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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 carry my bags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carry my bags. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
"Call it what it is." New message from Steve Martin, Love For His People
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
"Carry My Bags" (the full video) - Steve Martin, Founder, Love For His People Ministry
"Carry My Bags" full video - Steve Martin, Founder,
Love For His People Ministry
July 12, 2025
Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina
Steve Martin shares a message to encourage all those who have sought the Lord and found Him, after taking the journey He had prepared.
Entitled "Carry My Bags", this was given at the Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina, during the July 2025 monthly Men's Breakfast meeting.
A part of my testimony includes working with eight ministries over the past 34 years. Three of them (Derek Prince Ministries, Mahesh & Bonnie Chavda Ministries, Vision For Israel with Barry & Batya Segal), together, had a profound impact on the Land and people of Israel, which helped build a solid foundation for the love of His Chosen ones, the Jewish people, in my heart.
The visual recording is off (with Steve's head cut off!), but the sound is good. I hope you are encouraged as you listen. Ahava and Shalom.
Video shared by Steve Martin, Founder, Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
You can read the full account of this story, and many more, in my autobiography.
Throughout our lives, God keeps His hand on our shoulders and nudges us toward more than we could ever realize. I am excited to share how He did it with me, and am confident mine will be a story you’ll be able to relate to.
As I unveil my story, think back to those times when you knew there was something more, but you just couldn’t put your finger on it. You knew deep down that life wasn’t what the TV sitcoms portrayed it to be. In our souls, there is the hope, the cry for more, that someday questions will be answered and promises fulfilled if we just keep plugging away at what we know to do.
In The Promise, I share my first 40 years of journey with you and show you that dreams do come true. Though Peter Pan isn’t real, the Lord, the One Who created us, indeed is, and He has a plan in place for each one of us. When you have finished reading this story, I pray that you, too, will come to know more of God's good plan and His purpose for you.
Steve Martin
Charlotte, North Carolina
As I unveil my story, think back to those times when you knew there was something more, but you just couldn’t put your finger on it. You knew deep down that life wasn’t what the TV sitcoms portrayed it to be. In our souls, there is the hope, the cry for more, that someday questions will be answered and promises fulfilled if we just keep plugging away at what we know to do.
In The Promise, I share my first 40 years of journey with you and show you that dreams do come true. Though Peter Pan isn’t real, the Lord, the One Who created us, indeed is, and He has a plan in place for each one of us. When you have finished reading this story, I pray that you, too, will come to know more of God's good plan and His purpose for you.
Steve Martin
Charlotte, North Carolina
Purchase here: The Promise, Journey of a Lifetime
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
Carry My Bags - Steve Martin message at Antioch Intl. Church Men’s Breakfast, Fort Mill, SC (2 short videos)
Steve Martin - Video Part 1
Carry My Bags - Steve Martin message
at Antioch International Church Men’s Breakfast, Fort Mill, SC (2 short videos)
July 12, 2025
These two video segments (they total just 8 minutes of the full 31-minute talk due to “technical difficulties”) are a part of my life in how the Lord led me to “carry His bags” and stand strong with Israel. (Part 2 is also 4:12 min.)
Side note: I was later told that the full message was recorded, and I hope to get that up on this site real soon.
The Lord will lead us down a path we may not want to go on, but if we hear and obey...He will never lead us astray! Videos recorded by Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry, in Charlotte, North Carolina. We stand firm for Israel and His people the Jews.
Steve Martin - Part 2 video of my message is below this brief explanation.
The part “missing” in the message not recorded was how I had asked Mahesh Chavda, whom I had served with at that point for 13.5 years, if I could go with him on an international trip, and he answered, “What would you do? Carry my bags?”
The Lord told me then to go to Jerusalem and meet Him at the Western Wall. I went with Martin Berger, the Chavda England director, and we went to Jerusalem. I walked to the Wall from the Mount Zion Hotel, and when I stood at the Wall, I placed both hands on it.
The Holy Spirit came down like a waterfall, gushing down on me. I wept just as much. The Lord then said, “Your labor has not been in vain.” I then knew I was leaving All Nations Church and Mahesh Chavda Ministries.
Within 6 months, I had given my notice and left, having my job back at Derek Prince Ministries for 5 more years.
In 2003, Laurie and I participated in a DPM China outreach, distributing Derek’s Mandarin-Chinese translated books and Bibles throughout the Chinese mainland, concealed in our “tourists’ bags”. At stops along the 17-hour train ride, the books were passed on to underground Chinese Christians.
Upon reaching Beijing, we had a scheduled “tourist trip” to the Great Wall. It was at that point, on the bus, when Laurie leaned over to me and said, “The Holy Spirit spoke to me, and He said, “You can carry His bags.”
I knew exactly what He meant!
In 2004, following the successful DPM completed conference, which featured Barry & Batya Segal of Vision For Israel, Barry approached DPM’s International Executive Director, David Selby, to request that I join the staff as his USA Director.
In the first year of the next 5 years, I relocated the ministry office of Vision For Israel from Savannah to Charlotte, before leaving in 2010 to found Love For His People.
Steve Martin - Video Part 2
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This testimony is all written in my autobiography book, “The Promise - Journey of a Lifetime” (Amazon HB and PB)
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
“Carry My Bags” - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
“Carry My Bags”
“Your God and the God of your father put treasure in your packs.”
(Gen. 43:23 Complete Jewish Bible)
In August of 2002, Laurie and I had
the tremendous blessing of going on a Derek Prince Ministries outreach trip
into China. We were among ten others who carried Bibles in the Chinese
language, and translated books of Derek Prince, to give to underground
believers though out the vast country.
From Hong Kong to Beijing and back, we
rode the 22 hour train rides to deliver these “carry on” bags loaded with the
Lord’s treasures. The believers we passed the written words onto were so
thrilled to be receiving His Word in their own language, to share with the home
churches hidden from the governing authorities.
As “tourists” in outward appearance,
we saw the sights of the Imperial Gardens, the Forbidden City and the Great
Wall. As mules for His purposes, we connected with our brothers and sisters in
the faith, supporting and encouraging them with our goods.
While here in the
USA we often take for granted the readily availability of books and related
teaching tools, even one page of the Scripture is so precious to them. Often it
was copied many times and passed onto others. They were willing to take the risk
of having it found in their hands, which was cause for possible torture in
prison, or death. It was a stealth mission.
A few years earlier, after
completing almost 14 years with a ministry having a worldwide impact, my
heart’s desire longed to travel internationally. Being my main responsibility
was the administration of the ministry and related church, my time though was
spent on the home front, tending the local needs. Even though the Lord had put
in my heart a desire since my youth to “be a missionary”, it seemed my never
ending mission was to “hold down the fort” as others went out.
When I finally got the courage to
request the opportunity to accompany the main minister on at least one
international trip a year, the short response was, “What would you do, carry my
bags?”
My self worth was shattered. In less
than six months I had left that ministry, rejected and left wondering what had
been accomplished during those years.
But oh how the Lord has a way of
showing His faithfulness.
Near the end of the China “tour”,
after dropping off our final bags to a pastor in Beijing, the group had a free
day to travel to the Great Wall, just west of the capital city. As Laurie and I
sat on the bus seats, she leaned over and said, “You can carry My
bags.”
At first I didn’t grasp what she had
said. Was this a word from Him, wanting to show He knew all along?
And then tears (again) came down my
cheeks, as the impact of what He had just shared gripped, and comforted, my
heart. It was a healing moment.
“You can carry My
bags.”
The good Lord had just allowed us to
deliver His precious treasure, in written form, to hungry believers in this
vast land. When another had earlier considered my worth as a simple baggage carrier,
the Lord God of Israel had counted this journey as precious in His sight, and
held us in high esteem. Deep into my soul the value that He held for me healed
the rejection and hurt experienced a few years before.
As we later climbed the 182 steps on
that Great Wall to the tower we ventured on, I wasn’t singing “Climb Every Mountain” that Julie Andrews
sang in the Sound of Music. But I was
making melody in my heart, having been given the opportunity to “carry His
bags” to a multitude of people in this foreign land.
Remember, what the enemy means for
evil, the Lord will cause for good as we seek His purposes. Keep on walking as
you carry His message to those around you, whether in word or deed. He is so
grateful that you too are carrying His bags, and He delights in you.
(From my book Ahava Love Letters, Xulon Press 2013 - Steve Martin)
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