Intimacy Is Your Shield

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Graham Cooke reveals why intimacy with Jesus is our greatest weapon in spiritual warfare, how David's worship on hillsides created the shield that protected him against Goliath, and why we need to seriously upgrade our rejoicing, thanksgiving, and exultant worship. Discover why worship isn't optional and how Jesus' greatest miracle wasn't His signs and wonders, but His unwavering dedication to the Father's will.

**Key Scriptures:**

+ Romans 8:16-17. "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together."

+ 1 Samuel 17:34-37. "But David said to Saul, 'Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.' Moreover David said, 'The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.'"

+ Psalm 23:1-4. "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me."

+ John 5:19. "Then Jesus answered and said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.'"

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What if the most powerful weapon we have against darkness isn't our theology, our gifting,
0:06.1	or our spiritual warfare strategies, but simply our intimacy with Jesus?
0:13.2	Hello friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast.
0:17.4	This week, Graham reveals how our placement in Christ changes everything about our spiritual authority.
0:24.6	We'll discover why David was different when he faced Goliath, not because of his skill with a sling, but because he was a worshipper who practiced intimacy on the hillside.
0:34.6	Graham challenges us. Worship isn't an optional extra.
0:39.6	It's an absolute necessity.
0:42.3	The enemy's primary strategy is to rob us of our rejoicing, thanksgiving and capacity to worship
0:49.1	because our intimacy creates an unbreakable shield.
0:53.6	Let's jump in with Graham Cook.
0:56.7	So let me read you something from Romans 8, verse 16. The spirit himself testifies with
1:05.9	our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children, that we are also, heirs of God,
1:18.3	and fellow Heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with him. The truth about you and me is that in Christ
1:33.4	we are given a placement of being in living inside the person of Christ, one of the three members of the Godhead.
1:48.1	And so you should never take that lightly and never take yourself lightly.
1:55.1	Every time you have a negative confession about yourself,
2:00.4	that confession itself is an act of displacement,
2:06.6	where you take yourself out of the majesty and the sovereignty and the beauty and the power
2:15.3	of what this placement in Jesus really is all about. And you cannot
2:21.6	downgrade yourself without also denigrating him, because you are in him and he is in you.
2:31.4	And it's about time that that counted for something. It's about time that we woke up
2:39.3	to the beauty and the power of who we really are in the Son of God. You are in Christ and Christ
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