Hey, welcome to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast with Graham Cook. I'm your host, Michael Beckio.

Today's segment opens our theme for the month of June, overcoming.

The clips for this episode are from Graham's teaching called The Art of Bouncing Back.

We featured part one of it in the podcast in the beginning of May.

There are several more tracks to this audio teaching. The full audio can be found on BrilliantBookHouse.com.

In this segment, Graham illustrates the difference between warfare and adversity,

and how we as believers can be overcomers in both of them.

By understanding what they really are, and learning how to engage each one accordingly.

I hope this blesses and encourages you today. Enjoy.

I'm going to learn in our relationship with God the difference between warfare and adversity.

Years ago, I was going to had a conference arranged at a church in New England.

About three months, four months before the event, the leaders were really elders,

were calling me up and saying, Graham, all hellers broken loose around the church right now.

You know, we've got sickness, we've got people losing their jobs, we've got this, we've got that.

Is there a word from the Lord?

That's all the guys I'll ask, you know, but God didn't say anything.

So the next week, great is getting worse.

All hell's breaking loose, you know, demonicness and that and the other.

Is there a word from the Lord?

Well, guys, I'll ask. God didn't say anything.

You know, almost like for every week, for like 12 weeks, is there a word from the Lord?

Well, I'm asking, you know, I get on a plane and to go there and I'm saying, Lord, you know,

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