“It’s not easy being green”. The truth is that even if redefinition does reveal a right motive, a right heart, being repositioned is still a horse of a different color. At that point, Fear usually steps up to filibuster, talking incessantly to delay action and cooperation, like a child wanting to learn to swim but staying on the side of the pool in indecision, talking fast about everything that comes to mind, asking a thousand questions to delay the process. No, it’s just “not easy being green”, especially after you have already ripened in another place. The truth is however, that repositioning and redefinition into a new place does not mean we are “green” or the “new kid on the block.” A new place does not make a diligent man of destiny a novice starting over. On the contrary, God moves us to new opportunities because He knows we are prepared for it. (Twelfth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Fresh Obedience”)
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No Lesser Version
As the people of God assemble today, may they realize there is no reason for us to live a lesser version of what God intended us to be. Let each of us provoke others to be what they were born to be. “….keep a firm grip on the faith. The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ—eternal and glorious plans they are!—will have you put together and on your feet for good. He gets the last word; yes, he does.” (1Pe.5:9b-11, Msg)
You Haven’t Seen Everything
Sometime back we were battling with considerable financial and physical matters. Every solution I could think of was blocked and I couldn’t see any resolve, even on the horizon. Through the course of those days it seemed that a sense of panic would creep up in my gut. Honestly, I had come to the conclusion that we were in a pit that was hopeless.
After wrestling with this insurmountable dilemma for about two weeks, and arriving at certain negative conclusions (trying to choke back panic and hopelessness), I dreamed that I was standing in a huge, wide-open warehouse. I noticed a man walking toward me. When he got right in front of me he stopped and looked me right in the eye. He raised his hand, pointed at me and, matter-of-factly said, “You haven’t seen everything.” Then I woke up.
My foregone conclusions had me convinced that I had exhausted all possibilities because I felt I had seen everything (in all my musings and mental exercises) that might be brought to bear on the difficulties, and those things just simply were not available to us as a solution.
A trembling began down deep inside as I realized that the word in the dream was absolutely correct. I had not seen everything. Within 72 hours the whole thing turned around! Please understand that you have not seen everything. Not only have you not seen everything, but there are things that have not yet been formed in your behalf. (Compare Job 26:12-14; Isa.48:6-7; 1Cor.2:9) The cloud “the size of a man’s hand” did not begin to form until Elijah’s servant walked down to the sea and looked the seventh time (1K.18:44). Because the Kingdom is advancing and bringing with it facilitation for purpose “some of the best days of your life haven’t happened yet.” The Kingdom is advancing and, as you are in the Kingdom, it is advancing you with it.
I Can Run Through a Troop
Beside Still Waters – An evening devotion of reading the Word and prayer.
This segment is titled “I Can Run Through a Troop”
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Available for New Experiences
For God to get something transitioned from His heart into the earth, He must find someone or several someones to cooperate. In order to cooperate, those someones must be willing to add to their present experiences. They must be courageous enough, hungry enough to accept new experiences from God! Some people have nailed down the lid on their “experience box”. Others have closed the file on further experiences from with God. Some have closed the books to any more entries. Jesus commanded 500 of His followers, “Tarry in Jerusalem until….” Yet only 120 went to Jerusalem and “waited until”. Why should 380 people who have the attitude “Been there, done it, got a T-shirt” “wait until”? The Promise of the Father came. A group of people still received power from heaven. But the point is: 380 people didn’t get over their bewilderment and receive. 380 people ended up merely reading about what happened to 120!
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Beside Still Waters with Marty Gabler
An evening devotion of reading the Word and prayer.
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Adjust and Flourish
Our heart’s desire and sense of fulfillment will flourish when we adjust to 
His good plans in fresh obedience. It is not easy to be redefined or repositioned because pride and possessiveness will spring from their hiding places even in the most humble among us. Being redefined has a way of tearing through the outer skin to expose the heart. During redefinition tenure, ability and accomplishments are sidelined while motives and the good plans of God take center court. Why we do what we do is always under the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit as the Word tells us, “man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart”. The right motive is essential for true obedience and godly maturing. (Eleventh excerpt from Kathy’s article “Fresh Obedience”)
Reformation Day
We are celebrating Reformation Day! On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther 
nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the Wittenberg Church door in Germany. What had been covered over by centuries of profitable and manipulative tradition, was exposed and the truth of God’s Word, the Gospel of salvation by grace (Eph.2:8), was made known. There is ONE Mediator between God and man, not a Mediator plus someone or some religious/ecclesiastical system (Heb.10:10). That Mediator, JESUS, alone was appointed by God to make atonement for the sins of men by His death. His atonement alone gives only Him authorization to be our Intercessor with God in our behalf. All persons (no matter race or creed) are to go directly to that Intercessor JESUS (Heb.7:25) and trust only in this Mediator alone. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1Tim.2:5).
Not Experience
God wants the passion of His character released into the Body of Christ. 
God’s passion is NOT our human experience. The people who will know God will know passions that they have never known in themselves alone. They will know extents of emotions that they would never know within the bounds of culturally acceptable bounds. Our human experience wants limitations on all things and wants to control all things…. including God! One preacher put it this way, “The ways of God must be inscrutable beyond understanding. If they were not, they would be surrendered to man’s mind. And if to man’s mind, then ultimately to man’s control.” Cf. Isa 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Change and Re-evaluation
It is not easy to be redefined or repositioned because change stirs up re-evaluation and self-examination that shakes our self-image. If I have to change positions or titles, does that mean I was wasting my time before? Not necessarily. Holding a place until a season is fulfilled is part of the destiny process. Have I failed and therefore have to be replaced? No, being repositioned by the Spirit of God is about growth and effectualness, not failure. Am I being demoted instead of promoted? Paradigms and experience and old models may say “Yes,” but if God is truly in charge, He is always about maturity and increase. We can trust His title changes and redefining to position us for excellence and promotion in His Kingdom. (Tenth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Fresh Obedience”)
Video: “Dealing With Disillusionment”
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“Dealing With Disillusionment” Host: Marty Gabler
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