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Posts tagged “John 3:16

Make a Fresh Start

Occasionally in life, we tend to put ourselves in relationships and situations that effectively serve to block any progress which we have thought we should have made by this point in life. The impassible wall our decisions make seems to just reach up and block the wind that would fill our sails and move us to a much more desirable haven. Now, today, is the time to call on God and move with God.  (Ps.51:10)  “God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life… 12 Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!”  We are praying you discover daily that your sails are full of the wind of the Spirit of God and you are by-passing old stopping points. (Marty’s Daily Discovery as heard on TEXAS PRAISE RADIO at the bottom of the hour 24hrs/day.)

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Dreams Visions Prophecy Symposium
September 22-24, 2017 *** NO FEE
Kathy, Melissa and Marty Gabler
Teaching Worship Ministry Activation
Grace International Church    Willis,TX
936-856-2455   
graceic.org
More Info:
martygabler.com/dreams-visions-prophecy/


Doors and Self-Government

Many times the future is depicted by a picture of an open door. The way to the future, to fulfillment, to victories, to glorifying the Name of the Most High God is open before us now—wide open. There are open doors before us to take us where we have never been before. We will go through those doors and be successful because the Kingdom purposes of God for us in our generation will propel us there to glorify His Name. (First excerpt from Marty’s article “Doors and Self-Government”)

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To Him That Believes

As the people of God assemble today, may they encourage one another to look beyond the limits of their own experiences and disappointments to see what none of their eyes have seen and what none of their ears have heard and what none of their minds have imagined (1Cor.2:9). May they see and hear and wrap their minds around all that is possible to him that believeth. (Mk.9:23) “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
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Eyes to See the Non-typical

1Cor.2:9 does say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined.”  I wonder if when we see that, we should say to ourselves, “Up until now.” It does NOT say that we will not see—it’s just that we haven’t before now. Don’t feel like you are out in left field, unknowing, ignorant or unspiritual. Paul says that NO eye, NO ear, NO mind has imagined—not even the big name Christian celebrities on Christian TV. Every single one of us must open up our hearts and minds and let the King of glory come in with His plans and possibilities so we can come into agreement with those things “God has prepared for those who love Him.” (No matter how foreign they are to our typical way of thinking.)

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Anticipate the Inevitable, Supernatural

A bit more strategy.  In 2017 we will realize we have massive amounts of help from a God-created angelic company.  It’s time to be aware that God has created an angelic army doing His will on this earth right now.  It’s time we realized we are intended to network with them because they know our destiny and it is their job to help us get there.  Just like Elisha’s servant in 2 Kings 6, it is time for our eyes to be opened to this partnership God intended.  At the end of 2017 we will look back in amazement at what He has done and where we are. So, go ahead and ANTICIPATE the inevitable, supernatural intervention of God!  (Last excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “A Drawing Salve Kind of Season”)

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Today is a Good Day

Today is a good day. May this be your good day in realizing and embracing the blessings and protection of Jehovah God. Circumstances for the people of God turned completely around, from evil trying to wipe out the Jewish people, to everyone wanting to become Jews and partake in their favor and blessings. Attempts to destroy the people of God, end up increasing them.  (Esther 8:17, Jubilee Bible) “…in each city wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a banquet and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.” We are praying you discover daily that you are having a good day in spite of what has tried to take you out.  (Marty’s Daily Discovery as heard on TEXAS PRAISE RADIO at the bottom of the hour 24hrs/day.)

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A Bit of Strategy

Here is a bit of strategy.  At the beginning of the year the Lord told me to take this year week by week.  That has been an absolute life saver.  There have been several weeks that have ended on a rough note, but the Holy Spirit reminds me of the instruction and it brings hope because I don’t know what God has planned for next week.  Next week does not have to look like this week, and won’t.  Two days after hearing the “week by week“ strategy I heard the Lord say, “You are tiptoeing into something big”.  Tiptoeing? What an interesting word choice.  It simply means stealth/cautious.  So, we have to take this year week by week because we are tiptoeing into position! The Lord is carefully putting us into a place He created us to fill.  This is the year of placement and revealing.  (Fourth excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “A Drawing Salve Kind of Season”)

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Keep Looking

Not only have you not seen everything, but there are things that have not yet been formed in your behalf.  You can’t see them because they have not yet been formed. You haven’t seen what God is doing behind the veil that fear and doubt and obstacles have woven in your life. Consider the “cloud the size of a man’s hand” (1K.18:44) that God formed for Elijah. The servant had to go and look seven times in order to see what he had not yet seen the first six times. Even when the servant saw the little cloud, it was nothing compared to what it soon would be. Be careful to not stop looking for God’s intervention just because you have not seen something that looks like what your mind can imagine (1Cor.2:9).
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Dreams Visions Prophecy Symposium
September 22-24, 2017 *** NO FEE
Kathy, Melissa and Marty Gabler
Teaching Worship Ministry Activation
Grace International Church    Willis,TX
936-856-2455   
graceic.org
More Info:
martygabler.com/dreams-visions-prophecy/
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You Haven’t Seen Everything

2nd Anniversary of CRF Libres En Cristo in Houston,TX.
Pastors Jorge y Lorena Gamboa.
Marty Gabler speaking and Daniel Gamboa interpreting.
“You Haven’t Seen Everything”
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Living Stones

As the people of God assemble today, may each person realize the importance of, and see the value of their place as, a lively stone in the household of God. May they fit appropriately into the wall where the Lord God has set them and augment the local work and the other lively stones they have been set with.  “Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary vibrant with life, in which you’ll serve as holy priests offering Christ-approved lives up to God.” (1Pe.2:5, Msg)
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When a Lucid Moment Breaks Through

Have you ever had one of those lucid moments? Has there been a time when, after wrestling with a dilemma, suddenly, truth broke through all the fog and layers covering the answer? When the Prodigal son was sitting in the pig pen, eating food thrown to the pigs, Lk.15:17 says, “he came to himself… and said, ‘I will arise and go to my father.’” Probably the smartest thing he ever did. Sometimes we make ourselves a most uncomfortable bed to lay in. But it can be made right. (Ps.119:59, NIRV) ”I have thought about the way I live. And I have decided to follow your covenant laws.” Let those lucid moments break through. We are praying you discover daily that you are coming to yourself and following God’s redeeming Word. (Marty’s Daily Discovery as heard on TEXAS PRAISE RADIO at the bottom of the hour 24hrs/day.) www.txpraise.com

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Pus Extraction

The reason this year has been so nasty so far is because 2017 is the year of pus extraction.  That stuff has to come out! You don’t want infection staying in and causing possible irreversible harm to the whole body.  It must be drawn out and extracted.  The following is a list of items (“pus”) being extracted that are kicking and screaming on their way out. GOVERNMENT LEADERS with dark roots: Traitors, Tyrants, Secret Societies, Slave Masters.  Those which have held manipulative sway in the high courts of this land have been targeted by the King Himself.  WITCHES are being brought to the light so their tentacles will be cut off of this nation and THE CHURCH.  SOCIETY’S BANDAIDS: “anything goes” because I’m a victim.  That bandage is being publicly ripped off.  RELIGIOUS IDEALS: man-made, manipulative ideology that has held influence in the man-made “high positions” of the church are being exposed.  (Second excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “A Drawing Salve Kind of Season”)

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Broken Arm Healed

CT Carleton—“One of our neighbors was at our house one day when our oldest boy fell out of the barn and bent his harm between the wrist and the elbow. She asked if I wasn’t going to take him to the doctor and I told her that I wasn’t. It’s a shame, she said, you just have one boy and you let his arm stay like that. I told her that God made it straight the first time, surely he can straighten it now. She came back the next morning while I was at the barn and I saw her call Joe to her and examine both of his arms and the one that was hurt was just as good as it ever had been. She didn’t say any more about it. Praise God for his greatness.  (From Kathy’s great grandfather’s booklet “Experiences Under Tests and Trials”, C.T. Carleton)

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DVP2017

DREAMS VISIONS AND PROPHECY SYMPOSIUM 2017
More information: DVP2017


A Drawing Salve Kind of Season

First, I would like to warn you of the graphic nature of this article.  It may cause unpleasant pictures in your head while reading.  So, read at your own risk!
What has the beginning of this year been about? We are in a Drawing Salve season. The reason drawing salve works is that it softens the skin around the splinter, or whatever else is in there, and this then enables the body to more easily eject the foreign object.  This is something that the body does naturally anyway, but by moisturizing the area and using anti-inflammatory agents you simply encourage this to work more quickly before the wound closes over it. At the same time it can encourage blood flow which will also help to create pus and as the pus is ejected from the body so too will the foreign object. (healthguidance,org) That stuff has to come out! This year of extraction also includes our being extracted from captivity with all the bells and whistles God installed!  (First excerpt from Melissa Gabler’s article “A Drawing Salve Kind of Season”)

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Transition and the Unveiling Process

As the people of God assemble today, may they realize that we are not through transitioning. In fact biblical principle, according to Phil 1:6, proclaims that as long as we are in this present age the transitioning to His Image will continue. “{For I am} confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” (NAS) If God is going to complete the work He has begun in us that means transition, it means process; it means a proceeding word from God that takes an unveiling process. May the people of God encourage one another that the fruit and the benefit are worth the process.

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Laying Hands on Mules

(From Kathy’s great grandfather’s booklet “Experiences Under Tests and Trials”, CT Carleton) “One Sunday this other preacher and I were going to church in a wagon, we were already late and one of the mules laid down in that deep sand, harness and all, sick. I said, man what are we doing to do? We are already late. He said get out and lets lay our hands on this mule and ask God to heal him. We did and God healed that mule and he jumped up and we went on to church. Who wouldn’t praise a God like that?”

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Battle of the Mind

If a war breaks out within your mind, because you are sick yourself, when someone asks you to pray for them, that is a (behind the scenes) battle over sonship.  Even if we don’t voice it, as children of God we know our Father doesn’t withhold any good thing like healing, right?  So, when I am not healed, my sonship easily comes under fire, until I repent (which means I catch what I’m thinking and change it).  We change our thinking by remembering the Truth.  In this case, the truth is that infirmity cannot de-son nor de-daughter anyone because sonship is a covenant, not a condition.  Sons anticipate, meaning they already have a realization of the power of Father’s faithfulness to His Word and His Covenant, so they pray out of that confidence, even if their tooth is aching while they pray for someone’s fever. We don’t have to forego anticipation and participation in God-exploits, even while we are under attack or winning sonship wars. (Last excerpt from Kathy’s article “Anticipating the Power of the Kingdom”)

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Are You in the Boat?

Are you in the boat? If you are in the boat with the destiny of Jesus and you are staying the course, then you have no more decisions to make. That must be the first thing that is settled in your heart and mind. You might have to deal with a wave coming over the side now and then but you have no more decisions to make. You may even have to deal with Moby Dick trying to take out the bow of the boat but you don’t have any more decisions to make. The decision has already been made. If Moby Dick is floating out there between me and the boat dock I have been called to, I must stay the course. It is up to the God of heaven and earth to make a way where there seems to be no way. The God of heaven and earth is able to come up with something bigger than Moby Dick that can swallow Moby Dick with one gulp. If mighty God can part a sea, He can surely deal with all the leviathans in it.

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Where Anticipation is Sabotaged

The Father-son relationship is where anticipation is often sabotaged.  If all we can see in the mirror is who we are now or any given moment, instead of who we were born to be, there is no anticipation because we are not thinking like our Father.  (“As a man continues to think in his heart, so is he”, Prov.23:7)  If we see ourselves as “only human” or not worthy or capable to act in our Father’s authority and power, that roots back to relationship and sonship issues.  If we have to rebuild our sense of covenant every time that doubt or condemnation or failure knocks on our door, we won’t come close to anticipation or God-outcomes. (Ninth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Anticipating the Power of the Kingdom”)

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Speak Encouraging Words

This is the day the Lord has made so…  I will rejoice and be glad that the Holy Spirit enables me to edify others in it! 1Thess.5:11 says “So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it.” It is possible to turn someone’s day completely around. It is even possible to turn someone’s life completely around with just a few encouraging words inspired by the Holy Spirit. Edify means “to restore by building, to rebuild, repair, establish, to promote growth in Christian wisdom, affection, grace, virtue, holiness, blessedness.”  We are praying you discover daily that you are edifying others so they may realize their value in helping others.  (Marty’s Daily Discovery as heard on TEXAS PRAISE RADIO at the bottom of the hour 24hrs/day.)

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Anticipating Father/Son Participation

Years ago some minister friends were imprisoned on a mission to India. We went to a multi-church gathering to pray for them.  During the intercession, Marty stood and prophesied that they would be released in three days and they were.  One of those pastors told his congregation when he got home, “I don’t know if Marty heard God’s plan or if God did it because Marty said it.”  Whether it was a realization of Father’s plan in advance or a son with a foretaste of his Father’s authority and backing, the obvious thing is that Anticipation of Kingdom Power thrives within the Father-son relationship and leads to Participation and Demonstration of God’s will in the earth. (Eighth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Anticipating the Power of the Kingdom”)

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Freedom in Christ

July 4th is a celebration about freedom in the USA but we know that, the world over, “if the Son gives you freedom, you are free!”. (Jn.8:36, CEV) “[Freedom in Christ] It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Gal.5:1, NIV)  “Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.” (1Pe.2:16, NIV)

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July is for Deflecting

The month of JULY IS FOR DEFLECTING. I saw a left arm holding up a shield like the shield of faith. I also saw a right hand of authority up like when a policeman is ordering a vehicle to stop. I heard that we will be deflecting all forms of attack, rumors, accusations and even disease. We can speak in such a way and act in such a way that those things “change direction”.  DEFLECT: “to change direction by interposing something”. We can interpose the Word of God, the will of God, praises, declarations, while thinking on the true things of Phil.4:8.

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Dreams Visions Prophecy Symposium
September 22-23, 2017 *** NO FEE
Kathy, Melissa and Marty Gabler
Teaching Worship Ministry Activation
Grace International Church    Willis,TX
936-856-2455   
graceic.org
More Info:
martygabler.com/dreams-visions-prophecy/

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