Notes - Graham Cooke Conference

Friday night I came home with 8 pages of notes I had written in my lil' notebook. The speaker was Graham Cooke. This is his website.

~ The story of Lazarus(John 11)-Get rid of religious grave clothing and be the people of God.

~ God is changing mindsets and releasing our identity in Christ. We are moving away from dullness and mediocrity.

~ God is happy with me right now.

~ Other's need to know the hope

~ When we get(God shows us) negative information about someone it's for us to know how much grace and hope they need.

~ You can't fail any of the tests God gives you. You just get to take it again and again and again until you pass.

~ God never writes you off. He just gives you another opportunity.

~ God is byast toward us

~ Learn about rest. You gotta push away things that cause unrest. You got better things to do.

~ When God points something out in your life that is not working, He's showing you your next freedom.

~ Accountability is about pointing out people's destiny, not what's wrong.

~ The world and some of the church has made us more negative then were made out to be.

~ We don't see what's wrong about people but the best about people.

~ He makes you fall in love with His own beauty and when you do you find your own.(I love this quote!)

~ We must become a prophetic people. Jer. 29:11

~ Phillipians 3 - Present past people-those that allow there past to come into there future. We need to forget what lies behind and move forward.

~ Present future people-those that move forward and forget what lies behind.

~ Don't sit in baggage claim. God gots your ticket with your name on it!

~ You gotta start thinking of yourself the way God thinks of you. He's your designer.

~ A warrior is an encourager.

~ Mark 4:35-Get out of the boat and go to the other side, where Jesus is going.

~ Don't make anxiety a virtue.

~ Anxiety and trust can't exist in the same space in the same time. One of them gots to go and you get to choose!(Good one)

~ You can't grow in faith unless you have a problem. You need problems so you can increase your faith.

~ There is a way of looking at life through the eyes of God that makes us succeed.

~ Every problem comes with a provision attached to it. You learn to stand in the problem on the promise looking for the provision!

~ Be overwhelmed in the goodness of God

~ New mindsets-there is no gift of suspicion.

~ God is positive about you

~ Align my thinking to the Lord's.

~ God will turn every curse into a blessing.

~ God is getting a hold of us in new ways. We gotta get a hold of Him in new ways.

~ We have been so conditioned by the negative

~ If I don't understand I just need to say I trust You.

~ Whatever you lack God intends to provide as part of your journey.

~ Learn to live a lifestyle of celebration

~ Rejoice always, pray and give thanks. This is God's will

~ We enter His presence with thanksgiving

~ Don't pray out of guilt or anxiety. It's through thanksgiving.

~ Your heart must be in a certain posture. We give thanks until we become thanks.

~ It's in your DNA to magnify. You will magnify the problem or the Lord. But you will magnify.

~ A life of celebration magnifies the Lord

~ Joy is the permanent environment of heaven.

~ Somewhere along the way we've lost living in the good news. Maybe we live in the mediocre news.

~ Rejoicing puts you in the throne room. Joy is who He is.

~ Jesus came to put a face on God. We are here to put a face on Christ.

~ The lack of thanks has a damaging effect on our lifestyle

~ There is nothing you can do to make God love you more or less.

~ When your having a bad day with God He's never having a bad day with you!

~ Get out of this religious mind set and find out what God is like.

~ There is only one way to live this life with God and that is joyful

~ It's time for us to be restored to the joy of our salvation