Showing posts with label Prophetic Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prophetic Stories. Show all posts

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Do you see the signs? Weekly message - Steve Martin, Love For His People

 

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June 19, 2025


Greetings to you once again.


And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but are you unable to discern the signs of the times?" Matthew 16:3, NASB



Each of us wants to know what the future holds. We even want to know what the weather is going to be like the next day. I like the FOX Weather app, which gives the 14-day forecast. (The local channel only shows 7 days. But they are not as big as the national broadcast channel.)


The Lord knows our weaknesses and has promised to give us signs along the way to help us discern His path and walk on it.


In 2014, I wrote the book, "Prophetic Stories - Signs Along the Way." It was amazing to see some of the prophetic ways the Lord directed me, and how He used signs to accomplish it. (You can order the book below. Only $5.99 on Amazon.)


Please read this week's message, which I wrote, entitled "He Gives Us Signs," just below. Please also share this communication with others to encourage them. And I love responses. Please share some of your testimonies about how the Lord has led and continues to lead you, with an email response.


Be blessed in all your blessings,


Ahava and shalom,



Steve Martin

Love For His People Ministry


P.S. Today’s communication also includes a video of David Peterman and me after we returned from Israel on our May 2026 Ahava Adventure, and a "tour" of the Christian Friends of Israel Jerusalem office. And of course, another surprise video.

Photo at the Jerusalem Zoo, in Jerusalem, Israel. Taken on May 6, 2017, by me, Steve Martin. I call it the "Lion of Judah". Yeshua HaMashicah - come quickly again.

Our good friend Hadassah Lerner always took the time to give us "tours" of Israel when we went on previous trips. This is her with two friends on the Jerusalem Zoo bridge (Jerusalem, Israel) on May 6, 2017. Please pray for this mighty woman of the Lord, who currently battles health issues.

He Gives Us Signs


“So, Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me.” Judges 6:17, NASB

 

An excellent Bible teacher by the name of Bob Mumford, whom I first heard of during the “discipleship, shepherding, and commitment days” (for me, those were the years 1977-1994), had a book entitled Take Another Look at Guidance. A worthwhile read for those seeking to understand how our heavenly Father guides us in His ways and purposes for our individual lives. I have based many decisions on Mumford’s recommendations.


If you're not inclined to check it out (but I highly recommend that you do), I'll help you.


From Bible.org:


Bob Mumford in Take Another Look at Guidance, compares discovering God’s will with a sea captain’s docking procedure: A certain harbor in Italy can be reached only by sailing up a narrow channel between dangerous rocks and shoals. Over the years, many ships have been wrecked, and navigation is hazardous.


To guide the ships safely into port, three lights have been mounted on three huge poles in the harbor. When the three lights are perfectly lined up and seen as one, the ship can safely proceed up the narrow channel. If the pilot sees two or three lights, he knows he’s off course and in danger.

 

God has also provided three beacons to guide us. The same rules of navigation apply—the three lights must be lined up before it is safe for us to proceed. The three harbor lights of guidance are:

1. The Word of God (objective standard)

2. The Holy Spirit (subjective witness)

3. Circumstances (divine providence)


Together, they assure us that the directions we’ve received are from God and will lead us safely along his way.

- Gregory Asimakoupoulos


Bob Mumford, Take Another Look at Guidance.


Again, the three harbors’ lights are: the Word, the Holy Spirit, and circumstances.

All throughout Scripture, from Adam to Moses to Gideon to Mary to those gathered in the Upper Room on Pentecost (on the Lord’s feast known as Shavuot), the Lord gave His people signs.


Being He knows all, He certainly knows that sometimes things are not so apparent as He would hope they would be for us.


I encourage you to seek the Lord in your daily decisions, to learn how He speaks, what He speaks, and when He speaks, so you too can more fully know of His plans and purposes for you.


Do not be like those who missed the Messiah Yeshua HaMashiach, when He came the first time. Even though they looked for signs, they failed to see the One who was right before their eyes.


“But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.” John 12:37, NASB


And then again in Hebrews 2:3-4, Complete Jewish Bible, it reads: “…then how will we escape if we ignore such a great deliverance? This deliverance, which was first declared by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him; while God also bore witness to it with various signs, wonders and miracles, and with gifts of the Ruach HaKodesh which he distributed as he chose.”


Be one who follows, even chases, after the Lord, to better know Him. There is so much that He wants to show you of Himself and how much He wants to give you guidance.


Ahava and Shalom,


Steve Martin


P.S. I saw the “CFI truck sign” on Friday, June 13, 2025, as a good friend and I were driving north on I-77 from Rock Hill, SC, to Charlotte, NC. And so, I took the photo to share with others.

 

Message #3 in new series (2025): “He Gives Us Signs” June 15, 2025, 5:07 am in Charlotte, North Carolina

Above photo: Beautiful birds at the Jerusalem Zoo, Israel. (Photo by Steve Martin 05.06.17)


Below photo: It's time we knew the time. It is closer than you think. (Photo by Steve Martin 2017)

My good friend David Peterman and I had this dialogue after our recent trip to Israel, May 4 to 14. We speak of the Lord's prophetic signs in our days, right now, as seen in His Land and among His chosen people, the Jews. The Living God of Israel lets us know that He is moving in the earth, as He calls out to us daily.


The second video is the first of a 4-part recording when we went on a "tour" in the Jerusalem, Israel office of Christian Friends of Israel. I personally was amazed at what CFI Jerusalem has going on and has done in their 40 years of ministry among the Jews and Arabs of the Land. Watch the first one. It then leads to the others. (P.S. I served on the CFI-USA board for 14 years, under the leadership of Hannele Pardain, and this experience on the tour was beneficial.)


And the third video (what a treat), recorded by me at the Christian Friends of Israel 40th ministry anniversary event in Charlotte, North Carolina, in May 2026, makes known the excellent new connection between Derek Prince Ministries and CFI-Jerusalem. Knowing Derek Prince when I was a staff member, this is special.

David Peterman and I recorded this video after our recent trip to Israel May 2025. Watch!

Steve Martin and David Peterman

CFI-Jerusalem video 1 of 4

Christian Friends of Israel Jerusalem tour. Located off Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, Israel.

Dick Leggatt and Philip Wyns speak of the new connection between DPM and CFI.

Dick Leggatt and Philip Wyns, Derek Prince Ministries, speak at the CFI 40th anniversary event.

We are living in the last days, the times prophesied long ago, right before the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, returns. Even as He spoke to the prophets of old in Israel, continuing through Jesus’ time on earth, and with the early church, the Lord is fulfilling His promise. His Eternal Word that He would pour out His Spirit on all flesh, and we would prophesy.


Prophesy comes in many ways – through the spoken word, signs, dreams, visions, tongues. The Lord uses all to speak to His people, give them guidance along the way, and show His provision for the plans He has for us. As we walk along His path chosen for us, He desires to encourage and reveal His plans to us. He most certainly uses His Written Word. He also uses prophetic words.


Here are a few that He has given to me. I am continually amazed at how He speaks, how He directs, and the assuring results of His guidance. We need the gifts of the Holy Spirit operating in these times. As the Bible says, He desires that all would prophesy, in order to assist believers in knowing His will, and speaking to non-believers that we serve an All-Knowing God, who shows us the way.


The gifts of prophesy, seeing signs and wonders, and experiencing His love through His fascinating methods is for all. I hope you are encouraged in seeking Him as you read these stories of how He moved in my life. Steve Martin


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Coca-Cola 600 - Army helicopters arrive at Charlotte Motor Speedway, May 26, 2019.

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Friday, May 31, 2019

The Drive. Once Again. - Now Think On This by Steve Martin


The Drive. Once Again.

“I got up in the middle of the night, I and a few men who were with me. I hadn't told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with us was the one I was riding.” (Nehemiah 2:12, THE MESSAGE)


On Oct. 21, 2003, as I wrote in my book, Prophetic Stories, Signs Along the Way (Chapter 8, page 75), the Lord woke me up after going to bed, and the Holy Spirit led me on a drive.

He did it again, now 16 years later. This time it was 1:22 am, as the red LED clock lights so proclaimed at the top of my head on the ledge, on May 31, 2019.

As I first spent a short time praying in tongues on our front porch swing, with the cool breeze and 72F out, I felt led to take another drive at night. Trust me, this isn’t a “normal” thing for me to do – get up during the middle of the night (well, that may be), but not to go out for a “middle of the night” drive, even as Nehemiah was led to do. Only he had a horse that he rode in his Jerusalem days. Mine has a bit more “horse” power.

As I drove from our home driveway, I first went into the little town of Pineville, North Carolina and checked the Love For His People mailbox we have. (P.O. Box 414, zip 28134 if you want to know.) One contribution. Thank you, Lord.

Then I asked, “Where next?”, and heard quietly in my spirit to see if the nearly installed south parking lot lights at The River Place, which houses Antioch International Church, Christians For Messiah Ministries, CMM (Jorge Parrot), Proverbs 226, a Spanish church and more, were actually operationally at night. So, I drove there. It is about 4 miles away from our house in Pineville, but across the South Carolina state line, with a Fort Mill address.

Formerly, this was the Heritage USA/PTL land, which Jim Bakker had in the 1980s.

As I drove to the “south 40” parking lot (as I like to call it) on The River Place land, I prayed for the new and renovating construction being done over the last five years, as members of Antioch continue praying and preparing for the oncoming gatherings that will take place here. The Lord is not only restoring this property but will also once again open the springs of life that have been filled in and covered over.

The Living God of Israel has never been done with this place, as the enemy thought so when 25 years ago, in 1994, it had completely shut down in November of that year and went into a decade of decay. Another one of those times where the devil thought he had entombed the plans and purposes of the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Not so!

I made a full circle around the outer perimeter of the lot, just to see how the lighting of the 3 light poles filled in the areas on the blacktop, yet having weeds coming up through the 35-year old cracks. Then I left the property around 2:30 am, thinking I was done with this mission.

Two of the 3 lights, with the light from the 3rd on the far left.

Just as I crossed back over the bridge on Regent Parkway, heading east back to Dorman Road and home, the Lord said, “You did not complete what I had brought you here for.”

So, in obedience, I turned my silver 2017 Hyundai Elantra around (“Hi ho, Silver!”) and drove back to the parking lot.

I waited to hear what next.

“7 laps.”

Thus, another 7 laps on this property, which I did 16 years ago.

Beginning at 2:38 am, and ending at 2:54 am, I obediently did the laps. In my horse-driven silver steed. I wrote down each lap with the time as I completed each. Along with a few other notes.

My 3" x 5" note card I always carry in my car, being I can't "text and drive" to myself.

Each time, as I prayed in tongues and listened to Paul Wilbur’s “Roar From Zion” CD on my iPhone through the car stereo, I envisioned the multitudes of cars that will fill this parking lot - those coming to once again experience salvation, restoration, re-invigorating mission assignments, and unification of His Body, as we so need.

I don’t always understand why I do what He calls me to do, but as I simply seek to hear and obey, He grants further understanding. Then He also knows He can trust me to speak and share what He is doing in our midst, with increasing greater authority, among those who also are open to receiving His directives.

Even though He already always knows how we each will respond to Him, it is continually a learning experience for you and me, even as one such as I who at age 64 is soon going on Medicare.



May you experience His prophetic leadings, as you also hear and obey, though not always fully knowing or having a complete understanding at the time why you do what He calls you to do. Trust Him.

“But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, " In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts." These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. 

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 

And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.” (Jude 17-23, NASU)

Do as He quietly says through His Holy Spirit to you, being guided by His written Word (logos) and His rhema (now spoken) Word. He will see your heart, your response, and then open your eyes to even more of what He is now doing. Especially in your area and the Land of Israel. We need to see and know.

Now think of this,
Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.





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P.S. On May 10 I returned from my 20th trip to Israel. And guess what? I brought back for you my last 58 short videos I entitled “Walk With Me in Israel”. You can join me as I walk through the beautiful land and cities of Israel. Watch them here on our YouTube channel: Walk With Me - Israel May 2019

Also, my previous ones from other locations are here also on YouTube: Walk With Me

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