Samson And Incremental Change
The principle of incremental change is as evident in Scripture as is miraculous, immediate change. The Philistines regarded the captured Samson as one who was at a weak stage and would remain so. But Jud.16:22 says “But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.” His hair did not suddenly pop out of his head on the day he took out more Philistines than he ever had. He went through the process of incremental change and growth and was ready on the day God so appointed his victory over the Philistines. A great opportunity lay ahead of shaved-Samson but he had to have been incrementally regaining his spiritual sight that enabled him to see God’s purpose for Israel, and he had to be incrementally regaining his strength so he would be ready for the moment.
(This is the eleventh excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” This excerpt deals with “Incremental Change.”)
Can’t Fly? Try Walking
Incremental change can be compared to looking at a ten story building wishing you were on top of it. A little bird flaps his wings a couple of times and is suddenly on top looking at all the world below. But people stand around crying, wishing they could be on top of the building enjoying the breeze and the scenery when there has always been a staircase inside the building that would yield an opportunity to anyone who would take it one step at a time. There are those who go about all the time talking about how God is going to give the riches of the wicked to the righteous but they will not save one dollar or make a single investment. There are those who long for the church to change or the nation to change but will not begin by getting involved with persons, institutions and regions. We must “occupy” till He comes, not wait for sudden dispensational change.
(This is the tenth excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” This excerpt deals with “Incremental Change.”)
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“I have held back the enemy by My Hand.”
In this 2min. Audio file, Marty Gabler brings and encouraging word.
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-04T13_06_15-07_00
“He is putting gates in your fences.”
In this 3min. audio file, Kathy Gabler brings an encouraging word.
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-04T13_14_04-07_00
So Pants My Soul For You, O God
As the regal deer ran with all his strength, he eventually outdistanced the four-legged hunters that hungrily pursued him. Finding a pleasant water brook shaded by great 
oaks, he slowed his pace and drew in deep breaths of fresh air while his racing heart pounded vigorously in his ears. Though still cautious and though very weary, he lowered his head to the cool, life-giving liquid and drank his fill.
No doubt, the Psalmist had witnessed just such a scene in the wilderness and had, himself, been relentlessly pursued by a crafty foe. He identified with being winded and with the threat of pursuit as well as with the deep desire for only that which can satisfy and renew the whole being. We join the deer and the Psalmist and turn our thirst to the only One who can satisfy and refresh us who have been pursued. For today, we shall continue resolutely on our journey, having been refreshed by The Living Water of life.
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.” (Ps.42:1, NKJV)
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Incremental Change
We came out of the teachings of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s with great hopes about the immediacy and ready expectancy of the acts of God. During that time of moving of the Holy Spirit we saw entire denominations and people groups wondrously affected by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit with miracles, signs and wonders. We should, without reserve, continue those expectancies. But the one thing where we may be needing some adjustment is in the area of planning for incremental change. Some have so thrust their beliefs into hoping for instantaneous change dispensationally and hoping Father’s nepotism overlooks every other factor of character and timing, that they have not invested monetarily or generationally. However, there are those of false religions and anti-Christ designs who have been incrementally making investments of all sorts for centuries.
(This is the eighth excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” This excerpt deals with “Incremental Change.”)
Speaking Solutions
It is possible to call things something they are not and get into disagreement with God. It is also possible to call things into existence that have not yet existed to the glory of God. We must be cautious about getting into agreement with typically labeling people and situations and begin to speak what God’s Word and will are concerning them.
* I declare that we will take advantage of every opportunity to speak life and not death, to speak blessing and not cursing, to speak hope and not despair, to speak a way out for those who are in captivity instead of cursing their captivity, and to speak solutions instead of merely observing and reporting impossibilities.
Rom 4:17 “As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed.” (Amplified)
(This is the seventh excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” This excerpt deals with “Calling Things That Are Not.”)
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“I have held back the enemy by My Hand.”
In this 2min. Audio file, Marty Gabler brings and encouraging word.
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-04T13_06_15-07_00
“He is putting gates in your fences.”
In this 3min. audio file, Kathy Gabler brings an encouraging word.
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2013-09-04T13_14_04-07_00
Calling Things That Are Not
There are so many changes and so much opposition to truth that everyone is readily calling things what they appear to be to them in the moment, in the season that they have to deal with them. Some may even be sticking certain labels on things, people and events out of fear that they may have to deal with them at some point. Much is changing and it is partly because we have gone through a portal in time and will not be able to force society and culture back into molds of the past. Some of the things we readily label out of past paradigms may be the fledgling beginning of new opportunities for the glory of God. A tadpole doesn’t look anything like a frog and that thing that comes out of an eagle’s egg doesn’t even resemble the beautiful creature gliding on the wind a 1,000 feet above the mountain tops.
(This is the sixth excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” This excerpt deals with “Calling Things That Are Not.”)
Removing Tares
It is interesting to note scholars report that women and children were typically the ones who separated the tares from the wheat. It has already been noted that the tares can cause adverse symptoms, even death. The harvest of wheat would be worthless to the master of the field if it were discovered that there were any darnel (tares) in it. Yet, the women and children were called upon to remove the dangerous product. The women and children in this time of history and in this culture represent unskilled labor. Yet, they are the ones who are able to take care of business. In other words, that is how simple and easy it is to remove tares from our lives, our churches and our nation if we so desire they be removed. It doesn’t take any skill nor any great strength to remove tares so that the harvest is once again valuable. But the remaining factor is: the tares must be removed before the harvest is valuable and usable.
* I declare that the harmful, labor-intensive tares are being dealt with first in our individual lives and in the church and in the nation.
(This is the fifth excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” In the next few days, there will be excerpts dealing with “Calling Things That Are Not” and “Incremental Change.”)
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Keep Coming
When our Lord says, “Your thoughts are not my thoughts and your ways are not my ways,” that’s not a mere indictment but Hisacknowledging where we are. Upon that acknowledgment, His redemptive character is then extending an invitation to come up to His ways and come up to His thoughts. (Ps.103:7) He does not point out a disparity simply to make it more obvious. While our Lord declares to us that we are not quite there yet, we are welcome to come up and operate in His ways and think His thoughts. Can’t you hear His voice saying, “Keep coming, keep climbing, keep improving.” How useful to His purposes it is when we exceed our thoughts and ways and grasp hold of His.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa.55:9)
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The Word of God is working in you!
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Harvest Is Still Coming
Though tares threaten the harvest, the servants are restrained from going out and pulling up the tares and the tares are allowed to grow with the wheat but only for a specified time. The tares are allowed to grow with the wheat until harvest time. At harvest time, the tares must be removed first.
Tares have long been known to be harmful. They represent a detriment to the proper growth and harvesting of valuable wheat. Scholars have noted for us that the grain of the tare can cause dizziness and even death. It has a very similar appearance to that of wheat and has been used as a lesson of how the false can imitate the real while being destructive. But the harvest is still coming; it is still valuable. The Master still wants it, still plans for it, still uses it.
(This is the fourth excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” In the next few days, there will be excerpts dealing with “Calling Things That Are Not” and “Incremental Change.”)
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Components That Oppose Harvest
There are things happening prior to harvest. Harvest does not just simply come. There are events and components that oppose harvest and they must be resisted and overcome or eradicated. In the case of Mt. 13:30 the tares must be eradicated before the profit of the harvest can be realized by the master who owns the field.
The tares, like any other type of weed, steal from the wheat plants. Most who have ever tried to grow a garden have experienced the opposition of weeds and their resultant damage. The roots of the tares are intertwined with the roots of the good wheat. They are taking (1) valuable moisture, (2) nutrients and (3) space needed for the wheat to gain its full growth and maturity.
(This is the third excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” In the next few days, there will be excerpts dealing with “Calling Things That Are Not” and “Incremental Change.”)
Time For Harvest
I declare that it is time for harvest in our lives, our churches and in our nation. It is time for harvest of that which has been long awaited–the victories that our Lord has been cultivating in us during times of trial, 
pressing onward and endurance. We have not faced what we have faced and wrestled with what we have wrestled with and stood through testing for nothing. God has plowed and planted His Word into our lives. He has used people, circumstances and time to work His character into our lives. It will all yield its harvest in this age before the coming of our Lord. All the afore mentioned factors have been growing and maturing in us for a harvest that brings glory to Jehovah in this earth.
(This is the second excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” In the next few days, there will be excerpts dealing with “Calling Things That Are Not” and “Incremental Change.”)
Marty brings an encouraging word in this 2 min. audio.
The Word of God is working in you!
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The Word Of God Is Working In You
Marty brings an encouraging word in this 2 min. audio.
The Word of God is working in you!
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Happy Reformation Day!
This is a day of celebration! I doubt you will see any children walking around this evening dressed like Martin Luther but it is a significant day in church history. October 31 is Reformation Day. This is the day celebrated as the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door in 1517. The reformers believed that only Scripture was the authority for Christians, not traditions of a church and they preached salvation by grace and not works. We celebrate those who courageously stood against the theological norms of the time, confronting corruption in the church at the price of risking and/or losing their lives. Happy Reformation Day!
Tares And Wheat
In prayer the Lord gave me three things to share and a declaration for each. They are 1.) Tares and Wheat, 2.) Calling Things That Are Not and 3.) Incremental Change.
Tares And Wheat–When this subject is approached, it will likely be for the purpose of discussing eschatology. However, there is a principle here that we need to take a closer look at that could be advantageous to us well before the end of this age. It could even determine how some come to that end time in matters of preparedness. There are principles in Scripture that will help us well on our way to victory if we will take note of the priority and order they show us.
Mat 13:30 “Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.” (NASB)
(This is the first excerpt from Marty’s article “Tares And Wheat.” In the next few days, there will be excerpts dealing with “Calling Things That Are Not” and “Incremental Change.”)
Gates To The Fullest Future
Our security is not in having laws and traditions to protect us, but in knowing Him who is absolute wisdom. Principles hold true, but they get put in priority order by the wisdom of God in every situation. Traditions can have us believing in our beliefs more than we believe in Him, and at that point His word and counsel have no power or effect in us or for us. Our beliefs are not holy, He is. Therefore, let us give respect and follow through to the gates our holy and wise God builds specifically to get us to the fullest future He desires.
(This is the last 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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Building Gates In Hard Places
Probably the hardest place to build a gate is in our traditional, established views of scripture, and unfortunately we could die on our own sword trying to defend our traditional beliefs simply because 
the letter of the law kills. It is rather ironic that the letter of the law is so strong yet vulnerable to something as simple as a typo or language or culture or new revelation. However, the spirit of the law, or the truth that is right and unchangeable in it, is not threatened by new gates to fuller understanding. For instance, the scripture says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” The spirit of that law boils down to not deliberately deceiving and manipulating information against someone. However, our traditions add to the letter of that law and imply that we are being dishonest if we do not say everything we are thinking. When did getting everything off your chest become the definition of honesty? That more likely defines selfishness or stupidity. Also, the letter-of-the-law tradition can obligate us to answer anybody’s direct question, spilling out all we know and quoting “honesty is the best policy,” when silence would have been the wisest response.
(This is the eighth 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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In this 2 min. audio encouragement Kathy
declares: “Your Redeemer lives and He is
able to buy back time that the locusts have eaten.”
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New Gates Are Not Optional
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. (This is the seventh excerpt from Kathy’s article “Gates In Our Fences” in Volume 16 Issue 4 of Marty & Kathy’s ministry magazine, SEEC Magazine.)
Safe Or Risk?
Sometimes a gate God builds is not a welcomed sight. It looks like a risk to us or a scary unknown. We feel like we have the option to decide to just stay safely within our fence and familiar boundaries. The problem is that if we ignore the gates, we are locking ourselves into tradition just like the Pharisees. We rarely see ourselves as Pharisees, but we too build personal traditions of men through the way we personally process instruction or the way we establish our own priorities or the way we come to our personal conclusions. Our thought processes and priorities and conclusions are filters that can literally keep us from hearing what God is saying and thereby keep us refusing to acknowledge the Holy Spirit’s direction in our daily life. So, “you make the word of God of none effect through your tradition, (KJV). And you ignore God’s commands in order to follow your own teaching. “(CEV) Mark 7:13
(This is the sixth 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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In this 2 min. audio encouragement Kathy
declares: “Your Redeemer lives and He is
able to buy back time that the locusts have eaten.”
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New Thoughts, New Gates
God 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
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.
(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.)
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 
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.
(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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Old Fence Lines
Where 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.)
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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 
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.
(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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