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From Jerusalem…these next three weeks. Another Ahava Adventure. Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry
Oct. 23, 2022 Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina
Greetings friends of Yeshua (Jesus) and Love For His People.
Today, Oct. 23, 2022, I leave for Jerusalem to spend the next three weeks in the Land He has given to the Jews, as He promised to them, from the days of the patriarch, Abraham. Another Ahava (love) Adventure. I return to Charlotte, North Carolina on Nov. 12, 2022.
Since 1948, God the Father has been returning the Jews to this Land Yisrael, and He is not finished yet. They are coming back. It is called “aliyah” in Hebrew. Here is a great song by Aaron Shust singing of this wonderful, fulfillment of prophecy in our time!
While in Jerusalem I will be staying with long-time (12 years) friends, bringing His love, and encouragement, and partnering with these Messianic Jews for Yeshua HaMashiach’s plans and purposes. They have been involved with aliyah since making the journey from the United States over 20 years ago, with their 5 children.
One of the greatest joys I anticipate is the opportunity I have been given to lead worship at some sessions during the Aliyah Seminar, hosted by Glen Haines of Operation Tarshish. You can attend in person (registration fee) or via Zoom (free) but registration is required for either. Here is the website for further information on this incredible event Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2022, in Jerusalem. Click here: https://loveforhispeople.com/2022/10/17/aliyah-seminar-jerusalem-israel-oct-31-nov-3-2022/
Also, I plan on recording and sharing many of my “Walk With Me” new videos from Jerusalem. Be sure to look for them on our YouTube Channel Steve Martin, Love For His People. Many photos will also be uploaded to my FaceBook page Steven L. Martin. I will also send an occasional email report to those who have signed up on my Constant Contact connection. You can sign up now if you haven’t already: Steve Martin Messages.
As always, our free app is available for iPhone and Android phones. Access from the Apple Store, Google Play, or go here on the website front page: Free Love For His People app
The Lord Jesus, Messiah Yeshua, is doing marvelous works in all the world, across all nations and peoples.
But Jerusalem has been, and the Jewish people, have always been the “apple of His eyes.”
Keep your eyes on the Land where He is so committed to revealing His perfect love, as God the Father so does through His Only Begotten Son, and where the Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, is so powerfully moving in the end times, the last days.
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.
The Ahava Adventure Continues…Day 2 in Jerusalem April 4, 2022. Rabbi Kokeb, Avraham, and the questioning, though eager Jewish man
Avraham Saidan in the middle, Steve Martin, David Peterman. Jerusalem April 4, 2022
April 4, 2022 Love For His People ministry Jerusalem, Israel
Morning came early today for David and me. About 3:30 am early Jerusalem time. A lot to share but I will give you just a few of the highlights on this second day here in the Land.
With only a noontime lunch planned with our friend, Ethiopian Messianic Jew Rabbi Kokeb Gedamu, we had a few hours to let the Holy Spirit guide our steps with divine appointments until then. As we hear and obey, He is always faithful to lead and show the way.
Never miss an opportunity to have some good Israeli coffee. Starbucks never made it here in Israel. They just couldn’t compete. Just a few good ounces of the coffee that beat them out will also help get your step going. We enjoyed the cappuccino type at the Jaffa Street shop just around the corner from our stay at the Abraham Hostel. Throw in a few freshly baked pastries and the day can’t go wrong! We enjoyed the baker named May who in turn enjoyed conversing with us. And his smile added more light to the bright shop as the sun started coming up.
After completing the Israeli-style breakfast included with the hostel room, we set out east down Jaffa Street. Ben Yehuda shops were still just getting started so what would end up being a 6.7-mile walk today began as we headed towards the Jaffa Gate of the Old City.
A photo here. A few at the “I Love Jerusalem” popular photo spot helped me get my normal daily 100+ photos.
Oh yes. Because our checked luggage was still in NYC as per the American Airlines email, I had to get toothpaste, a toothbrush, some socks, etc. Just a slight adjustment on the second day of this adventure. I would have to make do with the few things I was wisely taught by an internationally traveling minister I served with, to take with you in your carryon. In case your 48-pound other full checked bag takes a side trip on its own.
It is really good to see the tourists coming back! In a report I read earlier, the travel industry is scrambling here to keep up as so many over the last two years had to find other employment due to lockdowns. For example, tour guides left previous jobs to work in the high-tech industry. For many, it was indeed a very suffering time.
Steve Martin, Rabbi Kokeb Gedamu, David Peterman. Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem 04.04.22
Many Old City shops struggled immensely, and as we walked towards the Western Wall it was very telling. A good Arab friend I had for years, named Louie from Jericho, was among the casualties. His shop no longer exists.
Once we got to the Hurva Synagogue we began to head back so as not to miss our lunch appointment. As we started out, to take the Armenian Section route through the Old City, being it is less hilly than coming the way we did, it happened. Right near the huge golden menorah encased on the plaza, ready for the Third Temple, a man in his 50s I guess asked me a question. I don’t remember what that specific question was (I am 67 mind you) but the Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh certainly used it to begin the half-hour conversation David and I had with him.
His name, Israel, was searching. He was curious as to why we were there.
“Because we love Israel and the Jews. God’s chosen people.”
“You really believe that?” he asked.
“Certainly”, I replied. “Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ) came to save first the Jews, and now we Gentiles, Christians, are grafted in. We love Yeshua and His people.”
While into the conversation, he told us of his rabbi father and his imma (mother) who lived in Mea She’arim, the ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. They both had survived the Holocaust. And they both told him never to believe anything about Yeshua.
And so we spoke of the Scriptures from his own Torah, which he said were never taught in the yeshiva (Bible school) he went to. The rabbis insisted the Talmud, oral traditions, were more important than the written word Torah. He never knew about Isaiah 53, which is prophesied and written by his own major prophet, of the Suffering Servant, the Messiah Yeshua, ever existing.
We could see the Holy Spirit touching his heart. We prayed with him and do hope to make further contact. Lord, continue to open his eyes to see You!
Always a joy it is to be with my very mature friend, Avraham Saidan, who came to Israel from Iraq in the late 1940s. Now in his 80s, this dear, small stature of a man has such a big heart. Along with his two sons, David and Dan, and daughter Dahlia, they own and operate two shops on Ben Yehuda Street here in the capitol city. Helping Avraham make a phone call over 15 years ago started this lasting friendship.
I trust you are enjoying these short reports. Maybe I need to expand them further and make into a book later, with a lot more leadings of the Holy Spirit? The Lord knows…
Ahava and shalom from Jerusalem,
Steve Martin
Love For His People
P.S. The shawarma sandwich here is always great. Choose chicken or beef within your pita bread or wrap.
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Message #2 – in the year of our Lord 04.04.2022 – “Ahava Adventure in Jerusalem” – Tuesday, 11:58 pm in Jerusalem, Israel
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 33 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.
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 33 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.
“Thus says the LORD, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’ Zechariah 8:1
Our Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, promised before He left earth the first time, from Jerusalem, Israel, that when He returns the second time it also will be to Jerusalem, the city that has His Name written on it.
He is not returning to New York City, Moscow, Beijing, London, Paris, nor Chicago. He is returning, as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, to Jerusalem, the Golden City, the Holy City, the City of Truth.
The Lion of Judah is coming back, to rule and reign over the nations, setting up His kingdom, made up of Jews and Gentiles that have acknowledged His Kingship and know Him as their Redeemer, the Savior of their soul.
The following chapters speak of the life that we can live in the here and now, as we await His return. We are not looking for the “escape out of this hell”, raptured away before the Great Tribulation as we have been so badly taught since the late 1890s.
Jesus Christ, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, is seated on His heavenly throne, but His soon return will be made known. Now is the time for us to see what He is doing, how He is doing it, and “get on board” as Bob Dylan sang in the 70s.
We are working while there is still day, to accomplish His plan and purposes for our life and the nation He has placed us in now.
Anticipate, prepare, be about the Father’s business, even as Jesus did. That is what we are called to do. And then we will see the Lion of Judah ROAR!
Steve Martin, Author
Love For His People ministry P.O. Box 414 Pineville, NC USA
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