“Only one thing validates a message or a messenger:
the whole counsel of the word of God.”
the whole counsel of the word of God.”
Kay Arthur
Graham Cooke
Voice of the Prophets
4-16-09 Christ Community Church Camp Hill
Notes fkj
When you talk to Graham Cooke, you can sense he’s been hanging out with God. He’s at the same time down-to-earth and full of spiritual wisdom on everything from prayer to spiritual warfare to prophecy to intimacy with God. Cooke is well known for his prophetic training programs and has a passion to build prototype churches that can reach our postmodern society. God also uses him to help transition churches into higher levels of vision and ministry.
The following are my notes from a sermon by Graham Cook which was presented at Christ Community Church’s ‘Voice of the Prophets convention’ on April 16, 2009. I believe Graham is a very humorous man of God with a poignant message for the church today.
If you’re going to say yes to your persona, you have to say no to the negative side of your personality. You have to know that your person is going to happily wage war on your negativity… for your good. And now you have to choose a side eah?
Part 10 of 12
And you get to choose…. what’s it gonna be?! You can’t hold on to that negativity if God has shown you something else about yourself. That’s illegal behavior. The process is designed to help you keep choosing. Now when you know that that’s what process is all about, you can run down that road towards God. You can run, you don’t have to walk. You can run into your future. You can run into your identity. You can run into your destiny. When you come into the fullness of your persona then your inheritance is attached to it. Anybody can get their needs met… that’s the baby end of faith. Getting your needs met is for kids. I have a four month old granddaughter Annabelle, she gets her needs met. Right now she doesn’t do anything, she’s just a noise at one end and a smell at the other! She doesn’t do anything, she just lies there and gurgles… she doesn’t do a thing… she’s not read a book, she can’t hold anything, can’t even talk… gets all her needs met! Getting your needs met is the baby end of faith. Inheritance is for sons, not children. We are on this path, from Abba to Father… two different designations.
Abba means Daddy, it’s a childlike response. To Father, and listen it isn’t as though you stop being a child in order to be a son. It’s a paradox – we are both together. A paradox is two apparently conflicting ideas contained in the same truth. See, ‘you have to die to live’… you get it? You have to be last to be first, give to receive… All my mentors, the foundation to their brilliant relationship with God was that they lived in a child-like simplicity… but they were also men and women of strength and power and substance in heaven. You need both.
Process is how we work out our relationship with God. Process is how we become what God has said we can become.
When Jesus asked the question “Who do you say I am?” He was looking to see if they perceived His persona. In that moment Simon speaks it out, “You’re the Christ the Son of the living God!” And Jesus grinned at him and said, ‘Yeah, and you’re no longer Simon, you’re Peter”… and he tells him his persona in front of all his friends. ‘You’re Peter, and you’ll have keys to bind and loose… and you will interact with heaven… and the revelation you perceive will now be the bedrock of the churches experience… and hell will be defeated by it.’
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And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
"I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."
Matthew 16:17-19
That’s his persona! Back at you Pete! You’re not Si anymore you’re Pete! This is who you are… Straight back at him. Elevated status, legal authority, permission to overcome… all attached to your persona. So let’s finish by doing two things.
All of you who know that God has already revealed your persona… you’ve got prophetic words, you’ve got Scriptures, you’ve had dreams, you’ve had visions, you’ve had encounters… I want you to stand. Yeah… look around eah… There are so many people in this place who all ready have received in one way or another your identity, your destiny, your persona… the image that has been specifically designed for you in heaven… I want you to wear it beloved, because you can’t claim ignorance any more. That’s the good news… and there ain’t no bad news…
Right now you need to understand, that your persona is waging war on your inherent negativity, using the circumstances of your life…using the people that God has put around you. Now you are to go forth from this place, and you are to practice your persona. Get your prophetic words out, or whatever they are… and start to look at what they say. Start to pull out the descriptive phrases and sentences and so on… of how God is describing you. Then you need to buy a journal, because you’ll need to start writing thing down. Because that persona, is the entry place into understanding about yourself. I want to pray for you that you will have the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and in the knowledge of yourself. But now you need to sit down, you need to give yourself to thinking this through. Who am I? What am I? Where am I right now on this journey? Who am I in Christ? What am I called to? Where am I on this journey of dealing with my negativity? It is important for you to be honest, because you are dealing with the Holy Spirit who is a genius at dealing with honesty. So you may as well come clean. Then you need to start having conversations with the Holy Spirit. You need to start looking at your day, at your circumstances in the light of your persona. What freedoms have you got, what permissions, what is the Lord saying to you? The things you were unable to hear in your negativity, you will be able to hear in your persona, because it is elevated status… so the Lord is going to give you a picture of your circumstances from a higher place. Then you need to choose to start interacting with those circumstances. You need to choose to step into that place, and adopt that role, and adopt that persona. The more you do that the faster you are going to move in the Spirit. You are going to find that you are going to get victories, where before you have only ever known defeats. You’re going to find that you are getting into a new mindset, a fresh perspective, and you wont have to look for faith, it’s going to be there.
It’s pretty hard not to have faith, when you know what your identity is… faith is attracted to your identity… power is attracted to you… influence, inheritance is attracted to you. You don’t have to go looking for those things, they come to who you are… that’s the whole point of being a son of God! Jesus never went looking for resources. As He walked, resources came to Him. People came to Him. He’d say to the guys, ‘You know in the next town we come to your going to find a donkey, just bring it it’s mine… go fishing and you’ll find my tax money. Resources came to Him and He always knew where to find them. One thin you don’t do is pray over your inheritance, you receive it. You receive it along the way. It’s a part of who you are. It’s a conversation with God that you have. You come under the weight of favor and glory and presence that God is seeking to bring into your life. As you walk in your persona that’s what happens… You start to walk onward and upward. You start to come under a weight of presence, that has been allocated to your persona.
End part 10 of 12
Graham Cooke
Voice of the Prophets
4-16-09 Christ Community Church Camp Hill
Notes fkj
When you talk to Graham Cooke, you can sense he’s been hanging out with God. He’s at the same time down-to-earth and full of spiritual wisdom on everything from prayer to spiritual warfare to prophecy to intimacy with God. Cooke is well known for his prophetic training programs and has a passion to build prototype churches that can reach our postmodern society. God also uses him to help transition churches into higher levels of vision and ministry.
The following are my notes from a sermon by Graham Cook which was presented at Christ Community Church’s ‘Voice of the Prophets convention’ on April 16, 2009. I believe Graham is a very humorous man of God with a poignant message for the church today.
If you’re going to say yes to your persona, you have to say no to the negative side of your personality. You have to know that your person is going to happily wage war on your negativity… for your good. And now you have to choose a side eah?
Part 10 of 12
And you get to choose…. what’s it gonna be?! You can’t hold on to that negativity if God has shown you something else about yourself. That’s illegal behavior. The process is designed to help you keep choosing. Now when you know that that’s what process is all about, you can run down that road towards God. You can run, you don’t have to walk. You can run into your future. You can run into your identity. You can run into your destiny. When you come into the fullness of your persona then your inheritance is attached to it. Anybody can get their needs met… that’s the baby end of faith. Getting your needs met is for kids. I have a four month old granddaughter Annabelle, she gets her needs met. Right now she doesn’t do anything, she’s just a noise at one end and a smell at the other! She doesn’t do anything, she just lies there and gurgles… she doesn’t do a thing… she’s not read a book, she can’t hold anything, can’t even talk… gets all her needs met! Getting your needs met is the baby end of faith. Inheritance is for sons, not children. We are on this path, from Abba to Father… two different designations.
Abba means Daddy, it’s a childlike response. To Father, and listen it isn’t as though you stop being a child in order to be a son. It’s a paradox – we are both together. A paradox is two apparently conflicting ideas contained in the same truth. See, ‘you have to die to live’… you get it? You have to be last to be first, give to receive… All my mentors, the foundation to their brilliant relationship with God was that they lived in a child-like simplicity… but they were also men and women of strength and power and substance in heaven. You need both.
Process is how we work out our relationship with God. Process is how we become what God has said we can become.
When Jesus asked the question “Who do you say I am?” He was looking to see if they perceived His persona. In that moment Simon speaks it out, “You’re the Christ the Son of the living God!” And Jesus grinned at him and said, ‘Yeah, and you’re no longer Simon, you’re Peter”… and he tells him his persona in front of all his friends. ‘You’re Peter, and you’ll have keys to bind and loose… and you will interact with heaven… and the revelation you perceive will now be the bedrock of the churches experience… and hell will be defeated by it.’
Edit fkj -
And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
"I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."
Matthew 16:17-19
That’s his persona! Back at you Pete! You’re not Si anymore you’re Pete! This is who you are… Straight back at him. Elevated status, legal authority, permission to overcome… all attached to your persona. So let’s finish by doing two things.
All of you who know that God has already revealed your persona… you’ve got prophetic words, you’ve got Scriptures, you’ve had dreams, you’ve had visions, you’ve had encounters… I want you to stand. Yeah… look around eah… There are so many people in this place who all ready have received in one way or another your identity, your destiny, your persona… the image that has been specifically designed for you in heaven… I want you to wear it beloved, because you can’t claim ignorance any more. That’s the good news… and there ain’t no bad news…
Right now you need to understand, that your persona is waging war on your inherent negativity, using the circumstances of your life…using the people that God has put around you. Now you are to go forth from this place, and you are to practice your persona. Get your prophetic words out, or whatever they are… and start to look at what they say. Start to pull out the descriptive phrases and sentences and so on… of how God is describing you. Then you need to buy a journal, because you’ll need to start writing thing down. Because that persona, is the entry place into understanding about yourself. I want to pray for you that you will have the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and in the knowledge of yourself. But now you need to sit down, you need to give yourself to thinking this through. Who am I? What am I? Where am I right now on this journey? Who am I in Christ? What am I called to? Where am I on this journey of dealing with my negativity? It is important for you to be honest, because you are dealing with the Holy Spirit who is a genius at dealing with honesty. So you may as well come clean. Then you need to start having conversations with the Holy Spirit. You need to start looking at your day, at your circumstances in the light of your persona. What freedoms have you got, what permissions, what is the Lord saying to you? The things you were unable to hear in your negativity, you will be able to hear in your persona, because it is elevated status… so the Lord is going to give you a picture of your circumstances from a higher place. Then you need to choose to start interacting with those circumstances. You need to choose to step into that place, and adopt that role, and adopt that persona. The more you do that the faster you are going to move in the Spirit. You are going to find that you are going to get victories, where before you have only ever known defeats. You’re going to find that you are getting into a new mindset, a fresh perspective, and you wont have to look for faith, it’s going to be there.
It’s pretty hard not to have faith, when you know what your identity is… faith is attracted to your identity… power is attracted to you… influence, inheritance is attracted to you. You don’t have to go looking for those things, they come to who you are… that’s the whole point of being a son of God! Jesus never went looking for resources. As He walked, resources came to Him. People came to Him. He’d say to the guys, ‘You know in the next town we come to your going to find a donkey, just bring it it’s mine… go fishing and you’ll find my tax money. Resources came to Him and He always knew where to find them. One thin you don’t do is pray over your inheritance, you receive it. You receive it along the way. It’s a part of who you are. It’s a conversation with God that you have. You come under the weight of favor and glory and presence that God is seeking to bring into your life. As you walk in your persona that’s what happens… You start to walk onward and upward. You start to come under a weight of presence, that has been allocated to your persona.
End part 10 of 12
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