Waiting with God

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

You don’t have to endure your difficult circumstances. You can choose, instead, to be overwhelmed by the nature of God as you abide with Him. When we learn to stay and rest in Him first, we are renewed and restored in the waiting.

In today’s teaching, Graham Cooke shares an excerpt from The Nature of Freedom, a book of letters written from God's perspective directly to you!

Key Scriptures:

+ John 14:19. “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.”

+ Psalm 1:3. "He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers."

+ Jer 17:8. "He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives Podcast, where learning is powered by the heart.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Jalen Bowden, and today we're going to start things off by painting a picture together.
0:15.0	Imagine that we're standing in front of a canvas, and immediately we're drawn into this picture of a beautiful tree.
0:24.0	Its leaves are the most vivid shade of green.
0:28.0	And when we look closer at the branches, you can see that there's fruit growing here, and it's growing in abundance.
0:37.0	The roots of this tree are planted firmly, and those roots go dancing deeply toward a nearby stream.
0:46.0	Even on the most scorching of days where there's no rain in sight, the leaves of this tree are full of life, and the fruit it produces just keeps on growing.
0:58.0	This is a picture of a biting, found in Psalm 13 and Jeremiah 178.
1:06.0	It's an internal territory of rest and peace with God, where our minds become quieted and our hearts become steady.
1:15.0	It's here that we find ourselves being overwhelmed by his goodness, instead of being overwhelmed by our circumstances.
1:24.0	Today, let's explore what it means to abide with God in patience as we become renewed and restored in the waiting.
1:34.0	Christ in you is your power to prevail, which is the portion of this letter that we're going to explore today.
1:45.0	So listen to what God is saying.
1:49.0	Life in fullness brings you to a life lived above your circumstances.
1:59.0	You learn by my spirit to look ahead and plan longer term.
2:04.0	You also realize that some situations cannot be resolved in a few days or a few weeks.
2:12.0	In those circumstances, your development is part of a long-term plan to upgrade your identity and cultivate the trust, the wisdom, and growth necessary to become an overcomeer.
2:30.0	The key here is discovering just how full a life of fullness really is.
2:38.0	Because fullness of life in Christ is what allows us to live above our circumstances instead of being overwhelmed by them.
2:49.0	You're going to be overwhelmed by something in this life.
2:53.0	Let's make it be the nature of God in terms of just how good and kind and loving he really is.
3:03.0	When the nature of God is our greatest reality, when we are fully persuaded that nothing can separate us from who he is for us and to us, then we can abide in that place for as long as it takes.
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