Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
“Growing in God Podcast” is a podcast dedicated to helping people understand God’s great love, develop spiritual maturity, and experience life as fully devoted followers of Yeshua (Jesus). The podcast provides insights and biblical studies that reflect the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith, as well as topics like sonship, discipleship, prophecy, prayer and intercession. It also tackles issues like anti-Semitism, lordship, and replacement theology from a biblical perspective. Hosted by author, pastor, and Christian leader Gary Hargrave D.Litt., “GROWING IN GOD Podcast” presents the Holy Scriptures as the guidebook to experience a daily dynamic life of faith that leads to spiritual maturity — a process that requires time, focus, and commitment.
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GIG265 Live by His Strength
09/03/2025
GIG265 Live by His Strength
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 Christians grow old like everyone else and watch their strength and vigor dissipate over time until it is gone. According to the Word, we should have something different. We read in Isaiah 40 that if we wait on the Lord, we should gain strength rather than lose it. This happened for Caleb who had the same strength and vigor at eighty-five that he had when he was forty. The same was true for Moses when he was one hundred twenty years old. When Christ begins to dwell in us, our bodies are still dead because of sin. But that does not mean we are supposed to remain in that state. It does not mean that we are supposed to believe in death and have faith that our bodies will grow weak and die. Christ being in us means that we are being reconnected to the Father, and our spirit is coming alive to the Father. And the Spirit of the Father dwelling in us will give life to our mortal bodies. Through Christ we are plugged into God. And as Isaiah 40 states, God does not grow weary; His strength does not go away, and His vigor never drains out of Him. And when we wait on the Lord, He gives us His strength that never dissipates. Why then would we live our lives as if we were still disconnected from God like we were before receiving Christ? Do not keep drawing from the world and the world’s concept of living and dying but keep appropriating the new life that Christ has made available. Key Verses: • Isaiah 40:28–31. “Those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.” • 2 Corinthians 5:17. “If anyone is in Christ … old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” • Romans 12:2. “Do not be conformed to this world.” • Romans 8:10–11. “He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies.” • Galatians 5:22–25. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” • Psalm 118:14. “The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.” • Joshua 14:7–12. “I am eighty-five years old today. I am still as strong today as I was.” • Deuteronomy 34:4–7. “Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old, … his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.” Quotes: • “Christ is in you. But the Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead must dwell in you and give life to your mortal body. So this is part of maturing in God, growing in Him, moving on in the relationship and in the purpose for which He saved us.” • “If Christ is in me, I can begin to wait upon the Lord. I can begin to connect with God in such a way that His attributes come into my life.” • “There's no lack of vitality in God. And Moses and others like Caleb—and we see others in the Scriptures—knew how to wait on the Lord, how to draw this energy on a daily basis. They didn't do it once or twice. They lived this way.” Takeaways: 1. As Christians there are ways in which we are still conditioned by the world. And one of those conditionings is to believe it is okay to grow old, get sick, and die. But the reality of becoming Christian is that we have a new life, and our experience should be different than that of the world. 2. We have Christ in us. And because we have Christ in us, we can have the Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead also dwelling in us. And because His Spirit is dwelling in us, life should be infused into our mortal bodies. What prevents us from having this? 3. All that is available in God is activated when we wait on Him, plug into Him, and draw His strength and power into our lives. But we are not really getting that if we are not consistently walking that way. We need to get out of any blindness and passivity resulting from our conditioning and go after the appropriation of all His provision.
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GIG264 The Bread We Know Not Of
08/27/2025
GIG264 The Bread We Know Not Of
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 passage tells us that when we wait for the Lord, we gain new strength. God wants us to have a new strength that is beyond any strength we have ever known because it is His strength. Unlike our strength, His strength never dissipates. Whereas the strongest and most vigorous human will grow weary, God never gets tired. He does not need to rest or eat because He always has energy. And this is the energy He has promised us if we wait on Him. As humans we get our energy from food. But Yeshua (Jesus) told His disciples that He had food to eat that they did not know of. There is a spiritual food that He knew how to partake of. He knew how to connect with the Father’s unlimited energy. In His weariness in the flesh as a human being, Yeshua reached into God the Father and was energized without eating natural food. Unfortunately, we do not know of this food, but we are supposed to learn about it. We are supposed to learn how to wait on the Lord and connect with the energy that God provides. If we are not drawing this energy, then have we really learned how to wait on the Lord? Let us set aside any passivity or conditioning we might have and put the force of our faith behind what God has said in His Word is ours. Let us learn to walk in the spirit as Christ did and wait on the Spirit of God until He dwells within us. According to the Word, if the power of the Father that raised Christ from the dead dwells within us, our mortal bodies will be energized. We will run and not get tired. We will walk and not become weary. Let us reach into it. Let us learn to wait on the Lord. Key Verses: • Isaiah 40:28–31. “Those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength.” • John 4:31–34. “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” • John 3:3–5. “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” • Galatians 5:25. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” • Romans 8:10–11. “He … will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” Quotes: • “If we are really tuning into His strength, then it becomes evident to us that it is His strength. Why? Because it doesn't dissipate. His strength doesn't grow weary. He doesn't lack. He doesn't grow tired. All of these aspects of God's energy are extremely different than the human energy that we are used to.” • “We have to be born into another world, into another relationship with the Father. That's different than just relating to Him at arms distance from this material world that we live in.” • “I know I live physically by the food I eat. But is there a life that can come to me, and even come to my flesh, that comes through this relationship with Christ and having the Father—the Spirit of the Father—dwell within me?” Takeaways: 1. After many years of reading the Scriptures, we tend to become conditioned in our response to God’s Word. And we might not put the emphasis and force of faith we need to behind experiencing what God is speaking to us. 2. God promises in His Word that if we wait on Him, we will renew our strength. How real is that in our lives? Are we drawing on His power daily for a strength that never dissipates? Or is our strength continually dissipating because we look to our human flesh for our enabling? 3. Physically we gain energy and sustain our strength through food. But Yeshua said He had food that was not known about on the physical level. He was energized and strengthened by His connection to the Father. Because Christ reconciled us to the Father, we can learn to draw that energy, strength, and life to our physical bodies.
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GIG263 How Do We Appropriate?
08/20/2025
GIG263 How Do We Appropriate?
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 want to have happen through your prayer and intercession? Whether you are praying for Israel, for this nation, for your family, or for yourself, you are looking to bring something into the material realm that did not exist here before. Yet everything we are asking for does exist because God has already created it for us. This is the meaning of the Sabbath. On the seventh day God rested because He finished all His creation. Therefore when we pray, we are not asking God to create something that does not exist. Instead, we appropriate what God has already created, completed, and made available. Appropriation should not be a mystery since everything of God we have in our lives right now was the result of appropriation. There was a moment in your life when you experienced salvation. But God did not create salvation for you at that moment. What happened is that you appropriated the salvation that already existed, and it became real to you in your heart, your mind, and your physical body. Likewise, all the gifts of the Holy Spirit already exist, but they are not real experiences for you until you appropriate them. Knowing this, how much is available to us in God that we have yet to appropriate? In our faith we need to appropriate that which is not yet visible in the physical realm but is a reality in the world of spirit. Again it is not a mystery. When something spiritual comes alive to you as a real emotion, it begins to change you physically. You begin to bear fruit. What was once unseen is now being seen in you. What did not exist in the physical realm is now being physically manifested in you. Let us activate the faith in our hearts and be those who are continually appropriating God’s provision. Key Verses: • Acts 19:1–6. “We have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.” • Romans 10:5–10. “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART.” • Romans 4:17–19. “In the presence of Him … who ... calls into being that which does not exist.” • Romans 12:2. “Do not be conformed to this world.” • Hebrews 11:1. “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” • Colossians 3:12–15. “Put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” • Romans 8:20–21. “Creation itself also will be set free … into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” Quotes: • “What you're looking for doesn't exist in this world. It doesn't exist yet in the physical plane. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind because our mind renewed into true faith is renewed into the reality that God calls the dead to life, and He calls into being that which does not exist on the physical plane.” • “Our faith is the reality. It is reality of what is hoped for. It's the proof of what is not seen.” • “I'm not going to be asking for something that I don't think exists. I've got to proclaim that which I know in my heart. How do I know in my heart? I feel it. I feel the emotion of it.” Takeaways: 1. Too often we try to work something up in ourselves. But the Sabbath means that everything we are looking for already exists. What does not exist yet in the physical realm does exist in God’s completed provision. Therefore, the manifestation of the things of God depends on our appropriation of them and not on anything we can work up. 2. Salvation has always existed in Christ, but it did not exist in you until you believed Him in your heart and confessed Him with your mouth. The salvation experience then is a process of appropriation. 3. Appropriation begins in your heart. When you know in your heart that something God provided is real, it becomes real in your emotions. Then when you take on these feelings of love, joy, peace, and everything available in the Holy Spirit, it begins to manifest in you physically. 4. As we read in Romans 8, salvation comes into the physical world through us. Creation’s ultimate release from futility will happen because the freedom of the glory of the children of God is manifested in us first. This is a process that happens through our appropriation.
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GIG 262 Believe in His Rest
08/13/2025
GIG 262 Believe in His Rest
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 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.
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GIG261 Christ Ever Lives to Intercede for Us
08/06/2025
GIG261 Christ Ever Lives to Intercede for Us
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 faithfulness and His commitment to His covenants. There are Scriptures of course that relate the many times God punished His people Israel for their sins. And Christians over the years have used these Scriptures to support anti-Semitism and replacement theology, claiming that God has rejected the Jewish people. But the opposite is true. The Scriptures are clear that God has never rejected Israel and is always faithful to His covenant people. We read in the Bible that God disciplined them like any good father would discipline his children. But we also read that He will never violate His covenant with them. God’s dealings with Israel, as recorded in the Scriptures, are an example for us as Christians. If we fail Him, He will discipline us, but He will never break the covenant He made with us in Christ. Yet how many Christians really have the confidence that God will never reject them? How many feel like they have blown it so badly that there is no way back to God? According to the book of Hebrews, Christ ever lives to make intercession for us. Yet we look at our flesh and think that any one of our failings could separate us from His love for us. We so easily forget that He is at the right hand of God always, continually, at every moment, making intercession for us. This needs to be solidified in our minds and hearts. God, who never breaks His promises and never violates His covenants, will cause everything to work for good for His people. That is the reality for Israel. And that is our reality that we can have full confidence in. Key Verses: • 1 Corinthians 10:11. “These things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction.” • Numbers 23:19. “God is not a man, that He should lie.” • 1 Corinthians 11:25. “This cup is the new covenant in My blood.” • Psalm 89:28–37. “My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.” • Jeremiah 31:31–37. “If this fixed order departs … then … Israel also will cease from being a nation before Me.” • Hebrews 7:24–26. “He always lives to make intercession for them.” • Romans 8:24–34. “Christ Jesus is He … who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.” • Romans 8:35–39. “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” Quotes: • “I talked to believers quite a bit over the last many years that have the sense that they have blown it and there is no way back. And I think this is one of the things—in really studying the Hebrew Scriptures, in studying Judaism, and studying the Jewish people and God's promises to them throughout the Scriptures—that is not a possibility where God is concerned.” • “God has made promises to me as a believer in Yeshua, and He will never, never go back on those promises. I may mess up a thousand ways. I may mess up day after day. And although we on a human level would at some point get exasperated and give up, God doesn't do that.” • “If you really forgive, you forget. If you really forgive yourself, you're going to forget those violations, and you're going to find in your life that God is working to make all things come together for your good.” Takeaways: 1. When we read the Hebrew Scriptures and understand God's relationship with the Jewish people in His covenants with them, we understand that nothing they can do will make God separate Himself from them. In our salvation through faith in Christ, we likewise have been grafted into God’s covenants that cannot be broken. 2. God will never walk away from you. He will never desert you. He will never forsake you. If you have any concept to the contrary, get that out of your thinking. The drive of the Scriptures is to get through to us the understanding that His love is unbreakable, His covenants are unbreakable, and His promises to us will stand through eternity. 3. God has provided His Son as your Messiah, as the sacrifice for your sins past, present, and future. Nothing is able to separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. He continually makes intercession for you. And God causes everything to work for your good.
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GIG260 Look Up
07/30/2025
GIG260 Look Up
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 something of us personally where we begin to implement what we have studied in the Bible. We need an atmosphere where we can turn our knowledge and understanding of the Scriptures into an enabling to walk in and execute what we have learned. This shows us how to think about the end times. We can look at all the turmoil and spiritual conflict in the world and be concerned, even fearful, that we are entering the end times. But the end-time offers us a unique opportunity to have our faith tested and refined like pure gold. These times enable us to reach into the power of the Holy Spirit and move in the gifts and ministries required for this day. You could say, “But the events will be so terrifying that people’s hearts will fail them out of fear!” It all depends on what you are focused on. Yeshua (Jesus) said, “When you see these things happen, look up! Lift up your heads because your salvation is drawing near. The Kingdom of God is near!” Put your focus on Christ who is seated in the heavenly places with the Father, who in His great love has also seated us there with Him. We are able now to dwell in His Kingdom. It is closer in these times than it has ever been. Now is the time to look up and reach into this great authority and power the Father has given us in Christ. We take this opportunity to appropriate everything we have learned in the Scriptures and apply them. Key Verses: • Matthew 16:21–23. “But He turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind Me, Satan!’” • Luke 22:31–32. “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat.” • 1 Peter 1:6–7. “… the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold.” • Malachi 3:3. “He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold.” • Luke 21:25–28. “When these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads.” • Luke 21:29–31. “When you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.” • Ephesians 2:1–6. “God … seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Quotes: • “We can't just study the Scriptures. We can't just talk about our faith and have that faith disconnected from what is necessary for us to walk in these things.” • “The Kingdom of God is near to us, and we can bring ourselves into that Kingdom. We can experience the things of the Kingdom, the fulfillments of the Kingdom now, if we are looking up.” • “If God made this available that He has raised us up—it's past tense. Don't say, ‘Well, when I die, I am going to heaven.’ No. When we're here right now, we have the ability to rise up and be with Him where He is at the right hand of the Father and to move in our walk with God from that place.” Takeaways: 1. We live in the age where God has placed us. We should be grateful to Him that we are a part of His family and part of those who are walking in the knowledge of the gospel during these times. 2. When you are in a time of need, you learn to appropriate all that the Scriptures are saying. So rather than succumbing to fearfulness about the end times, we should recognize the opportunity that we have as individual believers to walk in these days in a way that glorifies the Lord, brings His strength and blessing, and appropriates all that we need. 3. In the end times the Lord commands us to look up because His redemption and His Kingdom draw near. In these difficult times we have a greater ability to minister God’s redemption to the world and to walk in His Kingdom. 4. We are to be in the heavenly places seated with Christ and the Father in the Holy Spirit. From there we move in the earth as God's chosen people and His instruments right now in this day and through the time of the end.
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GIG259 The Wearing Down of the Saints
07/23/2025
GIG259 The Wearing Down of the Saints
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. This lifestyle of warfare that drags on and on is satan’s tactic to wear down the saints, and it is not in alignment with God’s promises. We must be able to see an end to the warfare and see a time of peace emerge. As we read in Daniel 7, satan tries to wear us down but his dominion will be taken away, annihilated, and destroyed forever. This reality already exists in the heavenly realm where satan no longer exists because he was cast down to the earth, which is where his wrath is focused. If our focus is down here on this natural level, we should not be surprised that we are running into problems. We need to move into the heavenly places where we dwell with Christ at the right hand of the Father. We are to dwell with Him there and move with Him from there in all that we do. We need to stay where God is positioning us and not waver. We need to continue our walk in the Spirit and exercise His Word, as it is already finished. Israel had lost everything—like a land that was consumed by swarming locusts—but God is restoring Israel just as He promised. And you can feel like you are being overwhelmed by a cloud of locusts that are trying to devour you until there is nothing left of your strength, your hope, or your faith. Do not buy into that feeling. We live in the moment of the restoration. We live in the moment of all things being finished and completed and handed over to the saints. Key Verses: • Psalm 31:20. “You hide them in the secret place of Your presence.” • Psalm 91:1–4. “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.” • Judges 6:1–6. “Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the Lord.” • Matthew 6:6. “When you pray, go into your inner room, close your door.” • Isaiah 26:20. “Enter into your rooms and close your doors behind you.” • Joel 2:25–27. “I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten.” • Judges 6:14. “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel.” • Daniel 7:24–26. “His dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.” • Revelation 12:7–12. “Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth.” • Ephesians 6:18. “Be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints.” • Ephesians 2:4–6. “God … raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” • Colossians 3:3. “You have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Quotes: • “Where we place our awareness and our focus is extremely important. So we need to be aware of the battle, but we need our spiritual focus and awareness to be on where He is, where we are with Him, and what has already been done in the promises.” • “Has He not sent you in this hour? He could have had you born in any generation. And God chose not to do that. He brought you forth in this generation for this moment so that we would be the proclaimers of now. It is now that the Lord will move to bring forth the fulfillment of every Word that He has spoken. And that is our strength.” • “Delivering Israel is the first step to delivering the nations and bringing all nations into the Kingdom that God is setting up and establishing.” Takeaways: 1. After making a strong stand in support of Israel and against anti-Semitism, we have seen an increase in spiritual warfare. This spiritual battle against Israel and against us seeks to wear us down. 2. We need to walk and move in the Spirit to exercise God’s Word and His promises as being already fulfilled, rather than praying in hope for fulfillment while dwelling in what seems to be an endless battle. 3. The Lord has brought us to a new dwelling place, and we intercede from an awareness of where we are seated with Him in the heavenly places. We apply to Israel the fact that God hides them in the secret place of His presence. They are to dwell there, and we are to dwell with them in the protection of the Lord under the shadow of His wings. 4. The Lord said to Gideon, “Go in this your strength to deliver Israel. … Have I not sent you?” Where does our strength come from? Our strength comes from the fact that He has sent us to be part of delivering Israel; we are to be those who stand up and proclaim to Israel what the Lord has said.
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GIG258 Pray From Fulfillment
07/16/2025
GIG258 Pray From Fulfillment
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 is separated from the fulfillment of your prayer? Are you asking God to bring a fulfillment that you are convinced you do not have? Yeshua (Jesus) said, “All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them.” If we have already received the answer to our prayers, then there is a way to pray from a place of fulfillment rather than from a place of looking for fulfillment. Our minds have trouble grasping this concept, but it is simply a matter of changing our perception. We can decide where we want our awareness to be. The Scriptures tell us that God has transferred us out of the realm of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved Son. Therefore, our minds do not need to be controlled by our awareness of the physical realm. We can focus our awareness on His Kingdom. We can walk in the Spirit. Our dwelling place can be the spirit world where all things are finished and all things are possible. Our minds can be controlled by a new awareness of what God has already accomplished by His Word. How do we get this awareness when we are so conditioned by what our senses tell us about the physical realm? We can go the Word of God. He has already told us what is in His Kingdom, and we just need to start relating to it. Let us start thinking God’s thoughts that are conformed to His Word rather than our thoughts that are conformed to this world. Let us be transformed by the renewing of our minds so that when we pray, we are not asking God to do something in the future; rather, we are thanking Him for what He said is already done. Key Verses: • Colossians 1:13–14. “He… transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.” • John 14:2. “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places.” • Revelation 12:7–9. “Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth.” • Acts 8:37–40. “The Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and … Philip found himself at Azotus.” • 1 Corinthians 3:18–23. “Things present or things to come; all things belong to you.” • John 14:23. “My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” • Mark 11:24. “All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them.” • 2 Corinthians 12:2–5. “Such a man was caught up to the third heaven.” • Jeremiah 32:37–42. “I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.” • 2 Peter 1:3. “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness.” • Psalm 23:5. “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” • Romans 12:2. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” • 2 Corinthians 10:5. “We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.” • Isaiah 55:8. “My thoughts are not your thoughts.” Quotes: • “Prophets like Elijah and Elisha and others obviously knew how to move in the spirit so that things resulted from that. That has always been my understanding of what we in this day and age, as God's people, as moving as prophets, are to be able to do—manifest the reality of what the Scriptures are saying.” • “If you would turn off every physical sense that you have, you would still be aware; you just wouldn't be aware of the material world. But your awareness wouldn't go away because our awareness exists as part of our life. And that awareness can be focused where we want it.” • “It was finished in Genesis when He created it, and He finished all His work. He finished all His work, and He sat down and rested and told us to rest. Well, how do we rest? We rest when we can sit down in those finished works.” Takeaways: 1. When we pray, we need to position ourselves in the fulfillment of the Word of God instead of praying for it to happen in the future. Simply take what God has spoken and realize that if it is a Word from God, then it is not something that will be; it is something that already is. 2. Our awareness is our own, and we choose what we want to be aware of. Spiritual awareness is something we have in the Holy Spirit, and the Scriptures tell us it is absolutely possible to be in a realm other than the physical realm that we normally focus on. We can dwell in a spiritual realm where the works of God are finished and His Word is already fulfilled. 3. The prophecies of Scripture are ours now, and we do not have to put their fulfillment off in the future. So we need to put ourselves and everything we are praying for in that realm where everything God promised in His Word already exists.
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GIG257 God’s Final Solution Revealed
07/09/2025
GIG257 God’s Final Solution Revealed
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 carry out their solutions and plans for the Jewish people and the land of Israel. This even included Hitler’s extremely evil “final solution.” What these nations forget is that the Jewish people are God’s people and Israel is God’s land and God has a plan for them. The book God’s Final Solution Revealed presents this plan which God has made clearly known throughout the Scriptures. As Christians the sooner we recognize God’s plan and become those who are praying, proclaiming, and actively participating in its fulfilment, the better off we will be. As this book explains, anti-Semitism is like leaven that appears to be dormant for a long time until it suddenly manifests in destructive ways—a fact that we are witnessing today. The book also shows how Christianity sadly has been a major source of this anti-Semitism throughout history. Whether we want to admit it or not, this leaven of anti-Semitism still exists within the Christian Church. In our doctrines, our statements of faith, and our attitudes, we have been shaped by a great deal of anti-Semitism. And it is essential in this day that we free ourselves from these ways of thinking. Please get this book, read it prayerfully, and ask the Holy Spirit to expose the leaven of anti-Semitism in your own heart and be diligent to sweep it out. Key Verses: • Jeremiah 33:6–7. “I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel and will rebuild them as they were at first.” • Jeremiah 33:20–22. “If you can break My covenant for the day … then My covenant may also be broken with David.” Quotes: • “We need to see how serious God is about His Word, about the covenants He has made with the land of Israel, with the peoples—no matter where they dwell in the diaspora today—to see every promise fulfilled and brought to pass.” • “There needs to be a response, and yes even a rebuke, to what has been allowed to exist as anti-Semitism, not just in our society but in our churches.” • “If we believe that we are in the end-times, then it behooves us to know what God has planned and what He has said He would do, and the fulfillments He would bring in these end days. And I believe that the relationship with Israel and the Jewish people is a major part of that.” Takeaways: 1. The book God’s Final Solution Revealed lays out the scriptural truth of God’s faithfulness to His people and to the land of Israel, and how we will see the fulfillment of His Word always come to pass. It also exposes the anti-Semitism in society and in the Church, and it challenges us to honestly confront it within ourselves. 2. This book brings clarity and ends any confusion regarding the important place the Jewish people, Judaism, and Israel have in the end-times. It also shows the place the Gentile church must have in a relationship with the Jewish people, with Judaism, and with Israel. 3. Read this book with an open heart and let the Holy Spirit enlighten your eyes to see the very real need for repentance in the Body of Christ. We must free ourselves from the conditioning of anti-Semitism that has been imparted to us over many years and remove it from the Church as well as from society.
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GIG256 Understanding Revelation and Deception About Israel
07/02/2025
GIG256 Understanding Revelation and Deception About Israel
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 Palestine,” several synagogue members were injured by a man throwing Molotov cocktails, and a pro-Israel event was moved because of terrorist threats. We should take this seriously. Before October 7 the Israelis could not believe what Hamas said openly that they were going to do. Now Israelis do believe it. And we need to open our eyes to what we are really facing in this country. It is no secret what Islamists are planning for America. Their philosophy of violence is not unique to Hamas. All throughout the Arab world is the belief that, starting with Israel, they must kill all Jews worldwide. It is a fundamental belief of Islam. It is a belief enacted by the UN. For years the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) has educated the children of Gaza to hate and kill Jews. You can say, “I can’t believe that about Islam. I can’t believe that about the UN.” But we are in trouble when we deny or ignore the warning signs. In Gaza the hatred of Israel and Jews is so ingrained in people’s thinking that they are incapable of even hearing the truth. What is scary is that we are seeing this same ingrained mentality on American college campuses. The apostle Paul spoke of this when he described men of depraved mind who oppose the truth. The refusal to accept the truth goes beyond a lack of understanding of the facts. It gets into the depravity of mind that exchanges the truth for a lie. As Christians we must reject anything that would allow this depravity to take root in ourselves. We need to be free of every mentality except God’s and be a force to impart and empower His truth. Key Verses: • Romans 1:16–32. “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie.” • 2 Timothy 3:7–17. “These men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind.” Quotes: • “We've got to stop saying, “Oh, I just can't believe it. I can't believe the United Nations is doing that or would do that.” No, they've already done it. They've done it within the last seventy years. This has been very calculatedly carried out until you're dealing with people who don't have another way to think. They don't have another way to believe.” • “Read the Koran and it's very clear that Islam has a mandate to take over the world. Sounds very much like what was in the thinking of the Japanese that created the events that happened in World War II. And this is what we're up against. It’s not just a religion. It goes beyond that. It's a way of thinking.” • “God is the only One who has a solution to this problem. And He's the only One who loves everybody enough to bring about a solution that would be justice, because God is justice and He's not going to violate Himself.” Takeaways: 1. We need to open our eyes because what happened in Israel is happening in the United States. Before October 7, the Israelis could not believe what the jihadists openly published they were going to do. Jihadist groups openly publish their plan to kill all Jews and then kill Christians, and they continue to act on that plan. Therefore, we need to get out of the pattern of not wanting to believe what they are clearly saying and doing. 2. We are dealing with a mentality that is deeper than what we understand. The people of Gaza have grown up being taught that they must destroy Israel and kill Jews. It is entrenched in their thinking. But this way of thinking is not exclusive to Gaza. It is throughout the Islamic world and is embraced by a majority in the United Nations. Even in Christianity, anti-Semitism is still far too prevalent. 3. Many today have a deep-seated inability to listen to reason or accept basic historical facts. Instead, they are determined to believe lies about Israel and the Jewish people. Do not allow those of depraved minds to influence your thinking. Reach into the revelation, wisdom, and understanding of these times that come as gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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GIG255 When the Lord Sanctifies Israel
06/25/2025
GIG255 When the Lord Sanctifies Israel
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: We believe together that we will have the insight to see the simplicity of what God is doing today in Israel. As He has spoken, He is gathering all Israel and making them one nation in their land. In the process He will glorify Himself, not only before Israel, but before all the nations. So let us not be caught up in the confusion that the world is under but rather focus on and declare the fulfillment of God’s Word. Show Notes: Many people in the world are observing and reacting to what is happening in Israel. It can be confusing if you focus on the news reports and all the issues surrounding them. But there is a clarity and simplicity to what God is doing and has been doing in Israel, especially since the State of Israel was formed. God is gathering the sons of Israel from among all the nations where they have been scattered, and He is making them one nation in the land He gave them. So the nations of the world need to be careful. God is the One who is settling the Jewish people in Israel. And if the nations are fighting that, then they are fighting God. If you are confused by what is happening in Israel, understand that satan is not. The source of the anti-Semitism and accusations against the Jewish people is not confusing at all. It is from satan, the accuser of the brethren, who accuses them day and night before God because he knows his time is short. As we watch God fulfill His promise to bring the sons of Israel together and make them one nation, we know He will also fulfill His promise to sanctify them. With that He will show Himself to be God before the nations because they will know that He is the Lord who sanctifies Israel. The message could not be clearer, and we as believers need to be aligned with God’s Word and not with the confusion that satan is bringing. We need to be believing, holding, and proclaiming God’s Word over Israel. That is the truth and that is what will happen. Key Verses: • Ezekiel 37:21–28. “The nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel.” • Jeremiah 32:41. “I will … faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart.” • Ezekiel 20:42–44. “I have dealt with you for My name’s sake.” • Revelation 12:10–13. “He persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.” • Ezekiel 20:40–42. “You will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel.” Quotes: • “How do we deal with the struggles and the war that's taking place right now? It's dealt with by coming back to the Scriptures and finding a clarity about what it is that God is doing, and then beginning to have ourselves move with Him.” • “God is not just doing something stand-alone with Israel and the Jewish people. What He's doing with them is also going to show who He is to all the nations, that the nations may know God in the way that Israel will know God and does know Him.” • “How are all these things going to end up? Well, they're going to end up in a covenant of peace that only God can bring forth.” Takeaways: 1. What is happening in Israel is not confusing. It is simple. God is settling the Jewish people in Israel. He is sanctifying them and making them the nation that He promised they would be. In that process He is showing Himself to be God to the nations. 2. If you are fighting that, then you are fighting God; you are coming against what God is doing. The accusations against Israel are coming from satan, who understands exactly what God is doing, knows it means his end, and he is raging against it. 3. The nations will be called to account for the way they have treated Israel and for the way they have either been for or against God’s plan; either they helped or hindered the process of God bringing His Kingdom.
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GIG254 The Love of God Is Forgiveness
06/18/2025
GIG254 The Love of God Is Forgiveness
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: Is there something for which God has forgiven you, others have forgiven you, and yet you cannot forgive yourself? You cannot assume that it would have no impact on your expression of love to others. We love because God first loved us, and the power of God’s love is forgiveness. So we must not limit it from doing its work in us first. Let us turn loose that power by fully accepting God’s love and forgiveness for ourselves. Show Notes: There is no answer for this world apart from God's love. There is a power in His love that if turned loose would bring the solutions that we need. All the wars that are happening are a product of hate. The missiles being launched against Israel are from those who hate Israel and hate the Jews. And yet this is in a land that is about the love of God in the children of Abraham. Therefore, instead of hatred they should be expressing brotherly love because no one can love God and hate his brother. We love because God first loved us. This means that the love He gives us at some point must become a love that is expressed from us. We know that the power of God’s love toward us is unlimited. Why then is the expression of that love from us toward others so often limited and lacking power? To answer that question, we need to look within ourselves. We know we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. Therefore, if we do not love ourselves, we restrict the flow of love to our neighbor. The power of God's love is forgiveness. We may believe and accept that nothing can separate us from God’s love. But if we are unable to forgive ourselves, we can effectively block the power of that love from working in our lives and consequently in the lives of others. God has made an everlasting covenant with us according to His faithful mercies to David. It is a covenant of forgiveness. We in turn must let the power of His forgiveness work in us and through us. Key Verses: • Romans 8:37–39. “I am convinced that neither death, nor life … will be able to separate us from the love of God.” • Romans 5:8. “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” • Romans 8:28–35. “Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? … Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” • 1 John 4:16–21. “We love, because He first loved us.” • Matthew 22:35–40. “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” • Galatians 5:14. “The whole Law is … ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’” • 1 John 4:7–11. “If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” • Psalm 130:3–4. “There is forgiveness with You.” • Isaiah 55:3. “I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies [hesed] shown to David.” • Psalm 136. “His lovingkindness [hesed] is everlasting.” • Acts 13:34–35. “I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY and SURE blessings OF DAVID.” Quotes: • “It's one thing to know that God has forgiven me. It's another thing for me to be free and delivered by His forgiveness in that I'm able to forgive myself.” • “Once we have this love of God in us, it should manifest as a love of our brother, of our neighbor. And yet, why can't that happen? It can't happen if I can't love myself, if I can't forgive myself, because you love your neighbor as yourself. And that is where this whole thing gets stuck.” • “When we're able to love our neighbor as ourself, the whole world changes. Everything changes. The hate stops. The lies stop. The war stops. The put-down stops. The shame stops. Everything that we do in a negativity of relating to the person and the people outside of us ends with that love.” Takeaways: 1. The power of God's love always ministers forgiveness. In other words, forgiveness is the outworking of God's love. Wherever you find His love, you find forgiveness. What can stop this power? Only we can stop it when we do not forgive ourselves. 2. We love because He first loved us. And if we love ourselves, we should love our neighbor. God’s love to us and in us must be expressed from us because we cannot love God and hate our brother. We are the only ones who can limit that expression. 3. God promised an everlasting covenant according to the faithful, steadfast, and eternal mercies (hesed) of David. This is a covenant of forgiveness as shown to David and given to us in Christ. This power of God’s love needs to work through us to bring a freedom from the hate, division, and all that is not forgiving.
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GIG253 Our Meeting With Mike Huckabee
06/11/2025
GIG253 Our Meeting With Mike Huckabee
Growing In God Podcast Web Description: Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, is urging Americans to visit Israel at this time. Ambassador Huckabee is also a Christian and a true example of how to bless Israel and the Jewish people. As fellow Christians we should follow his example, go to Israel if we can, and be the expression of Christ’s love to the Israeli people. Show Notes: During our solidarity tour in Israel, we had the pleasure of meeting with Ambassador Mike Huckabee. In this meeting we had a deep connection of heart and spirit together as the ambassador conveyed a message to the American people. That message is, “Come to Israel.” It is significant that Huckabee is not Jewish like many United States ambassadors to Israel have been. He is an evangelical Christian and a true man of faith. As Christians we should take this to heart and understand our role in helping Israel. At Hargrave Ministries we try to deal with the issue that the Church has long been a source of negative relations with the Jewish people. Christians have a history of persecuting Jews as well as trying to convert them to Christianity in a way that erases their Jewish heritage. Therefore, you find many who do not trust the motivation of Christians when they come to Israel. That is why we need to pray for Mike Huckabee and follow his lead. As a Christian with a heart of love and faith for Israel and the Jewish people, he is not only representing the United States but also representing all Christians as an ambassador to Israel. If you are a Christian, one of the greatest things you can do right now is visit Israel. Israel needs to see the expression of love and faith coming from Christians. The Jewish people, whether they are in Israel or not, need to see that Christ is an expression of the love of the Father for them. Everywhere we have gone in Israel on this tour, the response from people has been, “Thank you for being here. You have no idea what your support means for us.” So go to Israel and be a blessing. But whether you go or not, keep praying for Israel and keep giving to help the Israeli people. Key Verses: • 1 John 4:16. “God is love.” • John 3:16. “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son.” • Isaiah 55:3. “I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David.” Quotes: • “I think it's a real problem when Christians try to missionize the Jewish people because you're doing more than just saying, “Be a Christian.” You're trying to change the culture. You're trying to change really who the Jewish people are.” • “We send donations and support every month to eight different organizations here in Israel. But I'll tell you, when we walk in the door and we show up here, that really impacts them, and they appreciate it beyond what you can imagine.” • “You can pray for the people of Israel. You can pray for the nation of Israel, pray for the soldiers, pray for those that are in need in Israel. So many things that you can pray for if you're not able to come. But if you are able, know that you have an invitation with an open heart from our current representative here and his staff—Mike Huckabee the new ambassador.” Takeaways: 1. Mike Huckabee, the current United States ambassador to Israel, is a born-again evangelical Christian. In fact, he is a former Baptist minister. So not only is he representing the United States as a nation, but he is also representing all of us who are believing Christians. 2. Mike Huckabee’s love and faith for Israel should be the expression from all Christians. And one of the things he is doing as ambassador is encouraging Christians to come to Israel at this time. 3. Because of the negative ways Christians have related to them, many in the Jewish community mistrust the motives of Christians who come to Israel. Therefore, there is a deep need for an expression to Israel and to the Jewish people of Christ's love, which is the manifestation of the Father's love for them. And being there in Israel is one of the greatest ways to do that.
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GIG252 The Leaven of the Kingdom
06/04/2025
GIG252 The Leaven of the Kingdom
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 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.
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GIG251 Take Every Thought Captive
05/28/2025
GIG251 Take Every Thought Captive
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 obedience to Christ. Much of what is taking place in the world today is driven by speculation. So many things that we are seeing and hearing are speculations made up by people attempting to control our thinking. These things are coming directly against the truth and the knowledge of God. But we as Christians need to know the truth and have the knowledge of God. So we must take our thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. We cannot allow our thoughts to be controlled. We are constantly bombarded with the thoughts, the ways, the lusts, and the concerns of this world. All of it is trying to take our thoughts and make us conform to the world. But the Scriptures tell us that we have the ability in God to be conformed to His image by the Holy Spirit. We have the promise that if we refuse to be conformed to this world, we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds. According to the Word of God, if we take these thoughts captive under the authority of Christ, we will be transformed. Let us stop the world from controlling our thoughts. This may seem difficult because the world is screaming so loudly, and all our senses are attuned to this age. However, the Holy Spirit was given to teach us and to guide us. And we need to spend time with Him, learn how to communicate with Him, turn off all the input from the world that is conforming us to this age, and by the Holy Spirit find the way to be conformed to the Word of God. Key Verses: • 2 Corinthians 10:3–5. “We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.” • John 14:6. “I am … the truth.” • 1 Corinthians 2:16. “We have the mind of Christ.” • Isaiah 55:8. “My thoughts are not your thoughts.” • Romans 12:1–2. “Prove what the will of God is.” • Ephesians 4:22–24. “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self.” Quotes: • “We may be facing the flesh in this age that surrounds us, but we can't fight back in the flesh. We have to have the spiritual ability.” • “We must come to a recognition that we are growing up into Christ, growing up into the mind of Christ, until our thoughts are His thoughts.” • “The greatest tribulation that we will face is the war within us to take every thought captive and to be transformed by the renewing of our mind and come into the image of the Lord.” Takeaways: 1. Satan is always moving to remove or cover over the truth. Much of what we absorb in this age through all forms of media is not the truth, but speculation designed to conform our thoughts to the world. By the Spirit we must destroy speculations and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ. 2. We are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. We do not want to be Christians who look, act, and think like the world. We want to be transformed into the mind of Christ, into the thoughts of God, where God no longer has to say, “Your thoughts are not My thoughts.” 3. According to the Word, you have the ability in Christ to be renewed in the spirit of your mind and to “put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth."
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GIG250 Israel Solidarity Trip
05/21/2025
GIG250 Israel Solidarity Trip
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 people of Israel. We are following God’s command in Isaiah 40:1 to comfort God’s people. We are there to be a source of encouragement and support, to let them know that Christians are standing with them. In other words, we are not coming to Israel as sightseers for our own benefit. We are coming to be the hands and feet that are helping Israel and the Jewish people. We plan to visit several sites in Israel to give them our support. This includes helping pack boxes at , the leading food rescue organization in Israel. We also want to visit , the volunteer emergency medical service that is saving lives in this current conflict. is also on our schedule. This volunteer organization ministers to children who have suffered emotional and physical trauma from terrorism. We have scheduled a trip to Hebron which, like Shiloh, is in the Jewish homeland of Judea and not the “West Bank” as it is currently mislabeled. And we plan to visit , the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, which is a pillar of education for ending anti-Semitism. Please help Hargrave Ministries help Israel. We need your support through your prayers and through your giving. Not only do we need to cover the travel, food, and living costs of the trip, but we will also be making donations to support Israel financially at this time. If you have a burden to bless Israel and the Jewish people, you can be a part of this solidarity trip by donating to . Most of all, we need your spiritual support that will allow us to be God’s instruments in this day. Key Verses: • Isaiah 40:1. “‘Comfort, O comfort My people,’ says your God.” • Genesis 12:1–3. “I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse.” • Ephesians 6:12. “Our struggle is … against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” • 2 Corinthians 10:4. “The weapons of our warfare are … divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.” • Joshua 15:13–14. “Now he gave to Caleb … Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron).” • Deuteronomy 9:1–2. “You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess … the sons of the Anakim.” Quotes: • “Christianity must be free from anti-Semitism and the roots of it. And we come now as a voice of comfort, as we believe God has commanded us to do in these words from Isaiah.” • “Part of this solidarity trip is to be a reminder that great prophecies and promises in the Hebrew Scriptures exist and are yet to see a fulfillment over the children of Israel in this day. And we go as Christians believing to be a force of faith to say, ‘We hold to the Word that God has spoken, and we know that not one Word God has spoken will fall to the ground.’” • “We must realize that part of what we're doing as we go is that we're believing to have the authority and the enabling by the grace of God in the Spirit to bring down these spiritual forces of wickedness that are at the root cause of what we see transpiring.” Takeaways: 1. An Israel solidarity trip is a tour of Israel for the purpose of being a blessing to the country of Israel. We are going there to be a source of comfort, backing, and encouragement to the people of Israel. We want to help the economy and help the local organizations that are helping the Israelis with the difficulties of war and terrorism. 2. The history of the Jewish people has been one of living under anti-Semitism, persecutions, and just pure hate. And much of that history has been because of Christians. Now as we see Israelis surrounded by many nations committed to their destruction, we want to demonstrate to them that Christians are supporting them. 3. We need to understand that the attacks on Israel and the Jewish people today are from spiritual forces that have assaulted them since the beginning. Our job as Christians is to use the spiritual weapons God has given us to see the destruction of these spiritual forces that are the root cause if what is taking place in the natural realm.
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GIG249 The Ministry of Bethesda
05/14/2025
GIG249 The Ministry of Bethesda
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 message came about the ministry of healing. At the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years. Yeshua (Jesus) asked this man a question: “Do you want to be healed?” The man answered by giving the reasons why he had not been healed so far. Yeshua did not listen to the man’s complaints. He simply said, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” This story shows us something about our own responses to the Lord. The Lord had already decided to heal the man at Bethesda. Christ was standing there as this man’s healing. But he had to be brought to the place where Christ was positioned as the manifestation of God's healing for him. The same is true for us. The Lord is not here to listen to our troubles, our excuses, and all our reasons for why things have not worked. He is here to bring us into the place where the answer already exists for the healing and ministry that we need. There must be a drive in you to fulfill the will of God in your life. Someone else will not do it. It is never someone else's responsibility. It is always your responsibility to get up and walk with God. Christ is always there for us. He already said to the Father, “I am willing,” and He went to the cross for us. Now the fulfillment of that cross is always available to us. We just need to go to Him and say, “I already know You are willing because You have already done it. And I am coming to You to receive everything that I need.” Key Verses: • John 5:2–8. “Do you wish to get well? … Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” • Matthew 8:1–3. “And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.” • Matthew 26:39. “If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.” Quotes: • “There’s going to be a way that you find, in the anointing of the Lord, to have people really take responsibility for the will of God in their own lives, for the will of God in their own community, for the will of God in their own churches.” • “I don't want a lot of preaching. I want a lot of learning to do it. Christ was pretty simple here: ‘Pick up your bed and walk.’ We can do it if we do it.” • “Do you know what’s available on that cross? Everything. That’s the point at which nothing is impossible. Any one of our needs—any one of the possibilities that exist for us—is right there.” Takeaways: 1. Yeshua asked the ill man at Bethesda, “Do you wish to be well?” However, the man answered by saying, “No one will take me to the water to be healed.” The correct answer would have been, “Yes! You are the source of my healing. And I want it!” That is how we need to answer the Lord. 2. At Bethesda the Lord did not listen to the man’s reasons for why he was not healed. He simply told the man to pick up his pallet and walk. God does not listen to our excuses. It is always our responsibility and never someone else’s to walk in what God has given us. 3. We have to see that Christ is the source of all that we need to accomplish His will in the earth. And He is always willing. We lay aside our excuses and our waiting for someone else to do it and take what He is giving us now.
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GIG248 Remembering our Dear Brother, Pope Francis
05/07/2025
GIG248 Remembering our Dear Brother, Pope Francis
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 going back to World Youth Day in 2013. Pope Francis was a groundbreaking Pope in many ways. As we saw at World Youth Day, he had an ability to relate to young people and draw them back to the Church. In fact he drew in many believers and truly revitalized the Catholic Church. He was also baptized in the Holy Spirit, prayed in tongues, and promoted the spirit-filled Catholic movement. In addition he had faith for the joining together of Catholics and Protestants. Of course there are biblical and political positions that Pope Francis embraced that we take issue with. This does not mean however we should break oneness with Catholics or stop praying for them. Catholics make up a little more than fifty per cent of all Christians. Therefore who the Pope is and what he stands for is important for all Christians. The conclave for the selection of the next Pope is coming up, and we must pray that the new Pope continues the progress made under Francis. Unfortunately many Protestants do not even consider Catholics to be Christians and exclude them from the Body of Christ. This belief is not only incorrect, but it also plays into the hands of satan, who by dividing Protestants and Catholics effectively splits the Body of Christ down the middle. Our oneness is our power in the world of spirit and satan would like nothing more than to reverse the oneness we have attained. That is why it is crucial to pray for the upcoming conclave and the selection of a new Pope. Please reject satan’s lies and pray to create the Pope who will be the voice for oneness, for functioning in the Holy Spirit, and for God's unbreakable covenant with the Jews and the land of Israel. Key Verses: • Matthew 5:14. “You are the light of the world.” • Philippians 2:13. “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” • Matthew 22:36–40. “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD … WITH ALL YOUR MIND.” • Luke 10:26–27. “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD … WITH ALL YOUR MIND.” Quotes: • “What he did in many ways was groundbreaking. And I know that there are people who criticize some of the ground that he broke. He was a little too liberal and got out of being biblically sound. But I feel like what is important to me are all the things he did that were so positive.” • “When you're developing oneness, you're not afraid to bring up problems. But you keep the oneness moving because at some point I believe the Holy Spirit is like a river and things are purified as they move.” • “We as Christians need to be able to move in our intercession to see change come in the world. We are the light of the world and we need to be on top of our game as the Body of Christ right now.” Takeaways: 1. Our involvement in 2013 with the World Youth Day in Brazil was our introduction to a relationship with Pope Francis as well as with the Catholic Church. This has been a deep relationship with many Catholics that continues to this day. We joined with Pope Francis in his heart to see the joining together of Catholics and Protestants. We continue to have faith for and work with believers to expand this oneness in the Body of Christ. 2. The deep division in Christianity between Protestants and Catholics is something very destructive to the oneness we need as the Body of Christ. Our oneness is what makes our intercession effective in changing the world. We must see this division come to an end. 3. Protestants need to come to grips with the fact that the selection of a new Pope will greatly impact the faith of the Body of Christ moving forward. Instead of focusing on doctrinal issues, we need to see the will of God and the Kingdom of God brought to bear in what is taking place in Rome. Do not think that satan will not be fighting with everything within him to prevent the will of God from happening. 4. Let your prayers turn loose the creative power of God within you. He is in you to will and to do of His good pleasure. Therefore do not just pray for God to do something. In your meditation move by the Spirit to create the new Pope by your prayers.
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GIG247 Christ Given His Kingdom, Daniel 7:14
04/30/2025
GIG247 Christ Given His Kingdom, Daniel 7:14
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 Father, which to us is a past event. But Daniel was beholding the reality of Christ’s Kingdom in the spirit world where there is no past or future. There is only now. God is not bound by time. He is always in the present, and with Him all things exist, and all things are possible in the present. And whenever we are in His world, we are in the realm where nothing is impossible. Christ said that where He is, His servants will be also. If there is anything we want to see happen on earth by our prayers, it is from this realm where Christ is. It will happen through His unlimited power that moves within us. If we want to change the world, then the change happens within us before it impacts the world. This aspect of God moving from within rather than outside of us is an experience Christians need on a greater level. Prayer is a matter of asking God for something. But we are usually praying outside of ourselves for something to happen outside of ourselves. In meditation, however, we are wanting to connect with God’s unlimited power within us from where God will move in the earth. Instead of something we avoid, meditation should be something we work at to become aware of the Holy Spirt and the power of God within us, just as Christ and the apostle Paul taught. Let us reach into the realm where God’s Kingdom is not a future event but an ever-present force that we turn loose in the earth. Key Verses: • Ephesians 3:20. “Now to Him who is able to do … according to the power that works within us.” • Zechariah 4:6. “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.” • Mark 11:24. “All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them.” • Matthew 6:9–10. “Your Kingdom come. Your will be done.” • John 14:23. “We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” • John 12:26. “Where I am, there My servant will be also.” • Galatians 5:25. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” • Daniel 7:13–14. “With the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man … came up to the Ancient of Days.” • Acts 1:9. “He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.” • Isaiah 9:6–7. “There will be no end to the increase of His government … from then on and forevermore.” • Psalm 2:1–8. “I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain.” Quotes: • “The spirit world that is demonic in its moving and possessing people is driving a lot of the activities that we see on a natural level. But we know that it's rooted and initiated out of the spirit world. It's coming from that realm, and we know that it has to be changed from that realm.” • “We should be living in this realm where we have free access to the totality of God's creation, and we can connect with the things that are available to us.” • “God said, ‘I have installed my King on the throne in Zion.’ It has taken place. We shouldn't be praying for it to take place. We should be connecting with it and letting the reality of it begin to be the vibrational power that is exuding from us, that is impacting the world around us.” Takeaways: 1. We have seen prayer, intercession, and fasting. But what we have not seen are the results we need in the physical, natural world outside of us. That is because the evil we see in the world is being initiated by and controlled from the spirit realm. If we want to see it change in the physical realm, then we need to change it in the spirit realm. 2. Paul had spiritual experiences and wrote that believers would have them as well. He taught about finding how the unlimited power within us is expressed from us and through us. However, the Church lost something when it lost the practice of what came to be looked upon as Eastern style meditation. Yet we must find the way to turn loose the power of God that is within us. 3. Daniel saw that Christ was given the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God exists now in the spirit realm. So our prayers are not about believing that God will do something outside of ourselves sometime in the future. It is about believing that we have received His Kingdom now and it actually comes within us. His Kingdom is expressed in the earth from us and through us.
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GIG246 This Is the Day
04/23/2025
GIG246 This Is the Day
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 of this became very real as we recorded this podcast on the very same date approximately 2,548 years later. God was making a point by naming the specific day when the prophecy was voiced. Every year on that date we are reminded that there is a day when that prophecy will be fulfilled. Today could be that day. There is no reason that today cannot be that day because we are seeing the fulfillment of the Word of the Lord over His land and over His people. Zechariah’s prophecy records God declaring to the nations, “For while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster. Therefore … I will return to Jerusalem with compassion.” However, He will “throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judea.” Today we see the nations gathered against Israel like never before. And today could be the fulfillment of this prophecy that God’s justice will be revealed against the nations who have sought to destroy Israel. Jeremiah’s prophecy, stamped by God with a date, is about the return of the Lord. And as we see God’s blessing return to the land of Israel, we can look with anticipation for the coming of Messiah who will dwell in their midst and “possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.” This can be the day that it comes to pass. Key Verses: • Zechariah 1:1–6. “In accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.” • Zechariah 1:7–21. “The LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’” • Zechariah 2:1–13. “The LORD will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.” Quotes: • “The land of Judah, by the way, is known as the West Bank. The Lord will possess the West Bank as His portion in the Holy Land and will again choose Jerusalem.” • “The Lord of hosts will bring His hosts with Him to bring justice and judgment into the world. And I believe that it's the time.” • “We bless Jerusalem. We bless Israel. We bless the Jewish people. And we believe that it's time for the return of the Lord. We believe that it's time, as it says in verse 11, ‘Many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people.’” Takeaways: 1. The time when Zechariah made his prophecy is time-stamped with a precise date, to the very day. It came on a specific day, and it will be fulfilled on a specific day. That day could be today. 2. Zechariah prophesied that God will bless Judah and Israel and deal with the nations who used His discipline of His people as an excuse for destruction. Today, when the nations could not be more against Israel and the Jewish people, could be the day this prophecy is fulfilled. 3. This is a prophecy about the reign of Messiah, about God turning to His people as they turn to Him, about many nations joining themselves to the Lord, and about God repossessing the land of Judah and Israel and taking Jerusalem as the holy city. We look for these things to come to pass.
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GIG245 I Stand at the Door and Knock
04/16/2025
GIG245 I Stand at the Door and Knock
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 Laodicea received one of the greatest opportunities offered to any church mentioned in Revelation. No matter what their violations were or how far they had fallen, Christ was knocking at their door asking to come in. Like Laodicea our nation has moved far away from God. But the opportunity remains the same. Christ is standing at the door knocking because He wants to be let back into our lives and our society. No matter how great the violations have been, He wants to meet with us again. He wants us to come in and dine with Him. This is what happens when we open the door to the Lord. He sits down with us, and we have a meal together. Why is that important? It was during meals that covenants and agreements were made. For the covenant at Sinai, God instructed Moses to bring the elders of Israel up the mountain where they had a meal together with the Lord. Christ declared a new covenant in His blood at a Passover meal with His disciples. Along with God coming back into our lives, He wants to make a new agreement, in other words, a new covenant with us. Even though we have strayed far away from Him like the church in Laodicea, God wants to make a new agreement with us to walk with Him. As Christians we have failed God just as Israel failed Him at Sinai. But God already knows we are going to fail. The point is that He is always there knocking on the door of our hearts, and we can let Him in. We can let Him make a new covenant with each of us to write His Word on our hearts and lead us into a greater oneness with Him. Key Verses: • Revelation 3:20. “If anyone … opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him.” • 1 Corinthians 11:23–26. “He took the cup also after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in My blood.’” • Exodus 24:3–11. “They saw God, and they ate and drank.” • Jeremiah 31:31–34. “I will make a new covenant.” • Romans 8:3. “What the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did.” Quotes: • “When Christ is standing at the door knocking, He's not just planning to come in to us and abide with us. He's saying, ‘I’m going to dine with you.’ And I believe He's pointing to the fact that there will be a new covenant that will be made.” • “Christ is saying, ‘Look, I'm standing at the door and knocking.’ He is not talking to Israel here. In the book of Revelation, in chapter 3, He's talking to a church. He's talking to the Christians saying, ‘You guys have really failed Me in this. But I'm not rejecting you, just as I'm not rejecting Israel.’” • “As Christ knew the Father when He was here, I believe there is more for us. And I believe that there is a meal that's waiting—a time of dining with Christ where He will bring an impartation to us that will be a new knowledge, a new understanding of Him, and a new way of walking with Him and the Father.” Takeaways: 1. In Revelation 3, we read Christ saying to Laodicea, “I stand at the door and knock; if anyone … opens the door, I will … dine with him.” Why would the Lord want to dine with us? We can understand that when we understand that covenants were made during a meal. God wants to make a covenant with us. 2. Christians have used the new covenant as a means of anti-Semitism, claiming that God rejected Israel because they failed the covenant at Sinai. But in the new covenant promised to Judah and Israel, God promises to accept them in spite of their failure. Laodicea represents the failure of Christians, but Christ also wanted to make a new covenant with them. 3. The promise of the new covenant is that we will all know Him, from the least to the greatest. But we are still being taught about God by someone else or by the history of religion or doctrine. We need to open the door to Him and receive from Him a new impartation of knowing the Father.
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GIG244 The Difficulties of Deliverance
04/09/2025
GIG244 The Difficulties of Deliverance
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 down to deliver them, the children of Israel rejoiced and worshipped God. They were so thankful that He had heard their cries and was going to do something for them. Then Pharaoh made their bondage more severe. Suddenly, the process of deliverance was not as wonderful as they thought it would be. The Israelites had a difficult life in Egypt, but they were conditioned to being slaves. As difficult as their situation was, it had been their lifestyle for around four hundred years. When God began to deliver them, they faced major disruptions to what had become their comfort zone. As Christians today we too have adapted to a world that has grown increasingly wicked and oppressive. We want deliverance from the bondage of this age. But when God begins to move, that will inevitably mean disrupting our comfort zones. People tend to be fearful of the end-times. But the end-times are when God delivers us from the bondages we have to this age as He brings the age of His Kingdom. During these days we might go through many difficult things. And our deliverance at times might disrupt us and confuse us because we have adapted to life under this bondage. Let us therefore keep our focus on the Lord and what He has promised in His Word, not murmuring and complaining about our circumstances but rejoicing in His Kingdom. Key Verses: • Exodus 3:7–8. “I have … given heed to their cry. … So I have come down to deliver them.” • Exodus 4:29–31. “They heard that the LORD was concerned about the sons of Israel.” • Exodus 5:1–2. “I do not know the LORD, and besides, I will not let Israel go.” • Exodus 5:10–19. “Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw.” • John 12:31. “The ruler of this world will be cast out.” • Exodus 5:20–23. “You have made us odious in Pharaoh’s sight.” • Exodus 14:11–12. “It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” • Psalms 106:6–12. “Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders.” • Deuteronomy 6:20–23. “He brought us out from there in order to bring us in.” Quotes: • “For the last seventy or more years, we have seen things moving in a negative direction as far as things about society and morality, about Judeo-Christian values no longer being a focal point. There's a lot that's gone on, and yet it's happened over a slow period of time. And as it has happened, we have gotten more and more used to it.” • “God is delivering us and yet at the same time there are a few difficulties with deliverance. And those difficulties really are found within our own hearts and what has happened to us by the influence of what we've lived under for our lifetime.” • “They couldn't remember the wonders of what God had done in delivering them from Egypt. And this is the attitude that we find sometimes ourselves fighting. It can be very uncomfortable to really face what's necessary in being delivered by God.” Takeaways: 1. God is bringing the end of this age to bring us into the age of His Kingdom where Messiah reigns as King. We may not find this process or even His Kingdom in alignment with our comfort zone. 2. It might be a difficult transition. But God in His love, grace, and kindness is bringing us out of all our conditionings to a dying age. And He is reconditioning us to be able to live in the days of His Kingdom. We open our hearts to this experience of Passover. 3. When God brings deliverance, we cannot be so focused on our temporary circumstances that we murmur and complain against God. Let us stay focused on the promises of His Kingdom.
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GIG243 Christian Persecution
04/02/2025
GIG243 Christian Persecution
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 are suffering today. And there are many Christians today who live under tribulation and endure great poverty. These are not people with whom we have no connection. They are fellow members of the Body of Christ with whom we are one. We should be aware of their suffering and be crying out to God for them. According to Open Doors, a group that ministers to persecuted Christians, more than 380 million Christians worldwide suffer persecution and discrimination. This is the reality surrounding all of us in Christianity right now. We should be aware of it, and we should be prepared for however God would lead us. The Lord said to Smyrna, “Do not fear … Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” We should not be fearful even if it means giving our lives for Christ, just as many believers are doing today. Maybe you believe in the rapture and are planning to escape tribulation. That does not change the fact that many Christians are now in tribulation, experiencing hunger, imprisonment, and even death for His sake. We should remove any fear from our hearts and refuse to be separated from the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Let us deliberately study and become aware of what is really transpiring in Christianity throughout the world we live in. We need to be interceding for the Body of Christ in this day. Key Verses: • Revelation 2:8–11. “I know your tribulation and your poverty.” • Revelation 12:9–12. “They did not love their life even when faced with death.” • Romans 16:20. “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” Quotes: • “Even if you say, ‘Well, I am not suffering,’ be aware that your brothers and sisters are suffering potentially great tribulations and also poverty.” • “We need to reach in for a faith before the Lord that gives us a freedom from fear and allows us to recognize that satan is on the earth raging. And he is casting believers into prison and people are being tested in their faith and there will be tribulations that come.” • “As believers in this day and age, facing the raging of Satan in the earth in this time, we must not be fearful. We must not love our lives unto death. And we must be ready to sacrifice and give our life if that is what is necessary because this battle will rage. But we know that the battle will be won because it has already been won on the cross.” Takeaways: 1. Much of the Body of Christ today lives in the midst of tribulation and poverty. We need to put some time into studying what is happening to believers throughout the world, become aware of what they are suffering, and intercede for them. 2. As Christians there is no guarantee that we will escape tribulation. Many Christians are already suffering from satan’s raging and it could happen to any of us. The Lord told the church in Smyrna not to be fearful. And we should ask the Lord to remove any fearfulness from our hearts. 3. Those who overcame satan loved not their lives even when faced with death. Even if we die in this war with satan, we have the promise of the crown of life and freedom from the second death. So we exercise Christ’s victory over death and become those who cast satan from this earth. Links:
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GIG242 Religion or Relationship?
03/26/2025
GIG242 Religion or Relationship?
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 us—demands even—to close off to anything new. This makes it difficult for us to develop an awareness of God’s moving in the present because it might fly in the face of doctrines we learned in church, Bible school, or seminary. Many people rejected Christ because His actions and teachings seemed not to fit the orthodoxy of their day. Orthodoxy today has the same effect of hindering rather than helping our relationship with God. Religion emphasizes doctrines that build walls around concepts about God rather than emphasizing a relationship with Him. Just look at the history of Christianity. Has the process of protecting doctrines and orthodoxy in the Church resulted in people knowing the Lord? It seems like it has resulted in divisions, accusations of heresy, and persecution. We do not want to reject a true moving of God today because it does not fit our concepts of orthodoxy. The disciples who stayed with Yeshua (Jesus) when His statements challenged their orthodoxy did so because of their relationship with Him. The emphasis of Christianity must be our relationship with Christ. We do not need more teaching that builds denominational walls to protect our understanding of the Bible. We need to be taught a relationship with the Lord so that everyone comes to know Him. Father, bring us out of religion into a relationship with You. Key Verses: • John 5:8–16. “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.” • John 5:17–19. “Whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” • John 5:39. “You search the Scriptures; … it is these that testify about Me.” • John 17:20–22. “… that they may be one, just as We are one.” • John 6:44–52. “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” • John 6:63–69. “We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.” • Jeremiah 31:33–34. “They will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.” Quotes: • “With God nothing is impossible. Yet religion says almost everything is impossible. Everything is wrong that doesn't line up to the orthodoxy that has been developed.” • “If all it takes is reading the Bible to have understanding of exactly what God is saying and what He's wanting, then I don't think we would be at this place of having all these thousands of denominations surrounding us at this time.” • “We can read the Bible, and we can have it be totally beyond our ability to grasp what is being spoken. And that's where the Holy Spirit comes in—in the relationship with the Holy Spirit who comes to us from the Father.” Takeaways: 1. Yeshua functioned according to a relationship with the Father and not according to religious orthodoxy. Scholars who knew the Scriptures but did not know the Father rejected Yeshua on the basis of orthodoxy and religion as they knew it. 2. Christian scholars have persecuted the Jews as well as other Christians based on their understanding of the Bible. Establishing orthodoxy by the Scriptures has not led to a greater knowledge of God. It has divided Christians into thousands of denominations. The only way we will have the oneness Christ desires will be through a relationship with Him. 3. We do not want the Lord’s coming to be like a thief in the night because we are unaware of Him. We do not want to reject God’s moving today because of our orthodoxy. We need the relationship with God that hears His voice and understands what He is telling us.
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GIG241 Will You Be Aware?
03/19/2025
GIG241 Will You Be Aware?
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 is a tremendous unawareness of what God has spoken in the Scriptures, which is that He has never abandoned His people Israel, and He will fulfill every Word He has given them. The unawareness of what God is saying is where deceptions take root and where we miss the purposes of God in the earth. God spoke through Isaiah, “Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it?” We have to be aware of what God is going to do today and not depend on our understanding of what God did in the past. Again we read in Isaiah, “I proclaim to you new things; … before today you have not heard them.” We may be confident that we know what to do today because we have heard what God did yesterday. But what if God proclaims something we have never heard before? God is speaking today to our generation. But will we hear Him and will we understand what He is saying? Samuel at first did not understand what God was saying to Him. He had to learn the voice of the Lord. Samuel grew and became a prophet who knew and taught what God was speaking to Israel during his time. And Christians today need to seek the Lord until we like Samuel can hear the voice of God, understand what He is saying, and be those to show this generation the new thing God is doing now. Key Verses: • Isaiah 43:18–21. “Behold, I will do something new; … will you not be aware of it?” • Isaiah 42:8–10. “Now I declare new things; before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” • 1 Samuel 3:2–11. “Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.” • Isaiah 48:3–9. “I proclaim to you new things from this time.” • 1 Thessalonians 5:1–9. “So then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.” • Luke 21:29–36. “Keep on the alert at all times.” • 2 Peter 3:10. “The day of the Lord will come like a thief.” • Revelation 3:3. “If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief.” • Mark 13:31–33. “Take heed, keep on the alert.” • Matthew 24:37–39. “They did not understand until the flood came and took them all away.” • 1 Corinthians 2:1–16. “A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; … he cannot understand them.” Quotes: • “If we want to be fearful of something, we should be fearful of our unawareness.” • “What Christ represented in the earth was One who knew the Father, One who heard the voice of the Father, One who saw the Father and had the exact understanding of what God was doing. So He was able to manifest it before people.” • “Recognize that what seems to be playing itself out in great wisdom and understanding and taking over the earth is actually functioning out of an unawareness and an inability to understand what God is doing.” • “We're not learning about the things of this world, the things outside. We're learning the things of the Spirit so that we hear the voice of the Spirit; we hear the voice of the Lord.” Takeaways: 1. Being fearful and concerned about world events means our focus is wrong. Our focus should be on what God is doing inside of us and not on what is happening outside of us. What matters to God is that we understand the wisdom and mysteries that He is unfolding to enable us to walk through these days. 2. God is going to do something new. And the concern is that we His people could miss what He is doing because of our unawareness. Within the Church today there must come a greater awareness of what God is speaking. 3. The challenge is not to become biblical scholars but to hear the voice of the Lord. Not only do we need to hear the voice of the Lord, but we also need to understand what He is saying to us right now. We need to be His prophets through whom He can move in this age.
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GIG240 Purim—How God Works Deliverance
03/12/2025
GIG240 Purim—How God Works Deliverance
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 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.
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GIG239 You Are Born by the Will of God
03/05/2025
GIG239 You Are Born by the Will of God
Web Description: Get out of your mind that you are here on the earth by happenstance, wondering, “Why am I here? What is my purpose?” Instead of spending a lifetime trying to answer those questions, simply know that you were brought to birth by the will of God to be on earth at this time. And God is working in you and through you to accomplish exactly what He wants to accomplish. Show Notes: There is so much confusion in this age that it can be overwhelming. This level of confusion can lead people to feel ineffective in their lives and even develop a sense of uselessness or depression. We see then how confusion is a tactic of satan. If he can keep us confused about who we are, what we are to do, and how we are to do it, then he can keep us from moving with the power and authority we need. This confusion is the opposite of what believers are to have in Christ. As a believer it must be real to you that you were not born by the will of man nor of the will of flesh. You were born by the will of God, and you are here on this earth at this time with a purpose in God. God is also at work in you to work His purposes and His pleasure in this earth. Therefore, you do not have to go it alone, trying to work things out by yourself. You have the force of God Himself, Christ, and the Holy Spirit working within you to accomplish this purpose. If we could get this understanding that we are brought forth by His will, then we would begin to flow with our time here on earth, rather than fight it. Are you wondering, “What is it all about? What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to become what God wants?” Instead, keep rehearsing John 1:13 and say, “I am born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” Let there be an assurance that God is working His will in us and through us. And that purpose can flow in us and through us without the uncertainty we often struggle with. Key Verses: • John 1:9–13. “… born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” • James 1:16–18. “In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth.” • Philippians 2:12–13. “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you.” • 1 Peter 1:22–23. “You have been born again … through the living and enduring word of God.” • Ephesians 1:1–14. “We have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose.” Quotes: • “We must be unwavering in the fact that we are here by the will of God with that purpose in God, and we are able to reach in by the Holy Spirit to find the revelation of that, and begin to move with great clarity and force in our hearts.” • “This is not some flash-in-the-pan existence that we're part of. This is part of our eternity with Him in an eternal life. We are living in God. He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.” • “What a privilege we have! What an honor we have to be part of God summing up all things in Christ, both things in the heavens and the things that are in the earth! And we are brought forth by His will to have a purpose in fulfilling and concluding His great purpose.” Takeaways: 1. It is necessary, especially in this generation, not to be caught up in the confusion of this age. The demonic realm is driven to keep us in confusion to prevent us from moving in power and authority with clarity about our purpose. 2. It is a great necessity for believers to really grasp the fact that we are born by the will of God, that we are here at this time in history by the will of God, that we are here with a purpose from God. And we must move forward and accomplish that purpose. 3. We are not part of some temporary existence that we have to work out by ourselves. He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world and created us by the living and abiding Word of God. Our life on earth is part of our eternal life in God who is working in us to accomplish His will. 4. There may be a mystery in His will, but He will make it known to you if you seek Him. But seek Him knowing that you are born by the will of God, brought forth for His purpose, and you are simply clarifying that which you know to be true about yourself.
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GIG238 Appropriate All His Provisions
02/26/2025
GIG238 Appropriate All His Provisions
Web Description: The parable of the king who invited guests to his wedding feast is something we want to apply to our hearts today. God has made a great provision of salvation through the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. It is His free gift to us by His grace, but we still must show up before Him and appropriate all that He has made available. This means we need to get rid of any excuses and everything that we would value more than God’s great provision. Lord, help us to come before You with prepared hearts, worshipping You with thankfulness for all You have given us. Show Notes: Yeshua (Jesus) told a parable of a king who prepared a wedding feast, but the invited guests were unwilling to attend. Like this king, God has prepared a feast at great expense and has invited everyone to freely partake of it. In the sacrifice of His Son on the cross, God has provided salvation, healing, and all things pertaining to our life and godliness. As Christians we could feel like we have already accepted this invitation. But could that attitude be limiting how much we really should be receiving from the Lord? According to this parable, those invited to the wedding feast made excuses for not attending. These excuses were rooted in personal pursuits they deemed more important than the king’s offer. Are we guilty of the same kinds of excuses regarding God’s provision? Maybe we are not overtly refusing Him, but we can easily be so focused on the concerns of our lives that we do not give the attention we need to the appropriation of all God has made available. What keeps us from daily relating to the Lord in prayer, meditation, and waiting on Him? The root of the problem is explained in this parable. Those who skipped the king’s feast or attacked his servants or did not prepare to appear before him did so because they did not value what the king offered. So we ask God to forgive us for placing value on earthly things that are truly worthless in comparison to our eternity in His Kingdom. Let our thankfulness and appreciation for everything He did in giving us His Son be expressed through our daily appearance before Him, with prepared hearts to partake of His great provision. Key Verses: • 2 Peter 1:3. “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness.” • Matthew 22:1–14. “Those who had been invited to the wedding feast … were unwilling to come.” • Luke 14:16–20. “They all alike began to make excuses.” • Isaiah 53:2–8. “He was despised and forsaken of men, … but He was pierced through for our transgressions.” Quotes: • “It's time for us to get rid of our excuses. We need to evaluate, in repentance and humility, the excuses that we make before God on a daily basis of why we can't seem to show up for what He's made available.” • “Are we just going about our own business? Are we just paying attention to whatever concerns we have in our life and realizing that, yeah, the provision may be there, and He may have made all this available to us, but it's not getting the notice from us and driving us into the appropriation of all that He's made.” • “The first thing we should do is spend the time with Him. Come before that cross. You know that cross is available every minute of every day. Every second that cross stands and we can touch it. We can embrace it. We can receive all that it holds within its power to heal us, to restore us to the Father.” Takeaways: 1. As we read the parable of the king’s wedding invitation, we want to feel the depths of God’s love for us to restore us to Himself through the suffering and death of His Son—and His anger if we hold His provision lightly. 2. Many who were invited were unwilling to attend the wedding. This should challenge us to examine our own hearts. If we are willing, then what energy are we putting into what God has set before us? Are we coming to Him daily to appropriate all the provision He has made? 3. Many seized the king’s messengers, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was very angry with the persecutors and brought judgment on them. We can see God’s anger at those today who have such disregard for all God did to give us salvation that they persecute, and even kill, those who bring His message of grace. 4. Some showed up to the wedding but were not wearing the wedding garments, and the king threw them out. There still must be a preparation of our hearts to go before the Lord. It is offensive to God that we have so little regard for His effort to give us salvation that we make no effort to prepare ourselves to meet Him.
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GIG237 God’s Word Is for Now
02/19/2025
GIG237 God’s Word Is for Now
Web Description: If God put us in this world by His will, then we accept that He has enabled us to do His will. That means whatever He makes real to us in His Word is not something only for the past or waiting for the future. His Word is something He wants us to walk in now. Therefore, we ask God’s help to end our double-mindedness by making our conscious and subconscious minds a united force to manifest His Word in the present. Show Notes: As Christians we believe that the Scriptures are the Word of God. But we need to change our conditioning that relegates everything in the Scriptures to the past or the future. The Word of God must be our present reality. It is not enough to mentally accept that Christ was resurrected in the past and by virtue of that determine we will have a resurrection in the future. Instead, we need to believe without wavering that Yeshua (Jesus) is, as He said, the resurrection and the life, and we can therefore experience the power of His resurrection and life in our own lives at this very moment. God is speaking to us now in the present, but what hinders our effectiveness is this duplicity in our thinking that prevents us from experiencing it in the present. James wrote that a double-minded person should not expect to receive anything from God, and the reality is that we are by nature double-minded. We have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind, and those two minds are not necessarily in sync. We live crossing ourselves out more than we recognize because our conscious and subconscious minds are at odds with each other. You can determine with your conscious mind to walk in the Word and then fail to even get started because your subconscious mind is not engaged in carrying out your conscious decision. We live mainly in our conscious mind because that is what we know how to relate to. But our subconscious mind is what makes the planning of our conscious mind active and operational in the present moment. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we apply the force of our subconscious mind to take the Word that we understand with our conscious mind and make it our present and active reality. Key Verses: • John 1:13. “… born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” • Philippians 2:13. “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” • Luke 17:21. “The kingdom of God is in your midst [or within you].” • Matthew 28:20. “I am with you always.” • James 1:5–8. “That man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man.” • James 4:8. “Purify your hearts, you double-minded.” • Isaiah 54:17. “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper.” • 1 Peter 2:24. “By His wounds you were healed.” • John 11:21–26. “I am the resurrection and the life.” • Roman 13:14. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.” Quotes: • “Our subconscious mind does not flow with our conscious mind. These two things are not necessarily in sync with each other and a lot of problems are born out of that.” • “How do we get to oneness? We've got to get to oneness in ourselves, and it has a lot to do with the Holy Spirit. It has a lot to do with learning our subconscious mind the way we know our conscious mind.” • “My subconscious mind has to be brought into unification with my conscious mind and vice versa in order for me to live in the present moment. And if I don't do that, then I'm constantly living in this throwback of the past or the future. And there's no power in that.” Takeaways: 1. When God says that you are here, not by the will of flesh nor by the will of man, but by the will of God, then you must take that in your mind and make that your present reality and reject anything that says anything different. If God’s Word is true, then it is true now. 2. It is not enough to know and teach the Word. We have to know how to manifest the Word. Not manifesting it now in our lives puts the Word into the future or keeps it in the past. 3. Even though we love the Word and have tried to walk in the Word, we are confronted with the fact that a double-minded person receives nothing from God. It is our double-minded nature that crosses out the effectiveness of the Word. 4. Instead of only mentally accepting the Word with our conscious mind, we need to involve the capabilities of our subconscious mind to keep the Word active and functioning in the present moment.
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GIG236 Make Your Past and Future Your Present
02/12/2025
GIG236 Make Your Past and Future Your Present
Web Description: God is not limited by time. Why should we be? Christ went to the cross two thousand years ago, and yet we experience salvation through that cross as if it happens for us the moment we believe. Even people of faith, who lived before Christ, reached into the power of the cross long before it happened. We need to change our focus from the physical realm bound by time to the eternal realm where everything God did in the past or will do in the future is available now for us to walk in. Show Notes: The Scriptures consistently emphasize the freedom and liberty we are to walk in. According to the Word of God, there is nothing lacking in the power of Christ's blood shed on the cross. There is nothing lacking in the power of His death, burial, and resurrection for our fullness of life and complete healing of every affliction. However, there are obstacles within us that seem to hinder us from fully experiencing the power we are meant to have. It is one thing to know what the Word says. We also must know how to implement that Word in our lives. Surprisingly, the science of quantum physics can help us with this. Scriptural concepts that make no sense according to physical laws have been observed to be a reality in the quantum realm. Long before Yeshua (Jesus) went to the cross, Isaiah wrote, “He was pierced for our transgression and by His scourging we are healed.” After Yeshua went to the cross, Peter wrote, “By His wounds you were healed.” To us in a physical realm limited by time, experiencing past or future events in the present seems impossible. Yet tests prove that the quantum realm is not limited by time. The quantum realm is a creation of God, who Himself is not bound by time. In Him the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously at the moment. What would happen if we could experience the realm where our past and future were connected to our present? What if we could lay hold of God’s movings in the past and promises for the future and bring them into our now? Let us apply what we already know about walking with God in the Spirit and waiting on the Lord and reach into what God has for our lives today. Key Verses: • 1 John 1:9. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful … to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” • John 14:6. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” • Matthew 19:26. “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” • Hebrews 3:18–19. “They were not able to enter because of unbelief.” • Matthew 8:1–17. “HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES.” • Isaiah 53:4–5. “By His scourging we are healed.” • 1 Peter 2:21–24. “By His wounds you were healed.” • John 11:25. “I am the resurrection and the life.” • Ephesians 1:5. “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.” • Romans 12:2. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” • Galatians 5:16. “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” • John 8:56–59. “Before Abraham was born, I am.” • Revelation 13:8 (NASB). “… written from the foundation of the world in the book of life.” • Revelation 13:8 (KJV). “… the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” • Revelation 17:8. “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come.” Quotes: • “God always holds the past, the present, and the future before Him in His mind. Therefore, a man of faith who comes to God may claim the promises of the past or prophecies of the future as the provision for the present moment” (John Robert Stevens). • “What Yeshua did thousands of years ago is valid for you today. All you have to do is reach into it today and you will be healed. Just reach into the cross today and you will be saved.” • “Abraham saw the day of Christ on the earth in the flesh. Why? He lived thousands of years in the past. Yeah, but he also knew how to get into a realm where the past and the future were his present.” • “How does healing work right now? It happens because we get into that realm where the past, present, and future all exist at once.” Takeaways: 1. God’s Word, His power, and the work of Christ for us are unlimited. The only limitations are in us due to impasses on a subconscious level. Religion will not help us overcome those impasses because they are more related to the scientific principles of the quantum realm. 2. The quantum realm confirms the timeless nature of God, as well as our own ability to draw from the provision of Christ, whether it occurred in the past or will occur in the future, and to walk in it at the present moment. 3. Abraham knew the day of Christ thousands of years before it happened. And to be prophets in this age, we must have an awareness of this realm where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously and then be able to manifest it.
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