Unstuck from Trying Harder

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Most of us have places where we feel stuck, but we’ve mistakenly thought that all the weight is on us to become unstuck. In the Kingdom, however, the responsibility for experiences with the Truth is never with us. It’s always with God.

This devotional comes from the first part of letter #7 (”An Invitation to Come Unstuck”) on page 65 in The Nature of Freedom.

Key Scriptures:

+ Ephesians 2:10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

+ Jeremiah 31:33-34. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people…

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives Podcast. I'm your host J- Lin Bowden.
0:07.0	And today we're diving into a new topic all about getting unstuck and cultivating a lifestyle of encounter with God.
0:17.0	We'll be exploring bite-sized snippets from one of Graham's most popular books called The Nature of Freedom. And what I love about this
0:25.4	particular book is that it's actually written from God's perspective, letters
0:30.3	from his heart directly to yours, with questions and activations designed to empower
0:36.8	you in your relationship with him.
0:40.3	So if you're tired of the discouragement and burnout that comes from striving to have a devotional time,
0:46.8	well, today's episode will be a breath of fresh air.
0:51.8	Let's hand it over to Graham Cook as he shares more about living a
0:55.8	responsive life to God's love, goodness, and grace. Welcome. Welcome to your invitation to come unstuck. I'm Graham Cook and this week we're
1:10.0	beginning to explore this last letter in the nature of freedom.
1:14.4	Most of us have places we feel stuck,
1:17.9	but we've mistakenly thought
1:19.8	that all the weight is on us to come unstuck. So let's start with how encounter and
1:26.0	experiences with God occur and how they don't. As we said in many of our other episodes, God is the initiator of our
1:36.2	spirituality. Our devotional life is our response to him. That means the responsibility for experiences with the truth is never with us.
1:51.6	It's always with him.
1:54.0	When people say, well, I've tried to have God encounters,
1:58.0	but it never happened for me,
2:00.0	I already know why he didn't.
2:02.0	The answer is in the word try.
2:06.0	There's no trying on our part.
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