Expectancy For The Extraordinary
May the Lord wash and cleanse you from every failure, every doubt and every judgment from others so that you may enter the New Year with expectancy for the extraordinary of Jahweh all through the coming year.
“26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Eph.5:26-27
Lifestyle And Purpose
I have heard a lot of talk about going on a diet for the New Year. What I believe the Lord has been wanting to get across to me is not so much the concept of “diet” but rather the concept of “lifestyle.” We don’t need to change meals so much as we need to change our lifestyle. The meals don’t determine the lifestyle, the lifestyle determines the meals and all the other things that accompany healthy living (including exercise). In order to be effective in our Kingdom purpose, we must live a lifestyle that serves that purpose.
“They will eat the fruit of their lifestyle. . .” (Prov.1:31, GW)
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End Well To Begin Well
As the people of God assemble on this Sunday, may they realize the value of ending the old year well that they may begin the new one well. May they turn from the uncompleted tasks and the failures of the past year that is behind them; turn from those things that seem to be accusing them and threatening them of repetition in the future. May they, in concerted determination, turn and face and bless and praise Jahweh who is the wise Securer of the future of His people, and move forward with faith in Him alone.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jer.29:11, NKJV)
Participating In The Already-Done
When Isaiah said, “For unto us a son is born” he was speaking in the prophetic perfect tense. Typically, the perfect tense in a language is completed past action but Isaiah speaks in the tense that is completed future action. As far as the prophet was concerned, it was already done. The whole matter of the virgin birth of the Son of God began to come together piece by piece, day by day and person by person. God worked through people, circumstances and time to bring about the birth of our LORD “in the fullness of time.” (Gal.4:4) Now THAT is the day Jesus was born.
There are events that shall come to pass in 2014 that Almighty God has already spoken and, through His workings, they are being formed even now. Let’s align ourselves and volunteer to be participants in those “shall be’s.”
“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,” (Gal.4:4, NKJV)
Taking Good Counsel
We are all likely to be making plans and setting goals for 2014 and beyond. Our basic plan (that promises to be good throughout the whole year) might should be to take good counsel and accept correction— that’s the way to live wisely and well. We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose prevails.
“Take good counsel and accept correction— that’s the way to live wisely and well. 21 We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose prevails.” (Prov.19:20-21, Msg)
Born To You This Day
Jesus was born on a REAL DAY in REAL HISTORY (“For there is BORN TO YOU THIS DAY” ) and is relevant to man’s needs and man’s cries today in the real world. He was born as The Answer and no one else and nothing else will meet the need within us nor will anything else fulfill us. He was “born to” us to be our “all in all” (Eph 1:23) and the world around us will benefit.
“Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” (Lk.2:10-11, NKJV)
Christmas And/Or Thanksgiving
When speaking of the birth of Jesus, it is interesting to note the particular terms Prophet Isaiah uses in Chapter 9. Jesus is referred to by two different terms. (1) “For a CHILD will be born to us” speaks of our LORD coming to live among men as Emmanuel-God with us. (2) But it is important for us to realize the impact of the second term used: “a SON will be given to us.” This is reference to the fact that God, the Father, is giving His greatest gift to mankind, HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON as the One who would grow “in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man” (Lk.2:52) and become our Redeemer. WE have been given, through the Christmas Advent, the Gift of Life which is not a thing, but God’s SON. It may be that Christmas is more truly Thanksgiving Day than the holiday in November. Blessed be the Name of the LORD!
“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given;” (Isa.9:6, NKJV)
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Extraordinary Events Of Christmas
The Christmas events were extraordinary. Angels were active and interactive with the characters in the event. Persons of high rank got personally involved at great expense. Individuals of lowly birth and lowly means played as important a role as those of higher caste. Divine intervention and protection and wisdom kept the characters in pace and in place. Signs and wonders served to help the characters get into position at just the right time to be supply for Mary and Joseph and the Little One they were privileged to raise up for the saving of a nation.
Let us do far more than delight in the extraordinary events of the Christmas Advent. Let us consider them as that which was initiated to become the ordinary, all year long, for those who would embrace this Extraordinary One born in such an extraordinary way.
“And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.” (Lk 2:20, Amp)
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Due Time
Expectancy comes alive at the intersection of Prepared and Due-Time. By the time the prepared son or daughter intersects with Due-Time, something’s gotta give, something’s gotta change, something’s gotta manifest in the earth as in heaven. An expectant woman goes through nine months of preparation and transformation to get to due time of delivery. People of purpose go through twenty days, twenty weeks, twenty months or twenty years, (twenty signifying the time needed to prepare and transform into God’s order), to get to due time. A holy EXPECTANCY announces you are on that threshold of God’s good plans ready to be propelled into what has been developing for tangible manifestation.
(This is the last excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
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In this 2 min. audio encouragement Kathy
declares: “Your Redeemer lives and He is
able to buy back time that the locusts have eaten.”
CLICK ON THIS LINK to listen: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-14T04_56_06-07_00
Misguided Expectancy
I pray release right now for those who are gifted, called, anointed and skilled for life purpose, yet are walking unfulfilled because of misguided expectancy. Expectancy falls short if “be fruitful and multiply” only means duplication or mass production. Expectancy is short-circuited if we are determined to fit the mold of a previous model. Expectancy is distorted if it is influenced by personal issues like a need for attention or affirmation or acceptance. Expectancy is diseased if it is driven by fear or shame or pride. So, let’s cooperate with Father as He breaks the thought patterns that lead to misguided expectancy so that we successfully break out of life cycles of frustration and disappointment.
(This is the seventh excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
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SEEC Kingdom Conference * Theme: “Thy Kingdom Come”
March 5-7, 2014 * Grace International Church * Willis, TX
Speakers: Jim Hodges, Dr. Don Crum, Marty Gabler, Kathy Gabler, Melissa Gabler, Simon Purvis
“. . .he talked to them about things concerning the kingdom of God.” (Acts 1:3)
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The Distinctives Of Our Obediences
In considering a variation on a theme (from my last post), there is a deep breath of freedom in realizing your rose will not have to be exact to a previous pattern. It is good news to know that even if you perceive your call and purpose, that still does not lock down every detail about its ultimate expression. As surely as we must all mature toward the image of Christ in character and relationship (as sons), so we must mature in our understanding of calling and purpose through the distinctives of our obediences. I suspect history will likely prove our footprints as unique as our fingerprints.
(This is the sixth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
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Expectancy: Variations On A Theme
Let’s take the lid off Expectancy through Variations on a Theme: I have seen artists do variations on a theme, like roses for example. With twenty artists painting roses, the 
colors and shapes and sizes and details vary to such extremes that the results are unique beyond imagination. I believe that it would help us clear some of the fog about our life calling and purpose if we expected a variation on a theme, if we expected our lives to produce a unique expression of obedience. For too long many of us have lived in EXPECTANCY that is limited in scope, especially regarding purpose, calling and fulfillment. Purpose often gets narrowed down to constricted categories as either religious, noble callings or secular, ignoble callings that are simply necessary functions in society. Experience and tradition narrow thinking even further by defining the most noble to be callings of God as those within the church structure or system. Even the gifts of the Spirit have been so narrowly confined that we don’t expect a word of knowledge outside a church service nor do we expect a working of miracles in secular corporations or classrooms. All these limited definitions have dictated our EXPECTANCY level and eventually our outcomes. The theme of all our lives should be to glorify God on the earth by accomplishing the work , (effort or occupation) He has given us to do, (John 17:4, NAU) There is no need to box that in, instead, let’s keep the theme of doing what you were born to do open to the Holy Spirit’s variations. Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to direct our EXPECTANCY and determine how we paint a rose in our lifetime.
(This is the sixth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
Click on this link to listen: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-30T07_51_04-07_00
Quenching Fiery Darts
There are some people who, throughout 2013, have tried to hold up the shield that quenches the fiery darts coming against them and their family and their church. But because of continued wearying circumstances, you have wearily lowered that shield and some of the darts and accusations have gotten through and done damage. Entering into 2014, you are getting that shield back up and into position by realizing and declaring, “But the Word of God says______.” As you quote the Word in the face of the incoming fiery darts, faith will begin to arise and you will, once again, lift the shield that quenches the darts. 2014 for you will be a season of quenching the fiery darts with the Word of faith.
“Above all, take the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” (Eph.6:16)
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Coming To New Expectations
Marty released a mid-year prophecy in July that God was breaking patterns. He explained that the patterns of thought or steps our thinking usually follows were being changed (broken and rerouted) by God. That, of course, ultimately means getting to different conclusions and opinions. I would add here that also means coming to new expectations. Old patterns being broken will include old cycles of memories and emotions as well as old paradigms that unknowingly limit God in our lives. Those old patterns broken will also make some of our unbelief and mis-beliefs obvious, and we will be freed up to move beyond them. So my expectation is new paths and new outcomes. The exciting point here is that if we learn to think more like our Father, our confident expectations (hope) will nurture genuine faith and all that God-pleasing faith can bring to pass.
(This is the fifth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
“I have held back the enemy by My Hand.”
In this 2min. Audio file, Marty Gabler brings and encouraging word.
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-04T13_06_15-07_00
“He is putting gates in your fences.”
In this 3min. audio file, Kathy Gabler brings an encouraging word.
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-04T13_14_04-07_00
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Marty & Kathy’s Ministry Magazine * Dec.2013/Jan.2014
SEEC MAGAZINE * DECEMBER 2013/JANUARY 2013
Volume 17 Issue 6
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ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE:
“Renewing Covenant And Moving Forward” — Jim Hodges
“Mature Son Results” — Kathy Gabler
“The Lord’s Resistance Army” — Lloyd Phillips
“Coming In 2014: A Heaven-Earth Collision” — Larry Burden
“One Voice Or Three?” — Melissa Gabler
“Wise Giving” — Joe Bogue
“What Kingdom Am I In?” — Simon Purvis
“Launching Into A New Era” — Marty Gabler
We believe this issue will edify you,
Marty & Kathy & the SEEC Team
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God’s Will And Timing
Expectancy can develop out of a seed in the soul (experience, logic, desire, opinion, etc), but it can also arise out of God’s good plans. When that is the case, God’s intent exceeds logic and desire and anything experience expects. History proves there is no guarantee that an expectation forged out of desperation or emotion or panic will come to pass, but a holy expectation coming up out of our spirit in agreement with God’s will and timing, will bring a God-forged EXPECTANCY and His expected outcome (Jer. 29:11).
(This is the fourth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
SEEC Kingdom Conference * Theme: “Thy Kingdom Come”
March 5-7, 2014 * Grace International Church * Willis, TX
Speakers: Jim Hodges, Dr. Don Crum, Marty Gabler, Kathy Gabler, Melissa Gabler, Simon Purvis
“. . .he talked to them about things concerning the kingdom of God.” (Acts 1:3)
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Holy Expectation
One of our spiritual daughters called to ask me to agree in prayer with her for clarity and direction because she felt it was time to start a business. I was commenting on timing, confirming a God momentum stirring us all to action and change. In that context, I mentioned my earlier conversation with Melissa and our discovery about the number twenty. I heard it take her breath as expectancy struck again. She reached for a penciled note in her Bible and then explained, “Y’all came to Spain in 1993 and prophesied over me. I wrote the prophecy down and have kept it in my Bible for all these 20 years. Every aspect of that prophecy has come to pass except the part about my having a business!” Well, talk about Divine timing, that conversation ended in holy expectation!
(This is the fourth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
Click the link below to hear Melissa and Marty singing “Rise Up”
on Track 10 of their worship CD “An Encounter.”
The CD is prophetic worship.
Produced by FICMI Studio Conroe,TX.
Arranged and engineered by Jorge Gamboa.
* The audio is best enjoyed using ear buds or headphones.
Click on this link: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-30T20_14_28-07_00
We pray you are edified,
Marty
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20–The Numer Of Expectancy
Recently, we received a text asking the biblical significance of the number 20. I’d remembered that E.W.Bullinger, in his book, Number in Scripture, said that twenty was the number of expectancy. I was on the phone with Melissa at the time I was searching out Bullinger’s book. I read aloud to her his comments on the number 20, mentioning Samson and Jacob as I did above. She said, “That’s interesting. It was 20 years ago I received that prophecy through Kim Clement about being promoted three times to a place of purpose.” That jolted me, because just three days earlier, I too had remembered that prophecy and had asked the Lord where Melissa was in the process of that prophetic promise. I had no idea it had been 20 years, suddenly expectation stirred in me. God had answered my question. The reason we had not yet seen her prophecy come to pass was because it involved a twenty year process to get to an expected end.
(This is the third excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
In this 2 min. audio encouragement Kathy
declares: “Your Redeemer lives and He is
able to buy back time that the locusts have eaten.”
CLICK ON THIS LINK to listen: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-14T04_56_06-07_00
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Genuine Anticipation
When speaking of expectancy, I’m not talking about false fantasies constructed in moments of distraction, but genuine anticipation that comes from hours, weeks and years of effort and pressing on. After enduring twenty years of Philistine oppression, Israel hit the threshold of expectancy and tasted the beginning of deliverance through Samson. After twenty years of enduring his father-in-law’s manipulations, Jacob finally breathed in the fragrance of expectancy and took possession of his wives, his property and his future. Twenty is the biblical number of expectancy, the kind of expectancy that comes after a long wait, a finally, an expected end. Biblical expectancy is the point when preparation brings results, the point when process yields fruit, the point when equipping fits its purpose. Expectancy isn’t a luxury, it is a necessity because it is both fuel for the journey and the light at the end of the tunnel.
(This is the second excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.” SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)
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