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Calling Things What God Calls Them

Marty Gabler—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.”


What Things Appear to Be

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 effortlessly on the wind a 1,000 feet above the mountain tops.