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New Thoughts, New Gates

Gate-WoodGod builds gates through a new thought, a new opportunity or a word of counsel.  After wearing a path around your fence lines looking for answers, a new gate is a welcomed sight.  One of my usual methods is to confront problems headon until they are resolved.  One day I distinctly heard the Holy Spirit say, “Kathy, confrontation is not always the best method for resolve.”  That was not a  “traditional thought” for me, and it gave me new direction.  I could suddenly see the wisdom of not approaching a friend of mine and laying everything out verbally.  Due to my friend’s temperament and personality, confrontation would be gas on their fire rather than water.  That word from God became a gate into a whole new set of tools for resolving problems.

(This is the fifth excerpt [under the heading “New Gates”] from Kathy’s article “Gates In Our Fences” in Volume 16 Issue 4 of Marty & Kathy’s ministry magazine, SEEC Magazine.)
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In this 2 min. audio encouragement Kathy
declares: “Your Redeemer lives and He is
able to buy back time that the locusts have eaten.”
CLICK ON THIS LINK to listen: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-14T04_56_06-07_00

New Gates

gate_newOur traditions can be excess baggage that we have to unpack for the journey through a new gate.  We need to unpack passionless pieces and old seasons and expired obediences, those acts that were once a mandate but lost their effectualness as times and circumstances changed.  Israel had many parameters for sacrifice.  They were all teaching-tools and types to anticipate and understand the coming Messiah.  All their animal sacrifices were blood that was shed for an exemplary nation until the Christ would come to shed His blood for all mankind.  An expired obedience would be to continue the ceremony after the type had been fulfilled.  That translates in our day as expired legalisms that want to impose on us the traditions of men instead of the freedom of Christ, like trying to breed a red heifer or build another temple or enforce religious calendar activities again.  When God provides a gate, expired goals won’t fit through it.    

(This is the fouth excerpt [under the heading “New Gates”] from Kathy’s article “Gates In Our Fences” in Volume 16 Issue 4 of Marty & Kathy’s ministry magazine, SEEC Magazine.)

 
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HE’s Buying Back Time

“He’s Buying Back Time”

Clock n HandsIn this 2 min. audio encouragement Kathy
declares: “Your Redeemer lives and He is
able to buy back time that the locusts have eaten.”

CLICK ON THIS LINK to listen: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-14T04_56_06-07_00

Gates Into The Future

There is wisdom in honoring healthy boundaries in life and not damaging borders of ownership or lines of good conduct or established ethics or moral limits, etc., however, a gate indicates access beyond, not damage to a border line.  Hopefully, I won’t be written off as just having a blasphemous fit, but I open gatethink we might be more mature sons of God if we view Acts as a beginning rather than an end.  Would we stay within our old fence lines if we saw ourselves as Bible characters instead of mere men in history?  Many will immediately fear I’m risking the curse for adding to the book, but the church world is probably in more danger of the “taking away” from the book curses because we see the Bible as a book that has a beginning and end like any other.  I am not talking about a new book of Mormon or revising the Canon, I am talking about the Bible’s legacy being the eternal and ongoing Word of God.  I am talking about having a part in the big picture in such a way that our life choices and accomplishments actually connect to God’s plan for a generation beyond our own or a town we don’t even live in or an election that hasn’t even registered candidates yet.  I pray we begin to see that we dare not lock down in traditions of the past and refuse to enter the gate into all that God has planned for us to do in the future and in our lifetime.

(This is the third excerpt [under the heading “Old Fence Lines”] from Kathy’s article “Gates In Our Fences” in Volume 16 Issue 4 of Marty & Kathy’s ministry magazine, SEEC Magazine.)
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We believe that this issue of SEEC Magazine will edify you,

Marty & Kathy Gabler

 

Old Fence Lines

old fence lineWhere we have come from did not supply all the answers we need, so why would we choose to not go forward?  Maybe we cling to our roots and beliefs for security, but wouldn’t it be wiser not to limit ourselves by clinging?   I am not saying where we have come from is to be disregarded and disdained.  We weaken our own foundation for the future if we despise and criticize and live in regret of our past.  Where we have come from is a beginning.  We are instructed in the Word of God not to despise  the time of small beginnings, but neither should we stay in past times and smallness.  The past is obviously not all we will need for the future. 

(This is the second excerpt [under the heading “Old Fence Lines”] from Kathy’s article “Gates In Our Fences” in Volume 16 Issue 4 of Marty & Kathy’s ministry magazine, SEEC Magazine.)

 

Gates In Our Fences

While praying, I heard the Spirit of the Lord say He is going to put gates in our fences.  There is new ground He wants us to take that is beyond our fences, beyond our norms, beyond our paradigms, beyond our limitations and beyond our traditions.  He’s going to open new things to us and open us to new things.  I Gate_1know the Bible says there is nothing new under the sun, but sometimes we forget our God is not under the sun.  Besides that, just getting past misbeliefs can be a whole new world for us.  Going through a new gate is getting to change, getting to new horizons and getting to fulfillment, and its journey starts with a new thought that touches the future. 

(This is the first excerpt from Kathy’s article “Gates In Our Fences” in Volume 16 Issue 4 of Marty & Kathy’s ministry magazine, SEEC Magazine.)
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Click the link below to hear Melissa and Marty singing “Rise Up”
on Track 10 of their worship CD “An Encounter.”
The CD is prophetic worship.
Produced by FICMI Studio Conroe,TX.
Arranged and engineered by Jorge Gamboa.
* The audio is best enjoyed using ear buds or headphones.

Click on this link: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-30T20_14_28-07_00

 

THE WORD OF HIS POWER

GOD doesn’t uphold (“to move by bearing; to keep from falling”) all things by the word of His mere considerations or musings but by the Word of His power. (Heb Seed Growing1:3) That Word is described as the Word of His power. His power produces His Word to us, to be active in us, alive in us, doing surgery in us, healing us, strengthening us and improving us. The Word of God is mighty in you because it is the Word of His power. Declare into the atmosphere that the Word of God is mighty in you and active in you and upholding you. The Word is a seed and is increasing in you. The effect of the Word of God in you is increasing in you, in your family, in your church, in your community and in your nation. 

When Heb 1:3 says He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, one thing it is saying is that JESUS never misrepresented the Father. As the radiance of His glory Jesus did not glow but He lived out the character of God where it could be seen and benefited from. That is the purpose of the Word of His power working mightily in us.

(This is the last excerpt from Marty’s SEEC Magazine article, “The Word Is Mighty In You.”)

 

Your Big Brother Is Home

There was a little boy whose big brother went to war in Europe during WWII. His big brother had protected him from the neighborhood bully. But when the big brother left for Europe, the bully began to mistreat the little boy unmercifully, making his life completely miserable.

big brotherThere are people who have put forth effort and made attempts to get to goals that have been formed by convictions. Those convictions were set in their hearts by the movings of the Lord through teaching or prayer or prophecy. But circumstances have bullied you in order to stop your progress just as surely as a school bully stands in front of a smaller child. For some, even persons have bullied you emotionally and psychologically with their doubt, unbelief and skepticism. 

BUT your big brother is home! He has come in the form of the powerful Holy Spirit to be with you and dwell in you so that “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” and He “will never leave you nor forsake you.”

“The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: Surely I will not again give your grain as food for your enemies, and [the invading sons of] aliens shall not drink your new wine for which you have toiled;” (Isa.62:8, Amp)

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THE LAW OF GROWTH AND INCREASE

God’s Word is working in us to improve us and increase us (Col 1:29). His Word is in you. His Word is a seed. A seed does not exist just to be a little round thing snuggled up in the ground. A seed exists to sprout, to push up out of the ground, to grow a stalk and put out leaves and blooms so that it may produce fruit and that fruit is meant to be of benefit to others. God’s Word is a seed in us and it is apples-on-treegrowing in us (Lk 8:11). A seed cannot stay as it is, it must increase (Jn 12:24). There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace…(Isa 9:7). The seed in the parable of the sower is the Word of God (Lk 8:11) and because the Kingdom government of Jesus cannot stay the same but must increase, that seed of His Kingdom must increase in us. It must increase in each of us so that it can affect our families, our churches, our communities and our nation. That’s why the seed is growing in us.

(This is the eleventh excerpt from Marty’s SEEC Magazine article, “The Word Is Mighty In You.”)
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Click the link below to hear Melissa and Marty singing “Rise Up”
on Track 10 of their worship CD “An Encounter.”
The CD is a prophetic worship CD featuring the digitized
strings of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
Produced by FICMI Studio Conroe,TX.
Arranged and engineered by Jorge Gamboa.
* The audio is best enjoyed using ear buds or headphones.*

Click on this link: http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-30T20_14_28-07_00

We pray you are edified,
Marty & Kathy