GIG287 Seeing Him Who Is Invisible
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #287 Title: Seeing Him Who Is Invisible Web Description: What is faith? According to Hebrews 11, faith is the evidence of things not seen. And men and women of faith saw God who is unseen and brought into this world His works that were unseen in their day. Let us be those whose faith does the same in our day. Instead of struggling to believe, dwell where you are seeing Him who is invisible and make His will visible in the earth. Show Notes: Yeshua (Jesus) said, “All things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”...
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GIG286 New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #286 Title: New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers Web Description: Elijah stood at the entrance of his cave with his awareness fixed on the Lord to hear how the Lord would direct him. And today we stand at the precipice of a new year, determined to stand before the Lord with an awareness of Him that hears His instructions, understands His directions, and applies them to our lives. Show Notes: In a New Year’s meeting with our , we review the past year and look to the year ahead. Last year, Hargrave Ministries...
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GIG285 Renewing Your Mind
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #285 Title: Renewing Your Mind Web Description: Imagine a recording continually playing in your mind, telling you how unworthy you are and how incapable you are of doing the will of God. This in effect is what takes place in our subconscious minds and works against what we are consciously trying to achieve. This podcast delves into the subconscious issues that we all face and offers some scriptural and practical solutions. Show Notes: We know that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross brought salvation to the world. We also...
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GIG284 Receive God’s Glory, Oneness, and Love
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #284 Web Description: Do you ever struggle to believe that God truly loves you? Are you ever discouraged by the lack of unity among Christians? According to John 17, the glory we have received from Christ is the answer to those problems. His glory means that the Father loves us with the same love He has for Christ, and together we have the same oneness that Christ and the Father have. This is our reality. Let us live in it today. Show Notes: Religion tends to put everything in the past or in the future. And when we are conditioned by...
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GIG You Are the Temple
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #283 Title: You Are the Temple Web Description: Hanukkah celebrates the reality that we are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in us. We take this time to dedicate ourselves on a deeper level to be those in whom God is living and moving. Therefore, as those who are His dwelling place, we wash away any unbelief and separate ourselves from the pollution of this world. Show Notes: Hanukkah celebrates a time of miracles when the people of Israel defeated the powerful kingdom that was oppressing them and took back...
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GIG282 My Resolution for the New Year
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #282 Air Date: 12/31/2025 My Resolution for the New Year Web Description: The period from the ascension of Christ to the present has been labeled the Church Age. In reality it should be called the Age of the Holy Spirit. Yeshua (Jesus) did not tell His disciples, “The Father will teach you how to have good churches.” He promised that they would be endued with power by the Holy Spirit and be His witnesses in the earth. My New Year’s resolution is to change my emphasis from church to being filled with the Holy Spirit first and endued with...
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GIG281 Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #281 Title: Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man Web Description: The symbolism that most often defines Christmas is the Nativity scene. And the Nativity scene is about the reality that Christ, the Messiah, the Savior, the King of kings, was born and lived as a human being. At Christmas we are not celebrating His divinity. We are celebrating His humanity. We are celebrating the fact that He came to earth as a man who went through everything we go through and is thus able to lead us and help us through everything. Show Notes: ...
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GIG280 Hanukkah—Do Not Be Conformed to this World
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #280 Categories: Biblical Feasts Web Description: In Romans 12, Paul exhorts us not to be conformed to this world. That is what Hanukkah is all about. It expresses the refusal of the Jewish people to be converted into something that was against the will of God and against the teachings of God. We as believers in Yeshua (Jesus) should have the same resistance to the culture that is set to move us away from the Scriptures, away from our Christian values, and convert us to a different way of life. Hanukkah is not a substitute for Christmas....
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GIG279 Eight Reasons for Christians to Celebrate Hanukkah
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #279 Categories: Biblical Feasts Web Description: Hanukkah may be best known for the lighting of the menorah and the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days in the Temple following the Maccabean revolt. But the true heart of the Hanukkah celebration is the cleansing of the altar and the rededication of the Temple after a small group of Jewish farmers had defeated their enemies. Just as there are eight candles burning on the menorah during the celebration of Hanukkah, there are at least eight good reasons for Christians to celebrate...
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GIG278 Walking With God Is Doing
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #278 Title: Walking with God is Doing Web Description: How do we walk with God? By taking steps to act on what God is telling us to do. The Scriptures are more than ideas to learn about and discuss. They are a way for God to speak directly to us what He wants us to do. We can know His will for us in the Scriptures when we are willing to do His will. And we can know the blessings of a walk with God when we find the way to do His will as He makes it real to us in His Word. Show Notes: There is an abundance of material available to...
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Program Number: GIG #277
Title: Love Is the Antidote
Web Description: The world is experiencing an increase in lawlessness and a corresponding decrease in people’s love. As a byproduct, anger and hatred are spreading like infectious diseases. We need an antidote. And that antidote is the Father’s love in Christ. As believers in Christ, we have the ability and the responsibility to deliver this antidote to the world.
Show Notes: When describing the end times, Yeshua (Jesus) said that the increase in lawlessness would cause people’s love to grow cold. Yet also during these times the gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world. And what is the very foundation of the gospel of the Kingdom? It is the love of Christ. The love of Christ is the antidote for the sickness in the world that is draining love from people’s hearts. How is this antidote delivered? As believers in Christ, we need to wake up to the fact that we are the ones to do that.
Only the love of God, which we have received in Christ, can be effective in fighting the anger and hatred that is spreading like a virus in this age. This virus has even infected the Church. We have seen division, anger, and hatred infecting the hearts of believers. Now more than ever Christians must be loving one another because our oneness is the sign that the Father sent Christ into the world. In these days when darkness is spreading, we have to let our light shine. And our light is the love of God that is manifested in us.
Not only should we be expressing our love among ourselves, but we should also love everyone around us, even our enemies, as the Lord commanded. In this day when Judeo-Christian values are being attacked and the persecution of Christians is increasing, we cannot draw back or hide our light. We are to love even our enemies as Christ did and show that we are sons of our Father. It may seem like everything in the world is becoming darker. But that means God is giving us an even greater light to shine. If the world is getting sicker, then we have an even greater antidote. Let us minister the antidote of God’s love freely to everyone and spread the gospel of love throughout the world.
Key Verses:
• Matthew 24:12–14. “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.”
• Matthew 5:14–16. “Let your light shine before men.”
• Proverbs 4:18–19. “The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn.”
• John 8:12. “I am the Light of the world.”
• 1 John 3:11. “This is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”
• Romans 13:8–12. “Let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
• Peter 1:22. “Fervently love one another from the heart.”
• John 13:34–35. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
• Matthew 5:43–48. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father.”
• Luke 6:27. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
• Luke 6:35. “Love your enemies … and you will be sons of the Most High.”
Quotes:
• “The world is dark and darkness is coming. The world is sick. It's upside down. Good is bad and bad is good. And it doesn't seem like necessarily there's an answer. But there is an answer, and the answer is God's love.”
• “This love that we have is being compared to a light, and it shines brighter and brighter. And we should expect to see more and more the love of God manifested in us and being able to be conveyed and imparted to this age.”
• “It is the time for us as believers to wake up to the need and to wake up to the reality that within our hearts we hold the antidote to the wickedness, to the evil, to the hatred that is so widespread in this age.”
Takeaways:
1. The love manifested in us and through us to the world repels the darkness from us personally. And it is the antidote that people in bondage to the darkness are needing.
2. People will know that we are Christ’s disciples because we love one another. Our oneness is a sign to the world that the Father sent Christ into the world.
3. Our love cannot be just for fellow believers. It must also be for those who hate us, who are our enemies, and who persecute us. That is what shows that we are sons of the Father.
4. It is not so much what we preach. It is what we express and minister as light in the darkness, showing God's love to all His creation.