Praying With God, Not Toward Him
Brilliant Perspectives
Graham Cooke
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
What changes when we realize God isn't visiting—He's staying? In this teaching, we discover the profound shift from Old Covenant to New Covenant relationship: we're no longer seeking a distant God, but partnering with One who lives within us. Prayer becomes not something we do toward God, but something we do with Him.
**Key Scriptures:**
+ 2 Corinthians 5:17. "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come."
+ Hebrews 13:5. "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
+ Hebrews 7:25. "He always lives to make intercession for them."
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| 0:00.0 | How do we seek the Lord when he's already promised never to leave? |
| 0:05.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, we're exploring what it means to live in a habitational relationship with God, |
| 0:15.0 | not waiting for him to visit, but discovering he's already made his home within us. Graham walks us through the beautiful |
| 0:22.8 | upgrade we've received in Christ, from seeking God at a distance to looking for him with certainty, |
| 0:29.1 | knowing he's already present in every circumstance. And there's something profound here about prayer |
| 0:34.6 | too. In the old covenant, people prayed toward God, hoping he was listening. |
| 0:40.0 | But in the new covenant, we get to pray with him, joining what Jesus and the Holy Spirit are already |
| 0:46.0 | interceding over our lives. Let's jump in with Graham. |
| 0:53.3 | Jesus said in John 1511, he said, |
| 0:56.3 | these words, I've spoken to you so that my joy might be in you. |
| 1:02.1 | And your joy, it might be full. |
| 1:04.8 | So what is he saying? |
| 1:05.9 | Every time I talk to you, I want to put a smile on your face. |
| 1:10.3 | I want you to be happy about what I'm saying to you, I want to put a smile on your face. I want you to be happy about what I'm saying |
| 1:12.8 | to you, because I'm with you, I'm for you, I'm on your side, I want you to succeed, I want you to be |
| 1:19.8 | made in my image, I want you to be as big and as splendid as I am. That's what we're doing |
| 1:26.1 | together. And so everything I say, I want you to smile, |
| 1:31.4 | I want you to practice grinning, and I want you to learn how to flat out belly laugh. |
| 1:37.7 | We want you to be as happy as we are. You know, God lives in everlasting joy. You know, when you die and go to heaven, he's not just |
| 1:46.3 | going to look at you and say, oh, well, oy ve, you did the best you could. Enter into the misery |
| 1:52.1 | of your God. It's going to be like, hey, welcome. Yeah, I've got your name. It's right here. And this is it. |
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