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Issachar Is Crucial

MARTY GABLER—Issachar Is Crucial—The presence of and interaction with Issachar persons is crucial at this time. Their presence and active voice are required in all the seven mountains of culture. The ability of Issachar, the blessing, the anointing is in the Spirit of the Lord and we may ask and receive in ample portion. “The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.” (Isa 11:2) Seeing that we end up with the knowledge and likeness of those we spend much time with, we should press in to the Presence of God and be renewed in the Holy Spirit. Our overcoming now, and in the seemingly shifting future, is in our relationship with the Holy Spirit who is heaven’s delegate in the earth (Jn16:13-15).


What You Believe

Melissa speaking at Grace Church Willis–“You are currently living what you believe. What you believe shows up in your attitude, conversation, body, and the atmosphere around you (home and family).”   “Are your beliefs based on society’s experiences or on Kingdom promises?”  “If we don’t know the truth, we will be taken out by a lie.”


God’s Pleasure – To Give us the Kingdom

KATHY GABLER—Adam and Eve lived in righteousness, peace and joy which is the Kingdom of God, (Rom 14:17) and here’s the really best news of the day: it’s the Father’s good pleasure to give us that Kingdom (Lk.12:32)! Since it is the Father’s good pleasure to GIVE us the Kingdom, He gives us Righteousness, Peace and Joy and we develop a Kingdom lifestyle by learning to walk in what He’s given us. It flows like this: 1) He gives us Righteousness as a gift and then the daily Kingdom lifestyle challenge is refusing to let that righteousness be shaken or forsaken because of condemnation. If condemnation can take you to the mat, that’s a signal you’re looking to your own righteousness instead of the gift God gave. 2) He gives us Peace which carries exemption from emotional havoc in war. Peace is not exemption from war but from the emotional damage during war. So the daily Kingdom lifestyle challenge is to go on to sleep in the boat while the storm rages. 3) He gives us Joy by beautifully giving us so many reasons to be glad. Then the daily Kingdom lifestyle challenge is to calm down and be delighted. (Of course, that’s easier sometimes than others and easier for some people than others)


Time and Opportunities

MARTY GABLER—May we not focus on the loss of time and opportunities as we head into the last quarter of this year. But may we focus on Him Who is faithful and desirous to get us to appointed times and purposes and may He help us not to sabotage what He is working in us.  “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.” (Ps.138:8, NKJV)


Plan A or Plan B

MELISSA GABLER—This is the time to loose your grasp on plan B and take hold, with both hands, of plan A — Father’s original intent for your life. If your answer is hidden, ask God what the right question is in this moment. Ask Him what, in you, might be hindering the answer. Ask Him what you need to know today. He’s got plans for you, He is not into punishing you. His M.O. is all about forgiveness, redemption, relationship, and promotion, all for His glory. Hey, if He tells you it’s simply about timing then it’s really that simple. His timing is perfect. Look at the birth and life of Samuel. Perseverance is key! It’s going to be an amazing time heading into next year. Get ready for your answers.


Winning War or Just Surviving

KATHY GABLER—The key difference between winning war and merely surviving is our beliefs and attitudes, and both start  in our thinking.  That’s why God was trying to change Judah’s thinking and focus (Hag.1:5-9).  Rebuilding the temple would change their future. Rebuilding the temple would set their priorities in order and break the cycle they were in. Rebuilding the temple was about vision and purpose. When we have vision of a future that is different, better and beyond today’s limitations, we can muster the passion and zeal to take ground and get to change.


Escape Faults

MARTY GABLER—As the people of God assemble today, may each one look beyond opportunities to dwell on and point out the faults of others. May each one pray for the other that their faults not overcome them but that they escape faults and shortcomings and be blessed for the purposes of the Lord and the blessing of others.   “and never return evil for evil or insult for insult [avoid scolding, berating, and any kind of abuse], but on the contrary, give a blessing [pray for one another’s well-being, contentment, and protection]; for you have been called for this very purpose, that you might inherit a blessing [from God that brings well-being, happiness, and protection].” (1Pe.3:9, Amp)


The Faults of Others

MARTY GABLER—As the people of God assemble today, may each one look beyond opportunities to dwell on and point out the faults of others. May each one pray for the other that their faults not overcome them but that they escape faults and shortcomings and be blessed for the purposes of the Lord and the blessing of others.   “and never return evil for evil or insult for insult [avoid scolding, berating, and any kind of abuse], but on the contrary, give a blessing [pray for one another’s well-being, contentment, and protection]; for you have been called for this very purpose, that you might inherit a blessing [from God that brings well-being, happiness, and protection].” (1Pe.3:9, Amp)


Worship and “Sacred Location”


MARTY GABLER—Worship is not something that takes place in a “sacred location” or “sacred building” or “sacred ceremony”. Worship is a way of living before God as well as offering songs, readings, wave offerings and other such acts of adoration. The true worshiper deals honestly and openly with God at all times, not just in certain locations or at special times. (Jn.4:23) ”But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.” (Jn.4:23, Amp)

(Marty and Melissa have brought Jamie Lipe to the October SEEC PAK Meeting for prophetic worship. The Saturday meeting Oct.10,2026 begins at 10AM) Go to this link: martygabler.com/pak/ )


Participate in Resurrection Life

MELISSA GABLER—One way to participate in resurrection life is to speak what the Holy Spirit is telling you. This isn’t about having a microphone at church, this is about daily life. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” (Proverbs 18:21) Jesus is a perfect example of how powerful words are. We have that same power in us and it’s time to shift atmospheres with our words.


The Variables in Life

KATHY GABLER—We would rather have a list of absolutes about everything, but I suspect God leaves the variables in life on purpose because the only way to process them to meaning and worth is through relationship with Him.


Prophetic Worship With Jamie Lipe and Melissa

Click on this link: martygabler.com/pak/
Join us at SEEC Ministries PAK Meeting Oct.9-10,2026 for two days of Prophetic Worship. No Fee to attend. Jamie Lipe and Melissa Gabler will be leading us in worship and we will follow the leading of Holy Spirit in those meetings. There will be worship, prayer and prophecy.

 


MARTY GABLER—We prophesy the enemy’s defeat not only in speech but also in song. We not only prophesy the greatness of our God in speech but also in song. The singing voice is the joyous voice. The singing voice is the victorious voice. Paul and Silas sang the praises of God, not until the jailer shook, but, until the earth shook. Their praises brought their liberty.  “But as for me, I will sing of Your mighty strength and power; Yes, I will sing joyfully of Your lovingkindness in the morning; For You have been my stronghold And a refuge in the day of my distress.” (Ps.59:16, Amp)
(Join us at SEEC Ministries PAK Meeting Oct.9-10,2026 for two days of Prophetic Worship. No Fee to attend. Jamie Lipe and Melissa Gabler will be leading us in worship and we will follow the leading of Holy Spirit in those meetings. There will be worship, prayer and prophecy. Click on this link: martygabler.com/pak/ )


Just One Word

MELISSA GABLER—With one word God intends to align what has been out of line.  With one word He intends to right the wrongs.  With one word He intends to do what He had in mind all along. The word “radical” has become my one word declaration over many situations and people. It’s one word, but it says it all! Right here in the middle of some of the most chaotic days of most of our lives, God says one word — one very loaded and life-changing word.  It might seem like the end of all things, but fear not.  We are about to see the radical that has been happening behind the scenes. We might think we have seen radical happening already. Nope, we are about to see radical for real.  Isaiah 55:11 (His word will accomplish what He pleases) is a truth that we will see manifest in our day.  How so? Radically.  No need in any of us trying to figure out how, for whom, or even when. God’s radical is a steam engine barreling down the track building speed. Let’s just get out of the way. To you and your family I say, “radical!” To the United States of America, one nation under God, I say, “RADICAL!”


Mental Files Affecting Our Choices

KATHY GABLER—We all have paradigms and they are in our mental files and they affect our choices and our expectations. So, the challenge is to realize when our examples and typical patterns need adjustment.  That realization does not come by focusing on the pattern, but rather by following the Holy Spirit.  The adjustments will come and we will build newer models as we walk in fresh obedience to the Holy Spirit.  Fresh obedience will never contradict God’s principles nor His character, but it may reach past known borders and it will not bow to former limitations.


The Father Sets us in the Body

MARTY GABLER— As the people of God assemble today, may each one realize how the Father has set them in the Body of Christ so that they may function effectively in a Holy Spirit-coordinated symphony that lifts a harmonious praise to their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.   “But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him.” (1Cor.12:18, KJV)


The Month of October is For

MARTY GABLER—The month of OCTOBER is for looking beyond the immediate obstacles that so convincingly argue that we are defeated and our future is not worth looking forward to. Prov.4:25,ESV—“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.”


Dr.Laura Sanger Coming to Houston Area Nov.19-20

Join us November 19 & 20 at Grace Church in Willis, Texas for worship and three sessions with author and speaker Dr. Laura Sanger of No Longer Enslaved–Presented by SEEC Ministries.

Coming From Captivity

KATHY GABLER—By the time we find Judah in the book of EZRA, after being prisoners of confusion in Babylon, they are tired of looking for change and seeing only sameness.  As soon as they came from captivity, they set up an altar for sacrifice and laid the foundations of a temple.  However, in Ezra 4, it tells us their neighbors discouraged them and frightened them away from building. They’d hired counselors against them to frustrate them.  They wrote accusations against Judah and Jerusalem saying they would become traitors.  The government then stopped them by force and work on the temple ceased until the second year of Darius king of Persia.
By then however, the storms of life had layered grit and grime on their “windows” making it difficult to see anything encouraging. They couldn’t see the need to keep on trying!  They had no spirit nor courage to try again.  They said, “Not NOW, we haven’t even recovered from captivity.  We can’t deal with one more thing right now!”
Hag 1:1-4,  “In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai.  This is what the LORD Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come for the LORD’s house to be built.'” Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” (NIV)  Giving up because we are weary is not an option.


Hearts Washed by the Word

MARTY GABLER–When the foundationally soiled values of human reasoning foul the hearts and minds of church-goers (and former church-goers who have supposedly been taught the Word of God), and it becomes evident in lifestyle choices that do not glorify God Almighty, it is high time for people to avail themselves so that their hearts and minds may be washed with the Word of God all over again (Eph.5:26). It was not actually a legalistic preacher who said, “Be not conformed to this world” but Apostle Paul in the Bible who shared it for those who would overcome and be victorious.
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (Rom.12:1-2, Msg)

Upheaval

MELISSA GABLER–A phrase that has been going off in my head, which goes hand in hand with upheaval, ”It’s going to be wild.” I don’t even know what all that means but I feel it. I have to look at it this way, if we have been living a false norm/reality then the upheaval of the false by the true would be wild! “So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ‘If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32) The truth sets you free because the truth is the reality of heaven, the reality of original intent, the reality of God. This kind of truth subverts the puppet masters’ plans and replaces them with the higher government intended all along. We’ve been talking about the original intent of God for a long time now and we are about to see what that looks like. We couldn’t handle the weight of it before now because we have had to go through some exfoliating and conditioning to be able to handle the wild ride ahead. “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” (John 16:12-13) 


Anticipation

KATHY GABLER–God intends ANTICIPATION to be a tool for us as sons. We can anticipate anticipation increasing in days ahead because it is Father’s design for us to realize in advance and get a foretaste in order to participate.


Skillfully Discern

MARTY GABLER—May you skillfully discern when there is a hidden agenda in a question and not just simply answer it. May you discern when there is an accusation in a question and the asker is hoping you will give them “fodder for their cannon” so they can fire it back at you. May you be forthright and righteous in all your dealings with all people to the glory of our Lord as you watch Him intervene in your behalf. (Dan.2:22, Msg) “Blessed be the name of God…, He provides both intelligence and discernment, He opens up the depths, tells secrets, sees in the dark—light spills out of him! God… You made me wise and strong… ”  We are praying you discover daily our Lord’s discernment in your life.


Things we Don’t Have a Reference For

Melissa Gabler—We have been living in a very toxic bubble here in America. But that toxic bubble has popped and we are about to be exposed to things we don’t have a reference for. So it’s time to prepare, and here are ways to do that: 1) Prov. 3:5-8 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. *It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.” This is the antidote to rationalism which is based in our own understanding. Take note that not leaning on our own understanding and wisdom brings health (see v. 8 above)! Get in the Word and trust the Holy Spirit to reveal what you need to know.