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

As we walk with God through life, we're learning to handle both the extreme situations and the joyful tensions of living.

Our training is to develop a greater resilience that only comes from walking with God on tough days.

Victory is not about never knowing defeat.

It's about knowing God in all the areas of our lives on the good and the bad days.

In our relationship with God everything is about training.

All spiritual training is

is relational, simply because we're learning how to relate to God and the people

around us.

It's when we understand how consistent God is in his nature to us.

That's where we feel empowered also to understand what he's actually doing in our circumstances. Here's a clip that explores this

process of becoming more resilient and being made in his image. Enjoy.

Walking with God then it's about handling Enjoy. the tensions of life. And every single person in this room and those you know listening

on CD you're not escaping either. We've all got to develop a greater resilience that only comes from walking

with God on tough days. You know, life, you know, victory is not about never knowing defeat.

Victory is about knowing God in all the areas of life. Good days, bad days. I remember one day being in Asia and I've been going to Asia for several years and and I took a new team with me

and we were in Calcutta and it was awful. I got my butt kicked by the enemy big time. Not a single

breakthrough in any meeting. All the team was sick. Most of them wanted to go home

on the second day. And I lost my grace.

It was a mess.

I got my butt handed to me big time.

It was monumentally embarrassing and came home from there.

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