Hi and welcome to the Brilliant Prospectives podcast with Graham Cook.

I'm your host Michael Beckio.

This episode is part two of two in our sixth installment of the

Q&A with Graham series. In this clip Graham continues addressing a question from

brilliant family member Patrick.

In his answer, Graham describes discovering a new found depth in grace and God in the

midst of personal illness and hardship.

He will continue to elaborate on how the Holy Spirit is a spirit of disclosure, making known unto

us heaven's very thoughts and heart for us and our situation, and how the Father, being our keeper,

roots us in his provisional promises so we can be purposefully

enveloped and has redemptive and strengthening hope. Enjoy.

The here's my thing is I am not a sick person trying to get well. I'm a whole person fighting off sickness. That's how I feel about myself. So this for me, it's about being

safe and secure in him regardless of circumstances. It's about protection, It's about presence. It's about promise. With

long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. So this last decade is about being walking with God in the valley, learning that my weakness

and his strength are one and the same thing because I'm yoked to him.

Living in his majesty and learning to be still.

So I love my crafted prayer for healing, but I also like the fact that, you know,

often I joke, Lord, if you haven't healed me by 10 o'clock, then you have to be my keeper.

And I feel he smile with that. I think, you know, he likes being with me regardless of circumstances.

And that's what I enjoy. He's chosen to be my keeper and I think he's done that

because that is better for me right now with all the things that I'm learning. There's so many areas in my life that have come up several levels because I'm walking in this unique place with God.

Now could he have done all of that without all the pain?

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