Hello, this is Graham Cook. Welcome to the Brilliant Perspective's Podcast.

This is part two of our podcast on moving away from being stuck to a place of upgraded

perspective on what God is doing. Hope does not disappoint. Hope is about anticipating God's

goodness with pleasure. Hope is expectation and the confidence to realize it.

Hi, I'm Graham Cook.

Thanks for joining us today as we continue to explore an upgraded perspective with part two of our

podcast on getting unstuck. When we don't know who God is for us, we can become downhearted and disappointed.

In Christ, we have to disempower our disappointments by understanding the way in which God likes to live with

us.

Sometimes we feel stuck because we are part of a spiritual culture that doesn't know the difference

between relationship and fellowship, so it treats them as the same.

The reality is, it's the father that curates our experience of himself, not us. He put Christ into us and then us into Christ.

Just as a newborn child has nothing to do with its own birth,

it's passive about the family relationship it's born into.

In the same way, we are born again into a relationship that the father has

with Jesus. We abide in their relationship with each other as a gift that they give to us.

We're responsible for practicing fellowship with God and we are given the always astonishing

Holy Spirit to empower the ongoing commitment. Even if we fail in our fellowship, we can never lose our

relationship with God because that depends on the father and the son together.

I can lose the conscious sense of fellowship with God's presence,

but I can never lose his relationship with me. It's a gift that will not be taken away.

Relationship depends on God's nature, his character, his integrity. In that regard, he never changes.

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