Hello, this is Graham Cook. Welcome to the Brilliant Perspective's Podcast.

Today I'm talking about how obstacles challenge us to make the dream bigger.

Here's the thing for us. We're in Christ, learning to in Christ-like.

Our goal every day, every situation is to become like Jesus.

That's why all teaching, all learning in the kingdom is relational not just functional because the key

thing for God in every situation that we're in is that we are actually learning to become like him.

So that's his priority.

So here's the thing is, if all you want is the resolution of your circumstances,

then that's a functional way of learning.

And if you're not really focused on becoming like Jesus,

then you have to go through it again because becoming like Jesus is everything.

And when you learn how to be like him, your situations and your circumstances

actually serve your growth. and your life

life and they don't bring you down, they actually lift you up

into a higher place of revelation and truth and relationship with the Lord.

We're in Christ learning to be Christ-like.

The Father's passion for making you like Jesus

is a critical part of your identity in

him and his presence in you. And as we pursue God, using our life situations, our vision begins to unfold.

We get a picture of who God wants to be for us in this situation.

So like when you're in some relational difficulty,

typically it's mostly about you developing

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