Valued in His Eyes - Steve Martin, Love For His People

Valued in His Eyes

“As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and You place me in Your presence forever.” 

Psalm 41:12, NASB

It used to be that a penny was worth something. In fact, I remember when, as a little kid, even as old as 10, my dad would bend down to pick up a penny off the sidewalk that had fallen from another.

“To some people, this isn’t worth the effort. But to me it is”, he would say. He knew what it was like to be poor, and made sure his family never was. Mom said he would tell her, “I work two jobs, 60 hours a week, so my family and I will never be poor again.” Louis Martin gave his all for his family.

As of 2025, each penny costs $.03 to make. So, the government is planning on doing away with it. I guess it is a good thing, then, that I took my pennies to the coin machine at Food Lion to cash them in last week. No one will pick them up off the street again. There will not be any.

Being thankful that the Lord continually shows His love and how He values us is so important to our self-esteem. Without His ongoing affirmation, approval, and encouragement towards us, the lies of the world would beat us down to the point that we give up, turn back, or simply quit.

We are valued in His eyes. He created us. He wants us to be with Him, in His family, now and forever more.

He proved it then, and He proves it now as we spend time with Him.

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20, NASB

We are worth more than a penny. We are worth the life the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) freely gives us as we abide with Him in our daily walk. Keep on walking with Him as your guide.

 Ahava and Shalom,

Steve Martin

P.S. With our upcoming volunteering in Jerusalem, Israel, with Christian Friends of Israel for three months, Oct. 15, 2025 – Jan. 12, 2026, Laurie and I want to stay in touch with you. Read all about it: Steve & Laurie - Time Coming for Jerusalem Volunteers. 

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Message #11 in my new series (2025): “Valued in His Eyes" - Aug. 12, 2025

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Weekend collage Aug. 11, 2025

Antioch International Church (Fort Mill, South Carolina) Men's Group rafting trip 

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Steve Martin's bedroom dresser top.

Laurie Martin - our first fig from our tree in the backyard. Ever!

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"Even So" (Chris Tomlin) Youth Group band 

at Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina

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“El Gibor v’ El Elyon” (Mighty God, Most High) - Melissa Moot, King of Kings worship in Jerusalem

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Valued in His Eyes - Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry message. Plus two worship videos.

 

Valued in His Eyes

 “As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and You place me in Your presence forever.” Psalm 41:12, NASB

It used to be that a penny was worth something. In fact, I remember when, as a little kid, even as old as 10, my dad would bend down to pick up a penny.

“To some people, this isn’t worth the effort. But to me it is”, he would say. He knew what it was like to be poor, and made sure his family never did. Mom said he would tell her, “I work two jobs, 60 hours a week, so my family and I will never be poor again.” He died before he reached 70.

As of 2025, each penny costs $.03 to make. So, the government is planning on doing away with it. I guess it is a good thing, then, that I took my pennies to the coin machine at Food Lion to cash them in last week. No one will pick them up off the street again. There will not be any.

Being thankful that the Lord continually shows His love and how He values us is so important to our self-esteem. Without His ongoing affirmation, approval, and encouragement towards us, the lies of the world would beat us down to the point that we give up, turn back, or simply quit.

We are valued in His eyes. He created us. He wants us to be with Him, in His family, now and forever more.

He proved it then, and He proves it now as we spend time with Him.

"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20, NASB

We are worth more than a penny. We are worth the life the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) freely gives us as we abide with Him in our daily walk.

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 #11 in my new series (2025): “Valued in His Eyes" - Aug. 7, 2025

“Thank You, Lord/Adonai” - Steve Martin leads worship at Shabbat gathering leads worship. Table of Yeshua Fellowship Shabbat gathering Aug. 2, 2025, in Rock Hill, SC

Video by Mordecai Porter.

Jehovah (Brandon Lake) - Antioch International Church worship team led by Calah Rae Barbee

Sunday morning in Fort Mill, SC 08.03.25 Worship led by Calah Rae Barbee. Video recorded and shared by Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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

 

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 P.S. If you are receiving this from another source other than your own InBox, please sign up to receive it directly. Click here: Sign Up for Steve's Messages

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 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. 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 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. 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.

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 We certainly are grateful for your support, which we will use for our volunteer months in Jerusalem. Contributions are welcome online by clicking here: DONATE HERE ON OUR WEBSITE

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