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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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 means that whatever we need already exists and is available. All we have to do is appropriate what God has finished creating. We are also told in the book of Hebrews to enter His rest. How do we rest from our works just as God rested from His? If we know that everything is completed, then we do not need to keep trying to accomplish by ourselves what is already done.
We want to enter His rest, and the Scriptures enable us to learn from the mistakes of those who failed to do so. The children of Israel saw the works of God when He delivered them from Egypt. Yet in the difficulty of the wilderness, they tested God because they stopped believing He could do what they already saw Him do. Moses knew what God could do. But instead of speaking to the rock as the Lord commanded, Moses in his anger disobeyed God and struck the rock. He made it about his works instead of the works of God.
As Christians we have experienced God’s salvation and seen His deliverance in our lives. But when we face difficulties, what happens to our faith? Do we start to quarrel with Him and test Him? Or even in good times, do we try to work out everything by ourselves instead of believing He has done everything? We need to enter His rest. That means we stop everything we are doing out of ourselves and believe in Him, in who He is, and in what He has done. He has provided for us all things pertaining to life and godliness, and we need to live our lives from that point of faith.
Key Verses:
• Genesis 1:31—2:4. “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work.”
• Hebrews 4:3–11. “The one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.”
• Psalm 95:1–11. “They tried Me, though they had seen My work. … They shall not enter into My rest.”
• Exodus 17:2–7. “Why do you test the Lord?”
• Numbers 20:9–12. “Because you have not believed Me … you shall not bring this assembly into the land.”
• 2 Peter 1:3. “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness.”
Quotes:
• “He is the great Creator, and all things were created by Him. And He finished that work of creation and opened the door for us to enter into that creation in rest because there's nothing for us to work up. We don't create. We simply receive and appropriate.”
• “It's very important that during these days that we're in, and moving forward from here, we don't lose our faith. You've got to be able to go back and remember all that the Lord has done.”
• “Things can get very difficult. But He's provided for us one day a week where we can come and remember all of His provisions, all of His blessings. And we can therefore look at what we're facing today, and what we're going to face tomorrow, and realize, ‘Yes, He is with us, and He is faithful to His promises.’”
Takeaways:
1. The seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day God sanctified, meaning that He set it apart from the other days of the week. This makes it a significant day that we keep by remembering God rested from all His works. All His creation was completed, and all things in the created world are available to us.
2. We are called to enter His rest where we cease from our own works. That is, we stop trying to do everything ourselves because we know that He has done it, and we become one with what He has done.
3. All things are available. All things are ours. And all things are possible for us to appropriate right now in this day. Therefore, we should not let go of our faith in God’s completed provision, either because we are facing difficulties or because we are magnifying our own works.