God’s Assurance
Where or how do you get the promise of God? All I know is that one day I suddenly came to the realization that, over time, God has given me certain promises. Knowing the desires of my heart in prayer and meditation on His Word, God has given promises at those times also. But most often it has been like little discoveries, one here and one there. It’s something like, “I have God’s assurance on ‘that.’ It’s already done!”
Some promises include the fact that He will work in and through me to bring about the promise. Others, He has worked in persons and situations in such a way that all I could do was just stand back and be amazed (cf.Rom.4:20-21). There is an overall promise and purpose and as I have walked in it I have received other promises, some of which have already been realized.
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” (Rom.4:20-21, NKJV)
(This is the second excerpt in a series about “Promise” from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs,” Chapter Two.)
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The Holy Spirit Is More
You are more than your constituent parts by the power of the Holy Spirit. In your constituent parts, you are arms and legs and head and torso and talent and ability but by the power of the Holy Spirit you are much more today. In you, the Holy Spirit will be more than you are and, in you, He will do more than you can do. He will be what you are not and do what you cannot do.
“But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be…” (Acts 1:8, Amp)
Stay Close To His Promises
What is a promise anyway? It is something that began in the heart of a compassionate God. It is not something that He has to give us (cf.1Co. 2:12). The promises of God are what it is His desire to give us (cf.2Co. 1:20;Heb.6:17). Yet it is not like putting money in a vending machine, pushing a button and the drink we selected simply falls out into our hand. A “promise of God” is something that begins in His heart and is worked out in us through circumstances (cf.Phil.1:6), people (cf.Gen.45:7-8) AND TIME (cf.Heb.11:8-11).
(This is the first excerpt in a series about “Promise” from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs,” Chapter Two.)
Melissa Gabler and the Grace Worship Band * Worship songs from Concerning The Kingdom Conference 2013
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No Prision Or Chain Is Too Great
There are certain things we can expect if we have been “eating” things like the gruel of bitterness or disappointment. Such a diet renders one unable to give birth. There is 
no birthing of the promise of God in an embittered spirit. That which God desires to perform in and through us has no “fertile womb” in which it can be conceived when infected by bitterness.
A wounded spirit is more difficult to heal than a broken body. It is more subtle, yet more devastating. Cf.”A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones (Prov.17:22).”
Fraud, adultery and divisions in organized religion have not together taken a toll on the church to the extent that embittered spirits have. But no matter how devastated you may be, God has prepared deliverance. Before Israel could even come up with a plan of escape, God had a plan in a deliverer called Moses. No prison or chain is too great or too old for God to break (cf.Jer.30:8).
(This is the seventh excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs,” Chapter Two.)
When Eating The Gruel Of Bitterness
Task masters suppress and have full intention of destroying hopes and promises. During a particularly trying time in my life I had an opportunity, at his invitation, to spend some time with a minister I had known for a number of years.
We were sitting across from one another in a booth at a restaurant. At one point that evening, he was physically repulsed by my conversation and he actually got as far back in the corner of his side of the booth as he possibly could. Later that night that disturbing scene replayed itself in my memory.
As I wondered about the cause, I began recalling my words and my tone of voice. Because of certain situations I had faced in the past with persons he and I both knew, emotions which were marinated for months in bitterness dominated my portion of the discussion. It was then that I realized I had become a victim of the task master called Bitterness.
I had not eaten at the Master’s table in so long that my spiritual and emotional belly was growling painfully with the acidic gruel that Bitterness had been feeding me. That pain was eventually expressed in the form of acidic verbiage which stung and repulsed others.
If you submit to them, task masters feed you a spiritually malnourished diet that will keep you subdued while they do your planning for you. They preempt any goals or plans you had for yourself.
(This is the sixth excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs,” Chapter Two.)
Nourishment For Deliverance
Anything that has to do with deliverance, anything that would bring you to possess the land, anything that would bring you to a new chapter in your life must be nourished. If it is nourished it will overcome Pharaoh. God nourishes us and those dreams, hopes and promises He gives us so that they might live and deliver. Cf.”But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me. Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Your sons hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you! (Isa.49:14-17).”
(This is the fifth excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs” Chapter Two.)
Nourish The Dream
Moses was nourished in his father’s house for three months (Ex.2:1). Anything marked for the purposes of God must be nourished within us and given ability to stand. Giving ability to stand is in the basic meaning of nourish. “By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict (Heb.11:23).”
That dream God gives is no ordinary dream. Feed it. Nourish it. The false report may say, “Oh, but it is so skinny and frail, it’s almost dead.” Nourish it. It will come back strong. “Oh, but there may not even be an ember left because the original fire was built so long ago.” Patiently and persistently stir and feed the fire. It will come to flame again.
(This is the fourth excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs” Chapter Two.)
God Raises Up Midwives
Dreams and visions are relentlessly attacked by the enemy until: (1.) they are mature and defeat him or (2.) we relinquish them.
Relinquished dreams are no threat to our enemy at all. That is why God raises up midwives who will not sell out to Pharaoh. There is indeed One more desirable and more powerful than Pharaoh. Because God prepared God-fearing midwives, Moses (the offspring of God’s wise planning) was protected, kept alive and led Israel out of Egypt to the promised land.
God is ALWAYS FAITHFUL to raise up midwives to keep His offspring (promise) alive. Be sensitive to recognize them and not drive them away for they will help birth the baby of deliverance for your life. A midwife may be a prophetic word, a song in the night, a teaching or a compassionate person who may have no idea whatsoever that they are the midwife sent by God to help give birth to your deliverance.
(This is the third excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs” Chapter Two.)
The Offspring Of God
God’s will birthed in our spirit is given us as a dream (not necessarily the night time sort but a great desire) or vision. Our receptive spirit is the “womb” God uses to develop and grow that 
will. The “offspring of God” will despoil the enemy and render him impotent and that is why Pharaoh wanted to destroy all the male babies. It would be through one of the male offspring (the planning and product of God) that God would leave Egypt empty handed and utterly defeated.
(This is the second excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs” Chapter Two.)
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Don’t Let The Enemy Kill Your Dream
The enemy knows that if he cannot kill your dream, it will do him damage. The Egyptians made the Israelites’ lives “bitter with hard labor” and the “Egyptians used them ruthlessly (Ex.1:14).” Pharaoh also came up with a plan to abort the possibility of deliverance. His plan for the midwives was to slay all 
promise and even hope of deliverance. He wanted them to stay at it, be vigorous, don’t let up, slay them all.
I am reminded at this point of Jesus’ words “the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy (Jn.10:10).” The enemy quietly made a deal with the midwives to go about their destruction as quietly as possible – hopefully unnoticed (cf.Ex.1:16).
The devil wants you to die in quiet desperation, preferably completely away from spiritual help and fellowship. He wants your dreams and visions to die unshared, unvoiced and most definitely…. unfulfilled.
Just as a sheep is ever searching out life-sustaining grass, it seems that we are ever searching out God’s will. God’s plan is ever to reproduce Himself in us. That’s why He gives us dreams and visions. He puts a “bullseye” out there, aims us at it and desires we move in obedience toward the center of the target.
(This is the first excerpt in a series from Marty Gabler’s book “Why Sheep Have Short Legs” Chapter Two.)
Do Not Tread Thoughtlessly
Where you are standing may look like ordinary ground at first glance. Where you are presently may seem like a wilderness without purpose but there is an all-wise, loving Father who in His wisdom and within His customized timetable of events says, “Take off your shoes so that you do not tread thoughtlessly on ground and time that I have set apart for a purpose.”
“Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” (Ex.3:5, NKJV)
Keys In Recurring Dreams
Two keys in considering recurring dreams are:
(1.) Tolerating troubling, recurring dreams instead of resolving them can water a troubling condition and keep it bearing fruit in your life.
(2.) Get to the root of recurring dreams so they become a tool.
Deposits, downloads and disclosures through dreams only become a beneficial tool to us when we follow up with a real life response.
(This is the last excerpt from an article by Kathy Gabler entitled “Dream Deposits, Downloads And Disclosures.” The article was taken from SEEC Magazine.)
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Disclosure Dreams
The bottom line is that disclosure dreams reveal issues in our lives and if you ignore the dream, you ignore the issue. Then you coexist with it instead of conquering it. One of the most obvious types of disclosure dreams is recurring dreams or dreams with a recurring theme (i.e., similar settings, action, emotions, outcomes or atmospheres). These types of dreams can be from God or 
our own springs, but they are revealing something that we need to be aware of, address and/or resolve. A recurring dream can be an ongoing process so that every time you dream it, you are moving toward resolve. A recurring dream can become a personal indicator like our teapot telling us when we’re about to blow or when we are battling an old, familiar war. A recurring dream can be an ongoing process bringing clarity to a future mandate, obedience or strategy. A recurring dream can reveal a memory that needs closure. A recurring dream can signal an unconscious battle or fear. Or recurring dreams can reveal a destructive pattern or cycle that needs to be broken. I’ve talked to a number of dreamers that discovered two or more generations had the same troubling, recurring dreams because the root was not resolved in the first generation. We can pursue an understanding of recurring dreams and take issues to God for deliverance, resolve or healing and stop tormenting dreams, perhaps for generations!
(This is the eighth excerpt from an article by Kathy Gabler entitled “Dream Deposits, Downloads And Disclosures.” The article was taken from SEEC Magazine.)
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Dreams–A Communication Tool
Dreams can also be a communication tool that is a disclosure within ourselves, between our subconscious and conscious mind. Though these dreams may not be a telegram from God, they can still be sanctioned by a God-purpose for our life. These type dreams can help us “work out our own 
salvation,” by revealing issues that are causing dysfunction or lack or sickness.
These dreams spring from our senses, concerns, questions, thoughts, choices, emotions, desires and imaginings, “dreams which you cause to be dreamed” (Jer.29:8) or they spring from memories, beliefs, values, worries, fears, stresses, etc., “dreams come when there are many cares” (Ecc. 5:3). A common disclosure dream is that you are back in school, but can’t find your class, or you didn’t bring your homework, or you forgot your clothes! In either case, the disclosure of what is going on inside is that you are dealing with feelings of being unequipped or inadequate or you are fearing failure or humiliation, etc.
(This is the seventh excerpt from an article by Kathy Gabler entitled “Dream Deposits, Downloads And Disclosures.” The article was taken from SEEC Magazine.)
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Three Keys Considering Intercessory Dreams
Three keys considering intercessory dreams:
(1.) Don’t take vicarious dreams as personal threats, because being afraid will hinder your response.
(2.) God always gives insight in time if you are being called to make a difference.
(3.) Never fail to follow through with authoritative declaration of the will of God over the situation or person.
(This is the sixth excerpt from an article by Kathy Gabler entitled “Dream Deposits, Downloads And Disclosures.” The article was taken from SEEC Magazine.)
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Intercessory Follow-Through
God does not expose people to a troubling dream so they can be worried and tormented or start grieving early. Intercessors must shake off the emotions of the experience to be 
able to agree with God and change the situation. The biggest mistake with intercessory insights is the lack of follow-through by the dreamer, and that is usually because:
(1.) they do not realize it is a call to intercede,
(2.) they fail to accept the mission because of a sense of inadequacy or being unqualified as an intercessor,
(3.) they stay in the emotion of the dream rather than taking a position of authority and agreement with God to break an assignment or
(4.) they go into panic over timing, considering it a done-deal already.
(This is the sixth excerpt from an article by Kathy Gabler entitled “Dream Deposits, Downloads And Disclosures.” The article was taken from SEEC Magazine.)
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