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Beyond What we Have Seen and Heard

As the people of God assemble today, may they worship and hear the Word of God that shows them that their God is preparing things for them, to supply and equip them, that they have not yet even imagined; that Almighty God is working behind the veil that our doubt, fear and the obstacles of this age have formed.  (1Cor.2:9, CEV) ”But it is just as the Scriptures say, “What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds!”

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Order and Priorities of God

The thing about seeing Thy Kingdom Come is that it carries the order and priorities of God, even if that shocks or contradicts or shakes current theology, current cultures, current belief-systems or even our interpretation of “Church”.  Those three words, Thy Kingdom Come, give God access to every level of our lives that must change to align with His Kingdom.  Just as He sent the Last Adam, the Redeemer to bring His original intent and order of the garden into reach once again, so He intends to bring our core values into His original intent and order.  That will mean major shaking in our thinking, in our conditions, in our priorities and in our earth . . . as it is in heaven.—Kathy Gabler

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Interjecting the Positive

The lady was in the hospital for the third time in the last two weeks. Doctors were having a tough time getting her systems to stabilize. She listed her diagnosis on Facebook. Someone negatively wrote, “I have heard of that and it is not good, but I am praying and hope it doesn’t get worse.”  May the people of God develop the habit of interjecting a positive outlook when we discover ourselves in the midst of mindless and hopeless drivel.   (Rom.4:18a, Msg) “When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said He would do. ”  We are praying you discover daily that you are full of the Word of God and speaking it positively in every situation.

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Deflecting Missiles

We can deflect missiles the enemy sends against us. We can speak in such a way and act in such a way that those things “change direction”.  DEFLECT: “to change direction by interposing something”. We can interpose the Word of God, the will of God, praises, declarations, while thinking on the true things of Phil.4:8—noble, just, pure, lovely, good report, virtue. (Excerpt two from Marty’s article “Deflecting Attacks and Seeing the Intervener”.

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What Can Defeat

This is the day the Lord has made so…    I will rejoice and be glad for neither sin nor satan can defeat me because they were defeated at the Cross. Only ignorance of who I am in Christ can defeat me but I overcome that through the indwelling Christ.
16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].
17 May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,
18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];
19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Eph 3:16-19 (Amp)

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Deflecting Enemy’s Assaults

When praying recently I believe the Lord impressed strongly upon my heart that believers are able to deflect what the enemy sends against us. I saw a left arm holding up a shield like the shield of faith. I also saw a right hand of authority up like when a policeman is ordering a vehicle to stop. I heard that we can deflect all forms of attack, rumors, accusations and even disease. (Deut.28:7, Amp) “The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way, but flee before you seven ways.” (Excerpt one from Marty’s article “Deflecting Attacks and Seeing the Intervener”.)

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Going Through Doors


As the people of God assemble today may they be an encouragement to one another that each one go through God-ordained doors. May they walk through them, run through them and if they have to, battle through them!  (1Cor.16:9) ”for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”

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Dreams and Generational Pitfalls

I urge you to pay attention to your dreams.  I believe there is a release of dreams right now to bring insight for deliverance from generational pitfalls. I recently had a dream about a wolf, the devourer of finance and resource trying to get into my house.  There were family members from more than one generation in my dream needing to deal with the devourer.  Another dreamer mentioned she had just this week dreamed of her great-grandmother and two nights later her grandmother.  Both dreams were confrontations with the pressures of expectations and paradigms of those former generations.  God can wonderfully use dreams to bring healing to our generations and prosper our souls and our futures. —Kathy Gabler 

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Giving Strength

Have you ever been so weary that all you wanted to do was let your hands hang down, let your head hang down and flop down on a couch and hope the world would just go away? Then you know the value of an encouraging word or a touch or even just a bit of understanding. It is possible that if we will give strength to someone else and help support their feeble, shaky knees that we will be blessed and strengthened in the doing of such a selfless and thoughtful act. (Isa.35:3-4, GNT) “Give strength to hands that are tired…  4  Tell everyone who is discouraged… God is coming to your rescue.”  We are praying you discover daily that you are strengthened and are strengthening others. (Marty’s Daily Discovery as heard on TEXAS PRAISE RADIO at the bottom of the hour 24hrs/day.)

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Don’t Lose the Moment

We are moving into a time of more frequent and more intense, Sovereignly-Scheduled-Intersections with people/situations we are appointed to minister to. Everyone of us could probably tell stories about a breath-taking impression, when we sensed the power of God was about to manifest awesomely.  We probably could all admit times also when we were too scared to follow through or were hesitant and lost the moment.  I don’t mention these moments to guilt us for hesitating or for not having the courage to participate.  Guilt is not the goal here!  The Goal is to “Get It.”  And, we can be willing and fearless because our Father will grace us to “GET  IT!”  (Last excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s SEEC Magazine article “Sons Must Get It”.)

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