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Out of Print
Release #: 2009-0818-1RV
Originally released on CD: This product contains the following message by Gary Hargrave/Marilyn Hargrave.
Out Of Captivity
August 16, 2009 Sunday 9:30 AM North Hills, CA
The experience of captivity is a distinguishable experience from slavery. Captivity produces isolation — from each other, from our spiritual heritage, and from God Himself. The spiritual warfare we have been engaged in has brought us to this culmination, where the Lord is ready to deliver us out of captivity and into oneness.(47:58)
Scriptures: | Luke 4:16-21; Isa. 61:1-4;42:6-10; Psalms 126:1-5; (I Cor. 12:4-6); (II Cor. 10:4); (Psalms 137:2-4); (Matt. 26:36-45) |
Topics: | Oneness; Deliverance; Bondage |
Rated: | For Mature Sons; Milestone; Highest Level Prophetic Word |
Out of Print
Release #: 2008-0423-1R
Originally released on CD: This product contains the following message by Gary Hargrave.
Don’t Let Your Deliverance Become Your Bondage
April 19, 2008 Saturday 5:30 PM North Hills, CA
Through the relationship Joseph had with Pharoah, Egypt was one of the greatest miracles of preservation. For some reason, the Israelites let their relationship with Joseph disintegrate, and Egypt became a place of bondage and oppression to them. Tonight, we open our hearts to create relationships with those the Lord is choosing to accomplish His will.
Scriptures: | Gen. 41:39-42; Exo. 1:5-10; (Exo. 46:3-7); (Psalms 105:17-19); (Acts 7:9-15,17-18); (Ezra 1:1-3,7-8,11) |
Topics: | Relationships, Natural; Relationships; (Bondage); (Mount Zion); (Government) |
Rated: | For Mature Sons; Highest Level Prophetic Word |
Out of Print
Release #: 82-01-11-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
THE LAW OF THE UNEQUAL YOKE
October 25, 1981 Sunday A.M. Val.
When the laws of God from a previous age become incomplete, the grace of God opens up a higher provision to the believer who serves Him. Although we are bound to obey God’s laws, the law of separation unto God takes priority over the laws of bondage. (45 1/2 min.)
Scriptures: | Heb. 11:3; (Dan. 3); (II Cor. 6:14,17-18; 7:1); (I Cor. 10:13) |
Topics: | Bondage; Church Age; Liberty; Faith, Aggressive; Kingdom |
Series: | The Unfolding Applied; All Those Bonds; Basic Codes of the Kingdom |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages, Recommended Listening |
“THEY WERE MINISTERING TO THE LORD” ACTS 13:1
November 17, 1981 Tuesday A.M. No. H.
God gives priority to the spiritual ministry His people have to Him. God’s lesser directives and commands can be correctly fulfilled only as we have the proper emphasis. Our spirits must be liberated from the wrong priority of “responsibility” into our prime function of ministry to the Lord. (10 1/2 min.)
Scriptures: | Acts 13:1; Matt. 6:33; (Dan. 6) |
Topics: | Worship; Priority; (Principle) |
Series: | JRS Dictates; The Unfolding Applied; One in Spirit |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, Recommended Listening |
Out of Print
Release #: 82-01-05-03-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
SEPARATED UNTO HIM
October 25, 1981 Sunday A.M. Ana.
As an age shifts, whatever laws have bound God’s people on a previous level must give way to one superceding law: the law of a greater separation unto the Lord. (60 min.)
Scriptures: | II Cor. 6:11-18; 7:2-3; I Cor. 10:13 |
Topics: | Bondage; Kingdom; Relationship, with the Lord |
Series: | The Unfolding Applied; Basic Codes of the Kingdom |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages, Recommended Listening |
BONDS ARE A BONDAGE
October 27, 1981 Tuesday 11:45 A.M. No. H.
Oneness is unattainable as long as bonds exist. The breaking of bonds is the prelude to the oneness of the Kingdom. (9 min.)
Scriptures: | Gal. 4:16-17 |
Topics: | Bonds; Oneness; Bondage |
Series: | JRS Dictates; The Unfolding Applied; All Those Bonds |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, Recommended Listening |
Out of Print
Release #: 81-09-02-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
August 29, 1981 Saturday A.M. Hono.
Oneness precedes those final deliverances and judgments. You are long gone from Egypt when God stirs Pharaoh to pursue you. Satan will not accept your deliverance and your breaking of bonds. A dead Pharaoh, drowned with his hosts, is the necessary judgment that follows our deliverance. Meanwhile, we follow the cloud into the new day. (80 min.)
Scriptures: | II Cor. 5:14,17; Rom. 8:10-11 |
Topics: | Oneness; Judgment; Bondage |
Series: | Come Into My Heart; Control or Create?; The Unfolding |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages, Recommended Listening |
Out of Print
Release #: 79-02-01-08-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
January 21, 1979 Sunday A.M. Iowa
It is easy to accept bondage because bondage does not require a spiritual perception or revelation. The only requirement of a slave is the drudgery of laborious obedience. In bondage no issues are resolved, no decisions are made. With freedom comes a responsibility to choose, to learn, to strive for his freedom and to attain his greatest potentials as a free person. The earnest prayers of the free are often greater than the cries of the oppressed. (48 min.)
Scriptures: | Gal. 5:1,13-21,24-25; Gal. 4:6-11,21-29 |
Topics: | Bondage; Freedom; Religiosity, Religiousness; Diligence; (Death, of the Flesh); (Spirit, Spiritual); (Persecution); (Change, Nature); (Repentance) |
Series: | To Conform Or Not To Conform? |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 78-12-27-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
FAITH DOESN’T STAGGER
December 20, 1978 Wednesday P.M. Ana.
Faith prevails over futility and appropriates deliverance when wisdom has no solution. Faith is not moved by outlook because it rests on a word. This message was a keynoter and a turning point for good things to come. (40 min.)
Scriptures: | Rom. 4:16-22; (John 8:32); (Matt. 22:21); (I Chron. 16:22); (John 14:12); (Heb. 11:6) |
Topics: | Faith; Liberty; Conditioning; Grace; Kingdom; (Bondage); (Wisdom, Man’s) |
Series: | To Greater Faith |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
A MIRACLE COMES WHERE THERE IS NO ANSWER
December 21, 1978 Thursday P.M. SoG.
We review circumstances and evaluate problems. When wisdom has no answers, faith removes the problem. A miracle is God’s violation of the orderly progression of our destruction. (25 min.)
Scriptures: | (John 14:15,12); (John 15:7); (Luke 18:8) |
Topics: | Miracles; Greater Works; Faith; Testing; (Freedom); (Wisdom, Man’s); (Biblical Character, Daniel) |
Series: | To Greater Faith |
Rated: | For Mature Sons |
Out of Print
Release #: 78-10-18-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
October 16, 1978 Monday P.M. Ana.
The Feast of Booths should remind us that we’re out of Egypt’s prisons and we are mobile and move at the leading of the Lord to our destiny. How shall we overcome the conditioned responses in thinking that lives slave when free? Don’t sit in the cell with the door open. Say, “Have booth, will travel.” (54 min.)
Scriptures: | Neh. 8:2-18; Isa. 61:1-20; Acts 12:1-11; (Luke 4:21); (II Tim. 2:9); (Isa. 9:2); (Matt. 9:5); (John 5:8); (John 9:7); (Mark 2:4); (John 15:3); (Heb. 12:2); (Luke 12:50) |
Topics: | Bondage; Movement, Motion; Freedom; Year of Jubilee; (Word, Acting); (Faith, Aggressive); (Healings, Physical) |
Series: | The Great Time of Transition–Feast of Tabernacles, 1978 |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 78-10-16-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST SPOT
October 15, 1978 Sunday A.M. Val.
The worst form of bondage is thelittle bondages or limitations that you don’t perceive that you have. These are the little foxes, the spots and wrinkles the Bride must remove. The worst deception is that we are unaware of what we have from God or we would reach for a greater revelation of Him and of those limitations we are unaware of. These terms are contradictory: an honest liar, a wise fool,an off-white robe of righteousness. (33 1/2 min.)
Scriptures: | I John 1:9; I Thess. 5:23; II Cor. 7:1; Gal. 5:1; (Matt. 5:8); (Rev. 19:8); (Isa. 1:18); (Isa. 6:5); (Eccl. 10:1); (James 3:4); (Eph. 5:27); (I John 2) |
Topics: | Purity; Dedication; Revelation; Bondage; Deception; Relationship, with the Lord; (Legalism) |
Series: | The Great Time of Transition–Feast of Tabernacles, 1978; Into the Greater Works |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
SILVER TUREEN OR CHAMBER POT?
October 15, 1978 Sunday A.M. Ana.
Each day of the feast required less sacrifices than the day before, for each day their need of purifying diminished. By the day of rejoicing they were ready to press into new levels of service. We are rejoicing in what He has done in us, but we weep before Him that we might rejoice even more. This feast our tears are the meat sandwich between the layers of bread of rejoicing. These tears determine whether we will be vessels of honor or dishonor. (36 min.)
Scriptures: | Exo. 23:14-19; Num. 29:7-40; Mal. 3:2-5; Phil. 3:7,13,18; I Pet. 1:22; James 4:6-10; II Tim. 2:19-22; (Matt. 5:8); (Heb. 7:25);(I John 3); (Eccl. 10:1); |
Topics: | Fulfillment, Progressive; Purity; Feast of Tabernacles; Dedication; Revelation; Joy |
Series: | The Great Time of Transition–Feast of Tabernacles, 1978; Into the Greater Works |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 77-09-24-03-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
A WORD TO THOSE IN PRISON
September 11, 1977 Sunday A.M. Iowa
Remember always the perfect promise of the Lord for your deliverance and beware of settling for less than its complete fulfillment. (32 min.)
Scriptures: | Jer. 32:6-10,14-17,26-27; Jer. 33:1-3,9-11; Isa. 61:1 |
Topics: | Promises, God’s to Us; Bondage; Appropriation; Kingdom, Possessing It; (Babylon); (Persecution); (Government) |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages |
A PROMISE WITH A PROBLEM
September 24, 1977 Saturday A.M. Ana.
Our faith is tested by the appearance of contradiction and conflict in God’s word to us. We are bound by His directives. We are driven by His promises. What do you do when He commands you to kill the child of promise that He has given? Faith obeys and believes often without understanding. (41 min.)
Scriptures: | Rom. 4:16-20; Heb. 11:17-19; James 2:21-24; (Psa. 119); (Rom. 5); (Acts 16:25); (Rev. 18:40) |
Topics: | Word, God’s; Promises, Possessing Them; Obedience; Faith; Testing; (Righteousness); (Shiloh) |
Series: | Faith-Action |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 77-03-26-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
March 26, 1977 Saturday A.M. Ana.
“Lord, forgive us for rebelling over the things that should have prepared our hearts to rule.” We know there is no preparation to rule but a broken heart and no perfect faith without humility. The whips of Egypt should have prepared us to conquer the giants of Canaan. (57 1/2 min.)
Scriptures: | (Rom. 7:18); (Isa. 52:2); (II Cor. 3:6); (Luke 13:35); (I John 3:3); (Heb. 12:6); (Matt. 5:5); (Psa. 8:4); (Prov. 3:5); (Col. 2:11); (Phil. 4:13); (Rom. 8:28); (Matt. 6:33) |
Topics: | Humility; Carefulness; Bondage; Sonship; Preparation; Deliverance; Bond Servant, Bondslave; (Legalism); (Conquer, Conqueror) |
Series: | Out of Our Minds |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, Pivotal Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-05-03-05-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
MAMMON IS A SHACKLE
May 2, 1976 Sunday P.M. SoG.
By apostolic exhortations from several we are warned to eliminate the stranglehold that unwise debts or demonic oppressions can bring to us. How many of us wish to respond when the course of sacrificial labor or giving is requested of us? Alas, too often we must serve out our time to mammon to pay oppressive debts. We cannot serve God and mammon.
Scriptures: | Matt. 6:24; (II Tim. 3:2-4) |
Topics: | Mammon; Bondage; Preparation; Sacrifice; Principality; Kingdom; (Vision) |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching |
EXHORTATION: BABYLON WE SHATTER
May 2, 1976 Sunday P.M. Val.
We are in a position to destroy Babylon, but it’s one thing to destroy and it’s another to create something constructive. As we see Babylon fall we will have something else to fit in. This short prophetic exhortation is followed by violent jubilee worship that proclaims the Kingdom.
Topics: | Babylon; Kingdom; Mammon; Vision; Body of Christ; Body Ministry; Music, Instrumental |
Out of Print
Release #: 75-04-05-03-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
HOW TO GET AN APOSTLE OUT OF JAIL
March 28, 1975 Friday P.M. Val.
Peter spent Passover in jail but the angel of the Lord sprung him! James was slain by Herod who had intended to kill Peter also. The intercession of the church availed! Who of us will ever make it without the intercession of the Body? (56 min.)
Scriptures: | Acts 12:1-25 |
Topics: | Intercession; Faith, Aggressive; Deliverance; Promises, Possessing Them; Unity; Bondage |
Series: | Beyond Passover; Expository |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
“IT SHALL BELONG TO HIS SONS” EZEKIEL 46:16
April 1, 1975 Tuesday A.M. Ana.
At the Passover time, fourteen years after the destruction of Jerusalem, Ezekiel saw in vision the days of the Kingdom (chapters 40-48) and he set forth symbolically the principles of the inheritance of the sons of God. (56 min.)
Scriptures: | Ezek. 46:16-18; 45:18-25; Gal. 4:1-3; Rom. 8:14-23; John 4:20-24; (Ezek. 40-48) |
Topics: | Inheritance; Manifestation of the Sons of God; Perfection; Relationship with the Lord; Growth; Commissioning |
Series: | Beyond Passover |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 74-01-03-11-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
December 23, 1973 Sunday P.M. Ana.
The bonds that we make with others affect our bond with Christ and it affects the liberty of our spirit in worship. Our undistracted devotion to the Lord is brought about by our liberation from every negative bond. (58 min.)
Scriptures: | II Cor. 3:14-18; 6:12-18; I Cor. 6:15-20; 7:25-35; Col. 3:14-20; I Cor. 18:1 |
Topics: | Bonds; Worship; Bondage; Liberty; Human Relations; Sex |
Series: | The Kingdom Thinking; Deeper Worship |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 74-01-03-07-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
December 19, 1973 Wednesday P.M. Ana.
The story of the Galatians battling the legalism of the Judaizers is much like the Christians who battle the arrogant demands of the legalists, and believers who are not of bondage but children of promise. (76 min.)
Scriptures: | Gal. 4:12-31; Gal. 5:22 |
Topics: | Law; Grace; Flesh; Persecution; Righteousness; Bondage |
Series: | Expository on Galatians |
Out of Print
Release #: 73-12-26-05-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
December 21, 1973 Friday P.M. Val.
The bonds that we make with others affect our bond with Christ and it affects the liberty of our spirit in worship. Our undistracted devotion to the Lord is brought about by our liberation from every negative bond. (83 min.)
Scriptures: | II Cor. 6:12–7:2; 3:14-17; Col. 3:12-20; I Cor. 6:15-20; I Cor. 7:25-35; II Tim. 2:4 |
Topics: | Bonds; Worship; Bondage; Liberty; Human Relations; Free Spirit |
Series: | Deeper Worship |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 73-12-03-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
November 23, 1973 Friday P.M. Ana.
We are moving into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (Rom. 8:21), and we are finding the glorious freedom is progressive. We move into it step by step. (48 min.)
Scriptures: | Rom. 6:12-19; John 8:31-32,36; II Pet. 2:19; Rom. 12:2 |
Topics: | Freedom; Manifestation of the Sons of God; Perfection; Restraints-Restrictions; Growth; Bondage |
Series: | Neither Jew Nor Greek; Free to Become |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 73-11-20-41-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
November 18, 1973 Sunday P.M. Ana.
The world around us constantly exerts pressure to condition our thinking and impose chains on our minds. As citizens of the Kingdom, we must be free from this bondage in every way. Our spirits must be free to seek first the Kingdom of God. (49 min.)
Scriptures: | Gal. 3:27-29 |
Topics: | Freedom; Conditioning; Bondage; Free-Spirit; Faith-Aggressive; Appropriation |
Series: | Neither Jew Nor Greek; Free to Become |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 73-11-17-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
November 17, 1973 Saturday A.M. Ana.
This message deals with the travail in our spirits as we come into the hour of His sons being manifested. The freedom from the multitude of bondage, many of which we have not been aware, becomes the travail of our spirit. (58 min.)
Scriptures: | Gal. 3:2, 5-12, 28-29; Rom. 10:11-13; I Cor. 7:17-24; Gal. 5:1, 13; Rom. 8:21 |
Topics: | Freedom; Bondage; Thinking, Ours and God’s; Restraints and Restrictions; Prejudice; Limitations |
Series: | Kingdom Sabbath; Neither Jew Nor Greek; Free To Become |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 73-09-14-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
FREE TO SERVE
September 12, 1973 Wednesday P.M. Val.
We were not set free to “do our own thing”–we are free to be bondservants of Christ and of one another. The principles of love and submission will never work on a human level. We must love with His love.
Scriptures: | Gal. 5:1, 13-15; 6:1, 10; Rom. 6:16-18; Phil. 2:7; II Pet. 2:18-19; I Cor. 8:9; John 14:15,21; John 15:10, 12-14, 17; 17:4; 21:16 |
Topics: | Love; Marriage; Bondservant-Bondslave; Bondage; Freedom; Submission – To the Ministries |
Series: | Some Things About Love |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching |
BY LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER
September 13, 1973 Thursday P.M. SoG.
What you do for yourself has no real meaning. It’s serving one another that holds satisfaction. If you’ve done anything in love you’ve lost nothing.
Scriptures: | Gal. 5:13 |
Topics: | Love; Sacrifice; Self-Interest; Bondservant-Bondslave |
Out of Print
Release #: RN-06-B0-05-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
THE MOTIVATION TO FAST
Fasting is never a privation or a meritorious work, but an act of faith. Your zeal wanes and in its place your hunger after God grows fierce. You starve that in your life that rivals God–a forced killing of the limitations and hindrances in your life.
Scriptures: | Matt. 6:16-18; Isa. 58:1-14 |
Topics: | Fasting; Motivation; Bondage; Hunger; Health |
Series: | Fasting |
LET’S BE NEW WINESKINS
God honors the ones who fast for something bigger than themselves and yet he blesses their lives greater than He would if their motivations had been selfish. Many keys of health given. (52 min.)
Scriptures: | Isa. 58:6-8 |
Topics: | Fasting; Motivation; Health; Blessing; Personal Experiences |
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