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What Distracts us From Mandate?

Kathy Gabler—Our mandate is to rebuild this temple to house His presence and His purpose.  What distracts us from our mandate?  One of the things at the top of the list is pain. Pain has a way of capturing our attention.  Pain has a way of becoming a priority, but even pain must bow to God’s authority and power and purpose.  Marty hurt his back a few years ago.  He laid on the bed begging and pleading for healing and relief.  Between groans, he decided to call and cancel the service scheduled for the next day which would require four hours driving but the Holy Spirit said, “You are not dealing with this like a son.” “How do I do that, Lord?” he asked aloud.  The answer came just as loud. “Declare your position and purpose.”  Aloud he began to declare, “God has purpose for me in Lockhart, Texas.  I will go and do what I was born to do.”  Not even remembering how he got off the bed, he found himself packing.  He was still in pain, but able to move again.  He took ground inch by inch, moment by moment that day.  By the time he stood in the pulpit and preached, the pain had completely left him. He could have thought like Judah, “I will pursue the purposes of God someday, just not now.”  I have to recover first!  But as he adjusted his priorities in his thinking, the process of healing began as he headed toward purpose.


Power to Overcome Obstacles

KATHY—Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection and ascension was for our salvation.  That salvation includes the power to overcome any obstacle to your life and purpose.  The fact that He came to die for you proves that you have value.  That’s your trump, the undeniable proof that you have value and that will forever declare your worth!  The challenge is figuring out how to get your emotions to agree with that truth so that you don’t bottom-out if someone treats you as if you don’t have worth.  If  someone’s  selfishness or pride or ignorance or prejudice or stupidity causes them to look at anybody as worthless, that is their problem.  It is a lie to believe someone else’s problem can make you worthless.  The challenge here is to find a way that their problem has no influence over our emotions.  If we can learn to leave those offending moments in life by deciding not to stop and replay them, we can walk away in the confidence that we can trust God to deal with people and their issues while we rest in the truth that our self-worth isn’t even at risk.


The Salvation of a Nation or….

As long as there are a people who feel they have their “ticket stamped” to go to a “much better place,” there will be no reform of what they deem to be merely an exit platform (cf.Jn.20:21;Lk.9:2;Jn.16:7). If the departure platform is somewhat rickety, people will just try to stand still and hope the train out of there arrives soon. With such a view, no one CrowdFormCrossreforms or rebuilds the platform; they simply grip what is available to grip and hope to be off of it as soon as possible. The emphasis today upon the sudden coming of the Lord isn’t about Him, it is about us. The religious pundits pounding their pulpits exclaiming the quick return of our Lord are getting hearty (and well financed) “Amens!” in response to their promises of sudden escape from disappointments, rudely jostled comfort zones and nerve-racking prognostication. We have been taught by pop-theology to use faith for immediate relief, not long-term endurance, not long-term results (Heb.11:13 does not figure into Esau’s demands for immediate relief).  The Esau mindset of blowing off the coming generations and spending what you’ve got on relief for the present generation flies well in today’s skies. Joseph did not get immediate results (or relief) after his prophetic dream and prophetic pronouncement. He and Daniel and Esther were sent ahead to “preserve a posterity,” “continue a remnant” and “save lives.” (Gen.45:7 Amplified) Joseph stood and stood and took ground “until the Word of the Lord proved him” and he was not proven to guarantee him plenty of airtime and notoriety but for the survival of a nation (Ps.105:18). He was not dealt the luxurious right of faith for immediate relief or escape. But the result was the salvation of a nation and its being propelled into the future of its destiny for Jehovah’s purposes and Name’s sake.
(Marty will be leading prayer and declarations and speaking at Kingdom Congress Mar.3-5,2021. No Fee. Schedule and information: martygabler.com/kc2021)


What Price Immediate Relief?

What are you willing to pay for immediate relief? Israel desired to return to slavery after being freed at their own request (Ex.3:7,9). The main concern was immediate relief. Esau was hungry, so he traded his birthright for immediate relief. We may find it necessary to deal with a rumbling stomach or uncomfortable surroundings for a period of time to get to promise. Ex.3:7-9, Amp – “The Lord said, “I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand (power) of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a land [that is] good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey [a land of plenty]—to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.”


When Things Stack Up

When things begin to stack up on top of each other and a sense of panic begins stack_brickstrying to creep in, I think many of us either jump into a get-it-solved-by-any-means mode or have fallen back into a can’t-do-anything-about-it-so-why-try mode.  But in spite of the temptation to feel that He, who could do something about all of it immediately, has (“for some reason”) just chosen to add one more thing to our load, we will look expectantly for relief. Relief is on its way.  “Don’t add to my troubles.  Give me some relief!” (Jer.17:17, Msg)


2017 — Welcome Changes

CloudSunBreakThruKG — If you are battle-weary, I believe the new year, 2017, will bring welcome changes.  I’m not implying battles will stop suddenly and everybody goes on vacation.  I’m saying many long-term battles will end because you finally win.   “Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around” (MSG, Pro 13:12).  I expect some sudden good breaks in the year to come.


 


A Sudden Good Break

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May the Lord grant you a sudden good break
that brings you much needed relief.

Proverbs 13:12 (MSG) ” Unrelenting
disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a
sudden good break can turn life around.”

 


Relief Is On Its Way

pile of bricks stacked upWhen things begin to stack up on top of each other and a sense of panic begins trying to creep in, I think many of us have either jumped into a get-it-solved-by-any-means mode or have fallen back into a can’t-do-anything-about-it-so-why-try mode.  But in spite of the temptation to feel that He, who could do something about all of it immediately, has (“for some reason”) just chosen to add one more thing to our load, we will look expectantly for relief. Relief is on its way.

“Don’t add to my troubles.  Give me some relief!” (Jer.17:17, Msg)

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Below is a short audio file of Kathy Gabler speaking on “Escaping Victim Syndrome”.
She spoke on this subject last year at SEEC Kingdom Conference.
She will be speaking this year March 5-7, 2014 * Grace International * 936-856-2455
To hear audio excerpts CLICK ON THIS LINK:
http://martygabler.podomatic.com/entry/2014-02-18T21_51_13-08_00

To see details of the conference click on:  https://martygabler.com/ctk-conference/


Pray For Oklahoma

We declare over Oklahoma that its redemptive purpose will rise through the rubble and that the injured will recover quickly and fully. We declare that the people of God will shine in their generosity and mercy and helps. May the Lord God Almighty enable His people to communicate His redemptive Word to individuals and the state.

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We know these pastors who are heading up this relief effort.
Kathy & I are supporting the Isaacs to redemptively minister to Oklahoma.
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