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This website features the teachings and the original music of Gary Batchelder and his wife Debbie.
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Psalms

 
Gary's
Psalm 1

I lift my voice to you, my God,
I join with the intelligent universe of your design,
 
I join with those that live in light, That recognize you, my God,
The source and sustaining of all life.
 
I lift my voice to praise you,
My heart rises in unison with your creation,
My heart pours out its gratitude.
 
For you have raised me from blackness,
From the horror of oblivion,
To a bright place where you are seen and known.
 
For you have rescued me from the
evil designs of my enemies,
Within me and without me.
 
You have saved me from my former master
And my former self: a blind slave.
 
You have held me in your healing arms,
Your warmth has closed my wounds.
 
Your tender care has put light in my eyes,
You have granted me sight,
 
And I see now, my God,
That you are worthy of all praise,

My Lord and my King!

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Welcome everyone to Dovepeace
from Gary and Debbie Batchelder!
We want to be a blessing to you in any way we can.There is much teaching here in the form of psalms, proverbs, prophesies, music, and articles. If you have a prayer request, or would like to get in touch with us for possible meetings, get on the mailing list, or any other reason, please click the contact button above.
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Some new additions!

I have placed some new banners on the site which will aid those who are seaching for Jesus. Two of them have the title, "Who is Jesus?" They are links to wonderful websites which have many translations for our non-English friends. I have also put a Babelfish translator on several of the pages. Click on the flag which represents your language and you will get a translated page.

We have put a Donations button on the Contact page for those that would like to donate to our ministry.

A new teaching has been added, "The House of Prayer". It is a teaching about the most important church, the one that resides inside us. I pray that it will bless you.

Dovepeace is now in the top 4.8% of all websites on the internet according to Alexa. We have surpassed
200,000 visits. Praise God!

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The House of Prayer
By Gary Batchelder

Luk 19:45-46 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Joh 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

Isa 56:1-12 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

1Co 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Luk 20:25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.

Jesus cleans the temple


The temple was a sacred place to Jesus because it represented the place where God meets man, the place where God communes with His creation, where the divine heart meets the human heart. To Jesus, the profiteering in the temple was a violation of a holy place, a violation of the spirit of fellowship between God and His people. It is a house of prayer, a place of communion, the table of the feast where God blesses His people with food for life and God's people bless Him back with worship. The thieves had intervened, stepped between God and His people, making gain on the spiritual hunger of God's children. They had channeled and diverted that hunger to feed the lust of their own flesh, and in so doing serve the will of the devil. They had thus turned the house of prayer into an occasion for the devil to have his way. They were stealing that which belonged to God, the whole-hearted communion of His people.

Jesus knew the heart of His Father. He felt the passion that His Father had for His people and manifested that zeal by running out the thieves. He knew the mind of His Father; that He did not want anything to come between Him and the objects of His love. The jealousy of God over His lovers translated into the consuming zeal in the heart of His Son.

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God's Love:
Redeems, Restores, Replenishes
 
Redeem:
Save from the bondage of sin
Exchange or buy back
Pay off
 
GAL 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree:
 
1PET 1:18,19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
 
REV 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
 
God's love is not a passive love. It does not sit back and muse while destruction happens to those it is directed toward. God's love conveys the power of His character and the power of His might.
 
Man sold himself into the bondage of sin. All he had to do was live his life basking in the warmth and freedom of God's love and provision. But he was not content just to live with God, he wanted to be God. He was not content to enjoy all that God supplied, he wanted take God's position. He turned his back on the light and chose the darkness. He turned His back on the love of God and chose the coldness of rule by an evil fallen angel, Lucifer.
 
God Himself took the responsibility for mankind upon him self and came to Earth to save it. Jesus came to set the captive free. He came to REDEEM. He bought back the rights to all of us by dying for us, dying in our place. We were saved from slavery, we no longer are doomed to fulfill the lusts of the fallen angel, we now are free to live in the glory of righteousness. We belong to Him, His power and nature resides in us. We may now be who we are and yet be holy for what we are has been changed by His Spirit.

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Prophesy 9/16/2006
Under the shadow of my wings
I am calling my people
to come and find safety
under the shadow of my wings, saith the Lord;
to be drawn from the chaos of a world
mad with fear.
 
I am drawing my people
to my warmth;
out of a world that is
freezing with hatred and destruction.
 
Come close to my heart,
fear not to come to me.
I know you,
I know what you are,
yet I still want you.
 
Fear not to come to me.
 
Let not the enemy decieve you;
I love you.
 
I care,
I will take care of you.
I will change your circumstance.
 
You will stand up in me in wholeness.
 
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Prophesy 2/21/2006
The Father's love
 
Raise your eyes, says the Father,
contemplate the vastness of the universe I have created.
It reaches beyond your ability to imagine,
beyond your capacity to understand.

My love for you is like my universe.

My desire for you is beyond your level of comprehension.
The gift of my Son to you is the focus of that endless love.
Through Him you enter into my endless heart.

There is none other beside me. There is no other God.
I will shelter you beyond all possibility of harm.
You will live in my care forever.
Your joy will unfold in constant waves.
I will open your eyes that will never again shed a tear.
I will make your eyes to see what I see.
You will live in absolute certainty.
No shadows or doubts will again torment you.

Your eyes have never seen and your ears have never heard
what I have prepared for you,
but you have tasted it in my Spirit.
In that day your hearts will receive their total desire.

Live apart from the hopelessness of the world.
For you have a destiny
which will turn the distress of this time into a vanishing vapor.

I am the Lord your God who will
nurture and cherish you forever
in my city of gladness and light.
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This is the beginning of the Dovepeace Ministries website. I hope the teachings and music are a blessing to you. The teachings, psalms, proverbs, and music are all written by Gary. Debbie helped with the singing and a million other indispensable tasks. We plan on converting some of the many messages Gary has preached into streaming audio and put them on the audio teachings page. Also, a daily devotional feature is in planning as well as a schedule of preaching dates and poetry. If you are interested in having Gary come to your church or gathering or have any other comment just e-mail him on the contact page. May God bless you!!!!
 

 

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Proverbs
 
A sin justified is a fool's license.


 Heaven leaves nothing to be desired.


 Time is the greatest preacher,
for it will show the whole of God's Word
to be true.

 The highest of thoughts,
and the noblest of endeavors
of the unregenerate
shall be rendered meaningless
by their own eternal hindsight.

 The simplicity of the Gospel
makes it horrid to the high-minded,
but honey to the hungry-hearted.

 God has been misunderstood
but never overestimated.

 All of God's miracles speak of Him;
the big ones show the wonder of His power,
the small ones the wonder of His concern

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