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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. 


Father Showing Up

Now, considering the Father bringing his possessed son to Jesus, let’s factor in something: anticipating Kingdom Power and participating in Father’s business is not always going to be a marathon like Mark Chapter 9, nor will it always be a testimony of biblical proportion. It may center around what seems ordinary or unspiritual because Father’s business includes showing up in the everyday life of His sons.  Here’s a real-life example of that:  A friend, Hermana Cruz, from Venezuela was walking on the street to her daughter’s door.  A man on a motorcycle rushed up and put a gun in her chest to rob her.  In reaction, she formed a gun with her hand and touched his temple and said, “Who’s going to shoot first?” (That’s anticipating the POWER and government of God to prevail in the moment.)  He fell over the bike while scrambling to escape, and he ran away yelling, “You’re crazy!  You’re crazy!” (Sixth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s SEEC Magazine article “Sons Must Get It”.)

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Dreams Visions Prophecy 2017  Sept.22-24  Information


Unusual Repercussions

A father, in Mark 9, brought his possessed son to Jesus. After the spirit was kicked out, the boy was pale as a corpse, so people started saying, “He’s dead.”  Here’s another equipping insight in this scenario: sometimes participation in a Kingdom Power exploit may set off unusual repercussions or seemingly unending ripples around you! After all the clashes and outbursts and kicking and screaming already, the aftermath continued.  Most of the people there were fearful and mouthing as if Jesus had just failed and ended up with a dead child.  However, like Jesus, the important thing is to stay on task.  He took the boy by the hand and raised him and he got up.  The anticipation was fulfilled and the participation was complete and Father’s business was finished. (Fifth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s SEEC Magazine article “Sons Must Get It”.)

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Nasty Opposition Can Ruin Participation

A father, in Mark 9, explained to Jesus that his son was possessed with a spirit which made him mute and seized him and slammed him to the ground while causing him to foam at the mouth and grind his teeth and stiffen out. So Jesus proceeded to rebuke the unclean spirit saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.”  That power blast targeted the past, present and future of that family and that spirit.  In verse 26, after crying out and throwing the boy into terrible convulsions, it came out.  This kind of nasty, tenacious opposition is probably not going to be detailed in your up-front-briefing that you get for a mission like this, because you can see how it might dampen your anticipation if not make you faint at the thought of participation!  (Fourth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s SEEC Magazine article “Sons Must Get It”.)

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Marty Gabler
Listen to:  God of Miracles word
Marty will be one of the presenters at the
Dreams Visions Prophecy Symposium
September 22-24, 2017   Info:  DVP2017

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Sons Must Get It

In Mark 9, when Jesus and Peter, James and John came down from the Mount of Transfiguration experience, they found the other disciples with a crowd gathered and a man that said he’d brought his son for deliverance. The father explained that his son was possessed with a spirit which made him mute and seized him and slammed him to the ground while causing him to foam at the mouth and grind his teeth and stiffen out.  Then he added, “Your disciples couldn’t cast it out.” Jesus had been training the twelve to be sons who understood Kingdom Power, but they didn’t seem to “get it.”  (First excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s SEEC Magazine article “Sons Must Get It”.)

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