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You are a Placeholder

placeholderIn your daily faithfulness to God, you might just be a placeholder for someone else. 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 prevents their getting to destiny. Moses was a placeholder for Joshua. Elijah was a placeholder for Elisha and 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 and very possibly even for others. 1Cor.16:13 ”Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be brave, be strong.” We are praying you discover daily that you are standing firm in the faith so that others may stand in their place of purpose. (Marty’s Daily Discovery as heard on TEXAS PRAISE RADIO at the bottom of the hour 24 hours/day. www.txpraise.com)


 


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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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Signs, Wonders And Hearing

Signs, Wonders And Hearing (Kathy)
Recently, our daughter Melissa heard during worship, “It’s time to exhale.” She felt it was God in the moment and stepped up and released those words in song.  To her it was simply a proclamation to put in the atmosphere, but it was a sign and wonder to a pulmonary doctor in the congregation.   He was so excited he went to the pastor to tell him that the song was healing instructions for a patient of his that was also there in the service.  It was a sign and wonder to the patient also.  (She’d had a tracheotomy).  
Hearing instruction and obeying the instructions are the basic essentials for miracles, signs and wonders.  It is highly possible that the instructions will be as unique as the participants.  Mozart heard a unique sound and gave instructions to the instruments for the sound of light being created during creation in Genesis.  When the orchestra played his music, supernaturally, light came up out of the orchestra pit and the audience was frightened with the sign and wonder.  Isaiah didn’t just get up one day and decide to become The Nude Wonder-Boy, he was following instruction and obeying God for a governmental turnover in a nation.  Elisha hadn’t practiced throwing a stick in lakes to make iron swim, but he had practiced hearing God. When he heard God in the moment, the axe miraculously floated. 

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