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Filled With the Knowledge of Him

Marty—As the people of God assemble today may they be filled with the knowledge of Him who is moving by His hand in the affairs of men. May they be encouraged and filled with faith that their Mighty God is actively moving people into situations that are advantageous for acts of righteousness to penetrate into the cultures of all nations. And may they realize their praying is significant and integral to it all.      “. . .and you will learn that the High God rules over human kingdoms and that He arranges all kingdom affairs.” (Dan.4:25, Msg)


I SEE THAT!

Marty Gabler—I see that! When we hear something or read something and say “I see that” are we “seeing” only in the sense of ocular recognition or mental consent or are we seeing in the sense of perception for the purpose of application? Are we simply stating that we can see a true fact or does it actually mean that we can see the value of that truth for our lives and are willing to act on it?  Prov.1:1-2 (21st CKJV) ”The [purpose of the] proverbs [is] 2 to know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding.”  May we perceive God’s truth, embrace it and act on it. We are praying you discover daily that you are seeing and embracing God’s truths that lead to abundant life. 


A Vision of God Massaging a Heart

MELISSA—In one part of a vision God gave me (posted 9-23-22) I saw God’s hand began to massage a heart. In another part I saw 2 rows of white Roman columns as far as the eye could see. The columns I saw in the vision represented the church as we’ve known it, and this scene was looking to the West where the sun sets. The sun is setting on old traditional structures of the church. After the columns fell I began to hear a heartbeat.  It got so loud that the earth shook.  I looked back at the hole where the heart transplant was taking place, and with every beat of this new heart horrible black creatures began frantically crawling out of the hole.  Every beat drove more hordes out only for them to disintegrate as they tried to run.  A white light began filling the space that was once full of black slime and I heard “Ruach”.  Ruach means: spirit, wind, breathe (ex. Isaiah 11:2) and it was filling the pitch-black core of this nation. Once more I looked back toward the West where the columns had fallen and they were no longer there. In their place was lush greenery that was growing and I heard, Isa. 43:18-19 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”


Bad Words-Bad Atmosphere

KATHY GABLER—Do we set a bad atmosphere with our thoughts or emotions or words, or does the atmosphere hunt us down to dictate our thoughts or emotions or words?  I believe the answer is both.  We certainly have the ability to create an atmosphere for ourselves and everyone around us.  One person’s impatience in a waiting room can have everyone tense and walking on eggshells in a matter of seconds.  One person’s panic can clear a room.  Our expectations, meditations, fears or our mouthing against self can fill the air until it is lethal.  However, not only people are able to condition an atmosphere.  The devil is called “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph.2:2) for a reason.  He is skilled at blowing in a foul wind to influence people and situations.  The Old Testament word “ruach” is translated “spirit” most often, but it means “wind” or “breath”.  In the New Testament, the same word is “pneuma”.  A spirit or wind can carry a contradiction to the will of God into an atmosphere by blowing in a lie or fear or threat or opinion or accusation, etc.   The air becomes its infected storage place so that it can affect and influence thoughts and feelings when it finds an advantage, an open window.   Just as we breathe in air unconsciously, we can also come under the influence of what’s in the air  unconsciously.   It can become an influence over our emotions and thoughts and decisions. Prov.12:18,TPT—Reckless words are like the thrusts of a sword, cutting remarks meant to stab and to hurt. But the words of the wise soothe and heal.”


An Open Door Worth Pressing Through

Marty—There is a door open before us and we are called to press through. 1Corinthians 16:9-10 “There is a wide-open door for a great work…”  There is something worth pressing through to on the other side. It is a day-by-day pressing. The matter of walking with the Lord and trusting the Lord is day in and day out (Deut.5:33). We are pressing and shall press through because the pressing is leading to another level, to things in God and God’s Kingdom agenda that we have never seen or experienced.


Why not Literal Dreams?

Kathy Gabler — I’m sure we have all wondered at times why everybody does not dream literal, plain dreams with clear communication and no search and discovery needed.  Joseph in the New Testament saw the angel in a dream and understood clearly that the instructions were to flee to Egypt with Baby Jesus and Mary.  Those were literal instructions that they could act on and they did.   However, if we consider other scriptural examples of how God communicated, He often communicated with the prophets of the Old Testament in symbolic language.  The dry bones in Ezekiel and the feet of iron and clay on the statue in Daniel were symbolic.  Even Jesus often spoke in parables instead of literal details, and you know He was communicating with the crowds that kept gathering.  Yet sometimes even the disciples had to ask Him for clarity later.  So, I suspect that having to pursue understanding is part of God’s plan and purpose, probably for reasons like, 1) seeking God for wisdom builds relationship with the Lord, and 2) pursuing understanding is how we develop an ear to hear, and 3) every time we pursue God’s wisdom and clarity, we always discover more than we went looking for.
KATHY GABLER WILL BE SPEAKING AND MINISTERING AT Dreams Visions Prophecy 2024    September 13-14     NO FEE   
TEAM GABLER: Kathy, Melissa and Marty Gabler
Teaching, Worship, Ministry, Prayer/Activation
Grace Church    Willis,TX    936-856-2455   
gracewillis.org   
More Info: martygabler.com/dvp2024/


RECEIVING A PROPHECY

Marty Gabler—Receiving a prophecy does not mean that you have just received an all-expense-paid ride on a magic carpet. Personal prophecies are conditional upon (1) our FAITH in receiving them, (2) our OBEDIENCE to God and (3) our ENDURANCE through the preparation period with a moldable attitude. James 5:10-11,Msg—“Take the old prophets as your mentors. They put up with anything, went through everything, and never once quit, all the time honoring God. What a gift life is to those who stay the course! You’ve heard, of course, of Job’s staying power, and you know how God brought it all together for him at the end. That’s because God cares, cares right down to the last detail.”
MARTY WILL BE SPEAKING AND MINISTERING AT Dreams Visions Prophecy 2024
September 13-14     NO FEE
   
TEAM GABLER: Kathy, Melissa and Marty Gabler
Teaching, Worship, Ministry, Prayer/Activation
Grace Church    Willis,TX    936-856-2455    gracewillis.org   
Check out the details: martygabler.com/dvp2024/


A People for God’s own Possession

Melissa Gabler — You are a representative of heaven during your lifetime. “But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A CONSECRATED NATION, A [special] PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9, Amplified) The prophetic lifestyle opens opportunities, timing, and connections. Opportunities: having the ears to hear to be at the right place at the right time for yourself and others. Timing: none of us understand the timing of God because He is working on so many levels. It takes a prophetic lifestyle to see beyond the limited vision of our normal dimensions. It can keep you sane where timing is concerned. Connection: Brings lives together for God team-ups, projects, events, etc. We were never meant to do life alone (1 Corinthians 12:20-21). In this day and age, this way of life is a total necessity for the body of Christ. 
(MELISSA GABLER will be leading worship and speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024 Sept.13 at Grace Church Willis,TX (gracewillis.org). All details are at this link: martygabler.com/dvp2024/)


Kathy — I have sensed for several months that the Body of Christ is in an important time of transition into new norms. One of the new norms I believe we can expect is strategic dreams that equip us for the purposes of God. I consider strategic dreams to be those timely telegrams that confirm direction or give instruction or release insight and understanding for a mandate and call to action. (Kathy is speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024 which is Sept.13-14; NO FEE; Grace Church Willis 936-856-2455) Info: martygabler.com/dvp2024/ Dreams Visions Prophecy 2024 September 13-14 NO FEE *** TEAM GABLER: Kathy, Melissa and Marty Gabler -Teaching-Worship-Ministry-Activation –Grace Church Willis,TX 936-856-2455 gracewillis.org

Adjustments and Updates

Marty—As the people of God assemble today may the people of God yield to the Kingdom purposes of their Lord in this new era He is leading us into. May we yield to the adjustments and updates in our spiritual vision so that it may be broadened and more aware. May all hindrances and opposition be readily realized as challenges to overcome so that we may win the race. We declare that our present limitations are only present and not the future because we are being enlarged. Isa.54:2,TPT—“Increase is coming, so enlarge your tent and add extensions to your dwelling. Hold nothing back! Make the tent ropes longer and the pegs stronger.”


God Keep School Teachers

Marty—May the Lord Most High keep His powerful hand upon our school teachers in this coming year. May He minister to them their importance in our culture and bless them for giving of themselves to our children. May He protect them and make them righteously effective beyond all logical measures for the children’s future and the future of our nation.   “…They are to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble,” (Titus 2:3, Amp)


The Renewing of Your Mind

MELISSA— “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 1:33.  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!
(Come to DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY Sept.13-14,2024 and worship with Melissa and the Grace Worship Team. She will also be speaking Sept.13 at 7pm. No Fee. All info for DVP2024 is at martygabler.com/dvp2024/)


Distorting Guidelines

Kathy Gabler — We need an Awakening as badly as Judah did in 2Kings 17. They had forgotten their God. They had forsaken their one true God and even closed the door to the temple and nailed it shut. In the next chapter, 2Kings 18, Hezekiah became king of Judah and Awakening began. Hezekiah was AWARE they needed God and He took action to begin sanctifying the nation. He destroyed the local shrines, tore down the images of foreign gods, cut down the sacred pole for worshiping the goddess of sex and fertility and he also smashed the bronze snake Moses had made in the wilderness. Remember when fiery serpents were biting and killing them in the camp? God told Moses to put a brass serpent on a pole so people could see it and be healed. That was a one-time obedience that led to the intervention of God for their nation. Keeping that pole as a testimony from history to teach their children about God was understandable, but sticking that pole among the idols they were worshiping and making sacrifices to, dishonored both God and the acts of God in their behalf. That generation had to have “cooked the books” (unethically change the meaning) of their own history to justify worshiping a SNAKE on a STICK. Let’s bring that home to our present darkness. How much have crooked people and entities “cooked the books” in this present time and distorted the Rule of Law and guidelines as they deliberately try to change our history. They fully intend to redefine who we are and distort the God-purpose and destiny within us. We need an Awakening to stop the madness in both the Church and the Nation! We need to follow Hezekiah’s lead in such a time as this! He made the God-changes that were in his reach! He could reach their idols and he tore them down . . . and it PLEASED God! Of course, it didn’t necessarily please everybody else because Awakening always upsets the norms.

Click Here: DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024  Sept.13-14.  Grace Church Willis,TX.  No Fee.


Following one Path With one Passion

Following one Path With one Passion 
SFMV#81 – Marty Gabler reads Scripture and prays for us that Father God would help us with a passion to stay on one path.
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Feeling Overwhelming Pressure?

Melissa—Feeling Overwhelming Pressure? Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

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BUT… God!

Kathy Gabler—The Days of Elijah are “BUT GOD” times.  “Bring me your son,” Elijah said. Then he took the boy from her arms and carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying. Elijah laid the boy on his bed and prayed, “LORD God, why did you do such a terrible thing to this woman? She’s letting me stay here, and now you’ve let her son die.”  Even Elijah’s issues surfaced in this battle of life and death.  Evidently shaken by the widow’s upset and shouting, the prophet spoke to God as if He was being unjust!  “BUT GOD” was waiting on him to calm down and work a miracle. (Remember that in days of battle.) Elijah stretched himself out over the boy three times, while praying, “LORD God, bring this boy back to life!” The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer, and the boy started breathing again. Elijah picked him up and carried him downstairs. He gave the boy to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive.”  As the widow could testify, the days of Elijah undeniably manifest the Power of God on earth.       (Kathy is teaching at DVP2024 Sept.14 at Grace Church Willis. For all information click on this link: martygabler.com/dvp2024/


Looking to God

Marty—As the people of God assemble today may they look to their all-sufficient, beneficent God and may they then look upon one another and consider the other’s concerns. May there be interest in the well-being of one’s brothers and sisters in Christ and may there be prayers, encouragements, words of knowledge and prophecies to strengthen the saints.  “Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not [merely] his own interests, but also each for the interests of others. Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your example in humility:]” (Phil.2:4-5, Amp)


Get Back Your Dreams

Marty—May the Lord give you back your dreams–those dreams that were in your heart before disappointing experiences, hurts, delay of time, and weariness jaded your expectancies. May the Lord bring back to you, in full bloom, the dreams of innocent, hopeful childhood–the hopes that He longed to facilitate when you were born. May we return our hearts to His longings and purposes that do not disappoint but that take us beyond our limited expectations by His grace and giftings.     (MARTY will be speaking and ministering at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024, September 13-14. No Fee. All information is at: martygabler.com/dvp2024/)


Dark Origins

Melissa Gabler—These days many of the must-have items touted on social media by “influencers” are from very dark origins and meant to enslave and control the purchaser. But rationalism would say, “Don’t be dramatic. You watch too many movies.” That brings me to the next item, entertainment. Entertainment has become such a priority in our culture that it has made its way into many of our churches. Some like to quote movies and throw the world’s songs into worship sets. There are those who hope those sermons are short because they need to get home for “the game”, and we just keep overlooking the demonic that gets more and more obvious in our favorite TV shows. Rationalism: “Oh it’s not that bad. Don’t be so religious!” I recently saw a video of a man bringing someone to deliverance. In the video you would hear the voice of the young man coming to deliverance, then all of a sudden you could hear the voice of the demon. The man doing deliverance asked the demon where it came from and it told him it came through a song. The young man explained that he only listened to the song because he likes the music, but the demon said, “We can use what is ours.” Well, there’s no rationalizing that legal technicality!


Anticipating and Participating in a Kingdom Event


Kathy Gabler—Jesus said, “If you are able to believe, all things are possible to the ones believing.” (Mk.9:23) He was telling him, “Sir, the ‘IF’ is in your court both now and in the future.” The way Jesus handled this situation shows us the Power of the Kingdom was being released for more than that boy. The deliverance was for the whole family.
An equipping insight here is that anticipating and participating in a Kingdom power moment may be more involved than we perceived in the very beginning. It may include prepping people to receive as well as equipping them to hold steady for the future.  Some of the healing evangelists in the last sixty years would require people to be in three meetings before they got in the prayer line.  I have to wonder if they too were trying to affect the thinking of people so they could align with God to keep their healing in the future. 


Lord Help us to Stay Sharp

Marty Gabler—May those who look to the Lord, find that He will help us to stay sharp and enable us to make decisions and to notice things that an entity or a company tries to slip past us, and to notice extra charges that we didn’t bargain for in the beginning and to hear everything the business person is saying on the phone as they quickly go over the list of costs and items. May the Lord help us to not be intimidated into giving in when pressured. May He cause us to see the ol’ “switch-and-bait” coming before it takes its toll. We will no longer just settle for an item or cost we are not agreeable to just so we can get it all over with. 2Thess.3:2-4,Amp—“and [pray] that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not everyone has the faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you [setting you on a firm foundation] and will protect and guard you from the evil one4 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do the things [which] we command.”
(MARTY will be speaking and prophetically ministering at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024, Sept.13-14. At Grace Church Willis,TX. No Fee. All information for DVP2024 is at this link: martygabler.com/dvp2024/)


Win With Un-carnal Weapons

KATHY GABLER—Sharing the third victory in this series which was won with un-carnal weapons that were received in dreams and visions: Old wars, Old enemies, New Victories
A lady told me that she had seen a dark shadow in her bedroom one evening.  Strangely, she was not frightened, but she knew she needed wisdom and insight to set the thing to flight.  A few days later in a dream, God opened her understanding.
In the dream she discovered an old soul-tie, an individual that she had considered a constant refuge in times past.  Suddenly she realized that because this friend had never required any commitment (nor offered any), she had used the relationship as a refuge whenever she feared commitment in her life.  Many times when she’d been faced with the need to commit to a relationship or to commit to a  responsibility, fear would flare up and send her running back to the refuge where there were no strings attached.  It was a need-based, unhealthy relationship and she realized she was still tied to its memory.  As surely as an old photo album from that time of her life was stored in a closet, she had stored that sense of refuge in her memory.  Like a comforting blanky or silky, she could still pull it out if life got too demanding. 

Awaking and considering the dream, she realized the dream revealed she had maintained a memory in her heart of a carnal place of refuge.  If the Lord is not our refuge, then neither is He Lord of our refuge … and the places in our life where He is not Lord are places vulnerable to powers of darkness.  The dark shadow’s presence was evidence that a stronghold needed pulling down.  Suddenly she remembered that same dark shadow had come to her room when she was a child.  This revealed more of the nature of the stronghold.  That fear of commitment that made her seek out refuge in her teen years had obviously dogged her in childhood also.  Her understanding opened further and she knew there was a deeper root.  That root was fear, a fear of failure to be exact.  That fear, which is common to many, had likely plagued other generations in her house before coming to her room and it continued to show up through her life at points of purpose and times of potential fulfillment of destiny.  Once again the familiar enemy showed up, intending to hinder a new season of purpose in her life, and he fully expected to send her scurrying backward in search of safety again.

However, she now had an un-carnal weapon to wield.  With the dream’s insights came the grace to take action.  She started by getting rid of the old photos.  There was no need to preserve the memory of the old refuge any longer because there was no need to assume or even accept failure.  She no longer trusted her ability to build a refuge like she once had.  By trusting in God instead of self,  she slammed the door on the fear of failure and the dark shadow no longer had a legal leg to stand on.  Through her obedient follow-through she was swinging an un-carnal weapon that defeated an old enemy for her and for her generations to come.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, (2 Cor 10:3-4,NKJ)
(KATHY GABLER will be speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024 which is September 13-14 at Grace Willis. No Fee. For all information go to martygabler.com/dvp2024)


Give and Receive Accordingly

Marty–As the people of God assemble today may the Lord Most High grant you the edification of each member of the Body of Christ knowing that the eye needs the hand and the hand the eye. May He cause us to be aware of each other’s giftings and give and receive accordingly for the building up of the Body in love. I declare that this is a division-free day in the Body of Christ that He may be glorified and the powers of darkness may be stymied in their attempts to divide and conquer. 1Co12:25—“so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.”


Configuration

Jim Hodges—Configuration is basically defined as: “The way the parts of something are arranged to work together.” You could illustrate this in a computer. Hardware and software are arranged or configured to work together. In the world of chemistry, we observe an arrangement of atoms in a molecule that defines their relationship and function.  In the world of theology, let me say it this way: Through the work of Christ in redemption, you and I are reconfigured to our original configuration. Paul in Ephesians 1:3-11 declares that you and I were adopted by Father God in Christ before creation. We were configured in Christ; we were arranged as a son or a daughter of God. To say it another way, I refer now to Paul in I Corinthians 15:45-49 — you and I were in the Last Adam before we were in the First Adam. That is our original configuration! But because of our first parents’ sin (I Cor. 15:22), death was passed to us and our configuration was corrupted! But through Christ, His death and resurrection, we are reconfigured to be who we really are in the Last Adam. Out of personal identity, we then get arranged or configured by the Holy Spirit to be a part of the Body of Christ and find our Kingdom assignments. Reconfiguration, then, leads to both our individual spiritual maturity and to a release of a glorious Church in the earth — many sons and daughters who are like the Son of God! (Jim Hodges’ website:  jimhodgesministries.com)