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All Ye Faithful Come

Free Church SnowAs the people of God assemble today may “all ye faithful” come, assemble today (whether with family or in a church building or a prison or in some place non-typical) and be joyful and triumphant as we adore Him: CHRIST THE LORD, JESUS, KING OF THE JEWS, SON OF THE MOST HIGH, THE HOLY CHILD, SON OF GOD, GOD MY SAVIOR. (Luke Chapter One) We will be joyful in considering His names and titles and all their implications for Israel, for us and for the nations as were Gabriel and Mary. Let us give voice to those names and titles today with expressions of hope.

Team Gabler – Christmas Thoughts

Team Gabler will be live Christmas morning at 9:00 Central. on Marty Gabler’s Facebook page.
Theme: “Christmas Thoughts”
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Christmas Thoughts Gablers

Thoughts of Christmas

Merry Xmas GablersMARTY, KATHY, MELISSA — Thoughts of Christmas
MARTY—Jesus, son of Abraham and son of David, was born when the seed of Abraham was a despised people and tributary to the Roman yoke and when the house of David was buried in obscurity. The performance and provision of God comes when circumstances would place upon it the heaviest it has to offer. Ease and convenience are not the components of fulfillment. The CHRISTMAS story is a story of hope in the face of all that is contrary. “Against all odds, when it looked hopeless, Abraham believed the promise and expected God to fulfill it. He took God at His word…” (Rom.4:18a)
KATHY— Growing up on Abraham Avenue, Zacharias, Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary had no idea how they would fit in the plans of God and the history of man. Amid all their lessons in history and prophecy from the Torah, they had never pictured themselves as key players in the greatest story ever told. However, their lives were divinely positioned for the plans of God. God intends your life to be spent to His glory. (Jer.29:11)
MELISSA—Yesterday I was praying over a situation for which I have no answers and can do nothing about.  As soon as I prayed I heard, “Now, let go of all of your ideas of how this thing needs to be worked out and let Me have it.” As we head into CHRISTMAS and a new year may we lay down every weight, worry, and preconceived idea of what the will of God should look like in our current situations, and leave it in the capable hands of the One Whose birth we are celebrating! Have a very Merry Christmas and may you find peace unspeakable in the decision to trust the One who already set us free.

What if we are It?

MELISSA — Even though the sky is clearing there may be a storm or two that pop up as we head into the God ordained days ahead. No worries though, the storms have to “be still” and bow to the intention of God Almighty. In prayer the other night I heard this after it came out of my mouth, “Your Kingdom is over this nation and you are releasing another increment upon us.” What if we are that increment?! What if we are the stealth measures He is putting in place to release a deeper increment of His Kingdom on this earth? Me thinks we are! 

The Full Cup of the Amorites

KATHY—We have never been where we stand right now as the Church or as the Nation.  For over 100 years, the Church has been deliberately undermined as a godly force in our culture and our Nation has been systematically sabotaged, but “the cup of iniquity of the Amorites is full”, (100 years and 100% full!)  The meanings of the word “Amorite” tell the story graphically: the iniquity (darkness) of the “Top of the Mountain controllers” is FULL!  The iniquity (injustice) of the Public and the Prominent is FULL!  And just like God gave the Amorites centuries to repent but they would not, God has given old-bloodline world controllers centuries to repent but they have not.  So to quote 2Kings 17:17 again, God has had enough.  Justice will be ugly for the Public and Prominent in coming days, but justice now will be deliverance for generations to come, and God will avenge the innocent.

Going Beyond Temptation, Neglect and Lethargy

There are a variety of excuses for not going to the next level or through God-ordained doors of opportunity. Some of the doors we are supposed to go through are just beyond temptation. Some of them are just beyond ignorance and neglect and some are just beyond lethargy. Temptation can be resisted, ignorance can be displaced by willful pursuance of knowledge and wisdom. Neglect can be exchanged for responsible activity and lethargy can be handled by self-government. Don’t get stuck in the past, don’t even get stuck where you are. Isa.43:18—“Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old.  19 Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” There are people/family waiting for us to make the right choices to get beyond the hindrances that stand between us and the next level in advancing the Kingdom purposes of Yahweh in this earth.

Whose Rules and Whose Results?

MELISSA—It’s making sense now why we don’t see many signs, wonders and miracles.  We have lived so long under and believed the rules of engagement of an evil agenda. As disgusting as this is let me say it like this, we have basically had a relationship with this evil agenda causing us to operate under man’s wisdom that has been shaped by the fear this agenda produces to the point that we have almost been completely sterilized by it.  Who knew how massive the deception had become? This is why this awakening is coming in phases and not all in one event.  It’s too big for one moment. The rules of engagement change when my relationship is with my King and not the enticing spirit of the age.  When my identity comes from relationship with Him I don’t live by society’s rules on life, love and prosperity.  I live by Kingdom rules.  The intensity has cranked up but it’s leading to a Kingdom invasion through those that engage to win.

Not too Weary or too Weak

KATHY–HOWEVER, I declare we are not too weary or too weak to participate with our God because we know what the Lord told Judah that day in 2Ki 19:6, and I believe it’s a prophetic word for us today.  God is going to deliver His people and our nation from Evil!  We need to be AWARE of that and PARTICIPATE!  The Lord said through Isaiah:  “Don’t be afraid.  It’s Me that’s being blasphemed.  Behold, I will put a spirit in (your enemy) so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword there.”  That sounds like God’s gonna turn the tables. It sounds like our enemies will be taken out by insiders and their own camp will betray them.  Sure enough, in Hezekiah’s distress the word of the Lord came to pass. Whether Sennacherib believed Judah’s God would help them or not, he heard the rumor of the Angel of God massacre that left 185,000 Assyrian corpses in their camp! So Sennacherib “got out of Dodge”, but when he went back home, his own sons killed him. Isaiah’s prophetic word already came to pass then and it will once again.  We are not likely to hear it on the 6:00pm fake news, but God is sending angels to help us prevail over this present darkness.  Whether that darkness is evil politics or greedy schemes or 100 year old strongholds or impossible situations or personal wars in our backyard, we are being delivered from evil!

Impartation of Holy Spirit

As the people of God assemble today may they realize that they are not forsaken or forgotten but they are experiencing those things that will show them approved at the next level of function in the Kingdom of God. May they throw off self-pity, self-doubt and self-judgment as they begin to release the enablements that Holy Spirit has been imparted to them for. 1Pe.1:2,TPT—“You are not forgotten, for you have been chosen and destined by Father God. The Holy Spirit has set you apart to be God’s holy ones, obedient followers of Jesus Christ who have been gloriously sprinkled with his blood. May God’s delightful grace and peace cascade over you many times over! ”

Processed to Stand in the Next Level

It could be, perhaps, that if you are (1) in a wilderness (Moses), (2) a prison (Peter), (3) a boat filling up with water (disciples on lake) or (4) the middle of a group of people on their way to throw you off a cliff (Jesus—He went from being little known to becoming widely known Lk.4:28-30) that you are not forsaken or forgotten about or being punished. Look what Jesus got to experience going to the next level: v.30-“Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.”-What did that look like? Just exactly how did that happen? Not many people in history (if any) have experienced something on that level. V.32 speaks of a new level of authority after that; casting out demons effortlessly, diseases healed. It may be that you are being processed to be able to stand in the next level.