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.

GIG295 Did God Really Mean That? 04/01/2026

GIG295 Did God Really Mean That? Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #295 Web Description: As we read the Scriptures, it is not long before we realize that God is serious about what He wants us to do and to be. But a Scripture that confronts us with this reality can make us uncomfortable and make us try to lessen its impact in some way. We should stop doing that. The Word of God has the power to transform us. And we should let it confront us, let it impact us, and let its power come through with full force. Show Notes: Some Scriptures in the Bible are so confronting that we read them and say, “Did God really mean that?” These are Scriptures we tend to avoid or try to interpret in some way that lessens their impact. We know we should believe them, but because we struggle with our flesh, we have trouble accepting verses about God’s love for us or His power within us. We need to change our response to the Word and realize that God means what He says when He tells us what He wants us to become and what He wants us to walk in. Rather than downplaying these Scriptures, we need to let them confront us. Rather than avoiding them, we should meditate on those Scriptures that impact us the most. There is power in the Word of God. If we receive His Word, ååthen He empowers us to walk in that Word. The fact that we cannot do it in ourselves is the very reason we need to let His Word work in us. If God says it, He means it, and He intends for us to get it. We should do nothing less than let the full force of His Word penetrate our hearts and begin to change us. The Word of God is the greatest power in existence. It is literally the power of God that transforms us into new creatures. It is not by any work of our own. Have you been struggling in yourself to walk with God and break through into His promises? Simply receive a Word from God with the same force it had when He spoke it. Receive the full power of that Word and let it transform you. When you do that, you enter His rest because you are not trying anymore. We all need this, and we reach in together for a greater faith in God’s Word. Key Verses: • Galatians 5:14. “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” • John 17:20–21. “That they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us.” • John 17:23. “That the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” • Colossians 2:9. “In Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form.” • John 20:21. “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” • Ephesians 3:13–19. “Know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” • 2 Corinthians 5:17. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature.” • Romans 8:11. “He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies.” • Hebrews 4:1–11. “There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.” • Hebrews 4:12–16. “The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword.” Quotes: • “The Father is in Christ and Christ is in the Father and they are in us. How can I live a normal life if I believe that the Creator of the universe lives in me?” • “Why are we to understand and know the love that Christ has for us? Because if we know that love, we will be filled up to all the fullness of God. We have to take this at absolute face value. This is not a parable. This is not Paul teaching us through parables or through some other type of literary context. He is saying what he means, and he is meaning what he says.” • “When we read these verses, we see that they are in us now. And we see that this Word is powerful to create everything that has been spoken. And we see that it is the Sabbath. These things are finished. They're not for a future day.” Takeaways: 1. We recognize that the Scriptures can be very confronting. But the reason is that God wants to confront us with the reality of what He is telling us to be. 2. We need to crack the shell around us that does not let the Word impact us to the extent that we say, “God is saying this, and I must become it now!” 3. God does not tell us to do something that we cannot do. If He says something, then He empowers us to do it. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40634570

GIG294 Our Gratitude for Christ in Us 03/25/2026

GIG294 Our Gratitude for Christ in Us Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #294 Title: Our Gratitude for Christ in Us Web Description: It is a tradition in Christianity to recite a confession of faith. But our greatest confession of faith is our expression of gratitude for all that Christ is in us. We can only be grateful for something we have received. And we have received Christ, in whom we are rooted and grounded and growing up in everything God has for us. What greater reason is there to be overflowing with gratitude? Show Notes: Gratitude is an emotion that is foundational to our walk with God. According to Colossians, we should be overflowing with gratitude. But do we really understand what gratitude is and why we need it? Gratitude by definition is a feeling you have after you receive something. You are grateful for what you have already received. You are not grateful because you are hoping or believing to receive something. And the reason we are overflowing with gratitude is because we have received Christ and He is in us. We have received the One in whom the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form. We have received the resurrected Christ who, by the removal of the flesh in a circumcision made without hands, has raised us up with Him. We have received Him who is the head over all rule and authority and who has made us complete in Him. Is it any wonder that we would be overflowing with gratitude? Yet in the process of walking with God, we are easily distracted from what a walk with God is all about. The reason we walk with Him is because He is living in us. As a result, our growth and maturity are about walking with Him into greater and greater manifestations of the fullness of Christ. The very purpose and drive of the Father in reconciling us to Himself through Christ is to dwell in His people. And He is always leading us toward that goal. What gratitude we should live in that God daily is working and growing and dwelling in our hearts! We should be overflowing with gratitude, finding ways to express that every day, because that is what connects us with the power of Christ living in us. Key Verses: • Colossians 2:6–12. “As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him … overflowing with gratitude.” • John 14:17–23. “My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” • Galatians 2:20. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” • Philippians 2:8–11. “I count all things to be loss … that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection.” • Ephesians 3:14–19. “Know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” Quotes: • “We have received Christ Jesus our Lord into our lives, and we are to walk in Him because He is living in us.” • “We are overflowing with gratitude because Christ is in us and He is established in us and we are being built up in Him.” • “I think many times it really escapes us that God is driven to dwell in us. Christ came to reconcile us to the Father, and Christ said that He would dwell in us and that He and the Father would come and take up Their abode with us.” Takeaways: 1. Christ is in us, and we need to live in gratitude because as we express that gratitude, we confess and believe that we have received all that He is. 2. Living daily in a state of overflowing gratitude connects us with all the power and authority of Christ living in us. 3. We should be overwhelmed by the reality that God is driven to dwell in and among His people, and He is always moving us toward that goal. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40536640

GIG293 Faith Is Spiritual Gravity 03/18/2026

GIG293 Faith Is Spiritual Gravity Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #293 Title: Faith Is Spiritual Gravity Web Description: When you wake up in the morning, you do not expect to lose the force of gravity and float off into space. Gravity is always there and always working. Likewise, you should not think of faith as something that you lose and try to get back. Just like gravity, faith should always be there. Do not pump up your faith at times when you need it. Just keep growing your faith at all times. Show Notes: We tend to think of faith as something we apply in the moment if we want to see something happen or need an answer to prayer. A better concept of faith is illustrated by the force of gravity. Gravity does not turn on or off according to momentary needs. It is always active as a permanent part of our lives. And that is what our faith should be. Of course, faith can trigger a miracle. But that will not happen because you build up your faith at that moment. It happens because you have grown to a level of faith in your walk with God. Faith grows. It is tested and tried. It is something dwelling in you because you have exercised it consistently in your walk with God. Faith is that which makes the unseen visible. Faith is what God moved in when He spoke the Word that created the universe, making things that are seen out of that which is invisible. God is invisible, and yet Christ visibly manifested the Father into the earth on a continual basis. He did not pump up some faith when someone needed a healing. He simply let the Father impact the physical realm through Him. And people were healed by their own faith in Christ. If we want to measure our faith, then Christ is our example. His faith was in the Father dwelling in Him, and He manifested the works of the Father. And so our faith is not what we manage to pump up now and then, but rather it is the faith that Christ and the Father are dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit. Faith is a state of being that is constantly manifesting in the world the works of the Holy Spirit. Faith is what we keep appropriating until we are filled up to all the fullness of God, and out of that fullness the Kingdom of God will become more and more visible. Key Verses: • Matthew 9:27–29. “It shall be done to you according to your faith.” • Hebrews 11:1–3. “What is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” • Hebrews 11:1 (KJV). “Faith is the substance of things hoped for.” • John 14:16–21. “You will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” • Romans 8:11. “If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He … will also give life to your mortal bodies.” • Ephesians 3:13–19. “Know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” Quotes: • “When we see the created world around us, we see the result of faith—the faith that God moved in when He spoke the Word that created all things throughout the universe.” • “We need to have a faith that the Kingdom of God surrounds us, is in us, and is to manifest before us on a visible level. And the emanation of that faith must be constant.” • “We need to build our faith and grow our faith surrounding what the Word of God has said already is. In other words, it is a reality in the realm of spirit, but we need to see it manifest in this visible world.” Takeaways: 1. Faith is not something temporary that we exercise only at the moment we need it. Faith is actually like gravity, which is manifesting in our lives all day long. 2. Faith is not something we pump up because it has gone flat. It is something we build and grow in a consistent walk with God. 3. Faith is that which makes the unseen visible. And for the Kingdom to manifest daily in our world from the invisible realm requires a faith that is daily manifesting in our lives. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40417750

GIG292 Christians in the World of AI 03/11/2026

GIG292 Christians in the World of AI Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #292 Web Description: With AI there will be new levels of deception and persecution directed against the people of God. That is why we as Christians need to grow into new levels of maturity, wisdom, and understanding by the Holy Spirit. We must have the mind of Christ that does not judge by what our eyes see and our ears hear in the natural realm. Instead, we are to see and hear in the spirit realm what Christ is disclosing to us from the Father. Show Notes: Artificial Intelligence (AI), like any other technology, is controlled by humans, meaning it has the potential to be used for good and the same potential to be used for evil. AI is already being helpful in many areas. But its greatest negative impact will come from its ability to affect our perception in ways that were never possible before. It will be increasingly difficult to know if what we are watching is real or not. Using AI, individuals can be made to appear to be doing things and say things they would never do or say in real life. This would be a powerful means of persecution against Christians if they are realistically portrayed as saying things they never said. So the power of AI to distort our perception is very real. And we are faced with the fact that our natural senses will not give us the true understanding of what is happening in the world. We need to reach into a spiritual maturity that allows us to judge, make decisions, and understand things from a different perspective. Yeshua (Jesus) did not judge by what His eyes saw or His ears heard. Now more than ever we need to grow up in Christ and have those same attributes. We can no longer afford to be children who are carried away by the trickery of men in craftiness and deceitful scheming. There must be a maturing of the Body of Christ until believers begin to know and understand and see by the Spirit of God. We cannot passively walk with God today. We need to leave our infancy and partake of the solid food of the Word that will mature us into what God wants us to be to this generation. Key Verses: • Isaiah 11:1–3. “He will not judge by what His eyes see.” • Malachi 3:14–18. “You will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked.” • Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.” • 1 Corinthians 2:14–16. “A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God.” • John 5:19. “Whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” • John 8:26. “The things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.” • Hebrews 5:12–14. “Solid food is for the mature, who … have their senses trained to discern good and evil.” • John 8:31–32. “If you continue in My word, then … you will know the truth.” • John 16:12–15. “When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth.” • John 14:16–21. “In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” • Ephesians 4:10–14. “We are no longer to be children … carried about by … the trickery of men.” • Ephesians 4:17–25. “No longer just as the Gentiles also walk … being darkened in their understanding.” Quotes: • “It's time for us as believers to know how to walk in the Spirit, be taught by the Spirit, and receive the impartation of the mind of Christ from the Spirit so that we might be those who do His will and are free from the lies and deception of this age.” • “There must be the solid food that begins to be given to the Body of Christ to mature them. And through the practice of their walk in the Spirit, they're going to be trained again to discern good and evil.” • “People are realizing they must take a stand. They must stand up. They must speak up. And that is important for us to do. When God sees this move of His people, it says that He is going to spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.” Takeaways: 1. AI is a technology that has great power to deceive. That is why we need the maturity that is not moved by the craftiness and deceitful scheming of men. 2. Satan's great determination is to bring all humanity into deception and drive them away from God. And so we need to reach into the Holy Spirit for a greater impartation of the mind of Christ. 3. Let us stand up and speak the truth in love, trusting in the covering, protection, and salvation promised for those who fear the Lord in this day. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40335115

GIG291 Preparation for Purim 03/04/2026

GIG291 Preparation for Purim Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #291 Title: Preparation for Purim Web Description: As Christians we need to see the significance of Purim for us. Satan is working as much or more today to thwart God’s plan as he did when Esther and Mordecai faced the annihilation of their people. The purification and preparation they went through, which reversed the edict of destruction and made them the ones who brought victory, are exactly what we require. Show Notes: Why should Christians celebrate Purim? What does it have to do with us? It has everything to do with us. If Haman’s plot to kill all Jews in the Persian Empire had happened, the line of Christ would have been destroyed. Yeshua (Jesus) would not have been born in Judea; there would be no Christianity and no return of Christ to reign as King in the earth. So Purim is very relevant to us, as are its lessons for us today. Before becoming queen, Esther had to undergo twelve months of purification. And there needs to be a cleansing and a purity on us that enables us to come boldly before the throne of grace and stand in the presence of God. As queen, Esther knew she could die if she came into the king’s presence without his invitation. And if we want God to move today, then we must humble ourselves, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways as we read in 2 Chronicles 7. At this time of Purim, we see satan working to annihilate the Jews and Israel just as he did in Esther’s day. What is happening in the Middle East right now absolutely impacts the plan of God, the Kingdom of God, and all that we stand for as believers. Purim celebrates the fact that Mordecai and Esther had the king’s signet ring and carried out his decree. And if we are to carry out the will of God in the earth, then we must be the purified vessels who can wield His signet ring in righteousness, justice, and honor. Let us prepare our hearts to come before the King today. Key Verses: • Esther 3:8–11. “If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed.” • 2 Chronicles 7:12–16. “[If] My people … turn from their wicked ways, then I will … forgive their sin.” • Acts 1:9–12. “Jesus … will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.” • Esther 2:12. “Twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beautification were completed.” • Esther 4:11. “I have not been summoned to come to the king.” • Hebrews 4:16. “Draw near with confidence to the throne of grace.” • Esther 5:2–3. “The king said to her, ‘What is troubling you, Queen Esther?’” • Esther 7:10. “They hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai.” • Esther 8:8–11. “The king granted the Jews … the right to assemble and to defend their lives.” Quotes: • “The ultimate victory that came was not because of what the king did. It's because of what Mordecai and Esther and the people did in rising up to save their own lives.” • “If we're going to celebrate Purim, one of the things we must have is this purification drive and preparation drive in our hearts because it's about us.” • “What He's looking for is that His anointing would rest upon the Body of Christ to move in the earth today, to see the kingdom come and be established, and the things that need to be dealt with, dealt with in all righteousness and justice.” Takeaways: 1. Purim shows us satan’s persistent attempts to destroy the Jewish people both to prevent the birth of the Messiah in the past and to hinder His Kingdom today. 2. Purim shows us our need for purification and preparation to come into the presence of God. 3. Purim shows us our need for humility and repentance to be God’s prepared instruments that will execute His will with righteousness and justice. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40257575

GIG290 Purim—Anticipating Instant Change 02/25/2026

GIG290 Purim—Anticipating Instant Change Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #290 Title: Purim—Anticipating Instant Change Web Description: We can look at what is happening in the world today and feel like darkness is taking over; everything is getting worse and nothing is going to change. But the Scriptures give us a different picture. The Scriptures show us that things can change in an instant, and the story of Esther is a prime example of that. As we celebrate the Feast of Purim this year, let us anticipate that when we come before the King in our intercession, He will reverse the plot of destruction against God’s people and turn our mourning into rejoicing. Show Notes: The book of Esther records that the Jews established the Feast of Purim “for themselves and for their descendants and for all those who allied themselves with them.” It was established so that all generations will remember how the annihilation that was determined and already set in motion was suddenly reversed. In an instant their mourning, sorrow, and fear of destruction were changed into a celebration of gladness and a holiday of feasting and rejoicing. The Feast of Purim therefore is a celebration of instant change. When we celebrate it, we remember that no matter how bleak things are, everything can change in a moment. What could be bleaker than the plot for complete annihilation of the Jews in the time of Esther? Yet the reversal of that plot has been passed down to us as a remembrance that if we enter the presence of the King and bring our need to His attention, He will command the change and by His Word the destruction that is set to transpire will not happen. As we see today with Hamas and Israel, satan is still set to destroy Israel and the Jewish people. And as we approach the time of the end, we are seeing satan’s plot against the whole earth expand from the Jewish people into all humanity in his determination to destroy all flesh. But we also know by Purim and by the examples of the Scriptures that the plan of destruction can be completely reversed in a moment. So we do not let our hope be tainted by the negativity that surrounds us. We celebrate Purim this year with our hope renewed; and that hope is for instant change. Key Verses: • Isaiah 60:1–3. “Darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you.” • Esther 9:20–22. “It was … turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday.” • Mark 13:19–20. “Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved.” • Esther 9:23–25. “When it came to the king’s attention, he commanded.” • Esther 9:26–28. “The Jews … made a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all those who allied themselves with them.” • Isaiah 29:5–7. “It will happen instantly, suddenly.” • Isaiah 17:12–14. “At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are no more.” Quotes: • “You can look and say, ‘How can this ever change? How can things ever really be restored to the Kingdom of God from the direction that they’re going? How could good come out of such evil?’ But we must know and understand that it can, and it will.” • “We celebrate before we see. We have a time of celebration as an expression not only of our faith, but our knowing that God can bring about deliverance and change and bring about another purpose and will.” • “This feast was consecrated by Mordecai for us as those who are allies with the Jewish people and with Israel. And so I proudly celebrate Purim, and I am thankful for my inclusion in its celebration.” Takeaways: 1. Purim is an example of deliverance, repeated many times in the Scriptures, that things can change 180 degrees in just one moment. 2. We as believers must live in the knowledge and faith that at any second God can move and everything can change. We cannot be tainted by the oppression of this age. 3. We must never lose the reality in God that in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, everything can be different. Scriptural Examples of Instant Change: Purim. Read the book of Esther. Passover. Read Exodus 12 The Famine in Samaria. Read 2 Kings 7 The Resurrection. Read John 19:30—John 20:29 Resources: | /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40169095

GIG289 Times of Refreshing 02/18/2026

GIG289 Times of Refreshing Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #289 Title: Times of Refreshing Web Description: We believe in the promise that there will be times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. But when we look at our circumstances, we think, “This doesn’t seem like refreshing to me!” That is the wrong focus because what precedes and initiates the times of refreshing is the fact that we repent and return to the Lord. Let us see the whole picture that includes our repentance as a positive progression into all that God wants us to have and be in Him. Show Notes: The apostle Peter prophesied that there will be times of refreshing and restoration. And for many years now we have seen restoration happen in the Church. Many of the gifts, ministries, and experiences of the Holy Spirit have already been restored. Along with this restoration, we therefore anticipate the times of refreshing as well. Yet the devastating experiences we go through make it difficult to accept that we are in times of refreshing. We have to remember that this promise of restoration and refreshing occurs because we repent and return to the Lord. One of the greatest chapters on restoration is Joel 2, where we also read about the outpouring of God’s Spirit on all mankind. But how do the restoration and outpourings come about? They come about because people return to the Lord with weeping and mourning and rending of their hearts. We are not immune from this in our walk with God. The most important thing God is restoring is the personal relationship with Him on a level we have not known before. As we seek for that relationship, the Holy Spirit puts us in a place of being humbled before the Lord. This process of repentance and humility is how we experience restoration and times of refreshing. And like Job, it is certainly easy to think negatively about what God leads us through in that process. But as with Job, God's purpose is to give us the times of refreshing. His goal is the positive work He will do for us and with us. His plan is to restore us to Himself as those sons of God who shouted for joy at His creation. That is why we keep our focus on Him and return to Him with all our hearts. Key Verses: • Acts 3:18–21. “Repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come.” • Joel 2:12–13. “Return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping and mourning.” • Joel 2:28–29. “I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind.” • 2 Peter 3:9. “The Lord is … patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” • Matthew 3:1–2. “John the Baptist came, preaching … ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” • Matthew 4:17. “Jesus began to preach and say, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” • Job 38:1–7. “Where were you when … all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Quotes: • “The Spirit is poured sovereignly, but He rests comfortably where there is repentance, humility, and alignment to His will.” • “Real repentance is not shame driven. Shame says, ‘Hide. You are unworthy.’ Repentance says, ‘Return. You belong to the Father. You belong to the plan of God for this hour.’” • “Repentance is not punishment. It's a doorway back into the love relationship with the Father.” • “God will do whatever He needs to do to get us into His eternal purpose for our existence.” Takeaways: 1. According to Joel 2, what happens to prepare us for the global outpouring of God’s Spirit and the new day of the Kingdom? It is the brokenness of our hearts and repentance that is a real return to the Lord. 2. We must follow the roadmap to the promised restoration and outpourings. There is a divine order to God’s plan as He brings us in alignment with His way of thinking and His will. 3. God’s process of humility is not to punish us. It is not to shame us. It is the path we walk on to a fully restored relationship with the Father. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40103695

GIG288 What Does Scripture Say About Us? 02/11/2026

GIG288 What Does Scripture Say About Us? Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #288 Title: What Does Scripture Say About Us? Web Description: Are you confident that you always believe that God means what He says? What about when you read a Bible verse that tells you to be like Christ? If we are honest, we would admit that we have trouble accepting Scriptures about God’s divine nature in us and what He expects us to be. Rather than skipping over such Scriptures, we should work at embracing them and applying them with all our hearts. Show Notes: There are certain Scriptures that we find very difficult to take literally, especially when they challenge how we think about ourselves. When we read in John 17:23 that the Father loves us with the same love He had for Yeshua (Jesus), we tend to stop and ask, “Did He really mean that?” After all, how could God love us in our sinfulness with the same love He had for His Son? But God does mean what He says about us. God is bringing many sons to glory, loving them just as He loved Christ, who was the first born of many brethren. When Yeshua was born, He could do nothing as a baby that He would do as a grown man. But He was already the Son of God, Savior, and Lord at His birth. He grew up to fulfill the purpose God sent Him to the earth to fulfill. And when we are born in Christ, He implants His divinity in us. Then our growth and maturity in Christ comes from this nature of Christ already within us. Just as Christ grew up into the fullness of the Father, according to Ephesians 4 we are to grow up into the fullness of Christ. Yet we resist accepting that about ourselves. Many even consider it heresy to say that we can be like Christ. These Scriptures about who we are in God need to get through to us. We cannot simply skip over them or find other ways to interpret them because we have a hard time accepting what they say we are. We need to clearly see the purpose that God has for us and His equipping that matures us into who we are to be as full-grown members of the Body of Christ. That is why we have begun a project with the . We are building a list of Scriptures that confront us about who we are and what God has put us on this earth to be. Join us in finding these Scriptures, meditating on them, and planting them in our hearts until they bear fruit in our lives. Key Verses: • John 17:23. “You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” • Romans 8:29. “He would be the firstborn among many brethren.” • Ephesians 4:11–13. “He gave … for the equipping of the saints … until we all attain … to the fullness of Christ.” • Luke 2:52. “Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” • Hebrews 2:10. “It was fitting for Him, … in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation.” • John 14:5–18. “The Father abiding in Me does His works.” Quotes: • “It's that constant reality that is manifested in the now that we are what God brought us here to be. Is that maturing? Is it perfecting? Yes. But get out of the idea that you're becoming something different or that you need to become something different than what you are.” • “Our mind kind of blocks and parries this off so that we don't let it really hit us like it needs to hit us—that the Father is in Christ and the Father is in us and Christ is in us and we are one.” • “He wants us to be equipped. I think it's part of our relationship with one another because somewhere, in us and around us, abide these apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, brothers and sisters, and that which is bringing forth this process of maturing.” Takeaways: 1. God has chosen to be in this time just as He sent Christ to be in His time. So we need to find and come into connection with the reality of who we are and what our purpose is in this earth. And the Scriptures play an important role in that. 2. When we encounter a Scripture that seems too wonderful to believe about ourselves, we tend to interpret it in a way that lets us not take it at face value. 3. We must get out of this idea that we are working toward something or that we are doing a job out of dedication. Our work of service comes out of the divinity of the Father and of the Son that God has installed within us. 4. We need to be looking through the Scriptures and finding verses that confront us with the reality of who we are—that Christ and the Father are in us—and come to grips with what that means. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/40009045

GIG287 Seeing Him Who Is Invisible 02/04/2026

GIG287 Seeing Him Who Is Invisible Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #287 Title: Seeing Him Who Is Invisible Web Description: What is faith? According to Hebrews 11, faith is the evidence of things not seen. And men and women of faith saw God who is unseen and brought into this world His works that were unseen in their day. Let us be those whose faith does the same in our day. Instead of struggling to believe, dwell where you are seeing Him who is invisible and make His will visible in the earth. Show Notes: Yeshua (Jesus) said, “All things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Like many Scriptures, this statement challenges us. Did He mean that literally? Can we really believe that we will receive all things we ask for? Yes, we absolutely should believe that Yeshua meant what He said. But the purpose is to have the faith of those listed in Hebrews 11. These are our examples of the faith that is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence in things not seen.” All things that are seen were created by God’s Word from that which is unseen. Therefore, just as God manifested what was unseen into the visible world, these men and woman of Hebrews 11 were able by their faith to bring into the visible realm those things that exist in the invisible realm. And the whole intent of this chapter in Hebrews is to convey God’s will for us. As we walk with God today in the earth, He is speaking to us to bring into the visible realm His completed works that exist in the invisible realm. We often find ourselves struggling with doubt and unbelief. And the reason is that we are not experiencing what Moses experienced; he delivered Israel by “seeing Him who is unseen.” Therefore, the faith of Moses was the evidence of the promise that was not seen. And if you are wanting evidence that what you are praying for is going to work, then start by seeing God who is invisible. See Yeshua who promised that His servants will be with Him where He is. Let us claim this ability and exercise it today. Key Verses: • Matthew 21:22. “All things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” • John 17:23. “You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” • Hebrews 11:1 (KJV). “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” • John 12:26. “Where I am, there My servant will be also.” • Hebrews 11:1–5. “What is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” • Hebrews 4:9–10. “There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.” • Hebrews11:13–14. “All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them.” • John 5:19. “Whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” • John 8:26. “The things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.” • Hebrews 11:27–40. “He endured, as seeing Him who is unseen.” • Ephesians 2:10. “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand.” Quotes: • “We are to enter into a Sabbath rest. In other words, we are to be able to manifest that which God has sent us here to manifest and to complete the work which we've been given to do.” • “Moses was seeing Him who is unseen. It doesn't mean that God is not seeable. It just means that in the natural material world God is not seen as a normal course of our existence. But Moses was moving in the natural world by seeing Him who is not seen in the natural world.” • “You can't make a miracle out of that which is seen. You make it out of that which is unseen. And the only way you can accomplish that is by seeing Him who is invisible. And when we see Him who is invisible, then that which is invisible manifests itself into this realm in which we live.” Takeaways: 1. According to Hebrews 11, just as God created what is seen out of what is unseen, our faith is about bringing what is unseen into the visible material realm. 2. We may not see the full manifestation of God’s promises, but we walk by seeing Him who is invisible. And we do not waver in our purpose to make seen the things of God that are still unseen in the earth. 3. God has finished all His works, and we are looking for the city He created. It already exists, and we can see and dwell in it now in a very real way. But He is looking for us to bring into manifestation all that He wants to see happen in the age we live in. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39951535

GIG286 New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers 01/28/2026

GIG286 New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #286 Title: New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers Web Description: Elijah stood at the entrance of his cave with his awareness fixed on the Lord to hear how the Lord would direct him. And today we stand at the precipice of a new year, determined to stand before the Lord with an awareness of Him that hears His instructions, understands His directions, and applies them to our lives. Show Notes: In a New Year’s meeting with our , we review the past year and look to the year ahead. Last year, Hargrave Ministries achieved significant progress in both the ministry of the Word and our outreach to Israel (see ). And we are anticipating even greater progress this year. To that end we are updating the website to provide better access to the teaching materials and streamlining the donations to Israel. But in all we do, we want to be those who have the insight, as Daniel prophesied, to instruct people concerning God’s purpose for them in this age. The story of Elijah on Mount Horeb is a lesson on how to do that. The Lord told Elijah to go to a specific place, and Elijah obeyed. And our first step is to be in the place where the Lord is leading us. Then the story explains how God was not in the various manifestations Elijah witnessed as “the Lord was passing by.” Elijah was not distracted by those things but waited until he received the specific instructions the Lord wanted him to follow. We too can be aware of all that is taking place in the world as the Lord is passing by. But our focus needs to be on the specific instructions the Lord has for us. Like Elijah, we do not want our awareness of things, even if God is in them, to draw our focus away from what the Lord wants us to be aware of. Just as He told Elijah exactly where to go, who to see, and what to minister, we want our teaching material to impart more than a knowledge or understanding of the Bible. We need the insight—knowing both what the Lord wants us to do and how to do it. We have seen the success of this already in our ministry to Israel. And this year we look forward to even greater insight and application of the Word in people’s lives. Key Verses: • Lamentations 3:22–23. “His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.” • 1 Kings 19:11–16. “The LORD was not in the wind.” • Daniel 12:8–10. “Those who have insight will understand.” • Daniel 12:1–4. “Those who have insight will … lead the many to righteousness.” Quotes: • “Our awareness is something that we have to hold as a tremendous value. And we have to carefully guard it from that which wants to take it off into what God's not really wanting us focused on.” • “Our focus on Israel comes out of our understanding of the Word. And what we're doing in Israel is a manifestation of the understanding, the learning, and the insight that we have.” • “What do I want out of Hargrave Ministries this year? I want to see the instructors come forth in the earth. I want to see teaching that is the impartation of the how—not just knowledge—but how to move in it, how to do what God wants done in manifesting His Word and His purpose on the earth.” Takeaways: 1. This new year we are believing for awareness: awareness of what God is doing, what He is speaking, and how He is leading us. 2. This year we are looking for the teaching on our website to be more than knowledge of what the Bible says, but how to enter into what it says, and how to hold an awareness of what God is speaking until the manifestation of that comes in our lives. 3. A manifestation of this awareness would be those who will be instructors in this age—not instructors of a lot of information and knowledge, but of how to become what God is looking for. 4. This year our giving to Israel will emphasize the original vision of ministering to Israel as a whole. When you give to Israel through Hargrave Ministries, you will be giving to all of Israel and not just to a specific project. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39857645

GIG285 Renewing Your Mind 01/21/2026

GIG285 Renewing Your Mind Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #285 Title: Renewing Your Mind Web Description: Imagine a recording continually playing in your mind, telling you how unworthy you are and how incapable you are of doing the will of God. This in effect is what takes place in our subconscious minds and works against what we are consciously trying to achieve. This podcast delves into the subconscious issues that we all face and offers some scriptural and practical solutions. Show Notes: We know that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross brought salvation to the world. We also understand that our salvation is not only spiritual but also includes our physical bodies. We have salvation for the purpose of growing, maturing, and being transformed into His image. We are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice and experience transformation by the renewing of our minds. That means we must break out of the limitations in our thinking that still hold us in bondage to this world. Scriptural directives like, “Do not be conformed to this world” and “be transformed” are meant to be acted on. We are the ones who do them. And yet so much in religious thinking makes us content to just be hearers of the Word rather than doers of the Word. We are called to “prove what the will of God is.” But religion is not known for proving things. That is what science does. And there is a concept that religion and science are at odds with each other. When it comes to changing the conditionings and responses of our subconscious mind, which continue to hinder our growth, religious thinking has not been effective. On the other hand, recent scientific approaches to meditation have been very effective, even resulting in physical healing. It is not a matter of belief versus science. There are many limiting beliefs in our subconscious that are not the truth about what God says we are. So we reach into God to effectively remove these limitations. Key Verses: • Romans 12:1–2. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Mark 12:30. “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH … ALL YOUR MIND.” • Ephesian 4:13. “Attain to … the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” • Romans 8:19–21. “The creation itself also will be set free … into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” • Matthew 12:1–4. “He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun.” • Philippians 2:12–13. “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” • 2 Corinthians 3:16–18. “We all … are being transformed into the same image.” Quotes: • “When we're giving our bodies as a living sacrifice, when we're seeking Him, when we're walking with Him, we are looking for this transformation into His presence, into His image.” • “What we find is a lot of times our subconscious mind is not supporting what our conscious mind wants to do. It's not supporting where we want to go in life, and it's not supporting what we want to accomplish in life. And therefore, we find ourselves struggling.” • “We must break out of limited thinking that is holding us in bondage.” • “Put it on a scientific footing where you're literally reaching to do something and prove how it works and why it works and what it does.” Takeaways: 1. Paul tells us that our physical bodies should be presented to the Lord once we experience salvation. Salvation is the beginning of our journey, not the end. 2. Salvation begins the process of transformation in our lives for the purpose of proving the will of God in the physical world through our physical bodies. This transformation begins with the renewing of our minds. 3. This is a scientific process, not a religious process. And we do not want our religious concepts getting in the way of our growth and maturity in God. 4. Meditation has been a part of our teaching for years, and it has demonstrated its effectiveness in releasing people from the unconscious patterns that work against the will of God in their lives. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39773750

GIG284 Receive God’s Glory, Oneness, and Love 01/14/2026

GIG284 Receive God’s Glory, Oneness, and Love Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #284 Web Description: Do you ever struggle to believe that God truly loves you? Are you ever discouraged by the lack of unity among Christians? According to John 17, the glory we have received from Christ is the answer to those problems. His glory means that the Father loves us with the same love He has for Christ, and together we have the same oneness that Christ and the Father have. This is our reality. Let us live in it today. Show Notes: Religion tends to put everything in the past or in the future. And when we are conditioned by that in our minds, it limits what we can believe. It makes our faith head knowledge, as if it is only something we are supposed to be educated about. But we are not supposed to merely understand the Scriptures. And we are not supposed to lock them up in the past or the future. We are supposed to walk in them in our daily lives. According to John 17, Yeshua (Jesus) said, “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them.” That means His glory has already been given to us. That is not head knowledge. Nor is it off in the future. It is ours to possess now because we have this glory from the Father for a purpose, which needs to be a reality. Yeshua prayed that we would be one, and that does not happen because we try to work it up. Our oneness in the Body of Christ happens because of His glory. His glory brings our oneness, and by that the world will know that the Father has sent Christ. But there is another aspect that the world will see in us, which we often overlook. Because of the glory that we possess in Christ, the world will know that the Father loves us just as He has loved His Son. Is it real to us as Christians that God loves us with the exact same love He has for Christ? It should be. Let us absorb this Scripture until it is more than something we accept mentally. Let us learn how to live in the glory of Christ. Key Verses: • John 17:20–26. “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them.” • John 14:6. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” • 2 Corinthians 5:19. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” • Philippians 2:13. “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” • Ephesians 3:18–19. “Be able to … know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.” Quotes: • “We have the glory of Christ given to us now to live in now.” • “Living daily in the glory that the Father gave to Christ would change many things. But one of the things that would change is the fact that it would bring oneness to me and those that are walking with God surrounding myself and really with all who believe.” • “The Father's good pleasure is that you know how much He loves you, and that you come to the revelation that as He loves His Son, so He loves you. And that's really why the Son was sent.” Takeaways: 1. It needs to be real to us that the glory the Father gave Christ is the glory Christ has given to us. 2. It needs to be real to us that we already possess His glory, and we can live in it today. 3. It needs to be real to us that our oneness with others in Christ is because of His glory. 4. It needs to be real to us that the Father loves us with the very same love that He has for His Son. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39680950

GIG You Are the Temple 01/07/2026

GIG You Are the Temple Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #283 Title: You Are the Temple Web Description: Hanukkah celebrates the reality that we are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in us. We take this time to dedicate ourselves on a deeper level to be those in whom God is living and moving. Therefore, as those who are His dwelling place, we wash away any unbelief and separate ourselves from the pollution of this world. Show Notes: Hanukkah celebrates a time of miracles when the people of Israel defeated the powerful kingdom that was oppressing them and took back the Temple in Jerusalem. But after these miracles, the Temple had to be cleansed and rededicated. Likewise, the miracles in our lives are because of the miracle Christ accomplished on the cross, which happened for our cleansing and dedication to be His temple, the holy dwelling place of God in the earth. When Yeshua (Jesus) walked in the Temple during Hanukkah, He did so as the One who would cleanse the Temple, the One sent by the Father to be His true temple, and the One who has sent us with the same purpose of being the temple that God will indwell. By the miracle of His cross, Christ took us out of the hands of satan and cleansed us from sin. And when we receive Him, He gives us the power to dedicate ourselves to Him as the physical bodies in which He dwells. Therefore, we cannot minimize this aspect of our Christian life. We must apply the true cleansing of our hearts and minds that Christ has provided. We must walk in the power that we have received from Him to separate ourselves from the world and to not be touched by any of its corruption. It is time to cleanse ourselves from any unbelief about what God has called us to be as His people. We give ourselves to His working in us to build us together into the temple that He will live in on this earth. Key Verses: • John 17:21–23. “The world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” • John 10:22–25. “The Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem … and Jesus was walking in the temple.” • 1 Corinthians 3:16–17. “You are a temple of God.” • 1 Corinthians 6:19–20. “Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.” • 2 Corinthians 6:16–17. “We are the temple of the living God.” • Ephesians 2:18–22. “You also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.” • Philippians 2:12. “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” • 2 Corinthians 13:5. “Jesus Christ is in you.” • Ephesians 3:16–19. “Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” Quotes: • “We should have a very aggressive attitude during this time of Hanukkah as we look at the things in the world that need to conform to what God has already said, what He's already spoken, what He’s already prophesied. And we just stand up and say, ‘It is finished. It is already done. And enough is enough!’” • “Christ comes and reconciles us to the Father as the temple of worship. But then we become those who dedicate ourselves and make sure there's the cleansing, the reviving of the temple to a state of purity through which the worship can come.” • “They had to go cleanse everything in the Temple during Hanukkah that had been polluted by the world. And there's a pollution in us that blinds our hearts and minds from really accepting and seeing and believing and understanding that God is in us.” Takeaways: 1. Hanukkah means standing firm in the miracle of Christ’s victory that establishes His Kingdom in the earth and delivers us from the wickedness, sin, and corruption of this world. 2. Just as the Temple was taken from the evil ruler, cleansed, and dedicated back to the Lord, so Christ delivers us from satan, cleanses us from sin, and makes us the temple of God, His dwelling place. 3. We must not diminish the indwelling of God within us; rather, we apply the power that Christ gives us to dedicate ourselves to be wholly His temple. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39595730

GIG282 My Resolution for the New Year 12/31/2025

GIG282 My Resolution for the New Year Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #282 Air Date: 12/31/2025 My Resolution for the New Year Web Description: The period from the ascension of Christ to the present has been labeled the Church Age. In reality it should be called the Age of the Holy Spirit. Yeshua (Jesus) did not tell His disciples, “The Father will teach you how to have good churches.” He promised that they would be endued with power by the Holy Spirit and be His witnesses in the earth. My New Year’s resolution is to change my emphasis from church to being filled with the Holy Spirit first and endued with power to be His witness today. Show Notes: The Church Age is the term most widely used to identify the years since the ascension of Christ until now. This label, I think, misdirects the focus of our faith in this generation. When Yeshua (Jesus) prepared His disciples for His departure, He did not give them instructions about church. He taught them about the Holy Spirit directing them and guiding them and about their being witnesses in all the world to make disciples of the nations. Christ could have said, “Go to Jerusalem and focus on gathering everyone together who believes in Me and establish an order and a structure for the Church.” But He did not do that. He said, “You are to go and receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses.” Eventually those who had this experience were drawn to assemble together. But their assembling together was secondary to their individual experience of having this promise of the Holy Spirit resting upon them. We tend to lose this emphasis. To be honest, our emphasis is more on being led and taught by Church leaders than on being led and taught by the Holy Spirit. And what I want to do this year is focus on being filled with the Holy Spirit, not dependent on anything that is not provided by the Father through the Holy Spirit. If we can do that as individuals, I believe the Church will have the power and witness in the earth that Christ promised to His disciples. Key Verses: • Luke 24:49 (NKJV). “Tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” • Deuteronomy 23:3. “No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD.” • Matthew 16:15-18. “Upon this rock I will build My church.” • Matthew 18:15-17. “If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.” • Acts 1:6-8. “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses.” • John 14:16-18. “You know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.” • Jeremiah 31:31-34. “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me.” • John 14:26. “He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” • John 16:6-15. “It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you.” • John 7:37-39. “The Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” Quotes: • “What was necessary and what He had promised them was the Holy Spirit, not church.” • “How do we learn about Christ? How do we know Christ? How do we understand Christ? By the Holy Spirit that comes to us.” • “It’s endless what the Lord gave to us when he gave us the Holy Spirit upon His departure, and I don’t want to make it secondary to anything else.” Takeaways: 1. The ecclesia, what we call the Church, was initiated by virtue of the experience the disciples had of being filled with the Holy Spirit and being endued with the power of the Holy Spirit to be His witnesses. 2. When Yeshua used the Greek word ekklesia, He was not speaking in terms of our understanding of the Church. He was speaking in terms of the assembly of the Lord or the assembly of Israel. And He applied it to those who would be taught and directed by the Father through the Holy Spirit. 3. How much are we depending on the Church to provide for us what Christ has already provided through the Holy Spirit? /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39539010

GIG281 Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man 12/24/2025

GIG281 Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #281 Title: Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man Web Description: The symbolism that most often defines Christmas is the Nativity scene. And the Nativity scene is about the reality that Christ, the Messiah, the Savior, the King of kings, was born and lived as a human being. At Christmas we are not celebrating His divinity. We are celebrating His humanity. We are celebrating the fact that He came to earth as a man who went through everything we go through and is thus able to lead us and help us through everything. Show Notes: At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Yeshua (Jesus). When we do that, we are celebrating the birth of a human baby. Yet in our Christian faith, we think of Christ as a divine figure who always moved in a divine way. But the Christmas story is the opposite of that. The Christmas story tells us that He was a vulnerable baby who had to be cared for and protected. He had to be raised and taught like any human child. As Christians we tend to put Christ so far above us that He is unattainable in today’s life. We think, “He was perfect, but I am caught in my flesh, and I can’t get out of it.” That viewpoint is unscriptural. The Scriptures teach us that the Messiah is a human being. Yeshua was not born perfect. He learned obedience through the things that he suffered. He was made perfect by what He went through, just as we are being made perfect because of what we go through. Yeshua could not be the Messiah without living in the flesh. He had to share in flesh and blood. He had to partake in the same things we partake in. He had to feel what we feel. He had to experience what we experience because He is our help. He is the aid to those who are tempted because He faced it all. He overcame the circumstances, the stress, the oppression, the futility of living in this earth where satan surrounded all that He did, seeking to kill Him every day. Therefore, He is able to help us through all those things in our daily lives. Key Verses: • Read Luke 2:1–52. • 2 Corinthians 5:16. “We have known Christ according to the flesh.” • Matthew 6:10. “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” • Acts 1:6. “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” • Hebrews 2:14–18. “Since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same.” • Hebrews 5:7–11. “Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.” • Hebrews 4:14–16. “We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses.” • Hebrews 7:24–25. “Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him.” • Romans 8:27–39. “Those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren.” Quotes: • “If we are going to truly celebrate the concept that is called Christmas, it is about Him being born. It is about Him living in a human life.” • “I know we will live in the days of glory. I know that we will live with Him in His Kingdom. But right now in the days of our flesh, we need help.” • “He lived in the flesh. And in the flesh, He was successful in being a human who related to God, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, who was enabled to move and enact and bring the will of God into the earth.” Takeaways: 1. Let us celebrate Christmas this year by identifying with our Messiah as a human being—a son of man 2. Let us celebrate that Yeshua did not exercise His divinity during His days on earth, but He was tempted in all things and felt our every human suffering. There is nothing we go through in our lives that He cannot relate to. 3. Let us celebrate that Yeshua lives to intercede for us every day and ministers to us in our times of crisis and need. He is our Messiah. Our lives are meant to be lived in Him and through Him. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39448725

GIG280 Hanukkah—Do Not Be Conformed to this World 12/17/2025

GIG280 Hanukkah—Do Not Be Conformed to this World Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #280 Categories: Biblical Feasts Web Description: In Romans 12, Paul exhorts us not to be conformed to this world. That is what Hanukkah is all about. It expresses the refusal of the Jewish people to be converted into something that was against the will of God and against the teachings of God. We as believers in Yeshua (Jesus) should have the same resistance to the culture that is set to move us away from the Scriptures, away from our Christian values, and convert us to a different way of life. Hanukkah is not a substitute for Christmas. It is an observance very applicable to Christianity today. Show Notes: Many people think that Hanukkah is just a celebration for Jewish people to compete with Christmas during December. That is not true. Hanukkah existed before the celebration of Christmas and was observed by Yeshua (Jesus). Called the Feast of Dedication, Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Temple after the Maccabean Revolt when the Jews recaptured Jerusalem, recaptured the Temple, and purified it from its defilement. At a time when Israel was under the suppression of the Seleucid Empire, Antiochus IV (known as Epiphanes) determined to wipe out all the practices and beliefs of the Jewish people and replace them with Greek paganism. A small band of Jewish men and women who refused to be Hellenized and converted into pagans rose up and fought against the armies of the Greeks and won, taking Jerusalem and cleansing and rededicating the Temple. This spirit is what Hanukkah celebrates. To celebrate Hanukkah is to follow after those who refused to be converted to the paganism of the Greek culture. As Christians we likewise should refuse the demands of today’s culture and the pressures of society that would force us to deny our faith and convert us to the paganism of today’s world, which is quickly abandoning the Scriptures, abandoning morals, abandoning pure thought, and the right ways of life. We, as believers in Christ, along with the Jewish people, should shine as a light on a hill as those who hold forth the Word of God, the promises of God, and the prophecies to come. Key Verses: • John 10:22–23. “At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple.” • Romans 12:1–2. “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” • Matthew 5:11–16. “You are the light of the world. … Let your light shine before men.” • Matthew 24:22. “Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved.” Quotes: • “We are the salt of the earth. We are to be the light. And that is what you can say about those who participated in the Maccabean Revolt that refused to be removed off of their faith.” • “We are believers, and we are not to be conformed to this world. We are not to be conformed to its cultures, its beliefs, and its ways of life when they are contrary to God and to His Word.” • “Let us rededicate and purify everything that has been touched and destroyed during these days under the attempts of satan to bring about his purpose.” Takeaways: 1. Hanukkah reminds us that as believers, we are not to be conformed to this world. We are not to be conformed to its cultures, its beliefs, and its ways of life when they are contrary to God and to His Word. 2. Hanukkah reminds us that we are to be a light to this world—we should shine brightly as a light on a hill. We cannot let our light go out, and we certainly cannot live in fear and intimidation and hide our light under a bushel basket. 3. Hanukkah reminds us that we are the salt of the earth. What we are to do today is to preserve the culture of the Kingdom of God. We are to preserve the ways of God. We are to preserve the love and the Word of God in this day and age. 4. Hanukkah reminds us that we must put our faith into service. Like the ancient Maccabees, we must go in and cleanse the Temple—to rededicate and purify everything that has been touched and destroyed as satan has attempted to bring about his purposes in our world. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39377880

GIG279 Eight Reasons for Christians to Celebrate Hanukkah 12/10/2025

GIG279 Eight Reasons for Christians to Celebrate Hanukkah Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #279 Categories: Biblical Feasts Web Description: Hanukkah may be best known for the lighting of the menorah and the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days in the Temple following the Maccabean revolt. But the true heart of the Hanukkah celebration is the cleansing of the altar and the rededication of the Temple after a small group of Jewish farmers had defeated their enemies. Just as there are eight candles burning on the menorah during the celebration of Hanukkah, there are at least eight good reasons for Christians to celebrate Hanukkah. Show Notes: Hanukkah, the Feast of Dedication, is actually a biblical feast and has significance for us as Christians. Here are eight reasons why Christians should consider celebrating Hanukkah: 1. Hanukkah is found in the Bible. In John 10:22 we see that Christ celebrated the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah). 2. We all need times for a new dedication and recommitment of ourselves to God and to a deeper level of service to the Lord. 3. Once again the land of Israel is under the leadership of the Jewish people. This restoration was promised by God, and Christians should celebrate that we are yoked together with Israel and the Jewish people. 4. Hanukkah foreshadows the days of the complete fulfillment of the messianic prophecies, where we see God’s kingdom and God’s rulership on earth as it is now in heaven. 5. Celebrating Hanukkah looks forward to the end of anti-Semitism: the end of persecution and desecration of the Jewish people in our day and age. 6. As Christians we should join with the Jewish people in the bold proclamation of their faith by celebrating Hanukkah. 7. We are showing our oneness today with Judaism, with the State of Israel, and with the Jewish people everywhere as our elder brothers in the faith. 8. In celebrating Hanukkah we reconnect ourselves with the Jewish Yeshua (Jesus) and return to our Hebrew roots—to recognize them, to be thankful for them, to engage with them, and to learn more deeply the ways that were the ways of Yeshua. Key Verses: • John 10:22–24. “At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place … and Jesus was walking in the temple.” • Daniel 3:13–18. “We are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image.” • Matthew 5:14–16. “Let your light shine.” • Matthew 5:17. “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law … I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.” Quotes: • “We should live our lives as Christians in oneness with the Jewish people in their fight against anti-Semitism, because their fight is our fight.” • “As Christians celebrating Hanukkah, we can celebrate the bold proclamation of Jews down through the centuries that say, ‘We will not bow down to the idolatry of this age.’” • “There’s something very important in the coming together of Christians and Jews in today’s world. Hanukkah can be a bridge for us to see that happen.” Takeaways: 1. Go back and read the book of Maccabees, the Jewish encyclopedia, and the other sources to find out for yourself what was done and how it was done—so that Hanukkah will create in you a oneness with our Jewish brothers and sisters. 2. Take time in this holiday season to open your heart, your mind, and your spirit to reconnect through the celebration of Hanukkah with the Jewish roots of our faith so that you will find something new and alive in your own Christian experience. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39255870

GIG278 Walking With God Is Doing 12/03/2025

GIG278 Walking With God Is Doing Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #278 Title: Walking with God is Doing Web Description: How do we walk with God? By taking steps to act on what God is telling us to do. The Scriptures are more than ideas to learn about and discuss. They are a way for God to speak directly to us what He wants us to do. We can know His will for us in the Scriptures when we are willing to do His will. And we can know the blessings of a walk with God when we find the way to do His will as He makes it real to us in His Word. Show Notes: There is an abundance of material available to us for Bible study. We can do a great deal of Bible reading. We can memorize Scriptures. We can consume many Bible teachings. And God can speak to us through that. But if we never do anything about what God speaks to us, how beneficial is our study? Yeshua (Jesus) said, “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.” The Scriptures are examples for us to live by. More than just studying them and discussing them, we are to take steps to walk in them. That is what a walk with God is all about. It is learning what God wants you to do and then taking steps to do it. If a Scripture touches your heart, or the Lord makes something real to you, then meditate on it with the purpose of doing something about it. Seek the Lord about it and ask Him, “What do you want me to do with this? How do I express this in some type of action?” This is how we appropriate the Word in our lives. It becomes real to us when we are doing it. Yeshua said that we will know if His teaching is from God when we are willing to do His will. And we know that God is at work in us to will and to do His good pleasure. The purpose of Him working in us is not to learn more about His will or to talk more about His will, but to be driven to do His will. Let us begin to apply this to our Bible study. One way is to keep a notebook of action items that we can do in response to what God is showing us in His Word. Whatever method we use, let us strive to see the will of God accomplished in our lives. Key Verses: • Genesis 17:1. “Walk before Me, and be blameless.” • Psalm 116:9. “I shall walk before the Lord in the land of the living.” • John 13:12–17. “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.” • Matthew 22:35–39. “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD … LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.” • Philippians 2:12–13. “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” • John 2:5–10. “Whatever He says to you, do it.” • Hebrews 13:20–21. “Now the God of peace … equip you in every good thing to do His will.” • John 7:17. “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching.” Quotes: • “It's not knowing the Scriptures. It's doing the Scriptures. It's not knowing the things of God. It's doing what He's commanded us to do.” • “We're not to read the books or listen to messages and then sit around and just discuss them. If we're going to sit around and discuss the Word and what God's saying, let's start discussing what we're going do about it and how we're going to do it.” • “He is working in you because what He is asking, or what's needed as a response to His Word or the teaching, may be a difficult thing to do. And so you have to draw on His strength and His enabling in order to go do that.” Takeaways: 1. There is a tendency for us as Christians to consume a lot of material in our study of the Scriptures. But the concern is what do we actually do about what we are learning from the Scriptures? 2. It is important to develop some methodology that helps us do something about what God makes real to us in the Scriptures. 3. We have a greater grasp of Bible teaching when we have the heart to do it. And not only when we have the heart, but when we actively find the ways to do something about what God shows is in the teaching. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39191795

GIG224 (2) Thanksgiving—A Time of Gratitude 11/26/2025

GIG224 (2) Thanksgiving—A Time of Gratitude Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #224 (2) Title: Thanksgiving—A Time of Gratitude Web Description: Thanksgiving is a wonderful time set aside for giving thanks to the Lord. But the scriptural example of thanksgiving is not something that is done only on specific days. It is a continual practice of giving thanks and praise to the Lord every day. The pattern in our lives should not be thanking the Lord whenever we feel He has blessed us. We should have an attitude, a mindset, and an intentional emotion of gratitude for everything God is and does. Let this Thanksgiving be the beginning of a new lifestyle of overflowing gratitude before the Lord. Email Subject Line: Thanksgiving—A Time of Gratitude Show Notes: In the transition from the Tabernacle to the Temple, David commanded the Levites to thank and praise the Lord every morning and evening. This concept of giving continual thanks and praise to the Lord goes deeper than our concept of giving thanks. When someone gives us something, we say, “Thank you.” And so our definition of thanksgiving still has this idea of thanking God after He blesses us. A better word for the scriptural concept of continual thanks to God is gratitude. The Scriptures show us that we can develop a mindset, an attitude, and especially an emotion of gratitude before the Lord. Even when we face difficulties and negative situations, we can still have this emotion of gratitude because it is not dependent on our circumstances. We do not have to deny what may be happening to us, but we can continually focus on the Lord and develop within ourselves the sense of wonder and gratitude for all that God is and all that He does. Therefore, let us celebrate Thanksgiving this year with gratitude. Let it be an expression of our continual thanks and praise to the Lord and not isolated to one specific gift or answer to prayer that He has given us. Let our gratitude become something that we develop within the depths of our being as part of our relationship with God, whereby we say daily, “Lord, we are not thankful for one or two things that You did for us. We are overflowing with gratitude for all things that You are to us and have provided for us.” Key Verses: • 1 Chronicles 23:30. “They are to stand every morning to thank and to praise the LORD, and likewise at evening.” • Psalm 92:1–5. “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High.” • 2 Peter 1:3. “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness.” • Colossians 2:6–7. “As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, … overflowing with gratitude.” Quotes: • “We don't just want to say ‘thank you’ for something. We want to develop in our hearts an attitude of gratitude.” • “When we talk about gratitude, it's not just an action; it's an emotion that is being expressed from within the depth of our being.” • “There is an unending list and an unending focus of what we should be giving praise and thanks to the Lord for.” Takeaways: 1. David introduced a new responsibility and ministry for the Levites. They were to stand every morning and evening to thank and praise the Lord. It is also important for us to find a new expression in our giving of thanks and worship to the Lord. 2. It is good to set aside one day at Thanksgiving to express our thanks to the Lord. But we need more than just a practice of thanking the Lord on one day and afterwards reverting to a life of ungratefulness. We need the Levitical pattern of thanking and praising the Lord continually. 3. Giving thanks when we are blessed is still a limited emotion in response to our circumstances. We need to develop an intentional emotion of gratitude that is a continual expression of praise and thanks to the Lord. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39099305

GIG277 Love Is the Antidote 11/19/2025

GIG277 Love Is the Antidote Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #277 Title: Love Is the Antidote Web Description: The world is experiencing an increase in lawlessness and a corresponding decrease in people’s love. As a byproduct, anger and hatred are spreading like infectious diseases. We need an antidote. And that antidote is the Father’s love in Christ. As believers in Christ, we have the ability and the responsibility to deliver this antidote to the world. Show Notes: When describing the end times, Yeshua (Jesus) said that the increase in lawlessness would cause people’s love to grow cold. Yet also during these times the gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world. And what is the very foundation of the gospel of the Kingdom? It is the love of Christ. The love of Christ is the antidote for the sickness in the world that is draining love from people’s hearts. How is this antidote delivered? As believers in Christ, we need to wake up to the fact that we are the ones to do that. Only the love of God, which we have received in Christ, can be effective in fighting the anger and hatred that is spreading like a virus in this age. This virus has even infected the Church. We have seen division, anger, and hatred infecting the hearts of believers. Now more than ever Christians must be loving one another because our oneness is the sign that the Father sent Christ into the world. In these days when darkness is spreading, we have to let our light shine. And our light is the love of God that is manifested in us. Not only should we be expressing our love among ourselves, but we should also love everyone around us, even our enemies, as the Lord commanded. In this day when Judeo-Christian values are being attacked and the persecution of Christians is increasing, we cannot draw back or hide our light. We are to love even our enemies as Christ did and show that we are sons of our Father. It may seem like everything in the world is becoming darker. But that means God is giving us an even greater light to shine. If the world is getting sicker, then we have an even greater antidote. Let us minister the antidote of God’s love freely to everyone and spread the gospel of love throughout the world. Key Verses: • Matthew 24:12–14. “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.” • Matthew 5:14–16. “Let your light shine before men.” • Proverbs 4:18–19. “The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn.” • John 8:12. “I am the Light of the world.” • 1 John 3:11. “This is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” • Romans 13:8–12. “Let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.” • Peter 1:22. “Fervently love one another from the heart.” • John 13:34–35. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” • Matthew 5:43–48. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father.” • Luke 6:27. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” • Luke 6:35. “Love your enemies … and you will be sons of the Most High.” Quotes: • “The world is dark and darkness is coming. The world is sick. It's upside down. Good is bad and bad is good. And it doesn't seem like necessarily there's an answer. But there is an answer, and the answer is God's love.” • “This love that we have is being compared to a light, and it shines brighter and brighter. And we should expect to see more and more the love of God manifested in us and being able to be conveyed and imparted to this age.” • “It is the time for us as believers to wake up to the need and to wake up to the reality that within our hearts we hold the antidote to the wickedness, to the evil, to the hatred that is so widespread in this age.” Takeaways: 1. The love manifested in us and through us to the world repels the darkness from us personally. And it is the antidote that people in bondage to the darkness are needing. 2. People will know that we are Christ’s disciples because we love one another. Our oneness is a sign to the world that the Father sent Christ into the world. 3. Our love cannot be just for fellow believers. It must also be for those who hate us, who are our enemies, and who persecute us. That is what shows that we are sons of the Father. 4. It is not so much what we preach. It is what we express and minister as light in the darkness, showing God's love to all His creation. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/39026775

GIG276 Renewing Our Minds 11/12/2025

GIG276 Renewing Our Minds Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #276 Title: Renewing Our Minds Web Description: When we get into spiritual warfare, we tend to become focused on things outside of us. But it is actually an internal battle that takes place in our minds. We are fighting a battle against mental speculations that attack the knowledge of God and draw our focus away from Him. Let us bring our focus back on Christ the King and enforce His victory with the divinely powered weapons He has given us. Show Notes: The practice of building a booth, or sukkah, at the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth) involves leaving the roof open. And we can draw a lesson from the fact that in our sukkah, we are not looking out; we are looking up. Instead of a focus that looks out on everything happening in the world, we are to be training our minds to focus on the Lord. This principle applies directly to our concept of spiritual warfare. The battle for our focus is not happening outside of ourselves. It is taking place in our own minds. According to 2 Corinthians, the weapons of our warfare are powerful to the pulling down of strongholds. We are destroying speculations and taking every thought captive in obedience to Christ. We are warring against strongholds. But those strongholds are not separate from us. They are strongholds built from the speculations and thought processes of our minds. These speculations of the human mind are what raise themselves up against the knowledge of God, against the truth of God, and against Christ. Our warfare is with the thoughts of our own minds and the things within ourselves on a human level. In our society today we see many who are embracing twisted ideologies and belief systems that literally claim that truth is a lie, and the lie is truth. These belief systems have become a stronghold like a fortress or a walled city that seems impossible to break through. We need to believe and exercise our powerful and effective spiritual weapons that are able to destroy these speculations that war against the knowledge of God within us. These weapons are divinely powerful because they come from God, and we fight this war effectively by keeping our minds focused on Him. Key Verses: • 2 Corinthians 10:3–7. “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God.” • Romans 12:2. “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” • 1 Corinthians 2:16. “We have the mind of Christ.” • 2 Corinthians 5:17. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” • Hebrews 11:10. “He was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” • Psalm 2:1–8. “As for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion.” • Psalm 96:10–11. “Say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns.’” Quotes: • “When our minds develop these speculations and then coalesce those speculations into a belief system, all of a sudden we realize that these things are fortresses that are absolutely against what God is trying to say.” • “I don't need to argue with you about all of your morality and all of your philosophy and all of your theology. I just need to tell you one thing: Christ reigns. He reigns as Lord Supreme. He reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords.” • “We can either be aware of the battle, or we can be aware of the fact that the battle is already won.” Takeaways: 1. The weapons of our warfare are for destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God. A speculation is a thought process, and we need to see that spiritual warfare is a battle that takes place in our minds. 2. Speculations and belief systems of the fleshly mind become a fortress, and we cannot fight that on a fleshly level. We must use the spiritual weapons that are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 3. We need to change our focus. We need to take our focus off the world and put it back on the Lord so that our minds are stayed in Him, and we are bringing His divine presence constantly in our thoughts. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38945845

GIG275 Christ the King 11/05/2025

GIG275 Christ the King Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #275 Title: Christ the King Web Description: Why are the nations in an uproar? Because God has established Christ as King and has given all the nations to Him. God is not moved by their uproar, and neither should we be as believers in Christ. He is our refuge, He is our focus, and His unshakable Kingdom is the reality of our lives right now. Show Notes: We read in Psalm 2 that the nations are in an uproar, and today we see how true that is. It is difficult to find a nation where positive things are happening. Every nation is facing negative consequences as people devise a vain thing. Like no other time in history, whole populations all over the globe are embracing vain and ridiculous ideas to believe in. Meanwhile, governments and rulers take their stand against the Lord, His will, His Kingdom, and His people. They counsel together against Israel and against Judaism and Christianity everywhere. It seems like the world is spinning out of control. And as much as we pray for things to change, they just seem to go from bad to worse. That should come as no surprise to us as Christians. The Scriptures make clear that things will be difficult in the days before the Kingdom of God is established. And we are to be focused as believers on His Kingdom coming. So do not be focused on whatever is happening in the world. Instead, keep looking to the Father, to Christ, and to His Kingdom, knowing that God is in charge. How is God responding to all the ridiculous ways the nations are acting in their defiance of Him? According to Psalm 2 He is laughing. In other words, He is not bothered. He is not losing control. He is not moved off His throne. God is securely planted as the One who is in charge. And He has installed His King on Zion, His holy mountain. That is where we stand in Christ. We can live today in His Kingdom, taking refuge in Him, seated with Him in the heavenly places, and proclaiming that He is ruling over every situation. Key Verses: • Psalm 2:1–5. “The kings of the earth take their stand … against the LORD and against His Anointed.” • Psalm 2:6–8. “But as for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain.” • Psalm 2:9–12. “How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!” • Psalm 24:1. “The earth is the LORD’S, and all it contains.” • Ephesians 2:4–6. “God, being rich in mercy … seated us with Him in the heavenly places.” Quotes: • “This is the scream of people who are refusing the Lordship of Christ, the Lordship of the Scriptures, the Word of God in their life: ‘The Word of God is not going to be our moral compass. It's not going to rule over our life and how we live it and how we act one towards another.’” • “There is going to be a moment where God begins to respond to each and every one of these that He's dealing with, each and every one of these ones that think they are bringing about their will on the earth and their kingdom on the earth, including satan himself. They are going to be addressed personally by the Lord, and they are going to be terrified at His response.” • “Whatever you're experiencing, whatever we're going through, whatever will happen around us in this uproar of the nations, take refuge in Him. Keep your focus upon Him. Keep absolutely in the front of your mind and heart that He has installed Christ the King upon Mount Zion.” Takeaways: 1. The nations are in an uproar. But they are in an uproar because the Father has granted the ownership of those nations to Christ. 2. God is not shaken, and Christ the King is not shaken by whatever is going on in this world. He is laughing at the plans of the world because they are already thwarted by His Word as the God of all creation. 3. We tell of the decree of the Lord that He is the King. We take refuge in Him personally. And we are those who proclaim that the nations are His, and He has installed His King upon His Holy Mountain. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38830210

GIG274 The Bronze Serpent 10/29/2025

GIG274 The Bronze Serpent Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #274 Title: The Bronze Serpent Web Description: Do you feel like you are being bitten to death by your circumstances and problems? Get your focus back on Christ. Renew and deepen your relationship with Him because He Himself is the answer. He Himself is the victory and the overcoming of any situation that we are in. And by believing in Him, we will not perish in our circumstances but instead have eternal life. Show Notes: When the children of Israel complained against the Lord and Moses in the wilderness, the Lord sent them poisonous serpents. So the people repented and asked the Lord to remove the serpents. That however is not what God did. Instead, He told Moses to make a bronze serpent and lift it up on a standard. And if anyone looked at the serpent, that person would live. That story has great meaning for us today. The children of Israel had become entirely focused on the material world rather than on the presence of God who was with them day and night. They were entirely focused on what they were unhappy about and what they did not have, ignoring all that God was providing them. As Christians we too tend to lose our focus on the Lord. We start to focus on what we are lacking and what we wish we had in the material world. We sometimes forget that we have the Holy Spirit to lead us and guiAde us, that Christ is in us, and that we can be filled with all the fullness of God. Just like in the wilderness, we may be asking God to remove our problems that are like poisonous snakes biting us. But we should not be surprised if those problems do not go away. We should expect that God will give us something else to focus on. He may even be using our problems to get our focus back on Him. He is looking to bring us to Himself, to a life in Him, to a life in His Word, to a faith and a walking in Him that we may not be doing at the moment. Christ was lifted up just like that bronze serpent in the wilderness so that in Him we can have eternal life. He is our answer. And we need to live in Him more than we need to try to solve our problems. Key Verses: • Numbers 21:4–11. “If a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.” • 2 Peter 1:3. “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness.” • Psalm 103:2. “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits.” • Luke 21:28. “When these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads.” • John 3:12–21. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” Quotes: • “It seems almost impossible to think that we would get tired of having the Lord's presence with us day and night. But I think in all honesty, we do lose our focus on the Lord, and we tend to bring our focus back into the lower level or lower realm of the natural world.” • “Instead of taking away our problems, many times what He does is He gives us an answer that brings our focus and our relationship back to Him. Because ultimately, He's the answer.” • “You’re going to get tired of this journey that we're on in these end times if you are focused only on what's going on around you. But if we can keep our focus looking up, looking upon the Lord and what He's provided, then these other things are not going to destroy us.” Takeaways: 1. The children of Israel magnified their unhappiness about the wilderness to the point that they despised God’s provision. And we need to realize how we can get so focused on what we dislike about our circumstances that we forget the Lord’s benefits. 2. God’s answer to the serpents in the wilderness was not to remove the serpents but to get the people’s focus back on Him. And God may not be answering your prayer by removing your circumstances but by getting your focus back on Him. 3. When you see all the things beginning to happen in the end-time, raise your eyes above the material world and focus on Him and His Kingdom. Make Him your focus and make Him what you are journeying to. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38760610

GIG273 Faith Experiences the Invisible Now 10/22/2025

GIG273 Faith Experiences the Invisible Now Faith Experiences the Invisible Now Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #273 Web Description: It is with the heart that we believe, and the heart is the center of our emotions and feelings. That means faith is not actually a mental process. You are not trying to believe with your thoughts that something will happen. Instead, you are knowing in your heart, by the joy and love and emotions that come by the Spirit, that you already have fulfillment. Show Notes: How do we measure our faith? It seems that the only gauge we use is a negative one. We measure how much faith we do not have when something we believe for does not happen. But there is a better way. In a message titled, “Living Faith in Action,” John Stevens said of the promises of God that “we were to rejoice in them with faith. We were to lay hold upon them as though we already possessed them.” The greatest measure of our faith is the joy we experience in knowing that we have what God has promised. We associate believing with the mind. But according to the Scriptures, we believe in our heart. And scripturally the heart is the center of our emotions. The heart is where faith really comes from, and the heart is also at the root of what we feel. Our feelings then impact our physical bodies, our thoughts, and our behavior. So faith from the heart is expressed in emotions. If you want faith to heal someone, then the most effective way is not to mentally strive to believe but to feel the joy of the deliverance in your heart. We know that the fruit of the Spirit consists of emotions like love, joy, and peace. These emotions are spiritually imparted, meaning we do not get them from the material realm but from the spirit realm. This is the principle that Yeshua (Jesus) taught us in the simplest of terms. He said to pray, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” In other words, the answer exists right now in heaven. And you want it to also exist in your life right now. So do not pray for it to happen in the future. Pray with the knowledge that you have it now, and your faith is bringing it into the earth. Key Verses: • Matthew 6:10. “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” • Hebrews 11:3. “What is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” • Romans 10:10. “With the heart a person believes.” • 1 Samuel 13:14. “The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart.” • John 10:10. “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” • Romans 4:17–20. “With respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith.” • Hebrews 11:1. “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” • 1 John 5:4. “This is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” Quotes: • “On the Sabbath, God finished His creation; He finished his works. His works are finished and now they exist. What we are learning to do is to reach into what exists and to find the ways to bring that out of the invisible into the visible, into an effective function within the material world.” • “We don't hope that there's the restoration of Israel. We don't hope for the Jews to be brought back into the land. We feel the joy. We should be dancing like David in the street at the return of the Ark of the Covenant because we are dancing over the return of the people, the return of all the wealth that they have and all the blessings that are theirs. We're living in it right now.” • “Your faith is the substance of the thing hoped for. It's the evidence of the thing not seen. That is not wishful thinking. That's God's faith given to you to believe Him and to rejoice with Him.” Takeaways: 1. How do you measure how much faith you have? Look to what you are feeling in your heart. 2. Having faith for something means that you have already embraced it in your heart. You are not praying with hope that it will happen. You pray knowing that you have it right now. 3. Our emotions are something tangible. Study your heart and the emotions that are there. Emotions trigger thoughts and then the thoughts come out of your mouth. And that is what is creative. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38611075

GIG272 From Generation to Generation 10/15/2025

GIG272 From Generation to Generation Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #272 Title: From Generation to Generation Web Description: In the wilderness the children of Israel learned the consequences of not following the Word of God. And they set themselves to rehearse the Word repeatedly so that they and future generations would not fail to follow that Word. As Christians today we cannot expect that we will have the faith and success we need if we are not following what God has made real to us. And we must have the same determination to rehearse His Word. Show Notes: Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, remembers the time when Israel lived in tents for forty years in the wilderness. This was a time when one generation died off because of their disobedience and a new generation was taught the Word of God. They had learned from the wilderness that they lived by the Word of God, and therefore every new generation must be taught to live in the Word. This is why a special day is observed at the end of Sukkot each year. This day is called Simchat Torah, which means “the joy of the Torah.” Every year the Torah is read in the synagogue from beginning to end. And every year at Simchat Torah, this annual cycle repeats. It is a continual reminder of what Moses told the people before they entered the land: “Will you make the same mistake the previous generation made, which cost them forty years in the wilderness? Or have you learned your lesson? And if you have learned your lesson, will you be able to keep that lesson alive for yourself and for your children?” We see then the importance that Judaism places on rehearsing the Word. Do we as Christians realize that it is just as important for us? We face challenges that seem too big for us, just as the giants in the land seemed too big for the generation that failed in the wilderness. But those giants were not too big for God then, and our challenges are not too big for Him today. We need to believe what God has spoken to us and believe in His power to accomplish what He said. It is all there in His Word. And we need to make rehearsing His Word a major focus of our times together and in our daily lives. Key Verses: • Deuteronomy 8:1–6. “You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you.” • Deuteronomy 6:1–3. “This is the commandment … that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD.” • Hebrews 12:5–9. “God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?” • Romans 10:17. “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” • Deuteronomy 6:4–9. “You shall teach them diligently to your sons.” • Deuteronomy 11:18–21. “You shall teach them to your sons.” • Deuteronomy 31:10–13. “Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the LORD.” Quotes: • “We should come away from the celebration of Sukkot refreshed in the memory that God is all powerful, that He is able to give us what He's promised.” • “When we get together to fellowship, there should be a focus on worship and the Word. We can still barbecue and have fun and have other conversations. But what is the focus of it? What is the purpose of fellowship? The true purpose of fellowship is to get together surrounding the Word and the worship so that we're creating faith within ourselves.” • “Even as aliens we had the right to come and stand at the gate during Sukkot and hear the Word of God so that we could learn, and we could understand, and we could fear the Lord our God. And we could walk with Him and have long life and prosperity and blessings.” Takeaways: 1. The battle is against forgetting. If we are reminding ourselves, then faith comes by hearing. If we hear it, then we can have faith to do it. 2. We need to find the things that are foundational to our faith—who we are and what God has spoken to us—and we need the faith right now to walk in them. 3. Let us not leave the Feast of Tabernacles. Let us enter a year of hearing the Word of God. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38533125

GIG271 The Feast of Tabernacles 10/08/2025

GIG271 The Feast of Tabernacles Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #271 Title: The Feast of Tabernacles Web Description: As we celebrate Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, we worship in thankfulness for all that God has done for us in the season that we have just completed, and we prepare our hearts during the feast for the new season that is now beginning. So it is very important that we learn about the Feast of Tabernacles and think about what we are expecting God to do for us during this time. Show Notes: Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles puts us in a place of seeking God. We experience a new relationship with the Word of God as we celebrate this feast. In His Word we find instructions and direction for our lives in the coming year. Our cry before the Lord is that His Word will break our hearts and cause us to repent so that we will see the manifestation of the Word of God coming alive to the Body of Christ and coming alive to Israel in a new and greater way. During the Feast of Tabernacles, we must “build our booths”—construct our lives—with a focus on God and His provision and not on the desolate wilderness. Because when we dwell in the shelter of the Most High, we will have a focus on God that will bring us to a place of trust and deliverance from everything that could come against us in the dark days that we may face in the coming year. As we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, we also find the Lordship of Christ coming alive. We know that His Kingdom is established in heaven, but there will come a time when the age of Messiah will begin to reign in the earth, even as the Lordship of Christ reigns in our hearts. In this feast we find ourselves contending together in prayer to see the manifestation of the Kingdom of God in the earth now. Key Verses: • Nehemiah 8:13–18. “The LORD had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast.” • Numbers 9:15–23. “So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.” • Psalm 91:1–16. “No evil will befall you.” • 2 Corinthians 3:16–18. “Transformed into the same image from glory to glory.” Quotes: • “I believe this can be a transitional time for Israel and for the Body of Christ both, as we experience something tremendous in these days of Tabernacles.” • “The Lord tells us where to live, but how we live is something that we construct as part of this Tabernacle experience.” • “We’re going to be living in maybe some very dark days during this coming year, but what we focus on is what God is doing for us.” • “We don’t know what we face or what we’re going to go through, just as they didn’t in the wilderness know exactly what they would face day to day, but they knew one thing—the glory and the presence in the light of God was with them.” Takeaways: 1. Prepare yourself as you think about the Feast of Tabernacles and what you expect God to do for you during this time. 2. Build your booth—your life, your family, your community—in a way that they house us in His presence and create a constant focus on His glory. 3. Abide in the shadow of the Almighty and let Him become your dwelling place so that the glory of His presence will begin to manifest around you. 4. Focus on the Lord’s presence so that you might be changed from glory to glory into that same Presence, but also that you might reflect that glory to others as it radiates from you. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38448430

GIG270 Atonement and Our Purification 10/01/2025

GIG270 Atonement and Our Purification Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #270 Title: Atonement and Our Purification Web Description: We are coming to the Day of Atonement, which has great significance for us as Christians. It is about the forgiveness of our sins, something we understand well. But it is also about something we need a greater revelation and appropriation of, and that is our purification and the removal of our sins. Let this be our experience as we celebrate the Day of Atonement this year. Show Notes: We read in Leviticus 16 that the Day of Atonement is about cleansing the people of their sins. It was a solemn assembly, a time for the people to humble themselves and repent of their sins. Then the first goat was sacrificed as a sin offering, speaking to the forgiveness of their sins. But there was also a second sacrifice. The goat of removal was sent into the wilderness to take away all the iniquity of the people. Most Christians relate to Christ who is our Atonement in the context of the forgiveness of sins. But the Day of Atonement is about being cleansed of our sins. And cleansing is more than external washing. It is about our purification. The prophecy of the Messiah in Malachi tells us that He comes for the very purpose of purification. Yeshua (Jesus) HaMashiach, the Messiah, came for our purification, which along with forgiveness is the cleansing and removal of our sins. Therefore, we absolutely should celebrate the Day of Atonement this year. And as we celebrate it, we should remember that our atonement is not only about the forgiveness of sin. It is also about the purification of the believer, enabling us to truly enter the presence of the Father. With great thankfulness we reach in during this time to humble ourselves before Him and appropriate all that He has provided for us on this Day of Atonement. Key Verses: • Leviticus 16:29–31. “It is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you.” • Leviticus 16:18–22. “The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land.” • Malachi 3:1–3. “He will purify the sons of Levi.” • Hebrews 10:1–2. “The worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins.” • Psalm 103:12. “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.” • Hebrews 10:14–23. “Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean.” Quotes: • “The Lord through the blood of Christ forgives us. But again, there’s something more that the Day of Atonement is pointing to that we want to receive. And that is this removing out of us the iniquity and the sin so that we don’t continue going through the same process of sinning.” • “We as believers are not just to live lives having been forgiven of our sin. We are to live lives that are more represented by this event in the Day of Atonement that we are forgiven but also cleansed and purified.” • “When God forgives, He does forget. He remembers our sin no more. But He goes beyond that because in the purification He is then able to put His law upon our heart and upon our mind.” Takeaways: 1. On the Day of Atonement two sacrifices were made. The first sacrifice was to forgive the sins of the people. The second sacrifice was to remove the sins of the people. We understand the forgiveness of our sins in Christ but not so much the removal of our sins. 2. Atonement is for our cleansing. And that is not just cleansing as we relate to cleansing ourselves by taking a bath or cleaning something by wiping the surface of it. It is talking about purification. 3. Malachi tells us that when Messiah comes, He is like a refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap and will sit as a smelter. The sacrifice of Christ forgives our sins but also puts us through the process of purification that is like the refining and purifying of gold or silver. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38349735

GIG269 The Feast of Trumpets 09/24/2025

GIG269 The Feast of Trumpets Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #269 Title: The Feast of Trumpets Web Description: The Feast of Trumpets was a holy convocation, a day of celebration and rest, when all of Israel came up to Jerusalem to meet with God in anticipation that He was going to do something. This is now called Rosh Hashanah, and it is celebrated as the Jewish New Year’s Day. This appointed time has yet to be fulfilled in Christ, leaving the world to wonder what it will mean when the divine trumpet blows. Show Notes: What God is doing in most of the feasts is clear. For example, Passover commemorates the blood of the lamb on the doorposts in Egypt that saved the Hebrew people from the death angel. What God is doing in the Feast of Trumpets is less clear. It is a holy convocation. It is a Sabbath rest. It is a day when trumpets are blown. But why? The Feast of Trumpets is a day of celebration—the Hebrew word is zikkaron—which means a “memorial” as well as a “remembrance” or “reminder.” Each year this celebration memorializes God coming to earth on Mount Sinai where He announced His presence with the blast of a trumpet. We also remember God’s promise that He will once again return to the earth with the sound of a trumpet. Today we look forward to that trumpet which has not yet sounded, but no one knows the day or the hour. So our response is to be prepared. The trumpet blast alerts us to the promise of Messiah’s return. May this prophetic cry be always on our lips: “Come, Yeshua. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on this earth as it is in heaven.” Key Verses: • Leviticus 23:23–25. “You shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.” • Leviticus 23:24. “A holy convocation … a reminder by blowing of trumpets.” • Numbers 29:1. “It will be a day to you for blowing trumpets.” • Exodus 19:19. “When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.” • 1 Thessalonians 4:16. “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God.” • Matthew 24:29-42. “And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet.” • Revelation 22:20. “Yes, I come quickly!” Quotes: • “So when we look at most of the appointed times or the feasts, the fasts, the celebrations that God appointed, it’s very clear what it is that Israel was celebrating. Not so with the Feast of Trumpets. • “That’s what a trumpet blast is for: to get your attention.” • “Now to me those are two very distinct things, and I think in the Feast of Trumpets both are taking place. We are to have a memorial and a reminder. A memorial is a celebration of something that took place historically. You build a monument; you memorialize an event in history. A reminder to me is more of something you are looking forward to. I have to remind myself of my to-do list, something I am supposed to do. So both of these really take place during Trumpets.” Takeaways: 1. We anticipate the Feast of Trumpets because its fulfillment in Christ has not yet transpired. 2. The Feast of Trumpets is to get our attention and keep us alert. 3. Our response is to always be on the alert. Watch! 4. We should cry out, “Come, Lord Jesus!” /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38286025

GIG268 Remember That God Is Able 09/22/2025

GIG268 Remember That God Is Able Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #268 Title: Remember That God Is Able Web Description: The biblical feasts are a reminder that God is able to deliver us, save us, cleanse us of all our sins, and dwell with us in all power to meet every need. Rather than complaining about our circumstances, let us remember who God is and make His reality our daily experience. Show Notes: An important part of the biblical fall feasts is remembering what God did in the past. Why is that important? Because it is too easy for us to forget. The children of Israel saw how great God’s ability was to deliver them from Egypt. But as soon as they were free, they complained because they could not believe in God’s ability to take care of them in the wilderness. How quickly we lose sight of what God did for us, even before our very eyes! We need to remember who He is, what He has done, and what He is able to do right now. Yom T’ruah, the Day of Trumpets is a “reminder by blowing of trumpets.” The trumpet blast reminds us that the Lord God who dealt with Pharaoh is the same God who will take care of us in whatever wilderness we experience. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a reminder of God’s power to not only forgive and forget every offense but to also remove all sin from us completely. This is the power of Christ’s resurrection that will manifest in all the earth, which God reminds us of at Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles. At these special times of the year, let us be reminded of the amazing God we serve who is all powerful, all knowing, and always present with us. What we face today might seem worse to us than anything we have ever faced before. The forces directed against Israel and against God’s people today might seem greater than the world has ever known. But none of that matters because God has not changed. And He is able to be the answer for everything that we have no answer for in ourselves. Key Verses: • Leviticus 23:24. “You shall have … a reminder by blowing of trumpets.” • Matthew 6:8. “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” • Deuteronomy 6:1–25. “Watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt.” • Matthew 4:7. “YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.” Quotes: • “When we don't bring our knowledge of who God is into the now for what we're facing today in order to create our future, then we tend to test Him. Something goes haywire with our prayer, and our prayer turns almost into a complaint.” • “With Him there is no past, present, and future. There is only now. And that reality is something that we can live in. And that's why we can appropriate all that He has for us and walk in it today. Because if once He spoke it, it is.” • “I want us to come into that day looking for the power of the resurrection of Christ manifesting itself in the earth today in a powerful way—the kind of power that has the ability to save the Muslim world, that has the power to save the Gentile nations out of where they're standing right now.” Takeaways: 1. In the wilderness without food and water, the children of Israel lost sight of God’s power that He had just demonstrated to them. The feast season was a time when God said, “Remember Me. Remember what I did. Remember how you got here.” 2. What happens to us today when we enter our own wilderness? It is also easy for us to lose sight of who God is and what He is able to do. If we are not careful, we could be like those crying out to God for food and water and questioning if He is able to do what He promised. 3. The world is in a wilderness right now, but we remember that the wilderness is where God comes down to dwell with His people. We do not enter this fall feast season wondering if God will meet our needs but rather worshipping God who is all the answer that we need. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38271620

GIG267 A Walk Through the Fall Feasts 09/17/2025

GIG267 A Walk Through the Fall Feasts Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #267 Title: A Walk Through the Fall Feasts Web Description: We are coming to the biblical feasts of the fall season. And rather than seeing these feasts as disconnected events, see them as steps on a journey that begins with your receiving of the Word of God, continues with your atonement in Christ, and leads to your dwelling in His presence. Let these promises come to a completion and manifestation in your life. Show Notes: It is common to think of the biblical feasts as individual and separate events. But this podcast looks at the feasts of the fall season as a combined experience that is like a path we walk on. One feast leads to another in an unfolding walk with God. The first step on this journey is Yom T’ruah, the Day of Trumpets. Here we remember the time God appeared at Mount Sinai with the blast of a trumpet, which put all Israel into a state of awe. On the Day of Trumpets, we become aware that God Himself came down to the earth and will again when Christ returns. This awareness leads us into Ten Days of Repentance or the Days of Awe. This state of awe should be real to us. And we should recognize that as we walk with God, what He is doing in us and through us is to bring the nations into this same sense of awe, repentance, and worship of God. This state of repentance is to lead us into Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which is about the removal of our sin. This opens the door to the experience of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles. This is a remembrance of the time in the wilderness when the people lived in the presence of God. And we should reach into this experience. God removes our iniquity so we can live in His presence. Sukkot is celebrated for seven days, with an added eighth day, so that we can absorb all that God has done for us to change our lives. It leads us into His Word, into waiting on the Lord, and into appropriating all God’s fullness. Key Verses: • Leviticus 23:23–25. “You shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.” • Hebrews 12:18–21. “You have not come to … the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words.” • Exodus 19:16–20. “The sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder.” • Psalm 22:23–26. “Stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel.” • Psalm 22:27–28. “For the kingdom is the LORD’s and He rules over the nations.” • Leviticus 23:26–32. “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement.” • Read Leviticus 16. • Leviticus 23:33–36. “On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths.” • Leviticus 23:37–39. “Celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day.” • John 1:1–13. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” • 1 John 2:6. “The one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.” Quotes: • “Something is going to happen as we walk through this beautiful landscape of the fall feasts.” • “We should look for God to meet us in such a dramatic way that it throws us into repentance. It brings us into an awe of God beyond anything we have ever known.” • “There's something about where we come out of this walk through the fall feasts together that brings us to the reality of Christ in our life. It brings us to embrace Him as the Word made flesh.” Takeaways: 1. At the trumpet blast on Mount Sinai, the people heard and saw the Word of God. And so these fall feasts take you on a journey that begins with your introduction into the Word of God. They bring you into an awe of Him. They bring you into atonement. And they bring you into the remembrance of living in His presence and seeing where He is taking you in the Kingdom of God as it manifests on the earth. 2. Christ walked the earth as the Word made flesh. That Word from the trumpet blast came alive before the eyes of men and women. And that is what is happening today. And it is happening in your heart. 3. Let us walk through this time of the fall feasts together and let it bring a fulfillment of His Word made alive in our flesh because we are to walk as He walked. And that is to be the Word of God manifested in this earth. /episode/index/show/hargraveministries/id/38185135

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