Showing posts with label Ahava Adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ahava Adventures. Show all posts

Monday, September 18, 2023

Love For His People - The Next Generation

 

Love For His People - The Next Generation

Sept. 11, 2023


Greetings once again from Jerusalem.


Our time here has been filled with discerning the guidance of the Holy Spirit as to be where He wants us to be, and when. That has taken us up and down Jaffa Street on the light rail train multiple times. Today, Monday Sept. 11, my son Josh and me will travel on a bus for an all-day trip to Masada, the Dead Sea, and Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered around 1947/1948.


One of my personal aspirations is to connect the next generation with the people and Land of Israel. Bringing my 40-something son Josh is part of that. Introducing him to several friends I have been connecting with over the last three decades has been very important to me and I know will be for him.


He has been amazed at the number of people on the streets most of the time, and at one point said “how respectful” they are to one another. When is the last time you heard that in the media about Israel, and Jerusalem specifically? Totally opposite the garbage the news articles and reports would like you to see and hear daily in their reports.


Our support for the Jewish people, and more importantly the Messianic believers, is vital to Christians as much as for ourselves as for them. It has always been on the heart of God the Father that His people would be restored, and saved, and that Christians would be instrumental in supporting them by “bringing them on their shoulders” (the prophet Isaiah) back to their Land.


Thus my many trips here, to bring home that point to them, and to you who also know Yeshua as Messiah.


As a side note, I am always filled with strength and joy when I am able to attend the King of Kings worship service on Sunday nights in Jerusalem. Last night was no exception.


May that which is on the Lord’s heart in these last days become more so on yours.


Until next time, shalom from Jerusalem.


Steve Martin


P. S. Above photo: Uri Shlakim with Steve and Josh. Uri has the best quality hoodies and t-shirts on Ben Yehuda Street.

On the Jerusalem train once again. This time there was even room to sit!

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Making another new friend, Jacque, the restaurant owner in the Old City Christian Quarter. A good place to go on Shabbat!

The King Solomon’s Quarry, or Zedekiah’s Cave, just east of the Damascus Gate is literally a “cool” place to go on a hot day.

“I Love Jerusalem” on the way to the Old City near Jaffa Gate.

At least the gray hairs are getting less. Disappearing!

Ein Gedi and the ibex

The small waterfalls of Ein Gedi where David fled from King Saul. (The large waterfalls further on was closed. Someone had fallen in and died 3 weeks ago.)

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Friday, May 12, 2023

Israel Ahava Adventure Report – April 2023 – Ahava Moments With You, Steve Martin, David Peterman

May 12, 2023 Love For His People Ministry

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Israel Ahava Adventure Report – April 2023 – Ahava Moments With You, Steve Martin, David Peterman. David and I share on our recent visit to Israel, April 21-29, 2023 on meeting with friends as we took 7 others along with us this time.

Recorded May 12, 2023 in Lancaster, SC Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin, Founder, Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

Read this report written by Steve Martin also:WE CARRY THEM ON OUR SHOULDERS (https://loveforhispeople.com/2023/05/01/we-will-carry-them-on-our-shoulders-steve-martin-love-for-his-people-ministry/)

Steve Martin

STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (married 45 years), founded Love For His People Ministry in 2010. This work gives love and support to our friends in Israel and other nations with friendship and humanitarian aid. Through social media, Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel, the ministry is a growing, effective outreach. Steve has also authored and published 36 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area and have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids. Ahava and shalom with blessings on ye head!

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Jerusalem, Israel photos on our latest Ahava Adventures to Israel – Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

 

Jerusalem, Israel photos on our latest Ahava Adventures to Israel – Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

Pidgeons and doves in a city fountain off Jaffa Street in Jerusalem.

Sept. 18, 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina USA.

Here are a few photos of the many hundreds I took Sept. 8-13, 2022, while on my 25th trip to Israel. I enjoy sharing these photos (and videos on our YouTube channel).

Thank You, Lord Yeshua, Messiah, for another time in the Land to share Your ahava (love) with the Jewish people. We will be back!

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin, Founder

Waiting for the train stop on Jaffa Street.
Walking to work…or school.
From the hair to the belly…all shapes and sizes in Jerusalem.
Catholic Church altar – Church of the Flagellation in the Old City.
Lions Gate (aka St. Stephen’s Gate) – Old City of Jerusalem
Get there any way you can! Jaffa Gate, Old City
St. Anne’s Catholic Church garden – Old City
A banner hanging in the hallway of Christian Freinds of Israel office in Jerusalem on Jaffa Street
A home wall in southern Jerusaelm
Steve and Laurie Martin, Co-Founders, Love For His People Ministry. Outside St. Anne’s Church on the Old City of Jerusalem Sept. 13, 2022

Steve Martin

STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (45 years in October 2022!), through the ministry of Love For His People we founded in 2010, give love and support for our friends in Israel and in other nations with friendship, humanitarian aid, and social media support, along with Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel. Steve has also authored and published 34 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Walk With Me, Steve Martin – Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street – as the people walk by…

Walk With Me, Steve Martin – Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street – as the people walk by…

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Walk With Me, Steve Martin – Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street – as the people walk by… Ben Yehuda, a very popular shopping area in Jerusalem, was a good place to watch people from local and foreign homes.
Video filmed on Nov. 10, 2013 by Steve Martin – to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.
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Monday, October 14, 2019

Keep Pressing On - Now Think On This by Steve Martin


Keep Pressing On

 by Steve Martin

“Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you've got, be resolute, and love without stopping.” 1 Corinthians 16:13-14, THE MESSAGE

As I began keeping a close watch on my iPhone 8 Health app, especially after the third day, I saw that the walking steps had been amassing in great numbers for each day. Noticing the foot mileage the four of us were accumulating, on this first annual Love For His People ministry men’s Ahava Adventure (ahava is love in Hebrew) to Israel this October 2019, I was astonished. Truly I was. Two miles. Four miles. Over 12 miles on one day by the end of the fantastic journey.
We had walked the Land of Israel a grand total of over 51 miles by the completion of the 8th day we had been there. With three of us being over 64 years of age (one 74), and the other one a mere 41, I certainly was impressed with the strength the Lord had given us. In fact, on most of those days, the mileage didn’t seem that great. I mean, compared to sometimes walking a mile or two at home, in the early morning hour at the encouragement of my good wife Laurie, just that shorter distance seems way too far for me.
But our Lord had given us a purpose, and He gave us the will and strength to accomplish it.
As I read Paul’s encouragement to the Corinthians this morning, as part of my normal “chapters a day” Bible reading during my time strictly with our Lord Jesus (Yeshua), Paul was writing to the followers of the Messiah, giving instruction, provoking, challenging and uplifting them with the Scripture, “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:13-14, NASU
Keep pressing on, in simple terms, is what we need to keep doing. Being alert, standing firm, acting like men (and women of God), being strong - while doing it all in love.
When we have a clear vision, a known purpose, a plan to accomplish, it does enable us to keep pressing on, even as the daily challenges faced often try to get us to stop, or even slow down.
Our enemy is always at work, trying to discourage us, distract us, wear us out until we just want to quit at times. But by the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus, actively working in our spirit through His Holy Spirit, He causes us to be overcomers, and to keep pressing on for that goal-line set before us.
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.” Galatians 6:9-10, NKJV
The four of us men had a purpose of course, which included spending as much time as we could to encourage and uplift the friends Love For His People ministry supports monthly in Israel. While the rented Hyundai SUV enabled us to travel the road mileage between the cities they lived in, the busy, hilly sidewalks and grassy parks of Jerusalem provided the foot trekking paths, getting us to the other appointed destinations as we met with our other Messianic Jewish friends.
After you get “recharged” by spending the time with the Lord each day – receiving His word, listening to His Holy Spirit, and acting upon the instructing life He freely gives us daily, be encouraged in your pressing on for the goals He has given you individually, and collectively with others, to complete.
You are on a mission for God. Don’t just let the Blues Brothers get all the credit.
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2, NKJV
Now think on this and see what good things the Lord has in store for you and those around you.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.

*Much more will be written about this in my next book.

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