. |
| 1:36.7 | You're in Christ, so is the problem you're facing. It's in Jesus. |
| 1:38.9 | That would be a Yahoo moment. |
| 1:48.7 | So what that means is every issue you face is already assigned an outcome that God wants to generate. |
| 1:58.5 | Every issue you're facing has already been assigned an outcome that God wants to generate. |
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