Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast. I'm your host, Jalen Bowden, and in

today's episode, Graham Cook is sharing some key thoughts about the building blocks of

prayer. And you know, here at Team Brilliant, we recognize that something really special

begins to happen in our lives when we finally settle the matter of our identity in Christ.

It's worth hearing again and again what God is really like and who we get to be because

of it. When we understand that our difficult circumstance is actually the perfect place

to deepen our relationship with God, well, then our prayer life actually becomes life-giving.

And hey, we have this saying in our community that slow learning is great learning. So if

you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed in the process, simply pick one truth from

this episode and practice being true to it. Without further ado, here's Graham Cook.

You know, if you've got access to a concordance, look up the word foundation and foundations.

And you'll see a number of verses that talk about foundations at the beginning of the world,

foundations at the start of something. And if you go back to the first verse about what

God did in the foundation, you know, you could track it all the way through Scripture. And

it's interesting to me is one of those verses is actually in the book of Revelation that

that's the place to start because what God does in the foundation gives you a secure

end at the end of your time, at the end of your life, you know. And he talks about Jesus

being slain before the foundation of the world. So before Genesis 1-1, here's the beauty

about God. He's sinking. What do I want these people? What will make these people great

in my eyes and in me? And that is they have to be born with free will, the freedom to choose.

Even if that means they're going to choose badly. So he gave us free will and many understood

if I give them free will and they make a mistake, we have to do something about that now

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