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Overcoming Contradictions

ContradictionsIf your health or finances or circumstances contradict your God-design and purpose and future, His will is that you overcome those contradictions.   So this boils down to two things in my thinking:  1) we need  to recognize the contradictions in our life and 2) we need to know that overcoming them will involve changing our thinking and choices.  I’m not talking about contradictions coming at us from Washington D.C. or CNN or TBN or our boss.  I’m talking about up close and personal, on-our-own-front-porch stuff that is hindering our purpose and future. The simple truth is that without repentance,  there is no change and without change there is no overcoming contradictions that keep affecting our life and our legacy.

(This is the eighth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


 


Hearts of Fathers to Children

FatherProdigalSonAs the people of God assemble today, may hearts of fathers be turned to the coming generation. May fathers in our congregations discern the potential of the youth around them and let their hearts be turned to affirming them, encouraging them and enabling them on to their destiny in Christ. May this be the most memorable Father’s Day with fathers and children turned to each other in love and in honor, grasping the heavenly Father’s heart for the generations to glorify His intent.

“May the Lord richly bless both you and your children.” (Ps.115:14, TLB)


 


Fathers Put Their Children on Their Shoulders

There is a statue in the Woodlands area just north of Houston. A child is standing on the shoulders of a man. The plaque at the base of the FatherChildShouldersstatue is a quote attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. It reads something like this: “The reason the present generation can see so far is because it is standing on the shoulders of the former generation.” Is the generation coming after us presently standing on their fathers’ shoulders? Does that generation even know that those shoulders are available? Have we taken that generation and lifted them, no matter what the cost, up and onto our shoulders? Are we expecting them to simply stand alongside us and inherit the same inadequacies and shortcomings we have been willing to live with? Some people rehearse to their children the failures and injustices and less-than-desirable qualities of their heritage. While some boldly abort the coming generation while they are still in the womb, some abort them in a more socially acceptable manner once they are out of the womb. In either case, the future has been robbed of their God-ordained potential. Perhaps it is the job of the mothers to push until they are born and then perhaps it is the job of the fathers to push up until they are securely standing on our shoulders. 


 


A Piece of the Bigger Purpose

Whether we each realize it or not, our purpose is a piece of the bigger purpose that God is stewarding. Perhaps part of your purpose is being PieceOfPuzzleGod’s expression of mercy in an office or for you to be the medicine of healing because you can make others laugh.  Or maybe He placed your skills and personality as a connector to get people to solutions in a community.  Most of the time we are not aware of how God is using the details of our daily lives as a part of His bigger intention, but God watches over you and who you were born to be.  He also intends that you outlive anything that contradicts any facet of your multi-faceted purpose and fulfillment.

(This is the seventh excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


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Marty and Kathy Articles Volume 20 Issue 3

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Marty and Kathy Gabler invite you to read SEEC Magazine  Volume 20  Issue 3. This is our 20th year of publication. May you be strengthened, encouraged and equipped.

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SEEC Magazine _ Volume 20  Issue 3

IN THIS ISSUE:
Bringing Sons to Glory….Kathy Gabler
Worship in Revelation…..Jim Hodges
Walking in the Spirit…….Lynn Burling
Reformation on the
     Horizon………Simon Purvis
Turn off the Projector….Joe Bogue
Where did the
    Promises Go?………..Larry Burden
Live a Legacy to
    Leave It………..Melissa Gabler
Amazed and
    Perplexed…………….Marty Gabler


Anticipate God

“Everything looks to you in ANTICIPATION, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.” (Ps.145:15, NET) It is quite difficult to BibleTurnPageanticipate the provision or intervention of God if we are not looking to God and His Word. When someone has attempted to say something hopeful or positive about the future I have heard (from Christians) statements like: “But they said ‘such and such’ on the news”. “But the guy who works at my office said ‘such and such’.” “But I read an article on the internet (that was written by a complete stranger without any credentials) and it said ‘such and such’!” Hey, what about NOT looking everywhere else and what about saying: BUT GOD IN HIS WORD SAYS….!


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Carrying a God-Purpose

(KG) Everyone breathing is carrying a God-purpose.  We are in 2016 to be sons and daughters of God making history in the earth.   Not one of SchoolBusPolicemanBoyus is insignificant or without a holy calling.  Whether we realize it or not, our purpose is a piece of the bigger purpose that God is stewarding.  You may be a school bus driver that God positioned in a sphere of protection over three children that the enemy’s trying to take out before they become a principal and mayor and police chief that they were born to be.  Perhaps you are raising a child that will affect the medical world in twenty years.  Maybe you are living in a particular county so that your taxes can help change it for a God-plan. God is bigger and better planned than the opposition that is against you.

(This is the sixth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


 


The Anticipation Factor

If a preacher wants to get us really excited, all they have to do is quote 1Cor.2:9 – “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” It is then, out of our lack and loss, quite easy for us to come up with all manner of things for God to show us and tell us. But don’t rule out the Holy Spirit’s involvement: v.10  “BUT God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” We must be in relationship with Holy Spirit to have those things revealed. He is the agent of the things revealed. Human lack and research will not get it done. That might even cause us to completely miss the largeness and uniqueness of what God has in store. We do not have to wait for heaven to see them and to hear them. Holy Spirit is the power-factor, influence-factor, heart-change factor. He is even the anticipation-factor.


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Repentant Thinking

ThinkingHandFace(KG) I came to a fuller understanding of biblical repentance meaning “to consider things differently and change your thinking”. My understanding was shifting drastically and I was beginning to think differently. That caused a passion for life and purpose and the future to stir my daily life.  In all that process, I was REPENTING and didn’t even know it. Now when I hear “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” it means, “Kathy, find out where you need to change your thinking if-and-when anything that God has seems beyond your reach.  Getting beyond contradictions of my misbeliefs opened new horizons!  I realized I was born again into this Kingdom that was not just “somewhere over the rainbow” someday, and I could have never walked in my life purpose  without those changes.  They were key understanding for me being able to do what I was born to do.

(This is the fifth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


 


Hearts That Anticipate

AnticipationLookUpAs the people of God assemble today, may they turn their hearts, thoughts and considerations to who God is and to HIS capacity and begin to anticipate what only God can do in this morning’s meeting, in our personal lives and in our nation. May our hearts anticipate what we have never seen so that we call upon Him expectantly.

“But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation, my God will hear me.” (Mic.7:7)


Marty is speaking at Grace International Church today at 10:00am.
Melissa Gabler will be leading worship.
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The Next Horizon

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May you reach the next horizon with strength to spare and may you rocket into
the heart of the God-ordained participation that awaits you beyond that horizon.
May you realize the knowing and joy and fulfillment of participating with our
Lord and His purposed-people over that horizon.

Jesus said, “You’re tied down to the mundane; I’m in touch with what is beyond
your horizons. You live in terms of what you see and touch.
I’m living on other terms.” (Jn.8:23, Msg)


 


Power and Authority Within Reach

(KG) Eventually, I came to a fuller understanding of biblical repentance meaning “to consider things differently and change your thinking”.  I HandReaching3came to understand it to be “reconsidering for the purpose of aligning your thoughts with God’s”.  As the process of repentance opened my understanding, even the phrase “the Kingdom of Heaven ” came to more meaning.  I discovered that the Kingdom of Heaven was not a place with God that we can only reach after death, but that the Bible concept of the Kingdom of Heaven is His authority, power, order and ruling presence everywhere, at all times, both in eternity and the now.  According to Psalm 145, His Kingdom always has been and always will be.  Another major turn in my understanding then was that when Jesus said “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” it is a major contradiction to think He meant that it is almost time to leave the earth to go to another place when He was actually saying the authority and power of God is within reach on earth!  That made me realize that when Jesus healed some people, He said, “The Kingdom has come upon you.”  He had a grasp on God’s order in Heaven and was pulling it into earth to heal.

(This is the fourth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


 


Avoid Cannon Fodder

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May you skillfully discern when there is a hidden agenda in a question and not just simply answer it. May you discern when there is an accusation in a question and the asker is hoping you will give them “fodder for their cannon” so they can fire it back at you. May you be forthright and righteous in all your dealings with all people to the glory of our Lord as you watch Him intervene in your behalf.

“Blessed be the name of God, forever and ever… , He provides both intelligence and discernment, He opens up the depths, tells secrets, sees in the dark—light spills out of him! God of all my ancestors, all thanks! all praise! You made me wise and strong… ” (Dan.2:21b-23a)


 


Contradiction to Your Purpose

Resurrection out of Contradiction happening through process would involve repentance.  Let me give an example that explains that thinking:  I SunlightCloudsGoldgrew up on the church bench and when I heard, “Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” I thought it meant, “Get right with God, girl, because you may be at the pearly gates any minute!”  In addition to that, my only concept of “repent” was to confess sin so you won’t go to hell.  So, my deduction was that we are on earth just to get saved, stay saved and then go to heaven.  I had no idea that conclusion was an absolute CONTRADICTION to God’s specific purpose and future planned for my life.  All I knew was, that as a teenager, that conclusion was a rather un-exciting view of life because staying saved didn’t sound like an adventure to me and Heaven sounded like more of the same, too boring to my young heart to motivate my daily life.  I was completely unaware that my thinking contradicted seeking the Kingdom, God’s power dimension, and that comprehensively contradicted accomplishing what I was born to do.
(This is the third excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


 


Your Home #31

SummerSandFlipflopsYour Home #31—May you and your family have the most
pleasant and relaxing summer you have ever enjoyed.
May your days be filled with adventures, discovery,
friends, family and fun. May the Lord sooth your
soul and restore you through them all.

”He refreshes and restores my soul (life);” (Ps.23:3a, Amp)


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Sometimes Rain

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(KG) It is time to overcome the smothering heaviness that contradicts God’s design and desire for your life. God knows I think in terms of cut-to-the-chase and quick results, so He patiently began to tweak my expectations a bit.  He pointed out to me that the resurrections coming in people’s lives may not be a sixty-second earthquake.  Some will break through contradictions one layer at a time.  I knew He was talking PROCESS which can mean a long rain rather than a lightning strike.

(This is the second excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


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Heads Above Flood Waters

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As the people of God assemble today, may they discover that in the midst of their corporate prayers, praises and fellowship that they are getting their heads above the flood waters of circumstances because the Light and presence of God Almighty is drawing them up into His arms and His purposes with His enablements.

”God thunders across the waters, Brilliant, his voice and his face,
streaming brightness— God, across the flood waters.” (Ps.29:3, Msg)


 


In Spite of the Dominoes

Have you felt lately that you were being assailed? It is difficult to replace that biblical description of what some of us have been under recently. Fallingdominoes“ASSAIL”: to attack with violence, to assault; to attack with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character or conduct; to shout at. Kathy and I have been assaulted with certain circumstances since the first of the year that have been building like a domino effect. Last night, sitting in my prayer chair, sometime after 2:00am it was as though I could hear a distant, faint laughter accompanied by a taunting voice saying, “And you thought that you would escape such circumstances.” This morning Kathy sat down at the piano amid the dampness and odor of mold and mildew and we began to sing of our Father’s faithfulness and we sang the names of our LORD that we worship and call on when “dominoes” are falling right and left. We decided to make our praises louder, louder than our racing hearts and louder than the clacking and falling “dominoes”. There is ample evidence all around us that we have been assailed but there is also a blessed assurance that our Father is releasing His marvelous favor and lovingkindness in the midst of the assault and the assailant is being put to flight.

”Blessed be the Lord, For He has shown His marvelous favor and lovingkindness
to me [when I was assailed] in a besieged city.” (Ps.31:21, Amp)


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Resurrection out of Contradiction

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One of the ways I get a download from God is that I suddenly see a scene like a photo or video and that glimpse deposits an awareness or insight from God’s perspective or intentions on a matter.  In early January, a friend told me a vision she’d had.  She saw a man rise up and burst through several layers of dirt to stride forward powerfully, crushing the remains scattered on what was obviously a battlefield.  Her vision was a second witness to the declaration Marty released for this year about people coming up out of the rubble of circumstances.  That second witness ignited my expectations.  When that vision replays in my mind, I hear, like lyrics from a song,  It is time for RESURRECTION  OUT OF CONTRADICTION.

(This is the first excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Resurrection out of Contradiction“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)


 


Daily Discoveries with Marty Gabler

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No More Stagnation

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May that which stagnates stagnate no longer. May the Lord put doors in obstacles for
you to go through or else, remove them. May you move forward with markable progress.

“The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes
my feet like hinds’ feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk]
AND MAKE [spiritual] PROGRESS upon my high places [of trouble, suffering,
or responsibility]!” (Hab.3:19, Amp)


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God Remains Faithful

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Regardless the moon, the trial or the circumstance, Faithful
God remains faithful to His Word and His people. “God is
faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to
His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were
called into companionship and participation with His Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(1Cor.1:9, Amp)

(This is the last excerpt from Marty Gabler’s article “Regardless
the Moon“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)


 


Heart Filled With Gladness

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Council for Living #5—Let your heart be filled with gladness as you recount and
help others to dwell on the goodness of God. Pray about all matters and find
ways of giving thanks to God, both in action and in words.

”Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always); Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly]; Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].” (1Thess.5:16-18, Amp)