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Not Weenie-Armed Sissies

Kathy Gabler—We aren’t weenie-armed sissies facing giants in an immoral world, we are DAVIDS facing GOLIATHS! Do you hear the difference?
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Remember Fervently the Promise

MARTY GABLER—As the people of God assemble today, may they recall and rehearse for one another the promises of faithful God and may they hope in them anew and afresh.   “Remember [fervently] the word and promise to Your servant, in which You have caused me to hope.  This is my comfort and consolation in my affliction: that Your word has revived me and given me life.” (Ps.119:49-50, Amp)


The Most Valuable Connection

MARTY GABLER—Jesus had the most valuable connection of all, connection with the Father and His desire was that we might experience that connection. The Father set things up in such a way that we may have connection with Him through Jesus so that we can do what Jesus did. Jn.17:21  “I pray that all of these people continue to have unity in the way that you, Father, are in me and I am in you.” (GW)  Then Jesus goes on to illustrate to us the flow of power and energy to the branches of the vine which produce the grapes. That flow and fruitfulness is a result of that connection. Jn 15:4  “Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me. 5  “I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing.” (MSG)


It’s Fixable!

MELISSA GABLER—God Himself created the original warranty when Jesus took those stripes on His back (Isa. 53:5 & 1 Pe. 2:24). Yeah, that’s right, we have a never ending warranty on us, signed in blood. This warranty includes, “…all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2 Pt. 1:3).  Whatever you are dealing with is covered in your “warranty”. It’s fixable!  The siege is over because the Lord has already lifted up a standard against it (Is. 59:19).  Our individual lives are about the greater good so go ahead and be healed right now! You are too important to be silenced by sickness, pain, or emotional turmoil.


Discernment and Wisdom in the Holy Ghost

KATHY GABLER—In Acts 13:9,  Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked him straight in the eye and said, “You are full of every form of deception and trickery, you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right! You will never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord, will you? But now you’ve come up against God himself, and your game is up. You’re about to go blind–no sunlight for you for a good long stretch. . . and he was plunged immediately into a shadowy mist and stumbled around, begging people to lead him by the hand.”  In our world right now with so many enemies of all that is right, blindness might sound like an effectual weapon to keep on hand!  However, we have to back up to the first line in this verse where it says Paul was filled with the Holy Spirit.  DISCERNMENT and WISDOM in the HOLY GHOST will authorize our weapons and our  assignments,  and at the same time keep us from taking on assignments that are NOT from God.


Great and Mighty Things

MARTY GABLER—You, O Mighty God, are not subject to political schemes, monetary declines or medical limitations. You are above all those limited strictures.  Father, by your awesome Spirit, speak into our lives where we have forgotten your desires and purposes and have concluded, like Abraham in Gen.15:3, that we will not have an heir, and certain things will be and other things will not be. Holy Spirit, come and breath upon the Word of God in our hearts that we may call upon Him so that He may show us great and mighty things. Come and witness to us today what shall be and what you shall grant by your power from your throne. We must know what we do not now know that the glory may be to Your Name.  Jer.33:3,Amp)—“Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).”


They Didn’t Seem to Get It

KATHY GABLER—Jesus said,  “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!” (Mark 9:19).  His frustration was obviously because He had been training the twelve to be sons who understood Kingdom Power, but they didn’t seem to “get it.”  Jesus then looked to the father and asked, “How long has this been happening to your son?”  The father answered, “From childhood. It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. If You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”  Jesus did not always ask a question like this.  His question caused the man to lay everything on the table, 1) his grief from the past, 2) his helplessness in the present and 3) his plea for the future.  Evidently, Jesus wanted the father to say it, so he could see his thinking because anticipation, or the realization of what can happen is only the beginning.  The father’s follow-through-thinking would be crucial to their future. 


Overcoming With the Compassion of Jesus

MARTIN GABLER—As the people of God assemble today, may they stand hand in hand facing the same goals with the same determination that the first century church had: to confront and overcome the oppressive powers of darkness in their nation with the compassion and resurrection power of their Lord and Savior, JESUS.  “For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.” (Eph.6:12, Amp)


Stir the Ashes

MP GABLER—The air was bone-chilling cold. The fire had gone out and it seemed useless to pick up the stick and stir the ashes which looked so lifeless. Yet, when I began to stir around in the ashes, sparks began to fly, embers were exposed to the air and they began to flame into life. The embers that came to life had not been apparent before I stirred up the ashes. I added some small twigs and in a short period of time, after feeding the fire with some larger pieces, I had a full-grown fire to warm myself.
Paul urged Timothy, “Stir up the gift of God within you (2Tim.1:6 KJV).” There was no impassioned plea for Timothy to sit quietly by until a holy stick-bearing angel came and stirred up the fire. Actually, the imperative is to do just the opposite: “[You] Fan into flame the gift of God.” This phrase was used in the common vernacular of the time to describe the rekindling of a fire that had been allowed to die down through neglect (W.E. Vine).


How do we Prepare For What’s Ahead?

MELISSA GABLER—How do we prepare for what’s ahead? You’ve been made ready in ways you haven’t put together yet, but it will come together as we head further into the year. Also, we need to realize it’s just time to BE the new creation Jesus exemplified. We need to pick up the Bible and rehearse the things Jesus set in motion. We typically call those “promises,” but in our modern culture that word tends to have only a future connotation. His promises are fully alive and available for application now and where we are headed. For instance, we read in the gospels about fish and bread being multiplied to feed thousands. We need to be ready to facilitate that new creation norm. Finally, remember this isn’t all about evil being exposed. Our focus needs to be on the increasing Kingdom that is going to be revealed in the midst of the mess. “I have told you these things in parables (veiled language, allegories, dark sayings); the hour is now coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words and openly (without reserve).” (John 16:25 Amplified) The reality and mysteries of God being uncovered will be the biggest mind-blower of all! The “brainwashed zombie” in each of us will try and hold on to old logic through the upheaval ahead, but the new creation we already are will bring us through to a victory that words can’t relay right now.


Repentance Ushers in Release

Kathy Gabler– Repentance ushers in release and change for everyone. One reason we avoid it is shame locks us down. The fact that we need to think differently and change feels like an indictment against our self-image or even worse, against our Christianity. That’s the deception of shame in action. The truth is that repentance brings healthy changes and change is part of the process of maturing and overcoming.  2Co.7:10, TPT — “God designed us to feel remorse over sin in order to produce repentance that leads to victory. This leaves us with no regrets. But the sorrow of the world works death.”


Detractor Spirit

MARTY GABLER—The enemy of your promise does not have to completely destroy that promise. If he can’t get it all, he’ll be satisfied with stealing a vital piece of it. That is the job of the detractor spirit. A detractor is something that takes away. It steals away pieces and takes away value from the whole making it incomplete, not fully functional, not fully serving its purpose. It is like a motor not running on all cylinders.

A detractor takes a spray can and paints smudges on a beautiful statue and vulgarities on a clean wall. A detractor draws a mustache on an exquisite painting. If someone notices a lady and says, “Isn’t she beautiful?” the detractor responds, “Yes, but her nose is too big.”

That spirit has a way of making things or people look and sound unattractive, unworthy or unuseful even though they may have legitimately been at one time. It devastates or, at the least, depreciates. It loves to make the promise of God appear difficult or unattainable. We just need to realize though, that if God promises, He is the One who brings it to pass. Beware all detractors that get in the way of God’s moving toward fulfillment. He performs that which He promises (Rom.4:21).  “and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” (Rom.4:21)


Don’t Confuse Trust With Diligence

Melissa Gabler— Some of us have confused trust with diligence.  By “diligence” I mean we handle, fixate on, and stay worried about a problem until it’s fixed.  That is nowhere in the definition of trust.  It’s not only the opposite of trust, but it is seething with dysfunction and disease.  A lack of trust is one of our worst enemies.  We might be blaming things on the devil that are really a lack of trust in our own lives.  I’m sure the devil doesn’t mind when we blame him for such things because it makes his job easier.


Three Victories With Un-carnal Weapons

KATHY GABLER—Following are three victories won with un-carnal weapons that were received in dreams and visions: Vicarious Insights (Walking in someone else’s shoes so we can swing an un-carnal weapon in their behalf!): Recently a doctor and his wife told me of a dream and a vision they had on the same night. The experience brought the two warriors into agreement that literally set the enemy to flight. The doctor had a patient who was a satan-worshipper and the patient had a tag-along demonic force to be dealt with during his visits. The doctor asked his wife to pray with him concerning the situation.
That night the doctor’s wife dreamed she was trying to feed some needy people and one man in a demonic outburst started to bite her. She was frustrated that there seemed to be no one to help her get him to deliverance. In her frustration she turned to look for assistance and blurted out, “For the love of God . . .”
Suddenly her husband awoke, “Did you hear that?” She was grateful to be awakened from the dream, but admitted she had not heard anything. He had awakened to the sound of their back door slamming. When he went to check the door, he found it unlocked but shut. In that same moment he knew by the Spirit that a dark spirit had just fled from his house.
In the dream, the wife was experiencing “biting the hand that feeds you.” The demonized man was attacking her as she tried to help him. This was an intercessory picture for her of what her husband was going through. A patient, that he obviously was trying to help, was a bearer of a dark spirit that opposed anything good or positive and was running interference and trying to harass the doctor. The wife’s outcry in the dream, “For the love of God!” was an un-carnal weapon, a declaration of the purpose and plan of God in intercessory warfare.
Let me lay some groundwork. A man we know went to India to minister. Soon after he arrived, a shaman came to his hotel room. He obviously came to harass and intimidate him because he did not use the door. The shaman came right through the wall and backed the man onto his bed where he towered over him menacingly. The shaman demanded, “What are you doing here?” The minister hesitated and then spoke wisely from his spirit, “I am here because of the compassion of Christ.” If the minister had argued his rights and his cause rather than the cause of Christ, he would have been limited to self-protection; and self would not have been a match for the experienced power of darkness confronting him. There was no arguing with the wise answer however, and the shaman disappeared as quickly as he’d come without another word.
The “love of God” and “the compassion of Christ” are un-carnal weapons, mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds! That outcry in the wife’s dream was intercessory for her husband’s situation. That power point of agreement with her husband literally set the enemy to flight. Her husband witnessed the flight in a night vision as he heard the door slam. (In visions we can experience the spirit realm, meaning we can see, hear, taste, smell or touch things in the spirit realm around us.) Their agreement, a powerful un-carnal weapon, had set darkness to flight! Two days later the patient was gone also.
KATHY will be speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2025. Location: Grace Church Willis TX. NO FEE. Sept.12-14. Click on this link for all information: martygabler.com/dvp2025/


Speak the Same Thing

MARTIN GABLER–As the people of God assemble today, may they be of one heart and one mind to hear the truths of God in His Word and to “speak the same thing” that the Holy Bible declares so that the truths of God Most High, that represent His character and that bless and give life, may not be considered arguable by regional or culturally preferential viewpoints.
“Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (1Cor.1:10, NKJV)

Full Promise of God

MARTIN PHILLIP GABLER–Would you buy a bird without a song or a dog without a bark? Then don’t “buy” anything from the devil or this world system that is less than what God has promised. If you went to a hospital to have a baby and they brought out a large doll and said, “This is your baby,” would you just simply accept it “because that’s the way things are, that’s just the way things worked out this time?” Would you accept just a picture of your paycheck because your boss talked you into believing that it is a reasonable facsimile thereof? No you wouldn’t because you know very well that it would not be the real thing and you could not spend it. Therefore, don’t settle for anything less than the full promise of God which you know full well (cf.Rom.4:18).
>>MARTY will be speaking and prophesying at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2025. There is NO FEE to attend. You may bring your coffee mug. There will be free coffee and snacks during the Saturday sessions. No livestream. Nursery will be available.
Location: Grace Church Willis TX. 936-856-2455. Check it out at this link: martygabler.com/dvp2025/


Perfect Tool for This Time

MELISSA GABLER— This passage is a perfect tool for this time: Proverbs 2:3-6, “make your ear attentive to wisdom and incline your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you don’t seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;” Ask for insight and understanding and you will begin to awaken to the fear of the Lord. Then you will understand how to navigate through what is at hand and what is to come. This is our opportunity to demonstrate the Kingdom of God and leave an effectual legacy centered in the fear of the Lord. I’ve heard so many times over the last couple of years that revival is coming. Yes, revival is coming, and it will come through awakened people bowing their knee to the Almighty God.
Come to DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY Sept.12-14,2025 and worship with Jamie Lipe and the Grace Worship Team. Melissa will be speaking to encourage us about our purpose for “Such a Time”. NO FEE. All information for DVP2025 is at this link: martygabler.com/dvp2025/ 


Cain’s Heart

Kathy Gabler — Gen.4:5, “But for Cain and his offering God had no respect or regard.” Listen to that wording. There was something amuck with Cain’s heart and character already for God to have no respect for him as well as his offering. His character flaws became obvious when His behavior and action was not accepted by God. Instead of humbling himself before God for a son’s correction, He took offense! Prov.3:11, TPT — “My child, when the Lord God speaks to you, never take his words lightly, and never be upset when he corrects you.“


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Devices of the Crafty Frustrated


Made to Advance

MELISSA GABLER—We were made to advance the Kingdom in this moment.  We get to be alive to advance the Kingdom in this moment! God doesn’t do things by chance, He does them with intention.  I say this to say, you have the eternal plan of God inside of you, all you need to do is walk it out.  How do we walk it out? By relationship with our Father which solidifies our identity as a son or daughter made to manifest the dominion mandate. 

(MELISSA will be speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2023. No Fee. Date: September 12-14,2025. Location: Grace Church Willis,TX. FOR SCHEDULE AND ALL INFORMATION, USE THIS LINK: martygabler.com/dvp2025/)


Not Warring According to the Flesh

KATHY GABLER—“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.  For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,” (2 Cor.10:3-4, NKJ)  I pray we become a people of God, skillful in the use of un-carnal weapons.  I believe the first step to that goal is learning to recognize the difference between carnal (governed by mere human nature only) and un-carnal weapons.  If we simply “do what comes naturally,” we are choosing carnal weapons.  So, we must learn to do what comes super-naturally.  Emotional reactions that flare up in us are sometimes explosive and therefore seem powerful.  After all, we all know what it is like to fear someone’s upset or wrath.  However, emotional outbursts, like a persuasive tongue or logic or rationalization are common weapons of the natural man; therefore they are still carnal weapons and do not compare with un-carnal weapons like Godly authority and wisdom or Divine revelation and intervention.
KATHY will be speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2025. Location: Grace Church Willis TX.  NO FEE.  Click on this link for all information: martygabler.com/dvp2025/


Preserved in Purpose

MARTY GABLER—As the people of God assemble today may the people of God all worship Him and call on His name in one accord. And may they find, as they go through the week, that they are preserved in their person, their family, their job and their purpose. Ps.31:23, NKJV — “Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, And fully repays the proud person.”   v.23, EXB — “Love the Lord, all you ·who belong to him [loyal ones; saints]. The Lord protects those who ·truly believe [are faithful], but he ·punishes [repays] ·the proud as much as they have sinned [those who act with pride].”


August is for Looking Where our Help Comes From

MARTY GABLER—The month of August is for looking unto the hills where our help comes from. It comes from the Lord (Psalm 121:1-2). In August, let us do as instructed in verse one as we lift up our eyes to where our Help is. We must lift up our eyes to see beyond the immediate representations and visages of what appear to be immovable, indefatigable threats against purpose and life. Verse 3 unembarrassedly announces to us that “He will not suffer thy foot to be moved” while verse 5 boldly reminds us in the most certain of terms that “The Lord is thy keeper”. All through August we must lift up our eyes and run to the Rock (Ps.61:2) because the Psalmist proclaims with all assurance that “The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul”.


DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2025 — NO FEE

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