#5005 Blog Post for Love For His People

Blog Post #5005

Today, Sept. 6, 2015, we are posting our 5005th blog post. With this blog website having been birthed in 2010, that would average 1001 posts per year. Yeah!

Below are a few logos we have used during this time, as the Lord Jesus has taken us on a journey with Him. Sharing His love to the nations continues to be our prime purpose. Giving encouragement, wisdom and strength through the Lord for Israel, and the other nations we provide support to (India, Pakistan, Dominica, Vietnam and ministries in the USA) continues strong.

Gathering together news from the great resources of ISRAEL TODAY, CHARISMA NEWS, CBN NEWS, CHARISMA MAGAZINE, MORRIS RUDDICK (SIGN) ISRAEL365, MORNINGSTAR (RICK JOYNER), BILL YOUNT, JERUSALEM365, YOUTUBE, JIM BAKKER SHOW, FACEBOOK, THE ELIJAH LIST, IDENTITY NETWORK, TIMES OF ISRAEL, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS (BIN) and more have given us good news, from a biblical viewpoint, which is truth to stand on.

Beginning in the fall of 2010, with Steve's Ahava Love Letters, and then with the current messages entitled Now Think On This, we have touched many nations with words of faith, love and hope. 

These messages in turn have been published in print and Kindle e-books, and available online at Amazon.com and Martin Lighthouse Publishing.

So thank you to all of you who have enjoyed reading our blog, and keep coming back for more news and publications, as we press forward in the Lord's purposes and plans. Let us know how it has touched your lives if you would please.

Shalom and ahava,

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People, Inc.

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The Promise 

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Ahava Love Letters  

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Leadership Through Love  

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Now Think On This 

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Why Israel?

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A new look is coming to the LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE main website...

 A beautiful new look 

is coming to our 

main website at 

LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE

Logo with Genesis 12:3 "Those who bless Israel will be blessed."

Banner featuring Leadership Through Love book

(Steve Martin, Martin Lighthouse Publishing 2013)

Banner featuring The Promise book by Steve Martin

(Martin Lighthouse Publishing, 2013)

Banner featuring Ahava Adventures in Israel

- annual trips to connect with friends in Israel

Work on our new website look is progressing. You will be able to see it soon in the next months. 

Our new website presentation, being built now by Possible Web Marketing, is looking great in the early stages. 

Ben Martin, VP of Possible Web Marketing and their Web Designer, is doing this as a gift to the ministry.

I love it, and we are so grateful!

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Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People

Leadership Through Love - Chapter 2 "Use the Tools, Not the Staff" by Steve Martin

The following are a few paragraphs taken from Chapter 2.

Use the

Tools, Not the Staff

The Lord Jesus Himself gave us valuable lessons, while He led His band of men and women on earthly team, which has proven itself to be most applicable in my leading of business and ministry staffs. These very effective truths in administrating were spoken by Him, when He said to His small band, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39)

These were two of my key attitudes I took early on in my management positions, as I learned how to be a “manager of the people”, as one other executive team member put it, during one of my years with Derek Prince Ministries (1987-1990 and 2001-2005).

Not wanting to be one who “lords it over others”, demanding my own way and using the “staff rather the tools”, I took the posture of treating the staff who served with me as I desired my boss to treat me - honoring them as I wanted to be recognized and honored, and uplifting them as I often needed, but rarely received, in some cases. As I sought to encourage each one in my care, even as a pastor does his flock, I found that the love grew between them and I. When those bonds were established, staff readily would give beyond the call of duty and pay, as they knew my heart was not just for the job to be done, but for them in helping me get it done.

Not only did we labor together for the cause of the Lord in the ministry, with me as the recognized leader and their boss, but we became friends for the long haul. I still treasure and continue to keep relationships with those who were in the same office setting with me, or on the church volunteer teams, as fellow servants. Taking a heart position of being their servant, and not one seeking to be served, created and maintained unique, precious, and long term relationships. 

Steve Martin

Author

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Why Israel? - Steve Martin's latest new book - paperback ($5.65) and Kindle ($1.99)

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Why Israel?

Steve Martin

 Martin Lighthouse Publishing

Charlotte, NC

INTRODUCTION

Why Israel? Why not?

This little booklet consists of messages previously written in my books, which of themselves contain many various themes. I wanted to devote one book to just Israel and the Jewish people, and so this small booklet was compiled.

As you read the following, consider the truth contained in Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, which spell out the commitment of God the Father to choose a people who will be a light to the nations. He chose the Jews, and gave them the Promised Land of Israel.

It does not matter what other national governments try to say, do, or accomplish apart from the plans and purposes of the Lord. They will fail.

His Word is true. It is eternal. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever, and thus His commitment in keeping His promises made to the Jewish people will be fulfilled.

I hope you stand with them in these last days.

Steve Martin

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction                                                                

1. Why Israel?                                         Page 6
2. Happy Birthday Israel                          Page 12
3. Who Will Stand?                                 Page 16
4. Crash Course on Israeli-Arab Conflict Page 20
5. Why Is A Gentile Like You...?             Page 26. 
6. Support the Household of Faith            Page 30

PHOTOS                                                      Page 33

ABOUT THE AUTHOR                             Page 41

CONTACT INFORMATION                     Page 43

OTHER BOOKS BY STEVE MARTIN   Page 45

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Martin served with three Christian ministries from 1987-2010, all having a national and international outreach focus. During that time he made 14 ministry trips to Israel, China, India, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom.

On his overseas journeys Steve enjoyed sharing written journal entries with family and friends back home, through Internet media. His light-hearted stories gave an up close and personal touch for those reading along. Many could imagine being there themselves.

His extensive collection of photos taken during these trips, of both local scenery and common people on the streets, has touched thousands through their varied images.

In 2010, Steve and Laurie began Love For His People, Inc, a 501©3 non-profit humanitarian aid ministry. This work touches the natural and spiritual lives of those around them with needed encouragement and strength.

His regular messages Now Think On This, posted on the Love For His People blog, Ahava Love Letters/Now Think of This blog and Facebook, feature words of spiritual enrichment, plus selected photos.

Since 1994, Steve and his good wife Laurie have lived in the Charlotte, NC area, after having homes in Illinois, Michigan and Florida. Now married for more than 37 years, they enjoy their four adult children and spouses, along with six additional grandchildren.

While continuing to serve organizations with his accounting skills, he enjoys writing and growing the ministry of Love For His People, Inc.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Steve Martin

Love For His People, Inc.          

P.O. Box 414  

Pineville, NC 28134 USA

E-mail: loveforhispeople@gmail.com 

              martinlighthouse@gmail.com

Facebook pages: Steve Martin  and  Love For His People

       

Twitter: martinlighthous,   LovingHisPeople,  LoveHisPeople  and ahavaloveletters

Blogger: http://loveforhispeople.blogspot.com  

YouTube: Steve Martin (loveforhispeopleinc)

Website: www.loveforhispeople.org

Our organization, Love For His People, Inc., is a USA non-profit 501(c)3 ministry.   Fed. ID #27-1633858.

 We welcome your gifts and communications of support, as we continue to provide humanitarian aid to our Israel, India and African connections. We hope you will become connected too along with us, and send a one-time gift or become a regular, monthly friend.

Thank you very much for this consideration!

You can send checks, or contribute through our PayPal account on our website: http://www.loveforhispeople.org/support.html

We send tax deductible receipts for all gifts received for the work of the ministry!

I hope you will enjoy this little booklet. You can also get my five books, all available on Amazon.com and from our ministry office. Please see our contact information on prior page for the address.

This is Steve’s second in the series of messages – to give hope, encouragement, and share the love of the Lord in your daily walk. Includes more than 165 photos

he took in trips to Israel.

Steve Martin’s first four books

-          all are available on Amazon

-          or from the office

of Love For His People.

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Good reading for times like these. Buy a book. You will be pleased!

Good reading

For times like these.

Buy a book...

You will be pleased!

Thanks,

Steve Martin

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Now Think On This 

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Leadership Through Love - 

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Ahava Love Letters 

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The Promise: 

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Blessings on ye heads!

Steve Martin

Now Think On This - Steve Martin's 4th book - Paperback $7.16 and Kindle $3.95 - 144 pages and 50 photos

Messages to strengthen

the hope within,

as you press on with

His love through you.

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Now Think On This are thoughts I have written and shared on my two blogs Love For His People and Ahava Love Letters/Now Think On This. They cover a variety of topics that believers in Jesus (Yeshua) are interested in. Each one can also be a means of bringing encouragement to you as you walk the daily walk. 

Many times these messages came as a result of inspiration by the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh). I would be driving along, and He would give me a thought, which I would then write down on a notecard or whatever piece of paper was handy, If my good wife Laurie was riding with me, I would ask her to write the thought down, so as not to risk our lives while driving down the interstate highway at a high speed, headed to our next destination. 

My previous book of similar messages, Ahava Love Letters, published in the fall of 2013, first began showing up on the written page in November of 2010, after I had returned from Israel for the 10th time. We had just established our ministry to bless friends in Israel and the nations, which we named Love For His People, Inc, in April of 2010. I was asking the Lord for the next directive. His response was to use one of the gifts He had given me – to write. Some would call it a teaching gift. It took me a long time to see it that way, but now I do. And so I write. 

Daily we are bombarded with negative news, pressures of the job, and conflicts to be dealt with. We all need encouragement. We need the assurance that our Creator, the One who knows the plans He has for us, is still in control. These messages will bring you hope, give you the solid sense of His hand on all, and increase your faith to stand strong on your convictions. I purposely kept each one short so you can read them alongside your Bible or other daily material.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication                                                              Page 9

1. The Father                                                                Page 10

2. Show Us The Father                                                  Page 12

3. Hope. Gotta Have It.                                                  Page 15

4. Love the One You Are With                                        Page 17

5. Marriage – His Plan. His Purpose. His Way.            Page 20

6. Explosion of Love                                                      Page 23

7. Beautiful Bride                                                           Page 25          
8. What Do You Want                                                    Page 28

9. The Hiding Place                                                        Page 31

10. They Are Loved Also                                                 Page 34

11. Little Orphan Chuckie                                                Page 37

12. “I Like Mike”                                                             Page 50

13. Disappointed With Small Beginnings                       Page 54

14. The Cities                                                                  Page 57

15. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart                          Page 59

16. Anxious                                                                      Page 61

17. Get Back in the Boat                                                     Page 64

  

18. Need Money?                                                               Page 67

19. Rejected?                                                                    Page 69

    

20. In Your Building – Guard Against Distractions        Page 71

21. Connections                                                                Page 73

22. Your Name                                                                 Page 77

23. Lost, But Not Forgotten Friends                      Page 80          
24. Dad, Are You There?                                                   Page 83

25. Birthdays                                                                    Page 85

26. Expectations & Hope                                                    Page 87

27. Alone and Lonely                                                         Page 90

28. To The Jew First                                                         Page 93

29. Pass the Test                                                               Page 97

30. Miracles Occur                                                            Page 99

  

31. No More Namby Pamby Christians                              Page 101

32. Joy. You Can Grow It.                                                Page 104

33. Pressing On – Encouragement for the Long Haul     Page 107

34. Weary But Not Quitting                                             Page 110
35. How Shall We Then Give?                                         Page 112

36. Less IS More                                                             Page 116

37. Condemn You?                                                           Page 119

38. Five Fingers and a Paw                                               Page 122

39. It May Not Be As You Think                                        Page 124

40. Demons & Fire Trucks                                                Page 127

41. Rise Again                                                                  Page 130

42. Why is a Gentile Like You Celebrating

             The Feasts of the Jews?                                  Page 134

43. Israel Support for the Household of Faith              Page 137

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are available on Amazon. 

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