40 years ago in 1976...

Banner hanging in our home.

40 years ago in 1976...

Forty years ago, way back in 1976, the good Lord moved me from Cedar Falls, Iowa to LaSalle/Peru, Illinois to join a Christian community called Victory. It was there that I met the wife of my youth (and still is in my wise old age!)  - the 17 year old Laura Jean Unzicker. What a joy! One year later we became man and wife (after she graduated from high school!)

For those familiar with the Lord's numbers, the number 40 means a lot in Scripture. I declare that in the Name of the Lord and the power of His love that 2016 will bring great adventures and wonders for the two of us, and for all of you who seek the loving Lord God of Israel. He Who is our Beloved, and we whom are His.

Thank you Lord! You are an Awesome God!

With love and full of ahava,

Steve Martin

Love For His People

Ready to meet the Lover of our Souls

Paintings: James Nesbit artwork

My beloved.

She is my beloved.

Laura Jean Unzicker Martin

Saluda, NC Oct. 18, 2015

Yeshua (Jesus) is our Beloved 

and

we are Yeshua's (Jesus') beloved.

Mutual Delight in Each Other - Song of Songs 6

1“Where has your beloved gone,

            O most beautiful among women?

            Where has your beloved turned,

            That we may seek him with you?”

      2“My beloved has gone down to his garden,

            To the beds of balsam,

            To pasture his flock in the gardens

            And gather lilies.

      3“I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,

            He who pastures his flock among the lilies.”

      4“You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,

            As lovely as Jerusalem,

            As awesome as an army with banners.

      5“Turn your eyes away from me,

            For they have confused me;

            Your hair is like a flock of goats

            That have descended from Gilead.

      6“Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

            Which have come up from their washing,

            All of which bear twins,

            And not one among them has lost her young.

      7“Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate

            Behind your veil.

      8“There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,

            And maidens without number;

      9But my dove, my perfect one, is unique:

            She is her mother’s only daughter;

            She is the pure child of the one who bore her.

            The maidens saw her and called her blessed,

            The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

      10‘Who is this that grows like the dawn,

            As beautiful as the full moon,

            As pure as the sun,

            As awesome as an army with banners?’

      11“I went down to the orchard of nut trees

            To see the blossoms of the valley,

            To see whether the vine had budded

            Or the pomegranates had bloomed.

      12“Before I was aware, my soul set me

            Over the chariots of my noble people.”

      13“Come back, come back, O Shulammite;

            Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”

            

      “Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,

            As at the dance of the two companies?

Song of Solomon 6 (NASB)

"I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me." Song of Songs 6:3

I am to my beloved  and my beloved is to me. SONG OF SONGS (6:3) אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִי לִי שיר השירים ו:ג ah-NEE le-doe-DEE ve-doe-DEE lee

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