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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Why 70 and not 30? New message from Steve Martin, Love For His People (Constant Contact email)

 

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Aug. 5, 2025


Greetings to you once again.


These coming weeks, before our October 15 Israel departure for the three months in Jerusalem with Christian Friends of Israel, will be busy. So I am trying to get things done - sell the car, publish the new book (done!), go on the Antioch International Church men's rafting this weekend, travel to Kansas, and continue to hear the Word of the Lord as we prepare. And...pack my 70-pound-plus suitcase and carry-on. Started!


As I asked the Lord, "Why at this time are we going?" His response gave me my new message, "Why Now at 70 and Not 30?" Curious? Please take the time to read. It might just be for you, too!


During our travel to the Midwest (10 states in 9 days to see family and friends, I recorded another good set of videos. Look at these: North Carolina/Kentucky/Illinois/Iowa/Minnesota video playlist


Also...more photos to share - special ones I picked out of the 40,000+ on my laptop and "in the cloud" - somewhere out there. It is my joy to share them with you.


Enjoy this final month of summer. August (#8) has prophetically been a good month, with new beginnings for many of us. I hope for you, too, as the Lord continually reveals His plans to us as we seek Him.


Ahava and Shalom,


Steve Martin

Love For His People Ministry


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God's Creation Photo of the Week: Cows fascinate me. Just something about them as they grow fat and wait for us to eat them. What a sacrificial life.

(Steve Martin photo Oct. 12, 2017)

Israel Photo of the Week: David's Citadel just inside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, Israel.(Photo by Steve Martin, May 2018)

Why now at 70 and not 30?

  

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him (Moses) in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.” Acts 7:30, NASB

 

In Exodus, we read a little bit more of Moses' response to the Lord’s calling to him, after the Lord appeared to him.


7-8 God said, “I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.


9-10 “The Israelite cry for help has come to me, and I’ve seen for myself how cruelly they’re being treated by the Egyptians. It’s time for you to go back: I’m sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the People of Israel, out of Egypt.”


11 Moses answered God, “But why me? What makes you think that I could ever go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (emphasis mine)


12 “I’ll be with you,” God said. “And this will be the proof that I am the one who sent you: When you have brought my people out of Egypt, you will worship God right here at this very mountain.”


13 Then Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the People of Israel and I tell them, ‘The God of your fathers sent me to you’; and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What do I tell them?”


14 God said to Moses, “I-AM-WHO-I-AM. Tell the People of Israel, ‘I-AM sent me to you.’” The Message

 

When I was 30, having already been married 7 years, with my wife being just 25, with two sons and two daughters having escaped out of the womb, the Lord had already put in my heart to “go to the nations”. I can remember being 10, and my mom talking about how she had always wanted to be a missionary and telling me about it. But with her marriage and eight kids to raise, that never happened.

 

I think her heart became mine, which had come from the same Father.

 

But now, at the ripe old age of 70, that long-held desire of my heart, which He had put there, is being fulfilled. My wife Laurie and I are going to Jerusalem to volunteer at Christian Friends of Israel for three months. Finally!

 

But why did the Lord wait so long? Why wasn’t the time right for me to go at 30, when I, really, really wanted to? When I was young, and full of wisdom, and knew more than the Lord did. Or so I thought at times.

 

Looking back at the patriarchs, i.e., Abraham, Moses, even David, it is almost plain to see that the Lord loves those who are “seasoned”, “prepared”, “having gone through the wringer” (an ancient term that very old people know about.)

 

I do see the wisdom of the Lord now. It has only taken me 40 years. Now firmly believing, as one should, that “when I am weak He is strong”.

 

“Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weakthen I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:10, NASB



God the Father seems to know what is best. After all, “Father Knows Best”, as the TV show proved, beginning in 1954 (the year of my birth) through 1960, had us all believing in a godly father, a godly mother, a loving household, and the good ways of American life back then. Before much of it was stained by the ways of the world.

 

My heart is to see those of you who have reached those “golden years” to realize that it is not the time to retire, to sit on the front porch swing (which I do enjoy) and read the latest Robert Whitlow novel (whom I know personally and highly recommend.)

 

It is time for us to use that wisdom, those years of hard knocks and knives in the back, scares on our knees from praying, and joys that we know He has blessed us with, and go to the cities, the states, the nations…and do what our great Father, the Living God of Israel, has so prepared for us to do.

 

Let’s go!

 

Ahava and Shalom,

 

Steve Martin

 

P.S. Laurie and I are volunteering in Jerusalem, Israel, with Christian Friends of Israel for three months, Oct. 15, 2025 – Jan. 12, 2026. Read all about it! Steve & Laurie - Time Coming for Jerusalem Volunteers.

 

We welcome your prayers and support as we together bless Israel and His people in their Land.

 

Contributions are welcome online by clicking here on our webpageDONATE HERE

 

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OLD PHOTOS AND NEW VIDEOS!


First photo below:" My dad, Louis Martin, and Grandpa Everett Subra at the Watkins Factory in 1954 in Minnesota. I like old pictures of working men. (Martin/Subra photo archives)


Second photo: Louis and Lila Martin's first four kids at our Washburn, Iowa, home. Sue, Steve, Mary, Tom (1960?)

Crop duster in northern Illinois July 2025

Crop duster in northern Illinois. One of the most popular recent videos on our YouTube channel.


This video has gotten much attention for some reason. Not sure why. I guess we like helicopters?! (Video July 2025, north of LaSalle/Peru on Hwy. 351.)


Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin, Founder, Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

Antioch International Church worship team Aug. 3, 2025

Music video"Jehovah" (Brandon Lake) - Antioch International Church worship team led by Kayla Barbee. Sunday morning in Fort Mill, SC 08.03.25


Video recorded and shared by Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

My newest book was published on Aug. 1, 2025. "Come and Go - Hear the Word of the Lord"


When the Lord calls each of us to “come, follow Me”, He does so because He has a great plan and purpose for each of our lives. He knows what our desires are, but most importantly, He is the one who puts those desires in our hearts.


As you seek Him, He will lead you to places you have never dreamed of, giving you missions you had never thought possible, and will direct your steps to complete the total picture He has for you, as you take your place in His Body among the peoples of the nations.


Each must hear the word to “Come”, and then listen to the word of the Lord to “Go.” May that be in your heart.


Buy now on Amazon, Paper back $7.95, Kindle $0.99

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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Why now at 70 and not 30? - Steve Martin

 


Why now at 70 and not 30?

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him (Moses) in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.” Acts 7:30, NASB

In Exodus, we read a little bit more of Moses' response to the Lord’s calling to him, after the Lord appeared to him.

7-8 God said, “I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

9-10 “The Israelite cry for help has come to me, and I’ve seen for myself how cruelly they’re being treated by the Egyptians. It’s time for you to go back: I’m sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the People of Israel, out of Egypt.”

11 Moses answered God, “But why me? What makes you think that I could ever go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (emphasis mine)

12 “I’ll be with you,” God said. “And this will be the proof that I am the one who sent you: When you have brought my people out of Egypt, you will worship God right here at this very mountain.”

13 Then Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the People of Israel and I tell them, ‘The God of your fathers sent me to you’; and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What do I tell them?”

14 God said to Moses, “I-AM-WHO-I-AM. Tell the People of Israel, ‘I-AM sent me to you.’” The Message


When I was 30, having already been married 7 years, with my wife being just 25, with two sons and two daughters having escaped out of the womb, the Lord had already put in my heart to “go to the nations”. I can remember being 10, and my mom talking about how she had always wanted to be a missionary and telling me about it. But with her marriage and eight kids to raise, that never happened.

I think her heart became mine, which had come from the same Father.

But now, at the ripe old age of 70, that long-held desire of my heart, which He had put there, is being fulfilled. My wife Laurie and I are going to Jerusalem to volunteer at Christian Friends of Israel for three months. Finally!

But why did the Lord wait so long? Why wasn’t the time right for me to go at 30, when I, really, really wanted to? When I was young, and full of wisdom, and knew more than the Lord did. Or so I thought at times.

Looking back at the patriarchs, i.e., Abraham, Moses, even David, it is almost plain to see that the Lord loves those who are “seasoned”, “prepared”, “having gone through the wringer” (an ancient term that very old people know about.)

I do see the wisdom of the Lord now. It has only taken me 40 years. Now firmly believing, as one should, that “when I am weak He is strong”.

“Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:10, NASB

God the Father seems to know what is best. After all, “Father Knows Best”, as the TV show proved, beginning in 1954 (the year of my birth) through 1960, had us all believing in a godly father, a godly mother, a loving household, and the good ways of American life back then. Before much of it was stained by the ways of the world.

My heart is to see those of you who have reached those “golden years” to realize that it is not the time to retire, to sit on the front porch swing (which I do enjoy) and read the latest Robert Whitlow novel (whom I know personally and highly recommend.)

It is time for us to use that wisdom, those years of hard knocks and knives in the back, scares on our knees from praying, and joys that we know He has blessed us with, and go to the cities, the states, the nations…and do what our great Father, the Living God of Israel, has so prepared for us to do.

Let’s go!

Ahava and Shalom,

Steve Martin

P.S. Laurie and I are volunteering in Jerusalem, Israel, with Christian Friends of Israel for three months, Oct. 15, 2025 – Jan. 12, 2026. Read all about it! Steve & Laurie - Time Coming for Jerusalem Volunteers.

We welcome your prayers and support as we together bless Israel and His people in their Land.

Contributions are welcome online by clicking here on our webpage, when you look for the little DONATE button on each side column, Love For His People uses. DONATE HERE.

Are you new to these messages, or has another shared them with you? Sign up here to receive it directly in your email InBox. Click on the nice, full of brew coffee mug with the Love For His People logo on it, found on each side column of the webpage. You will be glad you did! Sign Up for Steve Martin's Messages

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Message #10 in my new series (2025): "Why now at 70 and not 30?" - Aug. 2, 2025

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Come and Go - Hear the Word of the Lord - new book by Steve Martin

When the Lord calls each of us to “come, follow Me”, He does so because He has a great plan and purpose for each of our lives. He knows what our desires are, but most importantly, He is the one who puts those desires in our hearts.

As you seek Him, He will lead you to places you have never dreamed of, giving you missions you had never thought possible, and will direct your steps to complete the total picture He has for you, as you take your place in His Body among the peoples of the nations.

Each must hear the word to “
Come”, and then listen to the word of the Lord to “Go.” May that be in your heart.


Buy now - Paperback $7.99, Kindle $0.99: COME AND GO

With this, my 38th book, I dedicate to those who hear the Word of the Lord. And obey it. First, to Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28, NASB). 

 And then, to those who hear and obey His command. “And He said to them, 'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” (Mark 16:15, NASB), taking His message of forgiveness, love, and grace to walk in His plans and purposes for your life.

May His Holy Spirit continue to guide you and lead you to the completion of the assigned mission He has given specifically to you.

When the Lord calls each of us to “come, follow Me”, He does so because He has a great plan and purpose for each of our lives. He knows what our desires are, but most importantly, He is the one who puts those desires in our hearts.

As you seek Him, He will lead you to places you have never dreamed of, giving you missions you had never thought possible, and will direct your steps to complete the total picture He has for you, as you take your place in His Body among the peoples of the nations.

My good and beautiful wife, Laurie, and me are going to Jerusalem this fall, October 2025, to volunteer with Christian Friends of Israel. It is my 30th trip to The Land and her 9th. We are blessed!

We have heard the word to “Come”, and now we have again heard the word of the Lord to “Go.”

And thus, we shall!

Buy now - Paperback $7.99, Kindle $0.99: COME AND GO


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  

Dedication                               Page  5

Introduction                             Page  6

 

1.      I’m Back                                 Page 7

2.      He Gives Us Signs                  Page 9

3.      Friendships. We Need Them. Page 14

4.      If You Seek Me                       Page 18

5.      Call It What It Is                     Page 22

6.      Live Generously                     Page 25

7.      Live Generously. But How?   Page 28

8.      Snakes in the Grass                 Page 32

9.      Family                                     Page 36

10.  Why now 70 and not 30?        Page 40

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR                   Page 44

CONTACT INFORMATION            Page 46

OTHER BOOKS STEVE MARTIN  Page 47

Buy now - Paperback $7.99, Kindle $0.99: COME AND GO



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