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God’s Original Intent for You

EarthSpaceThe beauty is you just live your personal Jeremiah 29:11, and watch God.  All
you have to do is do what you were born to do, and stop allowing fear to guide
your life.  You see, fear makes you think you don’t have anything specific to do,
you missed it, you don’t deserve it.  God has an original intent for you personally
that is absolutely connected to His original intent for this earth.

(This is the fourth excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “Change-Agents“ which was
published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. )


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Marty and Kathy


Stronger and Stronger

WalkingForwardAs the people of God assemble today, may they
hear and experience the powerful Word of God
that propels them forward and may they go into
the coming week stronger than the week before.

”The righteous shall move onward and forward;
those with pure hearts shall become stronger
and stronger.” (Job 17:9, Living Bible)


 


The Tide is Turning

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May the Lord turn the tide that has pushed against you and brought weariness as you have tried to press forward. May you flow, full sail, into victory after victory as the hand of God assures your overcoming.

“Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs in the camp of the saved? “The hand of God has turned the tide! The hand of God is raised in victory! The hand of God has turned the tide!” Ps.118:15-16, Msg


SEEC Ministries International (Marty and Kathy)
12th Annual Kingdom Congress
March 6-8, 2019  *  NO FEE
Marty, Kathy and Melissa Gabler, Jim Hodges,
Simon Purvis, Larry Burden, Dr. Don Crum
Click on link for info and updates:
KINGDOM CONGRESS 2019


Change-Agents Waking Up

SignWakeUp(Melissa G.) We are not sissies.  We have the DNA, the breath of THE all powerful God in us.  We can be that Change-Agent wherever we are! Here’s something else about a Change-Agent: they stay in their ordained sphere and deposit heaven there.  They do not go running all over the world looking for the bad guys.  Just imagine Change-Agents waking up all over the world carrying the atmosphere of the Kingdom right in their own region.  This Kingdom is way more potent than any other kingdom we see activated right now, so can you imagine what this thing is about to look like?! I’m getting excited over here!

(This is the second excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “Change-Agents“ 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.)


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Sowing The Wind

SOWING THE WIND–There are people who have been sowing the wind who are
WindBlowTreegoing to reap the whirlwind. We will observe it and understand what that means
in real terms before the end of this year.  They are creating movement, 
adding to movement that causes destruction in lives and nations. Just
like the moving of wind makes leaves move and fruit fall from trees and 
limbs fall out of trees and trees to fall over, etc., they are involving themselves 
and using their influence to cause a damaging movement. They are causing 
movement that does harm and, if they do not repent, they are going to reap 
movement upon themselves that causes far more harm than they have caused.
”Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, they’ll harvest tornadoes.” (Hosea 8:7, Msg)


SEEC Ministries International (Marty and Kathy)
12th Annual Kingdom Congress
March 6-8, 2019  *  NO FEE
Marty, Kathy and Melissa Gabler, Jim Hodges,
Simon Purvis, Larry Burden, Dr. Don Crum
Click on link for info and updates:
KINGDOM CONGRESS 2019


A Change-Agent’s Life

RenewMind(Melissa G.) “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2) That’s a Change-Agent’s life right there.  We PROVE the good, acceptable and perfect will of God.  How? By changing our thought habits.  We meditate on God’s will, His original intent for this earth.  We stop fixating on the enemy’s war around us by realizing his war has intensified because he is feeling the pressure of this never-ending Kingdom in Luke 1.  We turn our thoughts toward that powerful fact.  We engage in power, love, and a sound mind by dumping fear-thoughts that have wreaked havoc (2 Timothy 1:7).  This is all possible in our lifetime!

(This is the first excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “Change-Agents“ 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.)


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


Good Things Flow

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May good things and giftings, and words of encouragement and enabling spring up out of you in this season like a spring that is beginning to flow. May all the debris of uncertainly and past failures and criticisms blow completely away as the good things flow unhindered to bless others.

”The good man, from his [inner] good treasure, brings out good things…” (Matt.12:35a, Amp)


SEEC Ministries International (Marty and Kathy)
12th Annual Kingdom Congress
March 6-8, 2019  *  NO FEE
Marty, Kathy and Melissa Gabler, Jim Hodges,
Simon Purvis, Larry Burden, Dr. Don Crum
Click on link for info and updates:
KINGDOM CONGRESS 2019


Keenly Watchful to Detect Danger

Alarmclock(Melissa G.) Yes, it has come to this: Be vigilant – keenly watchful to detect danger; ever awake and alert; sleeplessly watchful. (dictionary.com) Let me go ahead and say, this is not a “you deserve a spanking for allowing the world to go down the toilet” article.  Rather this article is aimed at being an alarm clock to wake up God’s sleeping giants to war! Is that you? Well, you’re the one reading this right now, and that is NO COINCIDENCE! So, here’s your wake up call, you beautiful heavenly-Change-Agent, you! What is a heavenly Change-Agent? It’s one who makes a difference wherever they are because they carry Heaven in them.  When I say Heaven, I mean one who carries the original intent of God wherever they go.  What is God’s original intent? Heaven on earth, a Kingdom without end (Luke 1:31-33).  The difference between our Change-Agents and the ones making the news right now is that we cause life, healing, peace, hope, restoration—not death and destruction!  
(This is the first excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “Change-Agents“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)


Keeping in Tune

OrchestraTuningAs the people of God assemble today, may they keep in tune with one another letting the Word of Christ permeate their thoughts, songs and thanksgiving. May there be a sharing of the Word and good common sense for the coming year.

“Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.” (Col.3:15, Msg)


Good Times

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In the year to come as you walk before Him
in the light of His Word and trust in Him,
may our beneficent Lord grant you good
times, happy times and times of celebration.


Listen to a short audio file of MELISSA GABLER speaking.
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“Everything Is Set Up For You To Cross The Finish Line.”


God-enabled Enlargement

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May you sprout out on every branch and may every bloom become valuable fruit.
May you labor under and rejoice and revel in awesome, excruciating growing
pains that bring you to the height of your Lord’s expectations for you in this year.
No more withering, no more stunted growth but God-enabled enlargement,
production, extension, multiplication and proliferation be unto you for the
glory and the Name’s sake of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and His fame in the earth.


Marty and Kathy invite you to Kingdom Congress 2019
12th Annual Kingdom Congress
March 6-8, 2019  *  No Fee
Info and updates:
KINGDOM CONGRESS 2019


Fertile Ground for Your Purpose

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May the Lord make the coming year, the people, circumstances and
time of it, a fertile ground for your purpose and destiny to grow in.
May you grow beyond all the bounds of what you have been told you
would never be and never accomplish.  May you outgrow the small
view and reputation that family, acquaintances and culture have
believed they had every right to keep you in.  


9th Annual Kingdom Equipping Congress
March 2-4, 2016
Info and updates: KINGDOM EQUIPPING CONGRESS 2016

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2016 Declaration #7

I DECLARE: **7. There will be an effective Kingdom expression of the present generation in the coming year.
FatherSonBuildThere will not simply be talk and complaining about unacceptable issues but unified participation to bring about transformation.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS AN EXPRESSION IN EVERY GENERATION.
–What the former generations did not/could not express, we will.
–What our parents were not, we can be.
–What has not been accomplished in past generations can be accomplished in OUR generation…. in US.

Phil.3:13 “reaching forth to those things which are before”
i.e., reaching beyond the point that we have reached in the past;  reaching beyond former blockages and hindrances.
Lk.6:10 “stretch forth your hand”, i.e. do something you have never done before.

Start what has never gotten started before.
Stop what has never been stopped before.
Build bigger and more effective that which has always been small and ineffective.

We are destined to be an instrument of the Kingdom of God and to use Kingdom of God methods to get Kingdom of God results.

(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read all seven you may go to this link: https://martygabler.com/2016-declarations/)

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2016 Declaration #6

StepNextLevelI DECLARE:  **6. WE WILL BE GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF EVERYTHING.
The next level of (1) health, (2) prosperity, (3) influence, (4) effectiveness, (5) favor, (6) insight, (7) discernment, (8) expectancy, (9) next level beyond ordinary.
–Going beyond previous measures for greater results.
The degree of movement will depend upon the individual.
—We will not be stopping at old crossroads to just stand there and not cross.
—We will not be stopping at old intersections just to turn and go back to old places.
—Not stopping at old thresholds, old gates.
—Not stopping at all the old piles of stuff that have been normal, typical, acceptable — yet they have hindered progress.
—Not stopping at old places of giving up.
—Challenges that have defeated us in the past will not defeat us in this season.

(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read all seven you may go to this link: https://martygabler.com/2016-declarations/)


God Working in Long-Standing Issues

I DECLARE:  **5.  God is working in His people concerning longstanding issues that have excuses.
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Longstanding issues that our families have excused, doctors have excused and culture has excused, but they are detrimental, even damaging.

–I declare that that cover of excuse, as legitimate and sentimental as it may be, is being pulled off in coming days.

–The life-changing power, the convicting/convincing power of the Holy Spirit is going to get beyond those soul issues and beyond those excuses and bring us to deliverance spirit, soul and body.

–As the Living Word and the Holy Spirit do that, I declare that our effectiveness level is going to significantly rise throughout the year.

–We will not be herded like cattle.

We will not listen to the mindset of this world/age perpetrated by the media and be herded like cattle under the protective cloud of our excuses.

That cloud is being blown into the sea.

The wind of heaven is blowing and those clouds of excuses are blown away.

(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read them all you may go to this link: 2018 DECLARATIONS)


Interfering Entities are Being Blocked

BolderBlockRoadI DECLARE:  **4. INTERFERING ENTITIES ARE BEING BLOCKED
People and/or entities attempting to create a pathway to get to you to create some type of negative interference or to do some type of harm are being blocked.

Progress that has stopped will start again.
It’s not over. What was meant for evil, God has meant for good.
(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read all of them CLICK HERE.
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Marty and Kathy’s 12th annual conference:
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Placeholders for Others

I DECLARE:  **3. We are placeholders for others.
In our faithfulness to stand where God has us standing, in our consistency.
PersonPlaceholder—You may be standing between someone and their destruction and, were you not there, they might just move into that thing or that relationship or that distress that takes them out.
—Perhaps it will even be a position that you fill that is not your life’s call but remains as long as you are there in it until the person who is supposed to fill it is able to arrive at that point.
Moses was a placeholder for Joshua.
Jonathan was a placeholder for David.
Elijah was a placeholder for Elisha.
Paul was a placeholder for Timothy.
—It is like being the shoulders that someone else gets to stand on and start out on. Our ceiling is their floor.
You are a placeholder for your children but very possibly for others.

(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read all of them CLICK HERE.)

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Powerful Name of JESUS

ChainsBreakingI DECLARE:  **2.  You will find the Name of JESUS to be very powerful.
—You will invoke His Name and see Him heal,  see Him deliver others out of impossible strongholds of bondage and strongholds of fear.

—You will invoke His Name and see how marvelously He delivers you from the threat of harm,  from bullies,  from a violent spouse or parent or other relative.
(God is delivering elderly people from abuse by their children and others.)
—You will invoke the Name of Jesus and the atmosphere will change.

(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read all five CLICK HERE)

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Rescuing From Graves

I DECLARE: **1. WE WILL BE RESCUING THOSE WHO ARE REACHING UP OUT OF GRAVES OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND TAKING THEM FORWARD WITH US.
–There are those who are reaching up out of “graves” to be free.
They have been buried in the “graves” of life, circumstances, troubles and misfortunes of life.
HandReachingHandThey are reaching to grab hold of anything that resembles life.
–Just one touch, finger to fingers, just one hand shake.
A simple handshake will go a long way with the hopeless conditions people are living under.
The least bit of opportunity to grab hold of something stable will be gladly taken.
–This season of history is marked by people who are buried by stuff that life has dumped on them.
“They are reaching out for the life that I have put in you,” says the Lord.
“I have put that life in you for such a time as this for the influx of people who are coming to your region, let alone the ones who are already there.”
“I have prepared you and put before you a path and steps to take.”
They are everywhere reaching out from under the stuff, trying to get out, groping for life because they know that they yet have life ahead of them.
–I am taking you to those who yet have life to live,   who yet have destinies to fulfill,   who have yet to realize that there are giftings and callings in their life and you are going to touch finger to finger, hand to hand and they are going to come up and out and they are going to begin to walk in those callings.
2016 is the year of touch-to-touch for the callings that are coming forth from out of the graves.

(Each year these declarations come out of seasons of prayer for those with whom Marty has a degree of influence. If you would like to read all seven you may go to this link: 2018 DECLARATIONS)

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Promises to the Lord

PromiseRainbowHaving just come through the season known as the
giving season we now find ourselves in the season
known as the season of resolutions. May we make
promises to One who is higher than ourselves for
purposes that are higher than our own intents
and purposes.

“Make promises to the Lord your God and keep them!
Let all around him bring gifts to the awesome one.”
(Ps.76:11, CEV)


Read the 2016 Declarations:
https://martygabler.com/2016-declarations/

 


Choices That Contradict Feelings

ArrowsOpposingIf we go to God for a deposit of His peace and wisdom, we can make a choice that contradicts our feelings.  That doesn’t mean you are giving up strategy and resolve, it means you’re just choosing not to stay UPSET while it comes.  To stay upset is to CHOOSE death because your body will suffer, relationships will suffer and “emotional reactions” will become KING in the house and set an atmosphere that draws more upset.
Let’s recap: 1) Cocoons are tough times but can be used to process and develop and grow.  2) Choice is the best weapon for conquering the challenges of tough times.  3) CHOOSING  LIFE and wisdom will bring God results out of life cocoons.

(This is the last excerpt from Kathy’s article “Choose Life“ 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.)


9th Annual Kingdom Equipping Congress
March 2-4, 2016
Info and updates:
KINGDOM EQUIPPING CONGRESS 2016

 


Hope Looking to Future

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As the people of God assemble today, may they build one
another up in hope as they look to the future with expectancy
for the purposes of God Almighty to be fulfilled in their lives
and in their church family.

”So then, let us pursue [with enthusiasm] the things which
make for peace and the building up of one another [things
which lead to spiritual growth].” (Rom.14:19, Amp)


Forward in the New Year

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As we go forward in the new year may we build our lives
on the Lord God and His unfailing Word and promises
so that we may become stronger and stronger, as the
year progresses, for the sake of our families and nation.

”Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him,
and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught.
And be filled with thanksgiving.” (Col.2:7, GNT)


What of the New Year?

IdeaLightBulbWhat of the New Year? — Thoughts, Plans & Inventions

The Psalmist declares he is aware that He is included in God’s thoughts. One of the meanings of “thoughts” (Jer.29:11) is “an invention.” God has a plan for you in 2016 and, if necessary, He will INVENT required elements to work together to get you to that goal that glorifies Him and serves His purposes. He is beneficent and He is creative.

“thoughts”: a device, a plan, a purpose, AN INVENTION (Thayer)

“For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare andpeace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.” (Jer.29:11, Amp)