Showing posts with label 40 days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40 days. Show all posts

Saturday, May 11, 2019

"Walk With Me" - Now Think On This by Steve Martin


Walk With Me


“Walk with me and work with me — watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly." (Yeshua/Jesus Matthew 11:29-30, THE MESSAGE)

As believers in Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach, we are called to walk with Him. We are called to hear, obey, and see His plans and purposes fulfilled not only in our lives but in those He touches through us as a result of our obedience. What a wonderful and privileged calling that is. To walk with Jesus, the King of the universe.

Boyhood home in Cedar Falls, Iowa - Steve Martin (1962-1985)
Since the call on my life to live for Him, knowing I received it at the age of 10 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, He has kept me in His grace, mercy, and love. For this, I will forever give thanks and testify of my Savior’s goodness and provision.

Walk with me. That is the challenge, and the opportunity, He gives to each. What have you done with His call on your life? Have you heard and obeyed? Have you experienced His adventures, while at the same time dying to self as that also comes with the call and the territory?

Just under 10 years ago, when my good wife Laurie and I founded the ministry of Love For His People, Inc, in April of 2010, primarily to support Messianic Jews in the promised Land of the Jews, Israel, He gave me even more of a challenge, to walk with Him, and in that doing and going, to share it with others. At first, I was not clear as to how to do it, but now, after 420 messages I call, “NowThink On This”, through 20 published books and over 300 videos which I have entitled as the series, “Walk With Me”, the picture has become quite clear.

It is all about hearing and obeying. Do what you know to do, even if having only a word or two to go by (and yet, having the entire Word of God as our instruction!), and He will take you on His journey one step at a time. It is all to share His love for the nations.

It is also quite clear to me that the Lord will put you through the tests, even as He did with Moses, Joseph, the prophets. Some for 40 years. Even Yeshua Himself had 30 years of training and then another 40 days and nights in the wilderness. Our God, and Father, does this to make sure you are willing and will continue to press on even when you want to quit. Been there. Done that.

During my 24 years of training and serving while with the ministries of three well-known international organizations, the Lord gave me several tests. Would I give my best? Would I seek to bless others through them and not myself? Would I receive from them what they had learned and were willing to teach me, knowingly or unknowingly?

Former luggage of Mahesh Chavda (1987-1999)
With one particular ministry, that of Mahesh Chavda Ministries (now known as Chavda Ministries International, to rightly include Bonnie Chavda), I counted my trips hauling luggage while taking them to the local airports of Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Charlotte, back and forth, as 400 plus. No exaggeration. I am an accountant. 

And towards the end of this 14-year period with them from 1987-2001, my heart cry had become, “O Lord, when will I get to go?”

Now, after completing my 20th trip to Israel, this May 2019, the Lord continues to answer, and fulfill, that desire which He Himself placed there. And as a special side note, the black and gray pieces of luggage which I used to carry to the airport for Mahesh for his trips, which became mine back when he bought new luggage around 1999, has been with me on these many foreign ministry travels. 

On this trip, I too gave one to a volunteer in Israel and will give the other to whomever just needs a well-traveled, answered-prayer, piece of natural and spiritual history. Maybe they too will do as I was able to do. (Or maybe with some new luggage I really hope!)

Be encouraged if you are still serving with another, longing for the day when you too will have your “vineyard” as I call this ministry of Love For His People. If you continue to hear and obey, in the little and the much, small and large, trust me, you will!

Now think of this,

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.

P.S. You can see my last 71 short “Walk With Me in Israel” videos here on our YouTube channel: Walk With Me - Israel May 2019


Also, my previous ones are here on YouTube: Walk With Me


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Now Think On This #420 - in the year of our Lord 05.11.19 – “Walk With Me” – Saturday, 8:30 am



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Friday, August 9, 2013

God’s Wakeup Call (Rosh Hashana preparation)

God’s Wakeup Call

shofar banner
On the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul (this past Wednesday),  Jews around the world began blowing the shofar (ram’s horn) in anticipation of Rosh Hashanah which will be celebrated in one month. What is the source of this custom?
Jewish tradition tells us that when Moses climbed Mt. Sinai for a second time after the sin of the Golden Calf, he was accompanied by the sounding of the shofar. Moses ascended to beg for forgiveness for the Jewish people and to receive the second set of tablets. All of this happened on the first day of Elul hence we mark the beginning of God’s forgiveness of the Jewish people by blowing the shofar. We will do so every day until Rosh Hashana.
For the Jewish people this forty day period beginning today and extending to Yom Kippur is a time that has been designated for forgiveness. We do our best to repair our relationship with God and with people. We cannot ask God to forgive us for offenses committed against other people—we must reconcile directly with them.
How did the shofar come to be such a powerful symbol?
Abraham is instructed by God to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. In perhaps the most dramatic moment in human history God tells Abraham to stop just as he is about to plunge the knife in to the neck of Isaac. God teaches us that we are to live for Him and not give up our lives to honor Him. Abraham looks up and caught in the thicket is a ram. Abraham takes the ram and offers him to God as a replacement for Isaac. Abraham has passed the test and demonstrated the depth of his commitment and loyalty to God and at the same time is taught a powerful lesson about life.
The ram’s horn recalls this incredible act of Abraham reminding us of his faith in order to inspire us to higher levels of faith and commitment. We sound the shofar and we are brought back to the great moment where Abraham, the great knight of faith, instructs us.
Another imagery that we find in Jewish literature is the shofar as a kind of spiritual alarm clock. When a person is physically asleep and needs to be up to go to school or work, they set an alarm clock. When a person is spiritually asleep he listens to the sound of the shofar. It is a wakeup call that reminds us not to sleep away our lives in a spiritual slumber. We must arouse ourselves and awaken our souls to God.
Others suggest that the sounds that emanate from the shofar represent the deepest cry of the human being. Crying transcends words. Words can only reach so far but a cry from the soul can open all doors of heaven. Sometimes we simply do not have the words to express ourselves so we cry to God to express the inner emotions and thoughts of our hearts in a way that can never be achieved through the spoken word. This is what the shofar is. Its sounds reach down in to the soul of man and reach up to the highest places in heaven.
The shofar reminds us of Abraham, it is a wakeup call and it is a cry from the depths of our soul.
Finally, the shofar is mentioned everyday three times a day in Jewish prayer. “Sound the great shofar for our freedom…and gather us in from the four corners of the world.” The shofar is the instrument that will announce the redemption.  It will begin an era where the whole world will recognize God and live in peace. Let us pray that we are blessed to hear the sounding of the great shofar!

Editor's note: I added the following photos (just because I love photos!)  Steve Martin