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Has Come to Steal and Kill

MARTY GABLER—That depreciating disparager is a thief and has come “only to steal and kill and destroy (Jn.10:10).” His goal is to steal away a word, a hope, a dream or a vision that God has given. He would love for you to think it has been canceled or, at the very least, that you will have to settle for something less. You end up bedraggled, talking like, “It’s not going to be what I originally expected it would be but ‘many are the trials of the righteous’ and I’m just glad to know the Lord.” The detractor spirit finds many an ear willing to listen, willing to believe and willing to act on the altered information.
The thief will get us preoccupied with other people’s views of our relationship with God or their opinion of the likelihood of God’s promise coming to pass in us. He wants us totally dismayed with the time period between promise and fulfillment. Such a spirit readily points out failed relationships and failed attempts “to be a part of” so it appears that there is now a “blemish” on our calling. His memory works overtime reminding us of failed or unheeded opportunities. Hence, the implication of our being unworthy or unreliable as participants in any divine purpose.
If the detractor cannot knock you completely out of the race, he wants the wind and confidence knocked out of you so that your performance is hindered. It would be somewhat like a high performance racecar driver pulling in for a pit stop and saying, “Don’t put much gas in the tank and don’t put on any new tires because I don’t deserve it the way I’ve been driving.” Cf.”For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through Him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God. Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ (2Co.1:20).” Never stop saying “Amen” to what God has said.

Who/What Are You Bowing Your Knee to?

MELISSA GABLER—The Holy Spirit presented this to me awhile back, “Either you are bowing your knee in awe and reverence to Me or you are bowing your knee in tolerance and submission to everything else.” How can we see miracles when we are bowing our knee to the impossibilities mounted against us? How can we leave a winning legacy when we count ourselves among the doomed statistics of disease and age and depletion and debt? It’s really starting to make sense why we have only seen glimpses of effectualness.  So many have been under the control of the enemy who planted subtle deposits of fear for years through platforms to which we’ve given our trust and they didn’t work.  But now it’s our time. We get to be alive for this! We get to be alive for the awakening and to bring the Kingdom to earth in ways we’ve never seen before.

(Melissa is speaking at the SEEC PAK Meeting Saturday August 15 at 10:00AM
held at Grace Church Willis TX. Click on this link: martygabler.com/pak/ )

Subjects for SEEC PAK Meetings

Are you wondering if you should attend the SEEC PAK Meetings August 14-15, 2026 (and the 2nd Fri.-Sat. of each month) at Grace Church Willis TX? Here is a working list of subjects that will be covered in coming meetings that may be of interest to you: The overall theme will be Strengthen Encourage Comfort. Some of the subjects that will be covered in the meetings (though not necessarily in this order): 1. Now that I Have Received a Prophecy. 2. Now That I Have Begun to Prophesy. 3. Prophetic Protocol and Sphere of Influence 4. Gifts of the Spirit 5. The Importance of Prophecy for Today 6. Hearing God 7. How and Why Prophetic People Pray 8. What is Going on With Prophetic People These Days? 9. The Prophetic Lifestyle 10. The Prophetic and the Local Church 11. Prophetic Worship—Personal and Corporate 12. Are You Ready to do Something You Have Never Done Before by the Enabling of the Holy Spirit to Strengthen Encourage Comfort?

Click on this link: martygabler.com/pak/

Word of Knowledge in a Dream

KATHY GABLER—A twelve-year-old boy I spoke with recently received a word of knowledge in a dream about what was troubling his friend as well as a word of wisdom that gave strategy to address it. Those gifts of the Spirit activated in his dream are marks of a new norm for him. Rather than a random one-time experience, those gifts are already active in him for his lifetime purpose. His dream started with a black dog and a white dog. That setting indicates a conflict in the soul, the black dog (which represents negative or wrong thoughts and feelings) was bigger than the white dog (which symbolizes right thinking and feelings and behavior.) In the dream he heard someone say that his friend was crying and upset because someone had brought a Buddha into her life. This twelve-year-old did not know dogs can refer to the soul in symbolism. I doubt he even had a working definition for the word “soul.” It is also highly likely he had no knowledge of the culture and beliefs of Buddhism. Yet these symbolic elements were in his dream, so that reveals the need for training and equipping him for new norms in dreaming in the future. 

(SEEC PAK Meetings Aug.14-15,2026. Click on this link: martygabler.com/pak/ )

He Redeems to Bring a Person Back to Their Path

MARTY GABLER—The “THY” of “Thy Kingdom” redeems a person, redeems a thing to bring them back to their path to God’s original intent (Kathy G.). Creation is groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God who will be manifest in the character of the “THY” of “Thy Kingdom” so that it can get back to its intended order. His character observed in His sons identifies them as His sons to people, to powers and to principalities. May we be so full of the character of this awesome “THY” that no demon ever need ask, “Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you?” (Acts 19:15; also Eph.3:10).   

Breaking Down the Prophetic Lifestyle

MELISSA GABLER— Let’s break it down. The Prophetic lifestyle (spiritually minded) is based on realizing there is more going on than meets the eye. There is an unseen realm always present and in action in the midst of the seen realm.  “For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense.” (Romans 1:20, AMP)
Human nature/soul (carnally minded) is largely based on the seen realm without much thought or regard for the unseen.  “Now the mind of the flesh is death [both now and forever—because it pursues sin]; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace [the spiritual well-being that comes from walking with God—both now and forever]; 7 the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,” (Romans 8:6-7).  The word ‘carnal’ in vs. 6 – sarx (Greek) – literally means “human nature”.  To be “human nature” minded is deadly? How so? Because human nature wants to be in charge — reasonable, logical and do it ourselves.
Human nature is carnally minded and operates in the seen realm which is based on man’s power, wisdom and experience. The Prophetic Lifestyle is spiritually minded and operates in the unseen and seen realm based on the wisdom and power of God for every situation. “If any of you lacks wisdom [to guide him through a decision or circumstance], he is to ask of [our benevolent] God, who gives to everyone generously and without rebuke or blame, and it will be given to him.” (James 1:5, AMP)
(SEEC Ministries PAK–P.rophetically A.dvancing the K.ingdom begins this Friday August 14,2026. 7pm-Marty Gabler: “Why We Need The Prophetic Now”; Saturday August 15, 10am-MELISSA: “Prophecy and the Prophetic Lifestyle”. PAK Meetings will be the 2nd Fri.&Sat. of each month. NO FEE. Click on this link: martygabler.com/pak/)

SEEC Ministries PAK–P.rophetically A.dvancing the K.ingdom begins this Friday August 14. 7pm-Marty Gabler: “Why We Need The Prophetic Now”; Saturday August 15, 10am-Melissa: “Prophecy and the Prophetic Lifestyle”. PAK Meetings will be the 2nd Fri.&Sat. of each month. NO FEE.  Click on this link:  martygabler.com/pak/

Gates and Traditions

KATHY GABLER—NEW GATES—Our traditions can be excess baggage that we have to unpack for the journey through a new gate.  We need to unpack passionless pieces and old seasons and expired obediences, those acts that were once a mandate but lost their effectualness as times and circumstances changed.  Israel had many parameters for sacrifice.  They were all teaching-tools and types to anticipate and understand the coming Messiah.  All their animal sacrifices were blood that was shed for an exemplary nation until the Christ would come to shed His blood for all mankind.  An expired obedience would be to continue the ceremony after the type had been fulfilled.  That translates in our day as expired legalisms that want to impose on us the traditions of men instead of the freedom of Christ, like trying to breed a red heifer or build another temple or enforce religious calendar activities again.  When God provides a gate, expired goals won’t fit through it.  (seecministries.org)

Jesus Walks Through Walls of Impossibility

MARTY GABLER—As the people of God assemble today, may the Lord walk through walls of opposition, walls of impossibility, walls individuals have built between themselves and other members of the body of Christ. May He miraculously walk through every barrier into our midst today so that He might release in us and through us His peace, gifts and redemptive power.“That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” He said.” (Jn.20:19, NLT)