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Praying For Others

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As the people of God assemble today, may they call upon the Name
of the Lord in behalf of each one present who is suffering and each
one who needs an answer to their prayers. May they also remember
those who are not able to be present so that Mighty God intervenes
in their behalf.

“I pray that the Lord our God will remember my prayer day and night.
May he help everyone in Israel each day, in whatever way we need it.”
(1K.8:59, CEV)


Melissa Gabler and the Grace Worship Band
Worship songs from Concerning The Kingdom Conference 2013
Click below for “Our Father” worship music:
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-03-21T10_26_44-07_00

Just Get The Sound Out

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The sound Moses made in the bullrushes (crying) was not insignificant. It was embraced and carried into the house of Pharaoh for the saving of a nation. The baby, Moses, could not make that sound do anything. It is not up to us to make sound accomplish something. It is just up to us to get it out in the form and to the extent we have been made capable.

“There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.” (1Cor.14:10, WEB)


Listen to a short audio file of  MARTY  GABLER  speaking on
“The Voice Of God In Action.”
 CLICK HERE:  THE VOICE OF GOD IN ACTION

Shaking Norms

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While new NORMS sound really awesome, new NORMS also mean some old ones are going to be shaken. The kind of “shaken” I’m referring to is described in Hebrews 12.  Shaken there means “agitate, rock, topple, destroy, disturb, incite, stir up”.  That doesn’t sound like a line I want to get in deliberately.  Of course, Hebrews 12 is about a holy upheaval of old norms from the Old Testament times that set the stage for new ones for the New Testament times.  It was a forty year shaking during the transition.  The KJV basically says what could be shaken was shaken.  The Message puts it like this, Heb 12:27, “the shaking was a thorough housecleaning, getting rid of all the historical and religious junk so that the unshakable essentials stand clear and uncluttered” . . . an unshakable kingdom!

(This is the seventh excerpt from Kathy’s article “Thy Kingdom Come“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


To read articles by Marty and Kathy Gabler,
Jim Hodges and Simon Purvis
CLICK HERE—ARTICLES

Guard What’s Going Out Our Mouths

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May the Lord help us carefully weigh

what’s coming in our minds and wisely
guard what’s going out our mouths.

“Intelligent people think before they speak;
what they say is then more persuasive.”
(Prov.16:23, GNB)


Marty & Kathy Gabler invite you to read their
articles in the latest issue of SEEC Magazine.
Volume 19 Issue 2
CLICK HERE to read SEEC Magazine

Churchianity And New Norms

people dividedI don’t know what all the New NORMS are going to be for us and Churchianity 2015, but I know they’re coming because “Thy Kingdom come” is continually coming in increasing manifestation. Jesus described the Kingdom like a seed and a tree or yeast spreading.  That’s a picture of His ruling order and His authority increasing in our awareness until its influence is big enough to change us, our lives and our Norms.  And while new NORMS sound really awesome, new NORMS also mean some old ones are going to be shaken.  That may sound seamless at first, and we might think, “Bring it on,” but it might be more realistic to think, “How big a boy are ya?” Many folks could tell you stories of outliving major storms that were caused by Kingdom awareness increasing and old Norms getting shaken in their church.
(This is the sixth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Thy Kingdom Come“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


“What A Day Can Hold”
Melissa Gabler singing a spontaneous song in
worship at Grace International Church.
(Best enjoyed with headphones or earbuds)
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-11T22_38_33-07_00

What A Day Can Hold

MorningPraiseFrom the spontaneous song Melissa sang Sunday morning:
You don’t understand what a day can hold. With each breath you take things can change.  You don’t understand what this day can hold.  With the next breath you take life can change. With each step you take won’t you expect the impossible? Won’t you expect the answer? Don’t you understand that a day sits in the palm of His hand? With each breath you take life can change.  So, won’t you get ready for the impossible at your door? Because each day sits in the palm of His hand and there’s nothing outside of His grasp, nothing too far for His eyes to see.

You’ve got it in you to make it a new day, to see things in a new way and “impossible” will be at your door before you know it. You’ve got it in you to see things a new way. You’ve got it in you right now to make this a new day. Don’t forget, every new day of your life is simply sitting in the palm of His hand. He is there every moment with every breath. You’ve got it in you to see a new way and see a new day because you are in the palm of His hand and He sees everything concerning you. Not only does He see it but He’s got the answer. So that’s why you’ve got it in you to see things a new way. You’ve got it in you to make this a new day. Because oh, how He loves us. Oh, how He loves.


“What A Day Can Hold”
Melissa Gabler singing a spontaneous song in worship
at Grace International Church
(Best enjoyed with headphones or earbuds)
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-11T22_38_33-07_00

New Norms Forming

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A NORM is something that is normal, typical, the known and what usually happens. What if every time you prayed for the sick they were healed on the spot?  That’s not the impossible dream because it happened in the New Testament, but that’s not a NORM where I’m from, not yet at least.  What if we couldn’t guarantee Church-As-Usual in the future because the Holy Spirit started translating people during worship to go work miracles and come back and tell what God did?  That would be a New Norm! What if people went to church to DO what’s on Father’s front burner and participated in an intercessory, governmental coo that brought down the dictator over politics in a county or over child abuse or poverty in a region?  I declare, such New Norms are forming.

(This is the fifth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Thy Kingdom Come“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


To listen to Marty and Kathy’s teachings and
Worship Music: 
CLICK HERE

Though The Waves Toss

WavesRocksAs the people of God assemble today, may they know within their hearts and shout with their voices that God is in the city and though the waves toss and roar, they shall not destroy for the voice of God is greater. 

”Do you not fear and reverence Me? says the Lord. Do you not tremble before Me? I placed the sand for the boundary of the sea, a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass and by an everlasting ordinance beyond which it cannot go? And though the waves of the sea toss and shake themselves, yet they cannot prevail [against the feeble grains of sand which God has ordained by nature to be sufficient for His purpose]; though [the billows] roar, yet they cannot pass over that [barrier]. [Is not such a God to be reverently feared and worshiped?]” (Jer.5:22, Amp)

May You Go Up Hand Over Hand

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Though man may not give you an elevator or a staircase today, may the Lord drop a rope to you so that you go up it hand over hand and accomplish His agenda.

“…we always pray that our God will make you worthy of his call. We also pray that through his power he will help you accomplish every good desire and help you do everything your faith produces.”
(2Thess.1:11, GW)


 

Increasing Understanding

Can the Church, after this many centuries of preaching and teaching and experiencing God still have mis-beliefs and mis-understandings about Him and His Word? We don’t want to say, “Amen,” but we can say, “Evidently.”  However, the ManThinkingReadinggood news is that as long as we are not stubbornly or fearfully determined to stop and camp out on a “someday” or “no way” or “never now”, God who is faithful intends to open our understanding of “Thy Kingdom come”.  Just like yeast spreading, our understanding should be continually increasing and more and more folks should be realizing that “THY KINGDOM COME” means more than heaven “someday”.  It means more than Thy Salvation come or Thy Religion come.  It means more than Thy Tradition come and even more than Thy Church come!  It might hit a holy nerve to realize that the Kingdom is more than the Church and that it actually encompasses the Church!  The Church can be a touchy subject with us Christians because the Church cradles our concepts of  Christianity.  “Churchianity” provides the platform for our worship and represents God to a community.  Churchianity usually defines our expectations upon God and His Word.  Even so, when we pray, “Thy Kingdom come”, it can rattle Churchianity and initiate changes.  In fact, we need to be aware that “Thy Kingdom come” is going to cause more radical rattles this year, both personally and corporately, because there are some NEW  NORMS in the making.
(This is the fourth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Thy Kingdom Come“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


“Advancing The Kingdom” — Kathy’s message from
the SEEC 
Kingdom Conference 2014.
Click link below to listen:
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2014-05-04T04_57_51-07_00