GIG223 Lord, Glorify Yourself Before the Nations
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Release Date: 11/20/2024
GIG249 The Ministry of Bethesda
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: How do we bring the healing that we need and that the world today needs so desperately? The example of healing at Bethesda is a lesson for all of us to apply. When Christ asks us, “Do you wish to be healed?” Our answer needs to be an emphatic, “Yes!” And not, “We are waiting for someone to carry us.” Christ is the source of our healing. He is always willing. And we pick up our own bed and walk in what He has provided. Show Notes: During the first church service of Bethesda Ministries and the ordination of Silas as pastor, a...
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GIG248 Remembering our Dear Brother, Pope Francis
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: On the death of Pope Francis, we must do more than reflect on his legacy. We must be in intercession for the selection of the new Pope because this will impact how the entire Body of Christ moves forward. Let us pray by the Spirit to create the Pope who will not only continue what Pope Francis started, but will break new ground in our oneness, our functioning by the Spirit, and our connection with the Jewish people. Show Notes: As the Catholic Church remembers Pope Francis, we also remember our connection with him and with Catholics...
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GIG247 Christ Given His Kingdom, Daniel 7:14
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: After a vision of men turning away from evil because of the force of the Kingdom of God in the spirit realm, Gary laid out a burden for greater effectiveness in our prayers to see real change happen in the earth. Our meditation should be something that connects with the Kingdom of God that we have already received and then manifests the power of God in the earth from within us. Show Notes: Daniel saw the Son of Man come up to God from where He was given “dominion, glory, and a kingdom.” He saw this before Christ ascended to the...
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GIG246 This Is the Day
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: The book of Zechariah records the specific day on which Zechariah’s prophecy was voiced. This emphasizes the significance of this prophecy and how much we should be expecting God to fulfill His Word in our day. We look eagerly for the fulfillment of these promises of God’s blessings on Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. This is the day they come to pass. Show Notes: The prophecy of Zechariah is one of the greatest messianic prophecies that we have. And in Zechariah 1:7, we are given the exact day when that prophecy came. The significance...
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GIG245 I Stand at the Door and Knock
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: The Lord begged the church in Laodicea to open the door to Him, so He could dine with them. This need to dine with God does not make sense to our Christian thinking. But it makes total sense in the Hebraic context of making a covenant over a meal. God is knocking on the door of the Church in this day. And regardless of how far removed we are from Him, if we open the door, He will make a covenant with us to bring us into everything He has promised. Show Notes: The Laodicean church was a lost church, having fallen away from God. Yet...
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GIG244 The Difficulties of Deliverance
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Web Description: At the Passover God delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt to bring them into the land He had promised their fathers. But their focus was on the difficulties that this deliverance meant to the life they had adapted to. Moving from our present age into God’s Kingdom can also feel like a disruption to the life we are comfortable with in this world. Our focus must be on His Kingdom and not on the difficulties of deliverance. Show Notes: Passover celebrates the deliverance of Israel from their slavery in Egypt. When they first heard that the Lord had come...
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GIG243 Christian Persecution
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Web Description: Christianity is suffering tribulation today even if we as individuals feel unaffected by it. We need to be one with our fellow Christians who are suffering and be praying for them. Let us not be fearful of what satan might do to us because Christ defeated him at the cross. Even if we must face death ourselves, we overcome satan by simply exercising Christ’s victory. Show Notes: The Lord said to the church in Smyrna, “I know your tribulation and your poverty.” Just as God knew then what the Christians in Smyrna were suffering, He is aware of what Christians...
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GIG242 Religion or Relationship?
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Web Description: The religion of their day prevented many from receiving Christ when He appeared in the flesh. Religion is no different in our day. Religion tends to establish orthodox interpretations about God rather than lead us into a relationship with God. However, the promise is that we will all know the Lord. And we need to honestly deal with that which prevents us from knowing Him, even if it is our own religious thinking. Show Notes: It is important to understand the degree to which our lack of awareness is based on our religious upbringing. Religious orthodoxy encourages...
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GIG241 Will You Be Aware?
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Web Description: The Scriptures warn us that just as we are unaware of a thief at night, we could be unaware of the Lord’s appearing. Perhaps the greatest problem we face is not the circumstances in the world but our own unawareness of God. It is imperative that we seek the Lord for a greater awareness and understanding of what He is saying and doing today. Show Notes: A characteristic of the end-time is the unawareness on people. We see this in the flood of anti-Semitism that is moving through the world today and even sweeping through many churches. What enables the anti-Semitism...
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GIG240 Purim—How God Works Deliverance
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: In the story of Esther, the king was not personally involved in delivering the Jews from the destruction imposed by Haman. However, his signet ring in the hand of Mordecai gave Mordecai all the king’s authority and power to deliver the Jews as if he were the king himself. Likewise through the name of Yeshua (Jesus), we have been given the signet ring of God Himself. Let us accept who we are as His instruments and use His authority and power to bring Christ’s deliverance to the earth. Show Notes: In the story of Esther, King Ahasuerus gave...
info_outlineWeb Description: When we pray for Israel, what are we praying for? Are we praying for God to bless Israel in the future? No. God’s Word over Israel exists now, and we are praying for that Word to be fulfilled now. The fact that all the nations are focused on Israel today means that they are focused on God and on His ability to perform what He said. Therefore, the focus of our prayer is for God’s Word, His power, and His glory to be revealed in Israel to all the nations.
Show Notes: We need effective intercession in this time. And one of the greatest examples of effective intercession is the prayer of Moses. When God said, “I am going to kill these children of Israel and make a new nation out of you,” Moses answered, “Israel is Your nation now by Your Word.” Moses reminded God that His Word was already completed, and he changed God’s mind at that moment. It did not happen in the future through Moses or in a future Israel.
This is important for our prayer because we as Christians relate too much to the Word of God as being in the future. We are always waiting for it, hoping for it, or believing for it, instead of recognizing that if God spoke it, it already exists. When we pray for Israel today, we need to be like Moses and say, “All these Words that God will restore, forgive, cleanse, and prosper Israel exist now, and we are not putting them off into the future.”
Moses made the issue about God’s Word and His glory. If God did not fulfill His Word over Israel, the nations would not scoff at Israel. Instead, they would scoff at God and say that He could not do what He said He would do. Right now, the focus of all the nations is on Israel. And there is no issue except God being glorified until everyone will see and hear that God bared His mighty arm, manifested His power, and fulfilled His Word over His people. Lord, glorify Yourself before the nations now.
Key Verses:
• Jeremiah 31:31–34. “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it.”
• Genesis 1:3. “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.”
• Isaiah 55:11. “My word … will not return to Me empty.”
• 1 Peter 1:19–20. “He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times.”
• Exodus 32:9–14. “So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.”
• Numbers 14:11–21. “But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared.”
• Ezekiel 36:22–28. “I will vindicate the holiness of My great name.”
• Romans 10:6–8. “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART.”
• Ezekiel 38:21–23. “I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known.”
• Deuteronomy 9:28–29. “The land from which You brought us may say, ‘Because the LORD was not able.’”
Quotes:
• “As long as you're willing to put it into the future, God is willing for it to happen in the future.”
• “What does Israel mean? Israel means you, the world, the nations will behold God moving in a people. And just as He is moving for Israel, He can move for you. And He will move for you.”
• “Christians have been trying to get the gospel to the whole world for two thousand years now; and they're still working at it. But I'll tell you, it can happen in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, if you see God move on Israel.”
Takeaways:
1. God created the world by saying, “Let there be.” And when we look at the prophecies over Israel, we are looking at the same power of God to create. As the Sabbath tells us, everything God created is finished. And all the prophecies over Israel are finished now; they are not waiting for the future.
2. We should pray like Moses who refused to let God move the fulfillment to the future by destroying the Israelites and making a new nation out of Moses. We move the future into the present with our prayers.
3. We should pray like Moses who told the Lord, “If you kill these people, the nations will hear of it and say, ‘You could not do what You promised by oath.’” The issue is not the events that are happening or the people involved. It is about what God has said and His glorification to the nations.