Graham Cooke > Quotes

“*You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*”
― Graham Cooke

“Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.”
― Graham Cooke, Crafted Prayer: The Joy Of Always Getting Your Prayers Answered

“God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.”
― Graham Cooke

“God doesn’t need to be explained, He needs to be lauded. He needs to be proclaimed and worshipped. He needs people who are going to should out who he really is, and what He’s really like. What we think about God is the single most important thing in our spiritual journey. Our image of God will drive every single part of our life and declare how we show up in the world. If we don’t live a life of faith, boldness and conviction we need to examine our perception of God. We must take time to upgrade our image of God.”
― Graham Cooke, The Nature of God: Upgrading Your Image of God and Who He Wants to be for You

“There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.”
― Graham Cooke

“There are tines in the prophetic ministry when words we receive for others must stay in the throne room...they are more powerful when converted into crafted prayer and spoken to the father than when put into prophetic language and ministered to human beings.”
― Graham Cooke, Crafted Prayer: The Joy Of Always Getting Your Prayers Answered

“There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include personal government will only guarantee our mediocrity.”
― Graham Cooke

“When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.”
― Graham Cooke, Permission Granted to Do Church Differently in the 21st Century

“If you are easily offended it proves one thing: You don't have a relationship with the Comforter, because He can kiss you and it will disappear. You can give that to the Lord. You have no right to be wounded; you have a right to be healed. You don't have a right to be offended; you have a right to be compassionate and forgiving. Exercise that right!”
― Graham Cooke

“Prophecy will confirm and broaden the vision; it cannot create one if nothing is there. Vision is created through prayer, seeking God and sharing our hearts with people in the work. If these things are absent we need to be restoring people to God, not creating vision for empty hearts.”
― Graham Cooke, Developing Your Prophetic Gifting

“Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.”
― Graham Cooke

“Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.”
― Graham Cooke

“Many charismatics do not know the difference between legalism and self-discipline.”
― Graham Cooke, A Divine Confrontation

“There is some prophecy, however, that is unconditional. It depends solely on God himself for fulfillment. Normally it relates to the overview of his plans and purposes for mankind as a whole.”
― Graham Cooke, Developing Your Prophetic Gifting

“People who continue in blatant sin whilst exercising spiritual gifts create this ever widening gulf in their personality which results in spiritual failure, emotional collapse, sometimes mental breakdown, physical illness, relational difficulties and quite often a complete moral lapse.”
― Graham Cooke, Developing Your Prophetic Gifting

“It is easier for the leaders to reject the prophecy and the prophet, particularly if there are some unresolved character issues in the life of the prophet. It provides a legitimate reason to reject the word in the eyes of the people, though not necessarily in the eyes of the Lord. Prophecy has a way of testing our true motives.”
― Graham Cooke, Developing Your Prophetic Gifting