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What if the why question is the one question that makes us an invalid? In the final segment of New Man Theology, Graham Cooke shows us that growing up into all the fullness of Jesus requires "a continuous upgrading of our lens", and that right now every one of us is "having a lens change about something" with "no blame, shame or condemnation". Discover why the two best questions we can ever ask were both asked on the day of Pentecost, "what does this mean and what must I do", why "a lens change automatically aligns you with trust and with faith", and why worship itself is a lens change that creates "the same atmosphere that's around the throne". Graham closes by praying over us for a peace "where there's no fear, there's no apprehension" and asking God to "restore and renew our spiritual lens". Key Scriptures:+ Acts 2:12. "And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, 'What does this mean?'"+ Acts 2:37. "Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, 'Brethren, what shall we do?'"+ Philippians 4:7. "And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."+ Ephesians 4:23. "and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,"+ Hebrews 8:13. "When He said, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear." Want to explore more?📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/As always, thanks for listening!

What if the revival you've been praying for is already living on the inside of you? In this second part of Graham Cooke's session on lens changes, he traces the biggest one of all: Jesus moving us from a visitational relationship, where God "could come on you but he could lift off you," into a habitation of God by the Spirit, making us "a race of people never seen in the earth before." Discover why God "doesn't speak to your head, he speaks into your spirit," why "in a habitational culture you are the revival," and why prayer becomes "a delight" rather than "a discipline" once you "pray like a bride" and pray "with God, not towards him." Key Scriptures:+ 2 Corinthians 5:17. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."+ John 16:14-15. "He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you."+ Hebrews 7:25. "Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."+ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. "Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."+ Romans 8:26. "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words." Want to explore more?📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/As always, thanks for listening!

What if the call of God is designed to bring up every inadequacy in you, so that he can hand you a new lens for it? In this episode Graham Cooke opens Ephesians 1:18, the prayer that "the eyes of your heart, your spiritual lens, would be enlightened," and walks us into one of the best personal lens changes in the Bible: God telling a shepherd who is "slow of speech," "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh." Discover why "you can't go into the enemy from a lower place than he is," why Moses had to practice his new voice all the way back down into Egypt, and why your identity rests on an alignment of three things: perception, mindset and language. Graham closes with the lens changes the church has already made, from the Reformation to the indwelling Holy Spirit, "a real person and an absolute genius," and the one certain aspects of the church still need to make "so that we're seeing things absolutely in line with the Godhead." Key Scriptures:+ Ephesians 1:18-19. "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe."+ Exodus 4:10. "Then Moses said to the LORD, 'Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.'"+ Exodus 7:1. "Then the LORD said to Moses, 'See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.'"+ Exodus 7:16. "The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, 'Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness.'"+ Ephesians 2:6. "and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus," Want to explore more?📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/As always, thanks for listening!

What if the thing God is asking you to walk into isn't a loss at all, but the doorway to a kingdom far bigger than the one you've been living in? Graham Cooke follows Peter across the threshold of Cornelius's house, where an apostle who had never set foot in a Gentile home discovers that God "doesn't care anything for the traditions of man" and that "hundreds of millions of people" were lining up behind that one door. Then Saul, the academic theologian who was "100% on a mission from God," has "a violent encounter with grace" on the Damascus road, and thick scales fall from his eyes. Discover why God gave you a Comforter ("so that he could mess with you"), why some things have to be forcibly removed before we can see, and why Graham insists that "if grace is not scandalous, it's not grace" — because "if it's not too good to be true, it's not God." Key Scriptures:+ Acts 10:28. "And he said to them, 'You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.'"+ Matthew 15:3. "And He answered and said to them, 'Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?'"+ Philippians 3:5-6. "circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless."+ Acts 9:3-5. "As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?' And he said, 'Who are You, Lord?' And He said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.'"+ Acts 9:17-18. "So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, 'Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.' And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized." Want to explore more?📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/As always, thanks for listening!

What if the next change God works in your life doesn't start with trying harder, but with a lens change? Graham Cooke opens New Man Theology with a simple picture — everyone comes into life with a lens that either bends the light so you can see clearly or blocks it so everything is blurred and ill-defined — and shows why perception, mindset, and language are "all the keys to transformation." Discover why following Jesus means learning a foreign language, and why the God who met Peter on a rooftop in Joppa is "endlessly patient and fabulously good" — quite happy to do a retake until we get it. Graham lands on the invitation that changes everything: when God shows you something you don't understand, move towards it, "because you get revelation as you go, not as you stand still, and definitely not as you retreat." Key Scriptures:+ John 1:47-48. "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, 'Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!' Nathanael said to Him, 'How do You know me?' Jesus answered and said to him, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.'"+ Matthew 5:43-44. "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."+ Acts 4:13. "Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus."+ Acts 10:13-15. "A voice came to him, 'Get up, Peter, kill and eat!' But Peter said, 'By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.' Again a voice came to him a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'"+ Acts 10:19-20. "While Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him, 'Behold, three men are looking for you. But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.'" Want to explore more?📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/As always, thanks for listening!

Join Graham, Dionne, and Team Brilliant September 18-20 for Brilliance Fall — a three-day virtual event on getting unstuck: moving from frustration to freedom. Day one, the freedom of your new nature in Christ; day two, a new way of living with God, not for Him; day three, a new way of learning with Him. You'll walk away with a new starting place and a global community of believers who are on the same journey.Register at https://brilliantperspectives.com/go/bfall2026-main?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=brilliance_fall_2026&utm_content=ep_sep17 What if gentleness isn't just something God does — but the very tone of His voice every time He speaks to you? Graham Cooke continues our Fruit of the Spirit journey with the fruit he takes first — gentleness, "because it's how God speaks to us" — and tells the story of the season he felt he had failed miserably, when God gently repeated one verse to him 273 times ("I know, I counted") until His relentless gentleness transformed him into a gentle man. Discover why the first thing God says when He appears is "fear not," why gentleness is not weakness but "strength under control," and how His gentle voice washes us in truth until we begin to see and think as He does. Graham lands on our positive expectation: whatever God wants to teach us next, He will come to us in His true nature — deeply affectionate, beautifully gentle, with no condemnation. Key Scriptures:+ Mark 1:11. "You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."+ Psalm 18:35. "You have given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness has made me great."+ Proverbs 15:1. "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."+ Matthew 11:29. "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls."+ 1 Peter 1:16. "Be holy, for I am holy." Want to explore more?📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/As always, thanks for listening!

What if every fruit of the Spirit is a door standing wide open — not a standard to perform, but an invitation to encounter God? In this opening episode of our new series, Transformation Through the Fruit of the Spirit, Graham Cooke reveals the fruit of the Spirit as "a storehouse of promise and provision" — the key resource that converts us from being touched by God to being "radically transformed into his likeness." Discover why so many people have powerful encounters with God yet never see them become transformation, and how one question — what aspect of God's nature can I experience in this situation? — shifts us from "I've got to do this" to "I get to do this with God." Then Graham lands on the stance that frames the whole journey: positive expectancy, because "a good expectation of the Lord closes the door to negativity" and determines what we activate — the nature of God in us, or the world's way of seeing and thinking. Key Scriptures: - Galatians 5:22-23. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such there is no law." - Psalm 57:7. "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise." - John 14:27. "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." - John 15:9. "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love." - Ephesians 2:10. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if the battlefield you've been dreading is actually the Holy Spirit's playground — the place where He gets to remind you of who you are? Graham opens with a line worth framing: "Never make allowances for losing, because you'll lose" — and never think below the level of your privilege in Christ. Discover why we interpret our circumstances through the word of God rather than the "doomsday merchants" of the news cycle, why the end times is about Jesus and not the devil, and why Graham calls Revelation "the best devotional book ever." He unpacks the miracle of being born again — a completely new identity to "take for a spin" — and lands on the levels of strength, courage, power, and anointing that make us warriors, champions, and game changers who love the conflict, because you get to see a side of Jesus on the battlefield that you don't see in peacetime. Key Scriptures: - Romans 13:12. "The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light." - 2 Corinthians 2:14. "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place." - Romans 8:37. "But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." - Colossians 2:15. "When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him." - 1 John 5:4-5. "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if the enemy's most effective weapon isn't power at all — it's intimidation, and your worship is the very thing that takes all the heat out of him? Graham opens the Standing Firm arc of The Overcoming Life with Paul's charge to be strong in the Lord, sharing an unforgettable warfare dream where the Holy Spirit says "put your shields down" and starts singing — because "he's lost every major battle he's ever fought against us." Discover why the enemy only wins the battles where he can intimidate, and why "your intimacy is the most intimidating thing about you." Graham lands on majesty: if you're in Christ, you're in all the majesty He projects, and your inheritance includes the surpassing greatness of His power. Key Scriptures: - Ephesians 6:10-13. "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm." - Romans 12:2. "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." - 1 Corinthians 2:16. "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." - Colossians 1:11. "Strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously." - 1 Corinthians 2:14. "But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if majesty isn't just how God carries Himself — it's how He intends to carry you through the very situation that feels overwhelming? In this conclusion to The Identity of Majesty, Graham Cooke declares it's time to "cross over the Jordan of our circumstances" — to fight for your prophecy, wage war with it, and let the Lord teach you occupancy. Discover why you shouldn't wait until you understand everything before you start walking, and why "I'm not broke, says the Lord" is an invitation into extraordinary, brick-by-brick partnership with a God who never fails. Graham lands the session in a prophetic prayer, asking the Father to root every one of us in a mindset of majesty — because majesty is what got you into this situation, and majesty will get you out. Key Scriptures: - 1 Timothy 1:18. "This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight." - Joshua 1:3. "Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses." - Joshua 1:5. "No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you." - Joshua 1:7. "Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go." - Romans 4:17. "(as it is written, 'A father of many nations have I made you') in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if the problems around you aren't actually related to you? Graham opens with David's confession in the face of overwhelming forces — a God so unconcerned by the enemy that He sets a table on the battlefield: "picnic first, great fight second." Discover why the Lord is looking for warriors, champions, and game changers with an identity rooted in majesty — people who take situations by the scruff of the neck, displace the enemy in their own locality, and turn a Tuesday night into a Saturday night. Then Graham lands on a prophetic word: this is your time to arise, because your promises, prophecies, scriptures, visions, and dreams are your currency — "more significant than the circumstances that you're facing." Key Scriptures: - Psalm 23:5-6. "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." - Acts 10:38. "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him." - 2 Corinthians 1:20. "For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us." - 2 Corinthians 3:17. "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if you're not looking for the Lord because He's lost — you're looking for Him because you are? Graham opens with the close of Joshua's commissioning — "be strong and courageous" — and the Lord's invitation to get a mindset that's based on majesty. Discover why spirituality is never passive, why God is always "right next to the promise that he gave you," and why we cannot allow "a theology that empowers the enemy and disables humanity." Graham lands on our divine advantage: made in God's image and engaged with His presence, we can stand in our impossible situations and smile — because the situation we're practicing on today is preparing us for the territory we're going to take. Key Scriptures: - Joshua 1:8. "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success." - Joshua 1:9. "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." - Hebrews 13:5. "For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.'" - Numbers 13:30. "Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, 'We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.'" - Romans 8:37. "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if the test that keeps finding you — in the new house, the new job, even the new country — is actually the goodness of God? In part two of the Identity of Majesty, Graham Cooke opens the second key: majesty means having a glory, being part of the glory of God in His presence — because God will not give His glory to another, and you're not another, you're the bride of Christ. Discover why God chose Joshua — the man who loved the presence so much he waited nearly six weeks on the mountain for Moses — and why every leader needs a warrior spirit and a mind set on majesty. Then settle into one of Graham's most freeing reframes: when God gives you a revelation, He gives you a situation to establish it — and because love never fails, He will never give you a no-pass mark. Key Scriptures: - Isaiah 42:8. "I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to graven images." - Exodus 24:13. "So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God." - Joshua 1:5-6. "No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them." - John 16:12. "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now." - 1 Corinthians 13:8. "Love never fails." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke’s books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God’s love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if there's a place in Jesus where it is impossible to be fearful, anxious, or worried? Graham Cooke reads the great Ephesians prayers out loud — far above all rule and authority, far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think — and shows why majesty is an eye-opener that makes confidence and faith normal. Discover why overcoming means learning to stand, press in, and walk; why you are connected with the one true, great, original territorial spirit; and why there's land out there with your name on it in Jesus — a calling to occupy and build something spectacular on. Then Graham lands the session in the mature end of life in the Spirit: God teaching us to trust Him, and bringing us to a place where He can trust us. Key Scriptures: - Ephesians 1:18-23. "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all." - Ephesians 3:14-21. "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen." - Genesis 18:14. "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" - Romans 12:2. "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke’s books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God’s love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!

What if fear could be taken away as a possibility for life — not managed, but banished for good? In this opening episode of The Overcoming Life 2: Rules of Engagement, Graham Cooke introduces the identity of majesty — the majesty that belongs to Jesus, which the Holy Spirit, the spirit of disclosure, loves to make real to us. Discover why worship is expansive enough to become a lifestyle of exaltation, why what sets us apart is that we are not afraid of the darkness, and why Caleb became a man of a different spirit when majesty was more real to him than the giants in the land. When majesty becomes your mindset, it is impossible to lose this fight — one person walking with God is always in the majority. Key Scriptures: + John 16:14-15. "He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you." + Colossians 1:18. "He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything." + Ephesians 1:17-19. "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him... and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might." + Numbers 14:24. "But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it." + Romans 8:31. "What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?" Want to explore more? 📚 Browse Graham Cooke’s books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/ 🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God’s love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/ As always, thanks for listening!