Anointed Messages: Graham Cooke - Give Jesus Back His Stuff! 12/7/12

Here are my notes from the brilliant Graham Cooke at Encourager Church

Houston, TX

Friday 12/7/12

· These are brilliant days
· So much is against us it’s beginning to be wonderful
· If God is for us, come on seriously who can be against us
· When the enemy turns up the gas, God gets bigger
· The enemy hasn’t figured that out
· He didn’t figure out he was created to serve God’s purposes
· All he does only makes the Lord more brilliant towards His people
· We have to believe in who we are in Jesus
· Graham hopes we are people who want to be warriors, champions, in our culture, etc
· You cannot be in Christ and be ordinary
· That’s illegal behavior
· You cannot be mediocre
· We’re learning about the power of the One with the One
· Learning how to receive under pressure
· How to rise above our circumstances
· How to trust and be overwhelmed by joy
· How to live in the presence of God
· That’s who we are
· We’re learning not to live below the line of our privilege
· Seated with Christ in heavenly places
· Things above, not the things on the earth
· We are citizens of heaven living here on earth
· We’re not vulnerable to this world but to the sovereignty of heaven
· On earth as it is in heaven
· We have access to a domain that is outside this world that gives us a perspective that nothing to do with the world around us
· It’s not logical, reasonable, rational, intellectual – that’s of man
· It’s rooted in the wisdom of God
· We learn how to partner with extraordinary revelation that lifts us out of our circumstances so we are condemned to victory
· God wants to put us in a place where we have a good fight
· That means you win
· We are learning to be lifted in our circumstances; not downgraded
· A higher place of spirituality so we can know God’s sovereignty in all circumstances
· God speaks to each of us to confirm how we are known in heaven
· Gabriel shows up to Zachariah to give him a prophecy for his unborn son John the Baptist
· He isn’t even born yet
· When God gives you a prophetic word He is telling you this is how you are known in heaven
· God doesn’t use scripture the way we do
· The bible is the story of God walking with man
· It’s tells of the possible encounters
· The range of experiences you can have
· How God likes to warfare
· How God loves to give each of us impossible callings
· And he’s really happy about that
· He hasn’t called you to do reasonable, possible or attainable
· You want to say “Here I am Lord, send him”
· Send Aaron, he’s good
· There are clues as to what God is doing
· It’s an immense book of promises
· God is a promise maker and a promise keeper
· Promises is God’s love language
· Everything in heaven is geared towards bringing that promise to pass
· One day the Lord spoke to Graham while he was meditating about joy
· Joy is who God is
· Joy is the atmosphere of heaven
· That’s the environment God creates wherever He goes
· Only one way to live life in the spirit – joyfully
· James the apostle interrupts the debate and says why don’t we just count it all joy
· John 15:11
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
· God’s a smiler
· He’s a grinner
· He’s a belly laugher
· We’re an endless source of amusement to Him
· God looks at you and breaks out into a grin
· When God speaks to us it’s to put a smile on our face
· To let us know where we stand in His affection
· A rhema word is an inheritance word
· Everything in that passage now belongs to you
· Any promises in that passage are yours
· If there’s a name in that passage you can have the same experience that person had
· God gave Graham Numbers about Caleb being a man of a different spirit
· Not afraid of anything, not afraid of a good fight
· God said have that same relationship with me that Caleb had
· When God gives you verse He’s allowing you to go up several levels in your relationship
· 1^st time Graham read Psalm 91
· God wanted to talk to him about who he is and how God sees him
· Psalm91
· When you’re studying your prophetic scripture you’re looking for keywords, promises
· You’re discovering what God wants to do in you and through you and for you
· Buy a journal for every prophecy that you have
· The prophecy of scripture stops you from being afflicted by things from the past in your present
· God wants you to become present future in your relationship with Him
· He gives you a present, future outlook
· Our pastoral system needs to be present past because we need to cut people off from things that have been debilitating
· They need to be set free, take specific actions, etc
· Once that has happened then the individual should go to the ministry portion that is prophetic
· First they get a word from the Lord
· We are not counseling you about your old nature because it’s dead
· We are not resurrecting the old man
· Jesus isn’t into behavior modification
· He died to give us a divine exchange
· He gave us a new man
· Pastoral ministry pastors the new man
· Teaching us to walk in newness of life
· Prophecy gives you an outcome
· So you know you’re going to survive the process
· David could face Goliath because he had a prophecy that he would be king one day
· He could see a future beyond that battle
· He’s giving you an inheritance word because He’s teaching you how to prosper
· For where I want to take you I need you to be the living embodiment of Psalm 91
· I need you to wage war and not be afraid
· I need you to know how to live in the secret place
· I need you to know how to take refuge in me
· I need you to live a life unafraid
· I want you to have breakthroughs where no one else can get it
· Man of war
· Lover of God – man of War
· The Lord puts words in our lives so He can be the fulfillment of them in all our circumstances
· It enables you to understand the pathway that you’re walking down
· When the disciples had to replace Judas they drew straws
· Choosing apostles by drawing lots
· God wrote scripture so He could do this stuff in your life
· A message for your life that will make you take off on your journey
· You’ll know when you have the right passage because your heart will leap, etc
· Read scripture the way God wrote it
· To give you a future and a hope
· To tell you that He is with you
· To give you an understanding of your destiny
· God loves to confirm things and repeat Himself
· To reinforce how He sees you
· He is not content with you living a life below the line of your privilege
· It’s important that you allow yourself to be caught
· Jesus had dove descend then was led into the wilderness
· The wilderness is a place that God takes you when He is happy with you
· It’s not a place of punishment but of no distraction
· So He has you to Himself
· God captivates our heart, draws us into the wilderness to speak kindly to us
· God begins to define who you are
· He deals with the rough edges
· All your negativity has to be dealt with in the wilderness
· Jesus went into the wilderness to deal with the devil’s negativity
· You have a book with all the answers so you can cheat anytime you like
· And He gave you the HS a brilliant helper so you can cheat in your circumstances and get an A
· You can’t fail any of the texts of God
· You get to take it again
· Until you pass
· That’s kind
· God wants you to get it, to have it, to enjoy it, to give it away…
· The Lord gives you words because He has intentions towards you
· Your whole life runs on the intentionality of God
· Now we’re partnering with intent
· Graham knows God wants him to embody Psalm 91 so he practices it
· Your story gets an upgrade
· Your journey takes a new twist
· We stop viewing our life from the world and circumstances
· The Word takes you to a higher place
· The high calling of God occurs when you understand how you are known in heaven
· God will use that passage to prevent all that stops that word from coming to pass
· God gives us revelation
· Most of us think we’re going straight up from current place to manifestation
· You can’t take a direct route, it doesn’t work that way
· You go down; He plunges you into a place of confrontation
· He has to deal with everything in you that will stop that word from coming to pass
· 3 stages
· How many had a prophetic word then your life went in the opposite direction?
· Suddenly the trap door opens and you plunge down
· When the Lord gave you that prophecy he had a list of all the things He had to deal with in order for that word to come to pass
· Exodus3:6
· It’s an ordinary day when Moses sees a bush burst into flames
· Why hasn’t it burned out by now?
· Suddenly Moses is having a conversation with a shrub
· Dude take your shoes off, it’s holy ground
· God calls him to be a deliverer
· What happens first?
· All his negativity rises to the surface
· Aaron is better, etc
· When God gives you a call all your negativity rises to the surface
· Prophecy is a magnet for all the negativity lodged in there to come out
· Gideon: I’m the lowest, I can’t do it…
· The Lord totally ignores you
· It’s like you never said anything
· The Lord is so full of Himself
· So confident
· I AM God and I can do anything
· If I needed to be confident in a man I wouldn’t have chosen you
· I like people with issues, and low self-esteem
· I love all that
· I want to change them to become confident
· I AM going around the world looking for the worst people so I can change them
· The world says how are those people doing that; it’s got to be God
· Graham was voted the person most likely to spend life in prison
· But here he is
· When God gets hold of you, He gets hold of all of you
· He sifts what He doesn’t like
· Graham’s dad tried to kill him twice
· God chooses people who have issues
· That have things that we think disqualifies them
· It all comes under grace
· God chose you because of who He is and because of who you are not
· And He is going to make you like Him
· He gives the calling and has to deal with all the negative things on the list
· That stop you from rising up and becoming the person that He sees
· So you go from revelation to confrontation
· Not confrontation with God because God is gentle and loving
· God has rebuked Graham on Tuesday but he didn’t figure it out until Thursday
· He’s so full of grace and kindness that even when He tells you off you don’t always realize it
· He absolutely adores you and won’t consider being separated from you
· Nothing can separate you from the love of God
· Everything God is doing is to make you brilliant so He can receive glory
· It’s about Him turning weak people into astonishing people
· Who really love the journey
· He wants to change your story and put you on a different journey
· Some of you would be playing an extra in your own life
· Other people are dominating you and controlling you, etc
· Anyone who controls people has no passion for freedom
· Some of us are playing a bit part in the story of our own life
· He wants to get into your head and heart and change things that empower you to become like Him in the process
· You learn to live with a big smile on your face because you work for the one who never stops smiling
· And I’ll give you peace
· God doesn’t want clones or robots
· Real people who become like Him in our personality
· We will all have a chiropractic adjustment
· If you’re an Eeyore you’ll become a Piglet or a Tigger
· We have to have a personality that comes in line with heaven
· As He is so are we in this world
· There is nothing ordinary about you
· You can go beyond all the expectations of people around you
· Graham’s family is still in a life of crime
· He’s the first white sheep in the family
· His 2 sons are the only males who haven’t committed a crime going all the way back to the 11^th century
· They’re in the police force
· Graham was in his hometown and his family came to a meeting (1^st time)
· All seated in the back row
· The crowd cheered for Graham
· Graham spoke and you could feel the HS sweeping thru the auditorium
· People were cheering for 10 minutes, Graham could barely get off the platform
· After, Graham’s family gathered around him and his nasty uncle said “Who are you?”
· His cousin said “He’s a man of God and he’s in our family”
· How did you become this? You were the best thief of us all
· Graham could sneak in your house and steal your DVD while you were watching the movie
· He went into homes when people were still up and hid
· Graham’s father recognized Graham’s new identity
· The confrontation with God is never a boxing match
· God loves every interaction between your flesh and the Spirit
· He loves being your deliverer
· He’s not embarrassed about anything about you
· He is intrigued about your journey and He loves it
· He totally understands you and really gets you as a person
· The HS thinks he has the best job in the godhead
· All Graham’s DVDs in heaven are in the comedy section, under Mr. Bean
· I love the joy of heaven
· I love the smile of God
· I love the intentionality of heaven
· He gives you this brilliant word of revelation
· Then He puts you in a place of loving confrontation so He can do transformation
· YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO THAT BECAUSE THIS IS WHO YOU ARE
· He’s not dealing with your old man or sin nature
· He’s dealing with your sin habit
· Everything that was wrong about you He already nailed to a tree
· Jesus carried it to the grave
· God isn’t double minded
· God sees what’s missing from your experience with Him and He is totally committed to giving you that encounter
· God is pointing to your next miracle
· Ever see those people who say the Lord is changing me?
· Then why the constipated look?
· Or the people who say I resisted God for 3 months and then I surrendered
· That’s your testimony? You pelican!
· The transformation can be as joyful as you want it to be
· That’s the truth that will set you free
· When God gives you a prophecy He’s giving you an outcome somewhere in the future
· Revelation keeps you on the road
· What kind of person do I need to become in order to see this word fulfilled?
· You and the HS have to take care of your identity (based on God’s Word to you)
· If we were going to set a million people free we’d send an army full of tanks
· God send one old boy with a stick and a stutter
· Exodus 7:1
Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
· I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron will be your prophet
· Pharaoh was treated as a deity within his own culture
· This will be some gig
· Graham came in to this meeting hoping to find a bunch of people who want to be like God and no longer like themselves
· How to speak, walk, talk, connect with the world differently
· I AM going to make you as God to_____
· That’s His agenda from the beginning
· To make man in His own image
· You get to stop whining and complaining and having pity parties
· You can’t be in Christ, becoming a worshipper and still have this weird language about yourself
· That’s not kosher
· Out of your mouth can’t come sweet water and bitter
· You need to talk about yourself the way God talks about you
· God is saying we’re not having any of these things that will stop your inheritance
· I am dealing with all that stuff
· Because it prevents your revelation from being realized
· I will transform your personality
· I am going to make you joyful
· And peaceful, loving, kind, grateful…
· We call it process
· A series of steps that takes us from where we are to where we want to go
· Graham shared about his dreams of Jesus
· Usually Jesus is coming up the hill followed by a throng of people, smiling and waving at Graham
· Then Jesus sits with him and shares wisdom, etc.
· Graham has written books based on those conversations
· But one dream Jesus was stomping up the hill alone
· Shouting “Give Me back My stuff!”
· Graham was afraid but couldn’t move
· He didn’t know what Jesus meant
· Jesus demanded His stuff back: anxiety, fear…
· I paid a price for it, give Me back My stuff
· I died for it, you can’t have it
· I was thrilled to hang on a cross to take all that stuff from you
· I was delighted to do it because I saw you free
· And here you are living in all that stuff I died to take away from you
· If you keep all that stuff I can’t give you all the stuff I want to give you
· If you keep all that fear you’ll never learn perfect love
· Some of you walked in here with His stuff
· Graham prayed for us

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Graham Cooke - Give Jesus Back His Stuff! 12/7/12

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