David Peterman
Strength For Israel Shabbat Gathering
David Peterman message, "Blessings - Family & Community"
Antioch International Church
Fort Mill, SC
Aug. 2, 2019
Published on Aug 3, 2019
Standing in support of Israel, Jews, and believers in all the nations, in the name of Jesus (Yeshua). Sharing biblical truth, encouragement, news and prophecy.
Showing posts with label Yeshua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yeshua. Show all posts
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Messianic Worship - You Are Worthy, Blessed is the Lord - Strength For Israel, Antioch Intl. Church
Steve & Laurie Martin
You Are Worthy of My Praise,
Blessed is the Lord
Strength For Israel, Antioch Intl. Church
Scott & Mercy Dawson
(L-R) Doug Goff, Steve Niewulis, Scott & Mercy Dawson
Scott & Mercy Dawson
Steve & Laurie Martin
Messianic Worship - Lord God of Abraham, Adonai, Prepare the Way, This Is My Desire - Strength For Israel, Antioch International Church
Worship leaders - Scott & Mercy Dawson, Steve & Laurie Martin
Messianic Worship - Lord God of Abraham, Adonai, Prepare the Way, This Is My Desire
Strength For Israel gathering
Worship Leaders - Steve & Laurie Martin, Scott & Mercy Dawson
Worship leaders - Scott & Mercy Dawson, Steve & Laurie Martin
Steve & Laurie Martin
(L-R) Doug Goff, Steve Niewulis Scott Dawson, Mercy Dawson
Scott & Marcy Dawson
Steve & Laurie Martin
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
"If I Be Lifted Up" - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
“If I Be Lifted Up”
“And I, if I am lifted
up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself." John 12:32, NASU
Speaking of His soon approaching death on the wooden cross, Jesus
(Yeshua) told His disciples that when He was lifted up, this would be the main catalyst
that would then draw all men to Himself.
When Jesus was lifted up, He drew all people to Himself.
In a recent Sunday worship time, before the speaker came to the
podium, the beautiful song being sung wonderfully proclaimed Jesus. As the
congregation focused in on praising His Name, I could really sense the move of
the Holy Spirit drawing those focused on Jesus, and bringing them into a
greater realm of the spirit. Jesus was being lifted up in our midst. He was
drawing the people even closer to Him.
We weren’t focused on our needs. We weren’t singing, “Bless me.
Bless mine.” Or, “Woe is me. Help me. Take care of me.”
We were singing Jesus.
Over 7 years ago now I led a worship team at a local Highway to
Zion assembly here in Charlotte, North Carolina, headed by founder Cathy
Hargett. We sang several Messianic songs, written by Messianic Jews, and a few
written by popular Christian worship leaders. Present in the meeting was a
Messianic Jewish leader from Israel, one very prominent in the movement taking
place among believers in the Land of His people.
After the time set for all on the schedule had been concluded, he
came up to me afterward and said, “I never heard the name of Yeshua in all of
the songs sung during the singing and worship time.”
I was startled and immediately said, “We sang all songs written by
a Messianic Jew!”
His reply was, “You never mentioned the Name, Yeshua.”
A bit offended, for days, I dismissed it as, “Who is he to come
here to America and tell us what we should sing, when we are singing Messianic
songs, written by Messianic believers.” Others who had been there agreed, and
yet the Lord wouldn’t let it go in my thoughts and spirit.
Again, during this recent time of Christian worship in the Sunday gathering,
when Jesus’ Name was lifted up, the Holy Spirit began moving among the people.
Hearts and souls were being centered on Jesus, not on themselves.
In many Christian circles these days, with a lot of the songs
played on the radio, sung in our churches, or used among small and large gatherings,
a self-centered theme is very prominent.
Even in the sermons and messages being delivered from the pulpit,
it is a lot of the “me” stuff.
What can Jesus do for me today? What needs will be met if I seek
Him to have them fulfilled? When will my hurt and pain and suffering endured
daily as I drink my Starbucks and drive my new car to the high-paying job be
over with?
I write this in a somewhat demeaning way, but isn’t it often how
we think? It is “Me, me, me. It is all about me.”
When Yeshua (Jesus) is lifted up in our lives, when it is Him Whom
we are focused on, for Who He is, high and lifted up in the heavens, and not on
ourselves, things will change. When He is praised, when He is worshiped, when we
vocally and prominently declare His supernatural actions and reflect on the results
of overflowing His love and grace for the nations, then we will be amazed at
how He will move among us.
“If I be lifted up” Jesus said, He promised to draw all men and
women unto Him. Not only did He then on the cross, but He will now among us
this day.
That will be amazing when we finally do.
Lift up Jesus. Glorify His Name. Forget about yourself for a
moment and think, thank Him.
Now think on this and see what good things the Lord has in store
for you and those around you.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
This Friday night, Aug. 2, 2019, at 7 pm, Strength For Israel will be having our
monthly meeting, the 2nd one to be held in the main auditorium of The
Barn, at Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, SC. Come and celebrate the
goodness of our God! Look here: Strength For Israel
Love For His People ministry
P.O. Box 414
Pineville, NC 28134
loveforhispeople@gmail.com
Please share Now
Think On This with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Tumblr, and LinkedIn. Others will be thankful you did.
Now Think On This #443
- in the year of our Lord
07.30.19 – “If I Be Lifted Up” – Tuesday, 5:30 am
Friday, July 19, 2019
"Friend" - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
“Friend”
“Some “friends” pretend
to be friends, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.”
Proverbs 18:24, Complete
Jewish Bible
When I heard someone say recently, “He has no friends”, my heart immediately
felt the pain and loneliness that that one must feel at times. I know. I have
been there. So have you.
Each of us can recall during our childhood years those times when
it seemed like no one liked us when the “kid down the street” had all the friends
to laugh and play with, while you sat on your front steps just silently crying
to yourself for just one friend.
You too wanted to be a part of the sports team. You too wanted to be invited to the birthday party that most kids in your class were going to. You too just wanted someone to talk with, be around, experience more than being by yourself.
And as we went through middle school and high school the pain of
loneliness, even while sitting or walking in the midst of the hundreds of other
kids around you, only increased. Why didn’t your clothes, or hair, or skin complexion be as good as they had it?
Even with several people in the company office, or on the highway road
crew, or in the congregation gatherings every weekend - it still seems hard to
really have a friend to share your joys, your sorrows, those longings you want
to share with at least one other person who relates and enjoys what you do. We
all want that.
Without a friend, it can really be lonely.
The NASU version of Proverbs 18:24 reads as this, “A man of too
many friends comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a
brother.”
Even the rich and famous don’t really have it all. Ever see a man
or woman once rich in money, fame, and attraction for a period, and then after
they no longer have none of these, what then? Not a pretty picture. For these
things, temporal items, once no longer around, do not keep friends after they
are no longer available to seemingly once, and now long gone, “friends”.
I remember as a kid many times, especially during the summer months, of being lonely, without a neighborhood kid nearby who could come out and play (no video games then). Nor the friend I had in school, who lived too far away to even ride my Schwinn bike, the one complete with the cool banana seat and the high handlebars which looked like they were fashioned after the Texas steer.
But during those times I am glad that I knew the Lord, even
beginning at the age of 10 and onward. I can still remember on a few occasions
when His Holy Spirit would somehow speak to me, though I can’t say I really
knew Who it was at times. I just felt comfort in my soul, a sense that I was
not really alone.
I had a friend. He was my friend.
With all the rushing madness, and this no stop turning of the planet
we live on, it can be pretty easy to not experience the real friendship that we
all long for.
But we do have a Friend. We do have Someone that knows the longing
in our heart. He is actually the One who put it there, so we would draw near to
Him. And not just to draw near, but also to know and love Him, and others, as
He knows and loves us.
You may be lonely at times. You may say to yourself, “I don’t have
a friend.”
But you do. His name is Jesus. His name is Yeshua.
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8, NKJV
Your true Friend is waiting to show Himself to you, to be with
you, to let you know He is ever-present, never far off, always wanting you to
get to know Him even more.
Give Him that time today. You will be glad you did and will come
to know, even more so if you already do, that you have a friend in Jesus.
Now think on this and see what good things the Lord has in store for you and those around you.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
On Friday night, Aug. 2, 2019, at 7 pm, Strength For Israel will be having our monthly meeting, the 2nd one to be held in the main auditorium of The Barn, at Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, SC. Come and celebrate the goodness of our God! Look here: Strength For Israel
Love For His People ministry
P.O. Box 414
Pineville, NC 28134
loveforhispeople@gmail.com
Please share Now
Think On This with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Tumblr, and LinkedIn. Others will be thankful you did.
Now Think On This #439
- in the year of our Lord
07.19.19 – “Friend” – Friday, 5:30 am
Thursday, July 18, 2019
"Are you aware?" - Now Think On This message by Steve Martin Love For His People, Inc
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