"I am back!" Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

 

June 5, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Greetings to you once again. I am filled with gratitude and joy to announce my return to this Love For His People Ministry communication! After a two-year hiatus from writing, during which I experienced more spiritual growth, though I may not have realized it at the time, I have been blessed with a renewed sense of purpose. The Lord has re-energized, re-focused, and re-envisioned my mission in serving Him, and I am excited to share this ongoing journey with you. Through fresh messages, captivating photos, and inspiring videos, I aim to enrich your own walk with our Lord as He guides us into His perfect plans and purposes. A key mission of Love For His People is to foster greater connection between Christians and Jews. It is essential to deepen our understanding of Israel's vital role in our faith. With my unwavering commitment to the Land and His chosen people, I hope to nurture in you a growing love and support for the Jewish people and their rich heritage. Together, let us keep our eyes on Yeshua (Jesus) as we continue on this journey filled with His love, hope, and purpose. As the Blues Brothers gloriously said, "We are on a mission for God." Ahava and shalom,  Steve Martin, Founder e "for a limited time only" or "only 7 remaining!"

Upon our arrival in Israel in May 2025, David Peterman and I weren't quite together. His plane was delayed until the next day, so I went ahead and picked up the rental car, later getting him from the train in Haifa. This was our 3rd trip together, to visit friends and show our support for His people in the Land during this critical time. He led us as we sought His guidance. We spent time in the homes of our friends, some of whom we had known for over 15 years, while also making new connections. Chaim Malespin, Executive Director of the Aliyah Return Center in Tiberias, joined us for dinner in Jerusalem. He was coming off reserve duty in the IDF from combat in the Gaza War, defending the Land for his family and his countrymen. (Above photo) Also in this edition, I included a "Walk With Me" video, with David and I heading to the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. Come on and walk with us! (Below) I hope you subscribe and share this with family and friends to spread some Good News in a world that is increasingly headed toward the end, but knowing the Messiah is returning. Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashaich. Bo Yeshua!

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Apprehended and Recharged by Steve Martin

 

Apprehended and Recharged by Steve Martin

(Original Message #67 – in the year of our Lord 04.23.2022 – “Apprehended” – Saturday, 3:00 am in Charlotte, NC USA)

 

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26, NASU

Returning from Jerusalem had not happened in quite some time for me. As you all know, one must go and come back for there to be a “returning.” And that hadn’t happened in two and a half years, since October 2019, because governments around the world chose to shut down everything in sight, when a deliberate and planned pandemic struck, believing they were in ultimate control of all things.

I certainly am glad that our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, is the One Who sits on the highest throne. He always has the final say. In time, all will bow their knee to Him alone.

“And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever." Revelation 5:13, NASU

When Israel finally permitted non-vaccinated individuals to enter the nation, with a proclamation in March 2022, it took less than 3 days for me to book my next flight. The Lord had called me to support Israel and the Messianic Jews, and I was not about to let Satan and his henchmen keep me any longer from fulfilling that call.

Back in 2002, when I was being ordained as a Minister of the Gospel through Cornerstone Church (Pastor Mark DeVito, apostolic authority Ron Hill, and the five elders) in the little town of Pineville, North Carolina, which I call the “Bethlehem of Charlotte”, the Lord spoke deep into my soul, setting me apart for His plan and purposes. At the same time during that ordination, He also used the prophetic voice of Terry Kelson, renamed Ahava Hadassah of the Aliyah Return Center in Tiberias, Israel once she made aliyah from the USA to Israel, to speak forth a word over me. (She rejoices in heaven now!)

“You have been called as a scepter for Zion,” she said from among the small group of gathered believers.

That eternal word was deeply planted into my spirit. Since that time the Lord God of Israel has enabled me to walk it out. I am an ambassador for Israel.

Eight years after that special day our ministry named Love For His People was birthed, and both my good wife Laurie (aged 50 at the time) and I (aged 55 way back then) have given ourselves to further pursue what is the full understanding of His call on our lives, being one together for His plans and purposes. These 12 years since then have been one of slow growth, but the foundation is strong, built on the Solid Rock.

But, when I couldn’t get to Israel for those two years, my faith, hope, and love wavered. I was being held back from doing that which I had been apprehended to do. The enemy of our souls wanted to keep me from walking out God’s purposes given for me. In fact, I know that was what the evil one had intended.

Those of you who have walked for the Lord for any number of years know what I am talking about. These are battles we must go through, to further prepare us for what the Lord has redeemed us for. Remember the simple but true word, “No pain. No gain.”

The apostle Peter describes it very well in his Epistle to us.

“Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. Keep your guard up. You're not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It's the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith. The suffering won't last forever. It won't be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ — eternal and glorious plans they are! — will have you put together and on your feet for good. He gets the last word; yes, he does.” 1 Peter 5:8-11, THE MESSAGE

The appointed time for the return to Jerusalem finally came. David Peterman joined me. While in the Land, we completed the tasks the Lord had given to us – to encourage, further connect, and build up His Messianic body and other Jews yet to believe on His Son Yeshua. No big meetings. No grand entrances. Just one on one with those who He has joined us.

Upon my return to my home, for a week or more I felt I had drunk 4-5 cups of cappuccino every morning. (And I am not a coffee drinker due to stomach issues.) Energy that I had lost over that previous period had been restored. New life. New hope. New vision for the things of the Lord.

The power of the Holy Spirit, much like that given at Pentecost (Shavuot) had come upon and within me once again.

I know now, with the attestation of Laurie who lives with me day by day, that this basically happens every time the Lord gets me to Israel and back. Walking in His calling in faith and obedience will do that. He is the One Who gives us the grace and strength to accomplish His strategies.

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:12-14, NKJV

You too have been apprehended to do His good works. You, too, have been given a call that only you can walk out. It is vital that you are in proper alignment with Him – whether through your job, home location, church membership, or synagogue congregation – and that you stay connected so that you can allow Him to speak and direct your life.

Walk out the “mission from God”, just as the Blues Brothers did, to accomplish your God-given role in the Body of Christ. We all need you and me to do that. Our God will make a way for you to succeed in it.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin, Love For His People founder

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Message #67 – in the year of our Lord 04.23.2022 – “Apprehended” – Saturday, 3:00 am in Charlotte, NC USA

On A Mission From God - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

On A Mission From God

Steve Martin

“Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"?” 

(1 Corinthians 27-29, THE MESSAGE)

It is amazing how the Lord picks His people to do His work here on earth. There are not many wise, not many strong, not many considered “smart” by the ones who “are”.

Another thing that is amazing is the fact that it is just how He likes it - to confound the wise with the foolish, to show Himself strong through the weak, to overtake the enemy with strategies that wouldn’t have even been considered without His involvement and leading.

“Just look at yourselves, brothers — look at those whom God has called! Not many of you are wise by the world’s standards, not many wield power or boast noble birth. But God chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise; God chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the strong; and God chose what the world looks down on as common or regards as nothing in order to bring to nothing what the world considers important; so that no one should boast before God.” (1 Corinthians 26-30, Complete Jewish Bible)

For movie enthusiasts, many enjoyed the comical hit The Blues Brothers in 1980. Starring the late night show Saturday Night Live actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as Jake and Elwood Blues, these two “heard the call”, and accepted the mission. From the starting scene to the final one, they gathered the other band members the former Blues Brothers Band, and went on a mission. They needed to raise funds for a special purpose.

They said they were on a mission from God. The reason? They believed they had to save the grade school where they were taught, in their youth by Roman Catholic nuns in Chicago, from certain foreclosure. 

               

If it was up to me, I don’t think I would have picked these two. One had just gotten out of prison, while the other, well, I wouldn’t call him the brightest apple out of the bushel. But as they said, they believed they were the ones to do what it would take to save the nuns and their beloved school from the certain end of all.

It was a tall order for them to take on. They had little money, hardly any means of transportation (remember the car and speaker system they mounted on top?) And yet, they believed. They went for it. They were indeed on a mission from God.

Bluesmobile was a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan

Each of us have been given a purpose for being here. You and I have been called by the Living God, the same One who also called the Jews to be a light to the nations from their homeland in Israel, to bring forth His Gospel truth to the peoples of the nations.

After His death, burial and resurrection, Yeshua (Jesus) gave one major command to His disciples. This directive, not a suggestion, was for them, and to all who call upon the Name of the Lord, to take His love, peace and salvation to those who have not heard, who have not seen Him revealed as yet.

We are the ones who have been chosen, redeemed Jews and Gentiles, as the One New Man. We have heard and are now called to obey and do.

“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Matthews 28:18-20, NASU)

Even from our mother’s womb, even before the beginning of time as the Bible says, He knew us and planned for us to be His Body here on earth. When Jesus (Yeshua) came the first time, before departing back to heaven, He promised, and fulfilled that word, to send His Holy Spirit, to be with us as we were given this eternal mission. This mission from God, in this real life, here and now. We have been commanded to take His love and truth to the nations, beginning where we are at now. First Jerusalem, then Samaria, and then to the ends of the earth.

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (Acts 1:8, NKJV)

Even as others have been written about in the Lord’s Word, such as Jeremiah, we too have been chosen to be a part of the Body of Christ, and represent Him in the nation we live in, and those He would send us to.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you;

I ordained you a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5, NKJV)

We each have been given natural and supernatural gifts to accomplish “our mission.” Each of us has the opportunity to fulfill that mission and receive the heavenly reward promised to us.

I am so ready and willing to fulfill the call of God on my life After His death, burial and resurrection, Yeshua (Jesus) gave that one major command. It was for the apostles then. It is for us now, who call upon the Name of the Lord.

We are to take His love, peace and salvation to those who have not heard, who have not seen the love and peace that comes only from God the Father. We are the ones who have been chosen, both redeemed Jews and Gentiles, as the One New Man, to hear, obey and go.

“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Matthews 28:18-20, NASU)

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Are we ready to do the job? We must be. The nations need to see the love of the Lord.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc.

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Now Think On This - in the Year of our Lord 7.19.17 - #301– “On A Mission From God” – Wednesday 7:37 pm

  

The Blues Brothers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see The Blues Brothers (film) and Blues Brothers (disambiguation).The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band which was founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively in character as lead vocalist "Joliet" Jake Blues and harmonica player/vocalist Elwood Blues, fronted the band, which was composed of well-known and respected musicians. The band made its debut as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live, performing "Hey Bartender."^[1]

The band began to take on a life beyond the confines of the television screen, releasing an album, Briefcase Full of Blues, in 1978, and then having a Hollywood film, The Blues Brothers, created around its characters in 1980.

After the death of Belushi in 1982, the Blues Brothers have continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. The band reformed in 1988 for a world tour and again in 1998 for a sequel to the film, Blues Brothers 2000. They make regular appearances at musical festivals worldwide.