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Creation Is Still Waiting

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Creation is still waiting for the sons of God to get connected to that Higher Source. Creation has witnessed what man and his philosophical mindsets produce and creation is still groaning for the revealing of the sons of God who produce what the Vine energizes. Never mind, operator, the connection is still good.

(This is the last excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. To read the entire article just scroll down the page to each excerpt.)


Marty & Kathy Gabler invite you to read their
articles in the latest issue of SEEC Magazine. Volume 18 Issue 4
CLICK HERE to read SEEC Magazine

p. 3 – Mobilizing The Remnant—-Jim Hodges
p. 7 – Clear The Air—-Kathy Gabler
p. 10 – Call To Remembrance—-Larry Burden
p. 13 – Divided Man—-Simon Purvis
p. 16 – Baptism Of The Holy Spirit—-Lynn Burling
p. 20 – The Power Of Agreement—-LaDell Wilson
p. 24 – Discovery—-Don Pope
p. 26 – Three Keys To The Fulfillment
Of Your Prophecy—-Marty Gabler


Disconnecting From Mind Of This Age

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We must disconnect from emotions that tell us God’s plan is no longer any good or that it has been abandoned. We do not want to be connected to the mind of this age and its limitations. It was indeed a miracle that Peter walked on water especially when his eleven buddies were clinging to the sides of the boat… from the inside.
(This is the twelfth excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)

 


Elements That Prevent

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Paul called those enslaving, preventative mindsets “beggarly elements” (Gal.4:9). It was not even the fact that those institutions and traditions, in and of themselves, were so evil. It was that they had such little value that they were not worth clinging to. The “clinging to” meant a rejection of those possibilities from the heavenly viewpoint. Clinging to one precludes clinging to the other. Connecting to one causes disconnection from the other.

(This is the twelfth excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)


Connecting To A Better Way

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When the man who invented the umbrella walked out on the streets of London with it for the first time, people stoned him. He refused to continue to succumb to the elements and connected himself to a higher level of perception of his surroundings and those who had no desire to connect any differently than they already were could not deal with the change. There was a better way to live, a better way to do things and prevent sickness from exposure but it was different from the elemental things of the age. Things signaling a new age, or even perhaps, from an age to come were feared and not welcome.

(This is the eleventh excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)
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Not Bound To The Elemental

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The rudimentary and elemental things are those things that anchor the ship in the harbor and refuse to put the wings on the plane so it can soar in heavenly places. Paul’s chagrin over the Galatians was because they were living as though their lives were bound by earthly elements and the outcome of their lives was being determined merely by the weak and beggarly principles they had connected themselves to—as though there was some kind of obligation to maintain a grip on them because someone espoused them. 

(This is the tenth excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)


A Far Different Point Of Reference

Point of referenceIt is likely that Jesus would often use the term “Kingdom of Heaven” attempting to get the people’s focus off the “weak and beggarly” (Gal.4:9) and the things that so readily paint a picture of the impossible. Such terminology as “Kingdom of Heaven” shows that it is the Kingdom that is in stark contrast to the limitations of earth and its mindsets. Jesus said,  “My Kingdom is not of this world” (Jn.18:36). He just as well could have said, “My Kingdom is not of the mindset of this present age.” Jesus had a far different orientation, a far different point of reference and totally different values that He so longed for people to get connected to.

(This is the eighth excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)
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Why Connect To The Useless?

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The word “elemental” in Gal.4:3 means “an element, first principal; the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds.” It is like taking a fuse and never putting it down into the powder so that the cannon can be fired. The fuse is such an elemental part of the whole process. It would be something like holding the fuse and showing people the fuse, even lighting the fuse but never realizing the power of the powder and power of the cannon. The fuse would just burn down to nothing with no result for having held it or having lit it. It would be just the futile waste of one good match. By the time we get to v.9 Paul is referring to those elemental things as “weak and beggarly” and pleading with the Galatians to know why they have connected themselves once again to such useless legalistic exercise.

(This is the seventh excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)

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Evidence Of What We Are Connected To

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There must be a connection to something beyond the “elemental things.”  Paul’s deep concern over the “elemental things” of Gal.4:3 is about the things of this present age which so occupy our minds and distract us from Father’s true character and purpose for His Kingdom. Those elemental things represent institutions, traditions and mindsets. “They are the elementary symbols of the law unable to justify” (Fausset). We easily connect to and identify with those things and then they get a hold on us which obligates us to their legalisms which we end up serving. If we speak, act and live like everyone else in this age we will get no different results than they get. What we do and the way we go about it; what we say and the results we get are evidence of what and who we have connected to.

(This is the sixth excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.) Scroll down to read more…..


Marty & Kathy Gabler invite you to read their
articles in the latest issue of SEEC Magazine. Volume 18 Issue 4

In This Issue:

p. 3 – Mobilizing The Remnant—-Jim Hodges
p. 7 – Clear The Air—-Kathy Gabler
p. 10 – Call To Remembrance—-Larry Burden
p. 13 – Divided Man—-Simon Purvis
p. 16 – Baptism Of The Holy Spirit—-Lynn Burling                   CLICK HERE to read SEEC Magazine
p. 20 – The Power Of Agreement—-LaDell Wilson
p. 24 – Discovery—-Don Pope
p. 26 – Three Keys To The Fulfillment 
        Of Your Prophecy—-Marty Gabler