GIG265 Live by His Strength
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Title: Live by His Strength Web Description: As Christians should we have an expectancy for less strength and less life in our physical bodies as we age? According to the Scriptures, something different is available for us. We can have the strength that comes directly from God. The Spirit of God dwelling in us can give life to our physical bodies. We need to appropriate what God has made available. Let us wait on the Lord and be renewed by His life. Show Notes: As Christians we believe in the resurrection of Christ and the new life that is ours. But...
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GIG264 The Bread We Know Not Of
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Title: The Bread We Know Not Of Web Description: Is it really possible to run without getting tired or to walk without becoming weary? That is not our normal experience, but it is God’s. He is never weary or tired, and He promises to give us His strength if we wait on Him. Christ knew how to do this. The food that sustained Him was in His connection to the Father, and we are connected to the Father through Him. Isn’t it time for us to learn how to draw from Him? Show Notes: Isaiah 40 contains a familiar passage about waiting on the Lord. This...
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GIG263 How Do We Appropriate?
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Title: How Do We Appropriate? Web Description: It is easy for people to have negative emotions. We can become depressed, fearful, or anxious. And those negative emotions have negative effects on our physical bodies. As Christians why should we accept that when we can experience the joy of Christ’s salvation and the fruit of the Spirit producing life in our physical bodies? God has provided everything for us, and we should be continually appropriating more and more of His provision until His life is manifesting in us and through us. Show Notes: What do you...
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GIG 262 Believe in His Rest
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #262 Web Description: The Sabbath is a special covenant that God made with all mankind. It is a weekly reminder that all things God created are completed and available for us. He rested from His works and invited us to enter His rest. We can do that because He has done it all, and we do not have to keep striving to do it in ourselves. This Sabbath rest is a provision made for us from the beginning, and we appropriate it today. Show Notes: On the Sabbath we remember that God completed all His creation and rested from His works. This...
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GIG261 Christ Ever Lives to Intercede for Us
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #261 Christ Ever Lives to Intercede for Us Web Description: God never breaks His covenants. That means He will never break the covenant He made with you for your salvation through the blood of Christ. Do you feel like God has rejected you because you failed Him? Replace that feeling with the knowledge that nothing can separate you from the love of God in Christ. Far from rejecting us, He ever lives to make intercession for us. Let this truth be what fills our hearts and minds. Show Notes: The Hebrew Scriptures show us God’s...
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GIG260 Look Up
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: How do we walk through the end times? By walking with God! It is during these times that Christ’s redemption and the Kingdom of God are nearer to us than ever before. Therefore, we look up. We are not focused on what is happening in the world. We are already seated with Christ in the heavenly places. And from there we appropriate His great power to be His effective instruments in the world. Show Notes: It is easy to study the Bible at home or in a nice study group. But it is in circumstances that challenge us and demand...
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GIG259 The Wearing Down of the Saints
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: The spiritual battle we face today, as Daniel described, attempts to wear us down. But according to the Word of God, we can hide in a secret place under the shadow of His wing. He has seated us with Him in the heavenly places. Let us live in that place and move from that place in everything we do. This is our strength that the Lord has sent us in this generation to proclaim deliverance for Israel and the gathering of the nations into His Kingdom. Show Notes: The people of Israel have had to live under continual missile attacks....
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GIG258 Pray From Fulfillment
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Title: Pray From Fulfillment Web Description: If someone gives you a plate of delicious food, do you still pray, “God, give me food! Where is the food You promised me?” No, you just take it and say, “Thank you.” Yet even though God has already given us everything, we pray as if we have not received it. We need to change that way of praying. We need to shift our focus from this realm and dwell in the spirit realm where God’s Word is already fulfilled and then pray from that place. Show Notes: When you pray, are you asking as someone who...
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GIG257 God’s Final Solution Revealed
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: Hargrave Ministries is delighted to announce that the book God’s Final Solution Revealed is published and available! Subtitled “A Call to End Anti-Semitism in the World,” this book challenges us to discover and uproot the anti-Semitism in our own hearts. But it not only deals with the negative aspects. It also gives us a connection with Israel and the Jewish people and links us into the irreversible promises of God in His Word for His nation and His people in the end-time. Show Notes: Many nations have continually tried to...
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GIG256 Understanding Revelation and Deception About Israel
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: As the apostle Paul warned, we are in danger when we exchange the truth for a lie. Yet there are many in America who are doing just that. Rejecting reason and obvious facts, they actively promote lies about Israel and even call for its destruction. This is the ultimate foolishness because the forces plotting Israel’s destruction are the same forces plotting America’s destruction. It is time to wake up. Show Notes: Recent events in the United States are extremely concerning. A Jewish couple was gunned down to shouts of “free...
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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 his signet ring to Mordecai. Esther and Mordecai then used that ring to seal a decree against those who were attacking the Jews. Having the king’s signet ring in those days meant having the power of the king himself. A decree sealed by the signet ring had to be obeyed and could never be revoked. As Christians we also believe in using the King’s signet ring, the name of Yeshua (Jesus), to accomplish the will of God.
We need to acknowledge that this is how God moves. When He works to brings deliverance, as the king did with Esther and Mordecai, God uses human instruments to bring about His will. God did not come down and deliver Israel from Egypt by Himself. He used Moses as His instrument. Again, God did not redeem humanity on His own. The Father chose to move through His Son. Then after Christ had ascended to the right hand of the Father, He moved through the apostle Paul to fulfill the sufferings of His Body.
We live in a time when the world has a desperate need for God, and as the Body of Christ today we must begin to accept what we are. As He has done in so many ages, God is going to work through vessels that He chooses and who are willing to give themselves for that purpose. Open your heart to that which God wants to do through you. Be open to receive the signet ring of anointing and authority that God can place upon you to work through you for His purposes to bring about the conclusion of this age.
Key Verses:
• Esther 8:2–8. “The king took off his signet ring … and gave it to Mordecai.”
• John 5:17–23. “Whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.”
• Colossians 1:13–24. “All things have been created through Him and for Him.”
• Colossians 1:29. “I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.”
• John 14:12. “He who believes in Me … greater works than these he will do.”
• Esther 4:12–14. “Who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”
Quotes:
• “What God was doing in bringing Christ forth in the flesh—bringing the Word into flesh—is He was manifesting Himself in humanity so that He would move in full power and authority through Christ as His human vessel and representative.”
• “We don't want the Body of Christ to be perishing in this time because we refuse to take our place in what God has called us to do.”
• “We may be facing threatening times. It may even seem like there is a decree of death and destruction on this age, on the Church, and on God's people—the Jewish people in Israel. But who knows whether we are not the ones who have come into this anointing and relationship with the Lord for such a time as this. Let's believe that God can work in us and through us to accomplish His will in this day.”
Takeaways:
1. The king giving his signet ring to Mordecai represents an important aspect of Purim. When sealed with the signet ring, whatever Esther and Mordecai enacted had the full authority and power of the king behind it. When we act in the name of Christ, it is like having God’s signet ring, bearing His authority, power, and presence.
2. God chooses to move through human instruments just as the king did through Esther and Mordecai. We have examples of this in Moses, Yeshua, and Paul. If we want the authority and power of God to impact this age, then we need to be God’s instruments.
3. Haman once had the king’s signet ring and had the power to destroy all the Jews. Their deliverance happened when the king took the signet ring from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. As ruler of this world, satan also had the authority to destroy mankind. But that authority has been removed from him and belongs to Christ. As instruments of Christ, using His authority, we can abolish the decree of destruction against mankind.