GIG252 The Leaven of the Kingdom
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: In a message to faithful believers in Monterrey, Mexico, Gary shares with them the answer for Mexico. The answer is the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven that was implanted within them. This leaven will grow until it influences all of Mexico. And it will not stop until it fills the whole earth. Show Notes: At the Feast of Unleavened Bread, all leaven is removed from the house and unleavened bread is eaten for seven days. In 1 Corinthians Paul compares this process to what happens within us. During this feast we are to clean out the old leaven...
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GIG251 Take Every Thought Captive
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: As Christians, are we conformed to this age? Do people look at us and see no difference between us and the world? The Lord does not want us to be conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing of our minds. By the authority of Christ through the Holy Spirit, we destroy the speculations that are conforming us to this world. And we take every thought captive in obedience to Christ. Show Notes: As Paul explained in 2 Corinthians, spiritual warfare involves destroying speculations and bringing every thought captive in...
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GIG250 Israel Solidarity Trip
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: God commanded us to comfort His people. And that is what we intend to do, not just by our prayers but by our actions. That is what this Israel solidarity trip is all about. We are going to Israel to be the hands, feet, and voices of comfort to the Israeli people. We are going there to help them spiritually and physically during this time when so much is coming against them. Show Notes: At Hargrave Ministries we are on our latest solidarity trip to Israel. The purpose of our trip, as the name states, is to show solidarity with the...
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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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Web Description: In a message to faithful believers in Monterrey, Mexico, Gary shares
with them the answer for Mexico. The answer is the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven
that was implanted within them. This leaven will grow until it influences all of Mexico.
And it will not stop until it fills the whole earth.
Show Notes: At the Feast of Unleavened Bread, all leaven is removed from the house
and unleavened bread is eaten for seven days. In 1 Corinthians Paul compares this
process to what happens within us. During this feast we are to clean out the old leaven
from ourselves. God wants us to remove all the influences of this world and this age
until we are a new lump of dough that is unleavened.
After the Feast of Unleavened Bread, leaven is again added to the bread. As Yeshua
(Jesus) said, the Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven added to a lump of dough that grows
until the entire lump is leavened. During the days of unleavened bread, we remove the
leaven of this world that is not part of the Kingdom of God until we become a new lump
of dough. But that is not where we stop. Then the Kingdom of Heaven itself is imparted
into our hearts and minds. Like leaven, it grows until we are completely filled with His
Kingdom.
You could look at your circumstances and say, “I don’t see it working.” You cannot
necessarily see leaven working either, but slowly and surely it is growing and expanding
in the dough. We have removed the old leaven of influences of this world, and now the
new leaven of the Kingdom will continue to grow in us and influence everything around
us. By this impartation and transformation within us, we become the bread that God can
use to feed the world.
Key Verses:
1 Corinthians 5:7–8.
“Clean out the old leaven.”
Romans 12:2.
“Do not be conformed to this world.”
Matthew 13:33.
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.”
Luke 13:20–21.
“To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven.”
Colossians 1:13.
“He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred
us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.”
Philippians 3:20–21.
“Our citizenship is in heaven.”
Quotes: “We are implanted into the Kingdom, and now the Kingdom is being implanted
into us.”
“The days of unleavened bread are finished, and we must become this new loaf
of bread that is to feed the world.”
“The answer for Mexico is this leaven of His Kingdom. And it is now dwelling in
your hearts.”
Takeaways:
1. The Feast of Unleavened Bread has tremendous significance for believers.
Paul wrote about this feast and related it to what happens to us rather than to
bread. We become unleavened by cleaning out the old influences of the world
from our lives.
2. At the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, leavened bread is eaten again.
And so we do not remain unleavened. Christ imparts to us the leaven of His
Kingdom. We have removed the old influences of the world, and we have
growing within us the influence of the Kingdom of God.
3. This influence of the Kingdom that expands in our hearts does not stop with
us. It will leaven our community, our nation, and ultimately the entire earth.