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Abraham
Lincoln and the Holy Land
“For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my
life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have
long been dead.” Psalm 143:3, NASB
Well, that’s not a Bible verse anyone will put on their refrigerator!
And yet we go through those seasons when we feel exactly that
– crushed, forsaken, “Where are You, Lord” times in our lives. So, then what?
Abraham Lincoln, our beloved 16th American president,
was known to have had “melancholy”—or simply depression. We can certainly
understand why, amid the Civil War, his young son’s death, and his wife Martha’s
health issues.
I have several books on my bookcase and have read most of
them. They are not just for show.
Though he was not known as a churchgoer, he did call upon the
Name of the Lord Jesus for guidance, courage, and fortitude to stand for
righteousness in many political and life situations. Battered, hated, and later
assassinated, he did seek the Lord in his times of depression and melancholy.
On his deathbed, it has been written that Lincoln spoke these
words to his wife, Martha, as she drew near with her ear.
“A strong case can be made, based
on the “Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln” (kept at the Illinois State
Historical Library), a manuscript Noyes W. Miner, pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Springfield, Illinois, who wrote of his conversations with Mary Todd
Lincoln in 1882, and several other references, that these were Abraham
Lincoln’s last words:
“We will visit the Holy Land
and see those places hallowed by the footsteps of the Savior. There is no city on
earth I so much desire to see as Jerusalem.”
These are
the words that follow in the manuscript: "and with that word half spoken on his tongue, the bullet
from the pistol of the assassin’s entered his brain, and the soul of the great
and good President was carried by the Angels to the New Jerusalem & above.” (see here: Abraham
Lincoln's Last Words)
There are at least ten fascinating facts about Lincoln and the Jews. Look here for more: Lincoln and the Jews. But that is for another day, another message.
We can all admire President Abraham Lincoln for the life he
led and the courage he displayed, even as he fought spiritual and natural
battles most of his life. And while I am on the subject, we can also give thanks
to the Lord for the great President Donald J. Trump, who is to our country, and
his ongoing support for Israel and our Jewish friends in their Land.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin, Love For His People in Charlotte, North
Carolina
Message #8, 2026, “Abraham
Lincoln and the Holy Land”, Feb. 26,
2026, 11:30 am
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Christian Friends of Israel Jerusalem's DAVID’s SHIELD Supporting Brave IDF Soldiers
Article by Steve Martin, CFI volunteer
shield@cfijerusalem.org
THE WINTER SEASON at any army base can be a bit more brutal than elsewhere in a country.
Making do with government supplies and equipment just does not make one feel “warm and cozy” at times, while in the realm of protecting one’s country. Especially when the setting is out in the fields of the low country, with winds coming off the sea nearby. Though one does not expect soldiers to have it all “as at home,” we do want them to be alert, prepared, and ready for their active duty when called upon. We want (need) them to have the resources that one would expect them to have. But they always do not.
So, it was with the IDF soldiers, whom the volunteers with Christian Friends of Israel came to connect with, befriend, and share the love of Yeshua through practical means. We want them to know, being mostly Jewish, that the Father has sent many Christians to “bear them up” and bring some of His provision from the people around the world.
Steve and Laurie Martin (USA) and Elisabeth Oelwein (Germany) did just that in the middle of December, when the sun had set and the cold wind blew. They came to bring His love and warmth. After the two-hour trip to collect the military clothing to Askelon, meeting with our supplier, we drove further south to meet with Avi, commander at a base just near Nahal Oz, the one raided, partially destroyed, and saw the murder of 18 women soldiers monitoring the security system, by Hamas killers.
With his duties requiring him to be on mission that afternoon, after a three hour wait, we drove to another base 45 minutes away to meet with Noar, a 43-year-old volunteer commanding a force of young soldiers. Noar was excited when he received the warm blankets and supplies, calling them candy for the men. Returning to the base, the two young soldiers who greeted us there, David and his “brother-in-arms,” who had lost a brother on Oct. 7, 2023, were filled with gratitude and acceptance when we unloaded the van full of winter clothing and toiletries.
These two were younger than some of our grandsons. A father’s heart for them indeed welled up inside me. Just as His heart does daily. Christians, helping Jews, in their Promised Land given to them by the Living God of Israel. David’s Shield is helping to fulfill the mandate given to Christians from the Lord, to lift their arms as they return to, and fight to keep, their Land.
Steve Martin CFI Volunteer 12.17.25
Lyailya Telgarina, Outreach Coordinator Project David’s Shield; shield@cfijerusalem.org
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“Changing & Shifting Season”
Prophetic word to Steve Feb. 17, 2026 from Jeremy
Lopez, Identity Network
My son in this time of your life there are going to be a lot of changes. A lot of changes, not from every single day of life living but big changes when it deals with the direction you are headed. Things in your life, people in your life.
You are going to start seeing in this season where
truly new spiritual giftings are going to begin to come out. New spiritual
giftings, callings, talents coming out of you. In fact, you are going to feel
in the next year, year and a half, almost as if you are a brand new person. You
are going to start feeling and sensing something new, something vibrant, something
has just electrocuted you, as if you stick your finger in a light socket and
all of a sudden, “Wow, I got this jolt of energy. I got this big burst of
energy coming to me.
You will start getting a lot more feeling of that
energy coming to you, like a new way of looking at life and outlook on how you
see things. You are going to recognize this season where the way you view life
is going to be wholly different for you. In fact, people are going to ask you
and they are going to wonder, “Did you do something different to yourself”
Different in how you dress, for you seem happier. People are going to start
recognizing you are happier. They are going to start recognizing that great
things inside of you are coming to the surface.
Things that are in you are going to come out of you.
This is a time where you will begin to see where the river will begin to turn.
Your river of life will begin to turn into a different place. The direction you
think you are headed now is actual not the direction you are going into.
I am going to surprise you. I am going to find you at
a place where you will look and you will say, “Man I never thought I would be
doing this in my life, just two years ago.” You will discover renewed things
are going to happen to you because I am changing your direction.
Whatever you do don’t allow yourself to get your eyes
on people. Don’t allow yourself to get your eyes on other people who might try
to tell you what to do or try to control you, to tell you where to go and what
to do.
Not everybody has the wisdom of the Kingdom in them.
Not everybody knows the direction of your life. Not everybody knows exactly
where I am taking you. Even though others will look at you and say, “You know
what? You have been doing this for a long time and you have been doing that for
a long time.”
And God said, “But guess what? The way that they have
seen you, the way that you have operated in your life is not going to be the
way you are going to operate in this next season of your life. It is going to
be new operations, new things coming out of you. So therefore don’t let people
pigeon hole you and tell you what you should be doing, where you should be
going, because they don’t know.
People around you only see what you have been happy
with in the past. People will only look at you and recognize exactly what you
did in the past that you were good at doing. People will only look at you and
recognize what everybody else thinks you should be doing.
These are not right. None of these are right. What is
right is when you do and continue to do what I want you to do no matter if
other people agree or disagree. There are those in your past who would love
nothing more than to lord over you. And basically get over you, almost like
control you, tell you what to do. It is not rebellion to love them, but walk
away.
It’s a season in which I am causing you to detach from
several people, several mindsets. And it doesn’t mean that these people don’t love
you, it just means that they love to control. They love their controlling more
than they do you. Wow.
Therefore, son, make sure that you are paying
attention to what the Holy Spirit is telling you. I am leading you into all
righteousness. I am leading you into more joy. I am leading you into a place
where you will discover what truly you are free to be you, and free to do what
you want to do and free to do what I want you to do.
This is a new season coming upon you. So make sure
this season you set goals. Make sure you set goals, goals, goals on what it is
you sense that I am telling you. Because what I am telling you now is going to
be different than what you have been doing.
So listen closely to what the voice of the Lord is
talking to you about. Once My Spirit in this next MONTH starts talking to you and downloading into you new vision, you
are going to be like, “Really? Wow. Me doing this? You are telling me that I
need to be doing that?”
You will hear things differently, but that’s the
beauty of the Kingdom of God. My Spirit is going to tell you the direction
where that river is going. He is going to tell you some different things. Those
are going to be your new purposes. Those are going to be your new goals.
Set them this hour. Get before me and allow My Spirit
to tell you and download into you how to be able to be successful at the things
I have called you to do in this life.
Just remember this season is going to shift more than
any other season has in the past five years of your life."
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Pressing
In
“Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well;” Philippians 3:13-15, NASB
In 2020, I published my 30th book, entitled Press On!,
and wrote the following introduction,
I have
written several messages that made their way into my books on the subjects of
pressing on, being faithful, being strong in the Lord, and fighting the good
fight.
These are
the days when it will take more than giving verbal acknowledgment and just
words from our mouths in our service to the King Jesus.
It will
take blood, sweat, tears, heartache, and determination to press on even if
others have stopped and built a home along the road, believing they are
finished.
Those of
us who have been called, anointed, and commissioned for the King’s service have
one thing going for us – we are not alone.
The Holy
Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, has been promised by the Son Jesus Christ, Yeshua
HaMashiach, to always be with us. He is our Comforter, our Director, the One
Who will lead us on. He is with us along this entire journey of faith.
This book
is meant to encourage you to continue seeking the Living God, the One Who left
Jerusalem, Israel, and is soon to return to Jerusalem, Israel.
Be
encouraged in your walk. Keep seeking the Lord above.
Let Him
direct your steps always, as you hear and obey. We both will be happy we did.
So, press
on, for eternity!
It is even
more true today. As I receive prayer concerns from others, from family,
friends, and friends-to-be, the need to maintain courage, faith, and pressing on
into the plans and purposes of our Lord is ever increasing, as the day draws
near. For His soon return.
Pressing on
should be our norm by now. Facing each day is not meant to go it alone. Our
Lord has given us His Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, to go with us, lead us, and
embolden us for His eternal glory.
Today is
another day to show His Hand strong on our behalf. Have courage and keep pressing in.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Message #6, 2026, “Pressing In” Feb. 20, 2026, 7:00 am
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A
Broken Relationship, or Something Else?
“Solomon said, “You were extravagantly generous in love with
David my father, and he lived faithfully in your presence, his relationships
were just and his heart right.” 1 Kings 3:6, The Message
We have all experienced the pain and hurt when a
relationship, one we may have long held, no longer continues. Whether it's a
misunderstanding, a lie, an incident one or the other doesn't want to “work it
out,” or even just weariness from struggles that never seem to end, the
friendship is over.
Companies fire employees. Marriages break apart. Parents and
their children walk away from each other in bitterness and resentment. People
leave churches, synagogues, and communities because of a “wrong word” or an
“unforgiving action.” It happens so many times.
I think of those in the Bible who experienced this, as all of
us have, where two who have walked together, worked together, did many things
together, no longer do so. They no longer want to mend the broken relationship.
Over. Done with.
It happened with David. It happened with Jesus. Paul and
Barnabas, two apostles set apart from the local church in Antioch to go out
together in ministry, parted ways after a big disagreement.
“Now it turned into such a sharp disagreement that
they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and
sailed away to Cyprus.” Acts 15:39, NASB
Are these always the work of the devil? Is it human nature
that we have ongoing problems and can’t seem to get along with people? Is it
due to pride, jealousy, wanting our own way, the way we want it? “My way or the
highway!”
Sometimes. Sometimes not.
I have had two primary relationships where I considered “my
best friend” turned their back on me. And it hurt. Forgiveness on my part, to
protect my spirit and soul, was the only way to go to keep me from ongoing
resentment, bitterness, anger, and not “burning the bridge”. It has also
happened in ministry, which should be of no surprise to anyone by now – that
ministries are not perfect, nor the greener grass necessarily.
Before Laurie and I got married in 1977, we told each other
that we would never use the “D” word in our marriage. The commitment we made to
each other, not having “divorce” as an option, has kept us together by our
Lord’s grace, binding us to that commitment. We had to work things out.
A good friend of mine (and still is) recently spoke of how
the Lord was taking him and me on separate paths. Is this a broken
relationship? No. We both sensed that our time working together, in so many
ways, was preparation for what now lay ahead for both of us. We will continue
to support one another in His plans and purposes, but the time for each of us
to “expand our tents” will lead us to do so on different pathways.
My prayer is for you to go the extra mile when necessary.
Persevere in your relationships to keep them strong and lifelong. Families,
churches, and synagogues need the Lord's unity to fulfill His Kingdom purposes.
You are meant to be a vital part of that.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Message #4, 2026, “A Broken Relationship or Something Else?” Feb.
9, 2026, 2:30 pm
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INTRODUCTION
From Oct. 16, 2025, to Jan. 12, 2026, my good wife Laurie (48 years of marriage and counting) and I had the most incredible time in Jerusalem and many parts of Israel. We had come to serve with Christian Friends of Israel Jerusalem, as needed.
As I sit on the back veranda of the apartment they provided for us, I watch the sun rise over the southeast as another of His glorious days begins. My heart is full of the love of Yeshua (Jesus) for this, His chosen city, His chosen Land, and His chosen people, the Jews.
We came to bring comfort to His people coming out from a heartbreaking war on the eight fronts the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were fighting, after the horrendous, murderous, home destruction years since October 7, 2023. The Israelis had been fighting for their lives, their families, their land promised to them by the Living God of Israel. We hoped to bring His love to them as Christians, standing on His Word.
God the Father did not fail them. In so many miraculous ways, He protected them, united them, and caused them to cry out to Him for His salvation.
Over 1200 Jewish civilians were lost that day. Over 1000 young men, women, and reserves have since been lost, destroyed by the enemy who seems never to go away.
“We just want peace,” is the cry of our friends’ hearts here in Jerusalem and the surrounding hills.
But, when the Messiah Yeshua returns to this very city, Jerusalem, they will know Him as their Peace King, their Shalom Most High.
Come Jesus! Bo Yeshua!
As that time of His return quickly approaches, we joined with several hundred Christians, coming from the nations, to comfort, stand in support, and let the love of the Father work through us for them.
In this, my 40th book, written during my 30th trip to Israel since the late 1990s, I share some of my stories. Some chapters are in the “present tense” because I wrote them at the time they occurred.
Many Jews are returning to their Land now, as prophesied centuries ago by Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Yeshua Himself. Christians are going to Israel to comfort and support them in their return.
And then Jesus (Yeshua) will return as the King of kings and Lord of lords.
I desire that the Lord Himself will touch your heart, and you, too, will join Him in this glorious work, to see His salvation come to the Jews and Arabs of Israel.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin, Love For His People, Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 7, 2026
My hand on the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem.
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Clean Heart
“Create in me a clean heart, God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10, NASB
While trying to listen to the Word of the Holy Spirit as to what to write, I heard a few words. Not being sure as to which one to focus on, I thought, “Well, let’s make this a 'mishmash' message, or 'mixed bag' as another way to put it. And so, I shall.
The first word I want to consider is contentious. Have you ever spoken something, only to have another respond and say the opposite, or negatively, as if that were their mission in life: to be contentious?
If you observe and listen to some, they seem to carry in their spirit this counteraction to anything positive, to make sure one sees the “other side”. But is that always necessary? Do we always have to point out what the “what ifs” will be, and just go with a faith response, such as, “I hope that comes true”, or “Lord, Your will be done. Show me the good in this.”
Have we become so ingrained in negativity that we can’t see the Lord’s hand in everything?
At one time, we used to hear the saying, “So heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good.” I want to offer – maybe that is not so bad after all? To imagine the way the Lord would see things from His vantage point, certainly having a higher vision which is so much more vast than ours. And then try to imitate Him.
Think about it, and yes, try it sometime. When someone offers a point of view, try giving a positive or encouraging response, and avoid negativity. Maybe your needed attitude adjustment will get adjusted. I pray it be so.
And then that word which rises up in me sometimes. Jealousy.
As I again read the Scriptures about the prodigal son, found in Luke 15, personally, I still have to agree with the older son and ask, “Why not me?” (Just being honest here.)
We read of the elder son’s response, “But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you, and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you never gave me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends; but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.” Luke 15:29-30, NASB
Of course, the father was right when he wanted to rejoice and give a party for the prodigal, repentant younger one, but I tend to agree with the elder. Or is it jealousy on my part? Would you have reacted the same way? Be honest.
I am still praying about my attitude regarding this story.
So, these are two words the Lord is working in my heart. I want to be more like Him and have a clean heart.
“Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithfulness; according to the greatness of Your compassion, wipe out my wrongdoings. Wash me thoroughly from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my wrongdoings, and my sin is constantly before me.” Psalm 51:1-3, NASB
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Message #3, 2026, “Clean Heart” Feb. 2, 2026
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