New Gates Are Not Optional
New Gates Are Not Optional (by Kathy Gabler)
While prophesying to a lady, I saw her as a bird in a gilded cage. The door was open on the cage, but she would not fly out. Instead of leaving her captivity, she decorated it, but the golden captivity was still captivity. We can comfort ourselves with former revelation, with blessings already received and with testimonies of past obediences, or refuse to move and just focus on quests that everyone would call godly, but God’s designs are always moving beyond the past and even beyond the now. When He builds a gate, He is not presenting options; rather He is giving direction. That gate will lead to growth, increase, maturity and change. Purpose beckons us beyond our current fence line. God is faithful to build the gate, but it is up to us to choose to go through it.
New Gates
New Gates (by Kathy Gabler)
Our 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.
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Marty & Kathy Magazine * Aug./Sept.2012
Contents:p.3-Charting The Course…Jim Hodges * p.8-Intercession For A Nation..Bob Long * p.12-Gates In Our Fences…Kathy Gabler * p.15-God Blesses His People.Dr. Elwyn Lewis * p.19-Church: From Crisis To Commission…Jim Becton * p.22-The Parables Of The Kingdom…Simon Purvis * P.26-Lights Shining In a Dark Place.Chuck Kaliszewski * p.28-Factor In The Holy Spirit..Marty Gabler
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Old Fence Lines
Old Fence Lines (by Kathy Gabler)
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 think 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.
Gates In Our Fences (by Kathy Gabler)
Gates In Our Fences (by Kathy Gabler)
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 know 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.
Destiny And Keys
Destiny And Keys
We are sons of God whose destiny it is to allow and disallow what happens on our watch. (Mt 16:19; 18:18) Mat 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven. (Amp) Psa 115:16 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men. When we assemble as a governing body, there is a synergy created by the power of the Holy Spirit that brings us into the functioning of our destiny. (Heb 10:25) If Jesus did not think that it would work, He would have never ascended to the right hand of the Father. He has, therefore, sent the Holy Spirit with the authority and the power of heaven to bring heaven to earth (Jn 16:7).
Creation is groaning because it is looking for a people that know who they are and what they are about and are able to legislate life, light and freedom. Someone must legislatively say, “Arise and be healed.” Someone must say to forces of darkness, “Stop!.” Jesus, indwelled by the Holy Spirit and knowing the mind of the Father, confronted darkness and contradicted it. That is the present destiny of the Church.
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Happy Heart Is Good Medicine
This is the day the Lord has made so…
I will rejoice and choose to have a happy heart and cheerful mind in it! (Prov17:22)
“A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” (Prov17:22, Amp)
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