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Follow-Through-Thinking

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.  (Second excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s SEEC Magazine article “Sons Must Get It”.)

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Anticipation is Key

What Jesus was attempting to communicate after going down from the Mount of Transfiguration is: “The things I’ve done were not just for historical records, they’re your calling, the template for your mandate and your future.  I’m not here to provide you a fleeting encounter with a super-Hero!  I’m here to inaugurate the sonship of powerful, effectual sons! When . . . are . . . you . . . gonna . . . get it?” An Equipping insight at this point is that Practice and Training to Anticipate the Power of the Kingdom of God is a major KEY for taking care of Father’s business on earth in our lifetime.  (Seventh excerpt from Kathy’s article “Anticipating the Power of the Kingdom”)

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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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Biography or Manual?

When they came down from the mountain transfiguration experience, they found the other disciples with a crowd gathering round them.  Jesus asked what was going on.  A man answered that he’d brought his son who was possessed with a spirit which makes him mute and seizes him and slams him to the ground and causes him to foam at the mouth and grind his teeth and stiffen out.  He added,  “Your disciples couldn’t cast it out.”  Then Jesus said:  “What a generation! No sense of God!  How many times do I have to go over these things? How much longer do I have to put up with this? Bring the boy to me,” (Mark 9:19).  The crowd probably went silent, cringing and blinking and backing away since Jesus was obviously irritated, but listen to what He was saying, “You’re acting like all the power I’ve been demonstrating is just for a BIOGRAPHY instead of a MANUAL, like it’s just about MY performance instead of YOUR training!  You’re treating all this like an OPTION when it is an ESSENTIAL.  Remember the man I told you about who was given one talent and he thought he had the OPTION of ignoring the Master’s priorities and burying his potential? That didn’t work out well, remember. Jesus wanted them to anticipate, to see ahead of time they were to be sons.  (Sixth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Anticipating the Power of the Kingdom”)

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