What God Does Instead
Brilliant Perspectives
Graham Cooke
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
What if stress isn’t caused by what’s happening around you, but by the way you perceive it? In this episode, Graham Cooke explores how the Holy Spirit remodels our minds, replacing speculation and doubt with peace and confidence in Christ. Discover how God always works with “instead” — bringing joy for mourning, beauty for ashes, and freedom for every place of captivity.
Key Scriptures:
+ 2 Corinthians 10:4–5. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses… taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
+ Acts 17:28. In Him we live and move and have our being.
+ Hebrews 4:16. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence…
+ Isaiah 61:1–7. The Spirit of the Lord… to bring good news, bind up the brokenhearted… to grant a garland instead of ashes, oil of gladness instead of mourning…
+ Romans 12:2. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind…
+ 2 Timothy 1:12. I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him.
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| 0:00.0 | What if I told you that stress is an inside job? |
| 0:04.0 | That it's not actually caused by difficult circumstances, but rather by the way we're perceiving them. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast, where we're learning to live in victory with God no matter what life those are way. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm your host, Jalen Benton, and today, |
| 0:23.2 | Graham Cook explores the process of being renewed in our minds, not by focusing on what's wrong, |
| 0:29.0 | but by showing us what God is doing instead. You'll hear some powerful truths about God's |
| 0:35.5 | heart towards you, and why every difficulty is actually an |
| 0:39.8 | invitation to see through the lens of his passionate commitment to your freedom. So feel free to |
| 0:46.8 | sit back and relax as we hand it over to Graham Cook. Let's pray. Father, thank you. What a great day. Holy Spirit, we absolutely love you. I love the way that you |
| 1:03.7 | adore Jesus, the way that you're so faithfully committed to taking everything that belongs to him and showing it and giving it and |
| 1:13.9 | disclosing it to us and empowering us to step into it embrace it and become it. I love your reverence |
| 1:22.3 | for the Father and for heaven and for bringing heaven into the earth so that we may taste the powers of the age to come. |
| 1:31.7 | I love your work in the body of Christ. I love your work in the world. We realize that you're doing |
| 1:39.0 | so much more behind our backs than you are in front of our face. And we just want to catch up with you. |
| 1:47.2 | And thank you that you are committed to each one of us really being set free and being on |
| 1:53.7 | track in our own time and timing with the purposes of God. |
| 1:59.2 | You're so welcome here. |
| 2:01.0 | Please come, have free reign to do what you do best, |
| 2:05.6 | to stimulate, to inspire, to lift up Jesus in our estimation, |
| 2:10.9 | and to make us aware of our identity in the Christ. |
| 2:16.5 | For his sake. |
| 2:18.7 | Amen. So I'm going to in the Christ. For his sake. Amen. |
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