Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2022

The Promise Will Be Fulfilled – Steve Martin, Love For His People

 

The Promise Will Be Fulfilled – Steve Martin, Love For His People

(L-r) Steve Martin, Kokeb Gedamu, David Peterman April 2022 in Jerusalem, Israel

April 21, 2022 Love For His People Charlotte, NC USA

THE PROMISE WILL BE FULFILLED

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.” Psalm 37:4-6, NKJV

The first book that I ever wrote (now numbering 33 in total thus far as of April 2022) was of the heart’s desire that the Lord put in my being when I was 10 years old. It was to be a missionary doctor in Africa.

For most people, Africa is not the first choice of one’s missions destination. Hawaii, yes. Africa, not so much. When people would pray, “Lord send me out, but not to Africa” my prayer was “Lord send me out. To Africa!”

That desire continually grew to go to that continent and share the love of Jesus.

I believe what started in the heart of my Mom, Lila Mae Martin, whom I remember when as a young child hearing her share her hopeful thoughts on how she had wanted to be a missionary to Africa in her early years, was put into me as a little embryo.

Then the Lord watered that seed as I began reading books in my early teens on the missionary activity of Dr. David Livingstone, the British physician and pioneer missionary explorer to Africa in the late 19th -century Victorian era, and other African missionaries I could find biographies on.

In 2013, after spending a few years compiling my thoughts and putting them on paper, I published my first book, and autobiography, and entitled it, “The Promise – One Man’s Journey to See God’s Word Revealed.” The first chapter began with what the Lord had put in my heart at 10. The last chapter ended with the fact that after two promised but disappointing endings to get to Africa which never occurred, once with Mahesh Chavda in 1994 while on staff as the Administrator (Chavda Ministries/All Nations Church in Fort Mill, SC) and again with a worship team ministry in the late 1990s, I never got there.

I somewhat dismissed the hope that I would ever walk on the African land and be with the precious people. In the meantime, the Lord turned my heart to Israel and the Jews, which has blossomed into a fantastic journey with Him and His people.

In May 2019 my good friend David Peterman had just returned from his first trip to Israel and spoke of his divine appointment in meeting Ethiopian Messianic Jewish Rabbi Kokeb Gedamu, and that I should meet him too. I purposely did so on my next trip to Jerusalem in Oct. 2019.

In short, both David and I were impressed with this man, his life’s story, and the connection that the Lord had done between the three of us. After reading Kokeb’s book Journey Beyond Imagination and spending further time with him and his wife Menalu in Jerusalem in April 2022 (see my report on our website Kokeb Gedamu) I believe the Lord gave me renewed hope that through this man my Father would bring about the fulfillment of that Holy Spirit impression that He had given me 58 years ago in 1964 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, as a 10-year old boy.

On April 20, 2022, my good wife Laura Jean (aka Laurie) kept her promise to our grandson Jack Blade that she had given him at Christmas in December 2021. It was to be a day trip to the North Carolina Zoo near Asheboro, NC as his Christmas present, and on his 9th birthday. And so…I got to go too!

When we entered the park, we had the choice between going to the “Africa” frontier or the “North America” section to visit first. As the leader for the day, Africa was to become our first adventure trek.

Shortly just inside the vast acreage was a painted sign on the sidewalk, with the word “Africa” imprinted on it. (See the top photo of this message.) This occurred at 11:07 am, as recorded by the date stamp on the photo.

Believing the Bible and the Word of the Lord, that He first gave to Moses, and I had received for myself many decades ago, I again affirmed my belief in the Word, and stood on the sign. And took a photo of my feet thereon to prove it.

“So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God fully.’ Joshua 14:9-10, NASU

(Side note: This is the reason I have taken so many photos of my feet standing in many places. Several times in Israel I have done so. Believing God’s Word and literally standing on it.)

Jack Blade, Steve & Laurie Martin North Carolina Zoo April 20, 2022

As Laurie, Jack, and I continued trekking the “vast lands of Africa”, at 1:34 pm the Lord had me recall Kokeb and his Ethiopian trips, with this thought through His Holy Spirit, “Send him a WhatsApp and ask when he is next going to Africa.”

And so I did, writing, “Kokeb, if it works out, someday I’d like to go with you to Ethiopia. Ever since I was 10, I felt the Lord was going to send me to Africa.”

At 3:38 pm, from his Denver, CO home while in the USA, he responded, “Yes, Steve let me when do you want to go? October will be possible.”

Excitement filled my spirit. I caught up with Laurie walking ahead of me with Jack (most of the time she “Walks With Me” …) and told her what Kokeb said.

She replied, “Sure. Just don’t be gone on our 45th anniversary.” That special date coming up is Oct. 8, 2022. What a good wife to think of those things!

I wrote Kokeb back, and he responded, “Praise the Lord. Yes, we can do it after the 8th.”

We serve a great God. We serve the ONLY GOD, the Living God of Israel, Who first puts the desires He has for us to walk out into our hearts, and then gives us those same desires for our hearts, all the time showing us His love by bringing them about.

Thank You, Jesus! Or as Laurie likes to proclaim often in joy, “Hallelujah!”

And so, when I get back after the first African trip I will take, I will write the second book, the sequel, to “The Promise.” Make sure you pre-order!

What a God we serve! He is Faithful and True in all that He does.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin, Love For His People founder

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Message #66 – in the year of our Lord 04.21.2022 – The Promise” – Thursday, 5:45 am in Charlotte, NC USA

Saturday, January 5, 2019

A Revival in Hollywood and Cyber Protection; Africa, the Koreas and the Nations Throughout the World - Bill Lackie

Bill Lackie
Jan. 4, 2018

A Revival in Hollywood and Cyber Protection
Hollywood will prepare to bow their knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Hearts and bodies will be healed and loneliness will be dispelled. This revival will be known as a replica of the Azusa Street Revival.
Discoveries in computer warfare will produce the protection and prevention of stealing intellectual secrets. Inventive discoveries are happening which are causing the United States to be more Cyber secure in the area of business. This will prevent the stealing of intellectual secrets, private finances, bank transactions, and personal information which has previously resulted in identity theft.
Africa, the Koreas and the Nations Throughout the World
Africa is coming out of years of wars and poverty, and there will be a radical change in government and politics. The wealth of their recourses will find a new market, managed with character. The ravaging of their tribes and communities with disease, poverty and conflict will shift this year. Africa will begin to lead out in innovative discoveries. The think tank of African communities has the blessing of heavenly ideas. Soon they will be linked with people who can help take these discoveries and use them as blessings in other nations.
A greater unity within Africa will come this year. Prior to 2019, there have been many factions and divisions in Africa. This has increased tribalism and competition at any cost. Abusing the import and export business of Africa will be confronted. Even crime which has benefited greatly from their resources will be turned around. The Lord has heard the cries of His people there and will turn this injustice around.
The Korean nations will be rescued from the threat of North Korea and their dominant control. Intellectual gifts will be released, bringing breakthrough in many disciplines and will greatly impact the world. South Korea will shift to a "sheep nation" and Christianity will rise to a large percentage. South Korea will become a great ally of the United States, assisting in bringing freedom to North Korea. North and South Korea will reconcile and families, communities and shared gifts given to Korea by God will be healed. When this happens a great rejoicing will fill the earth and every nation. A unified Korea will be a worldwide blessing. North Korea is entering a season of turnaround. North Korea will be set free and do away with the cruel, dominant approach of ruling their people. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
I saw revival exploding throughout nations in 2019. Revival will break out in England. Burton-on-Trent will be the epicenter of this move of God, and it will spread like a wildfire to cities throughout England. It will then spread to Scotland and Ireland. Revival will break out in North Dakota and then move quickly to Canada. Let it rain!
England is going to rise up as an apostolic nation, leading impacting and changing others nations throughout the world. God has blessed them with divine order which will bring blessing. The roots of revival are coming alive and will bless the peoples of England with character, law and foundations to move forward.
Canada is going to see a change from the liberalism that has ruled their nation. Their import and export business will increase and bring in money to bless people from the West to the East. Revival will refresh and awaken the roots of Godly character established all throughout Canada. Canada will form an alliance with the United States and demonstrate their loyalty in 2019. NORAD in Canada will be called to act several times, most of which will not be publicized. However, divine protection and order has been established in Canada. God is calling on the deposit of this gift to shine. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Bill Lackie
Frontline International

Email: questions@frontlineinternational.com
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Bill Lackie: The ministry of Bill Lackie has been cultivated through 45 years of position in the local Church ministry and travel. By calling, he is an apostle-prophet to the local Church Body and to the nations. Through years of counseling, preaching, teaching, and prophesying, his ministry has developed with a prophetic flow of clarity and specifics ministered through a compassionate "Father's heart." 

Traveling nationally and internationally, Bill has established churches, been a keynote speaker at conferences, and prophetically ministered to heads of state and political officials. He has authored books and materials releasing saints in present truth ministry. Bill currently serves on staff at Vision Church @ Christian International and he and his wife are elders in the local Church Body. He presently resides in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, with his wife, LaRue.

Friday, October 27, 2017

30 Million People Expected for Reinhard Bonnke's Farewell Crusade in Africa - CBN News

Reinhard Bonnke Facebook
Photo Credit: Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke via Facebook
30 Million People Expected for Reinhard Bonnke's Farewell Crusade in Africa
CBN News 10-26-2017
Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, founder of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), is preparing to hold his farewell crusade in Africa next month.
"From November 8 to 12, I will be back for a mighty gospel crusade in Lagos, Nigeria," Bonnke told followers in a video posted on his Facebook page.
The German-born evangelist is returning to the west African nation for a five-day crusade.
Organizers say their goal is to reach more than 30 million Nigerians with the gospel.
"I call it my farewell crusade," Bonnke said in the video. "It's going to be tremendously anointed and powerful."
According to CfaN, the last time Bonnke held an event in Nigeria was in 2000 when 6 million people attended his meetings and more than 3 million people made decisions for Christ.
"This crusade will be like none we have seen before," declared John Darku, CfaN's African director.
The ministry has reportedly recruited 500,000 counselors, 200,000 intercessors, some 23,000 people to sing in a choir and more than 10,000 security personnel.
"I believe many, many souls will be saved," Bonnke said. "We will see mighty miracles from God."
Healing, miracles, and signs and wonders, have been the hallmark of Bonnke's crusades over the decades. Organizers believe this final event will be no different.
"He has seen witchdoctors and people bound in the occult become transformed by Holy Spirit-powered Gospel, and he is believing for an even greater move of the Spirit in this last crusade," CfaN said in a statement.
Bonnke used his Facebook post to encourage Nigerians to come and experience what he believes is going to be the "the greatest crusade we have ever held!"
"Bring your friends, bring your neighbors, bring your relatives, bring the sick, bring the blind, birng the unsaved, just gather them together...and the heavens will be open and the Holy Spirit will flow," Bonnke urged his followers.
Now, at 77, Bonnke says he's passing the torch to a new generation of evangelists as he prepares to retire after more than 40 years in ministry.
An important part of the crusade will include the Passing the Torch Conference which aims to train and deploy the next generation of evangelists who will win the continent and the world for Christ.
"Because it is my farewell crusade, I am going to pass that burning torch that the Holy Spirit gave to me in my young years, I pass it on to all who want to receive and follow my footsteps Nigeria, across Africa and across the world."
CfaN says shortly after Bonnke got a vision from God of a continent "washed in the blood of Jesus," the ministry embarked on an ambitious goal of preaching the Gospel in almost every corner of Africa.
In 1974, Christ for All Nations was birthed, and since then more than 75 million people have accepted Christ through the ministry.
All these years later, Bonnke is still praying more souls into the Kingdom of God so that "hell will be empty and heaven will be full."
Christ for All Nations is planning a 24-hour "Livestream" broadcast of the crusade from Lagos, Nigeria from November 8th through November 12th, 2017.
You can watch it here.
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Jews Speak Up For Christians - Charles Gardner ISRAEL TODAY

Jews Speak Up For Christians

Thursday, October 26, 2017 |  Charles Gardner  ISRAEL TODAY
A relatively new phenomenon has emerged on the Middle East scene in the form of Jews standing up for persecuted Christians.
It’s a true wonder, bearing in mind the shocking history of Jewish persecution at the hands of the ‘church’ over the centuries. But it is also no doubt a warm response to the growing worldwide support for Israel among Christian people, especially in Africa.
And so, keen to build on this developing friendship, the Israeli government has just hosted an unprecedented media summit in Jerusalem for Christian journalists from around the world.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the occasion to speak up for embattled Christians in Iran and neighbouring Syria. “Christians today have been lashed for sipping wine during prayer services,” he said, “brutally tortured for doing nothing more than practicing their faith. Some world leaders are willing to ignore this oppression and seek to appease Iran, but I am not one of them.”
Yes, even much of the Western church is silent on the issue, apparently indifferent to their suffering.
Canon Andrew White, known as the ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ and also speaking in Jerusalem, asked why, adding: “Here we see Jews standing with us, but where is the Church?”
White saw much of his large congregation murdered in the crisis that followed the invasion of Iraq, and thousands of Christians have been forced to flee in the face of the Islamic State advance.
Does this weak response to the plight of persecuted Christians reflect the flabbiness of our faith? Do we simply fail to comprehend what it must be like because we are so comfortable and thus unable to identify with what suffering for Christ means? For the most part, we are not even willing to stand up for what we believe – for the gospel and the truth of the Bible – in case we should be arrested for ‘hate speech’ or ‘homophobia’.
While some indeed have spoken out, and paid dearly for it, the rest of us have been intimidated into silence as we retreat into our holy huddles. But if we can’t stand the low heat now, how will we fare when the temperature is turned up and we are called to endure the kind of persecution Jesus predicted for his followers?
“Be on your guard,” he warned. “You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues…You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.” (Matthew 10. 17, 22) Many Christians remained silent while Jews were hauled off to the gas chambers and, although now somewhat more secure in their own state, they are still in grave danger, and we mustn’t fail them this time. And yet they are prepared to help us!
It’s time to forsake cowardice and take on the sort of courage which Christians in some parts of the world are having to exhibit in bucketloads. Take the believers in Iran, for example, to which Mr Netanyahu drew the media’s attention. Despite the danger of following Jesus there, 20 Iranian Christians recently nailed their colours to the mast in a mass baptism. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for nearly nine years,” said one convert. “This was my wish before I die,” said another. Christianity is growing there by leaps and bounds amid reports of Muslims encountering Jesus through dreams and visions. “We have been praying for years that Iranian people believe in Yeshua (Hebrew for Jesus) and get baptized. Now this dream is coming true,” said a convert whose brother was murdered for his faith in 1994.
Another highly dangerous place to be a Christian is North Korea, where believers are actually meeting in holes in the ground, just as the faith heroes of old had done according to Hebrews 11.38.
A missionary friend of mine sometimes travels to a part of Africa that is equally dangerous, infested as it is by the Al Shabaab terror organization. As a result, some Christians are forced to sleep in the forest! But my friend was determined to bring comfort to them with his inspiring teaching skills, so he made his way there despite Foreign Office warnings to avoid the region, and the fact he could not even be covered by travel insurance for that part of his journey. On top of that, he nearly died from an infection he picked up on his last visit to the area!
That takes courage, but he said it was worth it just to see the sheer joy on the faces of his brothers so happy and encouraged by his visit.
I conclude with the heartwarming story of Israeli tennis player Dudi Sela who, due to the courage of his religious convictions, turned down the chance of reaching the semi-finals of an ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) Tour event. Just eight minutes into the deciding set, he realised it was almost sunset, which marked the beginning of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (the holiest day of the year for Jews). So the 32-year-old informed the umpire of his decision to retire and left the court.
The match was originally scheduled for Yom Kippur itself (i.e. the following day), but was changed to start before the fast following pressure from Israeli tennis officials. Unfortunately for Dudi (ranked 77 in the world), his quarter-final clash went to three sets and couldn’t be finished in time.
The Day of Atonement, when Jews seek forgiveness for sins committed over the past year, is ultimately fulfilled by the coming of Yeshua, their Messiah, who atoned for our sins through his death on the cross as the perfect Lamb of God. (Isaiah 53.6; 1 John 2.2)
Pray for Dudi.
For more information on the plight of persecuted Christians and how you can help, see www.barnabasfund.org

Charles Gardner is author of Israel the Chosen, available from Amazon, and Peace in Jerusalem, available from olivepresspublisher.com
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