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

Bechio. Graham's message for this episode is a segment from the teaching called The Door

of Promise, found on brilliantbookhouse.com. In it, Graham offers a remarkable perspective

through which to view life's problems and negativity from our place as sons and daughters

in Jesus. He shares how our identity and destiny gradually unfold in our lives, with difficult

and negative circumstances being advantageous stepping stones for us to use, with God,

to plunge deeper and soar higher into who we are becoming. In Christ, there's a far greater

and more hopeful lens with which to view our lives, beloved, and the difference that makes

in our spirit, heart and soul is astounding. It flows into each area of our lives and influences

even our daily reactions and responses to things. In addition, God has impressive and

elevating provisional promises to bestow to each of us, which He richly supplies a longer

journey through the Holy Spirit. The Father then uses these things to mold our identity

and guide us into His glorious purposes in our lives. All right, let's get to it. Enjoy

and be blessed, beloved.

You are so much more beautiful than you know. And you're so much more brilliant than you

realize. And when you get involved with Jesus, you start to understand, oh, M-G, this

is who I really am. This is who I'm really supposed to be. Oh, my goodness. Holy Spirit

gives you the kind of grace you never got in school. My mum used to say, great, I've never

went to school, he just used to meet the other kids on the way home. Hurtful, but mostly

so. Abraham contemplated his body. Here's the thing, God doesn't want you to deny the

existence of the negative. He wants you to know there's something more powerful next

to it. The truth is, you can't grow in faith unless you have a problem. So you're super

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