The Gift of a New Lens
Brilliant Perspectives
Graham Cooke
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This episode explores how God gently replaces our negative thoughts, emotions, and vision with His own. What if transformation isn’t about fixing ourselves—but exchanging what isn’t ours for what is already true in Him?
Key Scriptures:
+ Mark 12:30. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
+ Matthew 14:14. “When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.”
+ John 15:11. “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”
+ 1 Peter 5:7. “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
+ 2 Kings 6:16–17. “Do not be afraid... those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
+ Acts 9:1–19. Saul’s conversion and the scales falling from his eyes
Want to explore more?
📚 Browse Graham Cooke’s books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God’s love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/
As always, thanks for listening!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast, where transformation happens |
| 0:06.3 | through rest and relationship with God. In today's episode, we're diving into the beauty of divine |
| 0:13.7 | exchange, how God replaces our negative thoughts and distorted vision with the truth of who he is. |
| 0:21.3 | Whether you're someone who tends to lead with your heart, your mind, or your lens on life, |
| 0:26.3 | God's desire is exactly the same, to walk with you in the kindest way possible into the fullness |
| 0:32.6 | of your identity in Christ. |
| 0:35.3 | This message continues our deeper exploration of how God walks with us in the |
| 0:40.2 | process of transformation, not by rushing us through change, but by inviting us into a process that |
| 0:46.9 | is joyful, lasting, and truly relational. Without further ado, let's hand it over to Graham Cook. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, we can't process life from a negative because it doesn't belong to us and it cannot be in us. |
| 1:05.0 | Jesus paid a price for it, so it belongs to him, not to us. When negative thinking appears, we don't work on it, it's not ours. |
| 1:15.5 | Its only value is as a signpost to what God wants you to think about instead. |
| 1:23.1 | Whatever is the opposite, that's what he wants you to fill up on, until there's no room |
| 1:30.7 | left for that negative way of processing life. |
| 1:35.2 | God wants to set you free from the tyranny of negative speculations. |
| 1:41.0 | From thinking of all the things that could go wrong before they even happen. |
| 1:47.2 | Hey, what if we speculated about the goodness of God instead? |
| 1:54.0 | Just saying, in the mind of Christ, when something happens, our immediate thought could be, |
| 2:03.3 | I wonder who God is going to be for me now. I wonder what the Lord is going to do here. I wonder what I'm going to learn and who I get to |
| 2:09.9 | become. How come we never speculate about that? Thinking with God is not an academic exercise for me. It's highly relational. Mark 1230, |
| 2:25.7 | love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your |
| 2:31.2 | strength. This is the first commandment. I love God with all of my mind |
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