The Choice Between Peace and Anxiety

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How would our lives change if we saw ourselves the way God sees us? Graham Cooke unpacks one of the most powerful revelations of his life—Exodus 7:1, where God tells Moses, "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh." We discover that God goes to extraordinary lengths to empower us to see ourselves as He really sees us, and when we finally see it, everything changes. Through four distinct epiphanies from this single scripture, we learn that God never takes no for an answer, He calls us to the impossible so He can make all the difference, and whatever He sees in us, we get to become forever. This teaching explores why difficult people are actually grace growers and how God creates opportunities to develop what He most wants to give us.

**Key Scriptures:**

+ Exodus 7:1. "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet..."

+ Colossians 2:10. "And you are complete in Him..."

+ 1 John 4:17. "As He is, so are we in this world..."

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What if one verse could change how you see yourself forever?
0:07.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast.
0:11.0	Today we're exploring Exodus 7-1, a single line that gave Graham four life-changing epiphanies about partnership with God.
0:20.0	After Moses made everyone's life worse in Egypt and desperately life-changing epiphanies about partnership with God.
0:27.5	After Moses made everyone's life worse in Egypt and desperately wanted God to see his inadequacies,
0:31.2	God responded with words that would transform everything.
0:35.3	See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh.
0:40.3	We'll discover what happens when God's vision of us becomes more real than our own limitations and why the struggles we face might actually be developing what he most
0:48.0	wants to give us. Let's jump in with Graham.
0:58.8	I desperately did not want to be in ministry.
1:02.4	I've been trying to retire for over 40 years.
1:05.9	Somebody is still not listening to me.
1:14.6	And so Moses goes down to Egypt and he has his know, has his conversation with Pharaoh, and he's still struggling with himself.
1:19.6	And Pharaoh's so enraged that someone from the wilderness has said, Let my people go that they may serve the Lord.
1:22.8	That he makes everyone's life even worse.
1:25.7	And so now Moses is down there.
1:27.4	He's inadequate. He's insecure, he's still got his
1:31.3	stammer going on, and he's just made everyone's life worse.
1:35.0	It's like, my life can't get any worse than this.
1:39.5	And he says to the Lord, it's interesting here, Moses says, behold, which is like, look at me and see what I see.
1:50.8	I am unskilled in speech. How many more times do I have to say this to you? Look at me, see what I see.
1:59.4	But God is not interested, I'm sorry, in the way that you see
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