Growing In God with Gary Hargrave

• 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.

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• GIG266 Should Christians Celebrate the Jewish Feasts?

  Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #266 Title: Should Christians Celebrate the Jewish Feasts?   Web Description: Following the examples set for us by Paul and Yeshua (Jesus) Himself, the Jewish feasts and fasts are special occasions for believers in Christ as well. All Christians should recognize the importance of these celebrations and find ways to make them a part of their lives. Study this podcast and consider how you can incorporate these biblical holy days into your personal walk of faith.   Show Notes: Christ and the early Church followed the schedule of the biblical feasts. When He was a child Yeshua and His family went up to Jerusalem and celebrated the feasts as ordained by the Lord. Later during His ministry Yeshua continued to observe the feast times. It is recorded throughout the Gospels that His pattern was to go to Jerusalem during a prescribed feast. Even when people there were seeking to kill Him, it was important for Him to go to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. We also read that He went to Jerusalem in winter for the Feast of Dedication, which is Hanukah.   The same pattern was followed by Paul. On one occasion Paul decided to sail past Ephesus because he was in a hurry to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost. At another time he told the Corinthians that he would remain in Ephesus until the feast. So Paul often made observing the feasts a priority in his travel plans. The greatest example though of the importance of these biblical feasts is the fact that the Church was created during the Feast of Pentecost. It was the Lord Himself who directed the disciples to be in Jerusalem during that time.   Zechariah prophesied that in the days of Christ’s Kingdom on the earth, all the nations will come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles together. And it will not be a matter of choice. A plague and a punishment will be on the nations and families who do not come. Clearly God is serious about these times that He has appointed for us to celebrate Him and His Word. We should approach these times with tremendous anticipation in our hearts, not out of a sense of obligation but with an expectation that God will meet us, open doors that have never been opened, and show us things in His Word we have never seen before.   Key Verses:   •       Luke 2:40-42. “His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.” •       John 2:13, 23. “The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.” •       John 5:1. “There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.” •       John 7:2-10. “When His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up.” •       John 10:22–23. “The Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple.” •       Acts 20:16. “Paul … was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.” •       1 Corinthians 5:7-8. “Celebrate the feast … with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” •       1 Corinthians 16:7-9. “I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.” •       Acts 2:1-4. “When the day of Pentecost had come.” •       Acts 1:4-8. “He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised.” •       Zechariah 14:16-19. “All the nations that went against Jerusalem will … celebrate the Feast of Booths.” •       Micah 4:1-2. “Many nations will come and say, ‘Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD.’”   Quotes:   •       “There are several appointed times in the Hebrew Scriptures. And people wonder if this is something that has passed or if there is a significance or a reason why Christians should be observing or looking for God to move in their lives during these times.” •       “Even though it was dangerous for Yeshua to go into Jerusalem and go through Judea at this time, He still went up at this prescribed time of the feast.” •       “Christ had told them to go back to Jerusalem and wait until they were endued with power from on high. And that endowment of the Spirit, that giving of authority and power to the disciples to spread the gospel into all the world, came on the Day of Pentecost.”   Takeaways:   1.    Christ’s family celebrated the feasts as observant Jews. Paul himself celebrated these times. He scheduled his travels to be in Jerusalem for a specific feast. The Church itself was born during the Feast of Pentecost. 2.    Zechariah prophesied that the Gentile nations will come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. The feasts then are not something only to be observed by Jews. They continue to be an important part of our Christian experience. 3.    These are appointments with God that He has established for us. Let us schedule our hearts and our spirits to enter into these times and expect that He will meet us.

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• GIG265 Live by His Strength

  Growing In God Podcast Title: Live by His Strength   Web Description: As Christians should we have an expectancy for less strength and less life in our physical bodies as we age? According to the Scriptures, something different is available for us. We can have the strength that comes directly from God. The Spirit of God dwelling in us can give life to our physical bodies. We need to appropriate what God has made available. Let us wait on the Lord and be renewed by His life.   Show Notes: As Christians we believe in the resurrection of Christ and the new life that is ours. But Christians grow old like everyone else and watch their strength and vigor dissipate over time until it is gone. According to the Word, we should have something different. We read in Isaiah 40 that if we wait on the Lord, we should gain strength rather than lose it. This happened for Caleb who had the same strength and vigor at eighty-five that he had when he was forty. The same was true for Moses when he was one hundred twenty years old.   When Christ begins to dwell in us, our bodies are still dead because of sin. But that does not mean we are supposed to remain in that state. It does not mean that we are supposed to believe in death and have faith that our bodies will grow weak and die. Christ being in us means that we are being reconnected to the Father, and our spirit is coming alive to the Father. And the Spirit of the Father dwelling in us will give life to our mortal bodies.   Through Christ we are plugged into God. And as Isaiah 40 states, God does not grow weary; His strength does not go away, and His vigor never drains out of Him. And when we wait on the Lord, He gives us His strength that never dissipates. Why then would we live our lives as if we were still disconnected from God like we were before receiving Christ? Do not keep drawing from the world and the world’s concept of living and dying but keep appropriating the new life that Christ has made available.   Key Verses:   •       Isaiah 40:28–31. “Those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.” •       2 Corinthians 5:17. “If anyone is in Christ … old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” •       Romans 12:2. “Do not be conformed to this world.” •       Romans 8:10–11. “He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies.” •       Galatians 5:22–25. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” •       Psalm 118:14. “The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.” •       Joshua 14:7–12. “I am eighty-five years old today. I am still as strong today as I was.” •       Deuteronomy 34:4–7. “Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old, … his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.”   Quotes:   •       “Christ is in you. But the Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead must dwell in you and give life to your mortal body. So this is part of maturing in God, growing in Him, moving on in the relationship and in the purpose for which He saved us.” •       “If Christ is in me, I can begin to wait upon the Lord. I can begin to connect with God in such a way that His attributes come into my life.” •       “There's no lack of vitality in God. And Moses and others like Caleb—and we see others in the Scriptures—knew how to wait on the Lord, how to draw this energy on a daily basis. They didn't do it once or twice. They lived this way.”   Takeaways:   1.    As Christians there are ways in which we are still conditioned by the world. And one of those conditionings is to believe it is okay to grow old, get sick, and die. But the reality of becoming Christian is that we have a new life, and our experience should be different than that of the world. 2.    We have Christ in us. And because we have Christ in us, we can have the Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead also dwelling in us. And because His Spirit is dwelling in us, life should be infused into our mortal bodies. What prevents us from having this? 3.    All that is available in God is activated when we wait on Him, plug into Him, and draw His strength and power into our lives. But we are not really getting that if we are not consistently walking that way. We need to get out of any blindness and passivity resulting from our conditioning and go after the appropriation of all His provision.

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• GIG264 The Bread We Know Not Of

  Growing In God Podcast Title: The Bread We Know Not Of   Web Description: Is it really possible to run without getting tired or to walk without becoming weary? That is not our normal experience, but it is God’s. He is never weary or tired, and He promises to give us His strength if we wait on Him. Christ knew how to do this. The food that sustained Him was in His connection to the Father, and we are connected to the Father through Him. Isn’t it time for us to learn how to draw from Him?   Show Notes: Isaiah 40 contains a familiar passage about waiting on the Lord. This passage tells us that when we wait for the Lord, we gain new strength. God wants us to have a new strength that is beyond any strength we have ever known because it is His strength. Unlike our strength, His strength never dissipates. Whereas the strongest and most vigorous human will grow weary, God never gets tired. He does not need to rest or eat because He always has energy. And this is the energy He has promised us if we wait on Him.   As humans we get our energy from food. But Yeshua (Jesus) told His disciples that He had food to eat that they did not know of. There is a spiritual food that He knew how to partake of. He knew how to connect with the Father’s unlimited energy. In His weariness in the flesh as a human being, Yeshua reached into God the Father and was energized without eating natural food. Unfortunately, we do not know of this food, but we are supposed to learn about it. We are supposed to learn how to wait on the Lord and connect with the energy that God provides.   If we are not drawing this energy, then have we really learned how to wait on the Lord? Let us set aside any passivity or conditioning we might have and put the force of our faith behind what God has said in His Word is ours. Let us learn to walk in the spirit as Christ did and wait on the Spirit of God until He dwells within us. According to the Word, if the power of the Father that raised Christ from the dead dwells within us, our mortal bodies will be energized. We will run and not get tired. We will walk and not become weary. Let us reach into it. Let us learn to wait on the Lord.   Key Verses:   •       Isaiah 40:28–31. “Those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength.” •       John 4:31–34. “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” •       John 3:3–5. “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” •       Galatians 5:25. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” •       Romans 8:10–11. “He … will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”   Quotes:   •       “If we are really tuning into His strength, then it becomes evident to us that it is His strength. Why? Because it doesn't dissipate. His strength doesn't grow weary. He doesn't lack. He doesn't grow tired. All of these aspects of God's energy are extremely different than the human energy that we are used to.” •       “We have to be born into another world, into another relationship with the Father. That's different than just relating to Him at arms distance from this material world that we live in.” •       “I know I live physically by the food I eat. But is there a life that can come to me, and even come to my flesh, that comes through this relationship with Christ and having the Father—the Spirit of the Father—dwell within me?”   Takeaways:   1.    After many years of reading the Scriptures, we tend to become conditioned in our response to God’s Word. And we might not put the emphasis and force of faith we need to behind experiencing what God is speaking to us. 2.    God promises in His Word that if we wait on Him, we will renew our strength. How real is that in our lives? Are we drawing on His power daily for a strength that never dissipates? Or is our strength continually dissipating because we look to our human flesh for our enabling? 3.    Physically we gain energy and sustain our strength through food. But Yeshua said He had food that was not known about on the physical level. He was energized and strengthened by His connection to the Father. Because Christ reconciled us to the Father, we can learn to draw that energy, strength, and life to our physical bodies.

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• GIG263 How Do We Appropriate?

  Growing In God Podcast Title: How Do We Appropriate? Web Description: It is easy for people to have negative emotions. We can become depressed, fearful, or anxious. And those negative emotions have negative effects on our physical bodies. As Christians why should we accept that when we can experience the joy of Christ’s salvation and the fruit of the Spirit producing life in our physical bodies? God has provided everything for us, and we should be continually appropriating more and more of His provision until His life is manifesting in us and through us.   Show Notes: What do you want to have happen through your prayer and intercession? Whether you are praying for Israel, for this nation, for your family, or for yourself, you are looking to bring something into the material realm that did not exist here before. Yet everything we are asking for does exist because God has already created it for us. This is the meaning of the Sabbath. On the seventh day God rested because He finished all His creation. Therefore when we pray, we are not asking God to create something that does not exist. Instead, we appropriate what God has already created, completed, and made available.   Appropriation should not be a mystery since everything of God we have in our lives right now was the result of appropriation. There was a moment in your life when you experienced salvation. But God did not create salvation for you at that moment. What happened is that you appropriated the salvation that already existed, and it became real to you in your heart, your mind, and your physical body. Likewise, all the gifts of the Holy Spirit already exist, but they are not real experiences for you until you appropriate them.   Knowing this, how much is available to us in God that we have yet to appropriate? In our faith we need to appropriate that which is not yet visible in the physical realm but is a reality in the world of spirit. Again it is not a mystery. When something spiritual comes alive to you as a real emotion, it begins to change you physically. You begin to bear fruit. What was once unseen is now being seen in you. What did not exist in the physical realm is now being physically manifested in you. Let us activate the faith in our hearts and be those who are continually appropriating God’s provision.   Key Verses:   •       Acts 19:1–6. “We have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.” •       Romans 10:5–10. “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART.” •       Romans 4:17–19. “In the presence of Him … who ... calls into being that which does not exist.” •       Romans 12:2. “Do not be conformed to this world.” •       Hebrews 11:1. “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” •       Colossians 3:12–15. “Put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” •       Romans 8:20–21. “Creation itself also will be set free … into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.”   Quotes:   •       “What you're looking for doesn't exist in this world. It doesn't exist yet in the physical plane. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind because our mind renewed into true faith is renewed into the reality that God calls the dead to life, and He calls into being that which does not exist on the physical plane.” •       “Our faith is the reality. It is reality of what is hoped for. It's the proof of what is not seen.” •       “I'm not going to be asking for something that I don't think exists. I've got to proclaim that which I know in my heart. How do I know in my heart? I feel it. I feel the emotion of it.”   Takeaways:   1.    Too often we try to work something up in ourselves. But the Sabbath means that everything we are looking for already exists. What does not exist yet in the physical realm does exist in God’s completed provision. Therefore, the manifestation of the things of God depends on our appropriation of them and not on anything we can work up. 2.    Salvation has always existed in Christ, but it did not exist in you until you believed Him in your heart and confessed Him with your mouth. The salvation experience then is a process of appropriation. 3.    Appropriation begins in your heart. When you know in your heart that something God provided is real, it becomes real in your emotions. Then when you take on these feelings of love, joy, peace, and everything available in the Holy Spirit, it begins to manifest in you physically. 4.    As we read in Romans 8, salvation comes into the physical world through us. Creation’s ultimate release from futility will happen because the freedom of the glory of the children of God is manifested in us first. This is a process that happens through our appropriation.

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