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

Thanks for joining me for today's podcast.

Several years ago, the Lord began to talk to me about my need in life

to perfect the art of bouncing back.

I vividly remember him saying, son, with the best will in the world, it's impossible

for you to be 100% brilliant all the time. Graham, some days you can't even spell brilliant and I need

you to learn what consistency in being brilliant really is all about. This is the first time that I had ever begun

to learn not only about favour but also about vengeance so that we can bounce back to a greater place than we fell from.

So today I want to share a clip with you about a special encounter I had with the Lord and how it caused me to develop the

art of bouncing back. This is fun.

And I'm sat there in my living room and I'm just crying out and saying, Lord, I just, this is where I am.

And you may not realize how utterly stupid I can be, but this is my life right now.

And I'm tired of it.

And I'm just saying these things out loud and saying, Lord, I'm just sick of myself right now. Look at me.

And suddenly I have this open vision. Now if you've ever had an open vision two things happen.

One is the vision is you're in something but you're also outside of it watching it.

It's like being in a movie and at the same time you're watching the movie that you're in.

And it's like the whole wall of my living room just kind of became like a

cinema screen and I'm watching this scene, this vision, this moving vision and I can see myself in it and I'm watching myself and I'm on

this cliff and it has like a 45 degree slope or something like that and a sheer drop to a beach below and

I'm standing there and there is a person dressed head to toe in black and you can't see his face and we're in our position and I'm

realizing this is me and this is the enemy and he's on the upward slope and

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