Friends - Ahava Moments With You - Steve Martin, David Peterman - the importance of being a friend and having friends.

Friends in Jerusalem and throughout Israel

May 9, 2019

Jerusalem, Israel

As Laurie and I prepare to end this current trip to Israel, I share these photos of friends taken while here these last 10 days.

Steve & Laurie at the menorah near Knesset.

Aviel Schneider (ISRAEL TODAY Editor)



Avraham Saiden - Ben Yehuda Street shop owner

Rabbi Kokeb of Jerusalem Messianic congregation

Hadassah Lefnef with Laurie and I - Israel’s 71st birthday celebration May 9, 2019 in Jerusalem

Uri - Ben Yehuda Street shop owner

Avraham Saiden and his wife

Shlomo - publisher of ”Book of Psalms” 

Hotel manager in Netanya, Israel

Steve Martin’s hand - My new ring - bringing Jew and Gentile together in Yeshua HaMashiach

Since even before the founding of Love For His People, Inc. in 2010,  Laurie and I have been establishing long term relationships with Jewish friends living in Israel - either having come by birth or making aliyah from other nations.

We consider it to be a high honor given by the Lord Yeshua, to be part of connecting the Body of Jews and Gentiles together in these last days.

One New Man is being established. I hope you are a part!

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Happy Hanukkah to our friends!

Dec. 13, 2017

Happy Hanukkah to our friends around the globe! May the Light of Yeshua HaMashiach shine brightly in your hearts and homes.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve & Laurie Martin

Love For His People, Inc.

Charlotte, North Carolina USA

 

Shalom, Shalom to our Highway to Zion Friends! Here's a Calendar Update for the remainder of 2017!

Photo:  Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, Israel  "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:  May those who love you be secure....I will seek your prosperity."  (Psalm 122:6-9)

Shalom, Shalom to our Highway to Zion Friends!

Here's a Calendar Update for the remainder of 2017! 

Please mark your calendar and join us for upcoming events!

J U L Y

7/29, Saturday - One New Man and Highway to Zion Assembly - 6-8pm at Steele Creek Church of Charlotte in the "little tent" at 1929 W. Arrowood Road, Charlotte, NC

A U G U S T

8/15, Tuesday - Song of Songs Study and Dance Worship - 7-8:30 pm at Raintree Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane, Charlotte, NC

Ze'ev Nevo - Israel Media Ministries

8/18, Friday - Evening Honoring Israel at Beit Yeshua - with Ze'ev Nevo speaking!

 7-9 pm - 2168 Gastonia Highway, Lincolnton, NC

S E P T E M B E R

9/12, Tuesday - Song of Songs Study and Dance Worship - 7-8:30 pm at Raintree Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane, Charlotte, NC

O C T O B E R

10/3-10/14 - Israel Immersion Tour "City of the Great King" during Succot

                         

                                    Feast of Tabernacles                             Succah in Jerusalem

10/24, Tuesday - Song of Songs Study and Dance Worship - 7-8:30 pm at Raintree Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane, Charlotte, NC

N O V E M B E R

11/4, Saturday - Highway to Zion Assembly with Ze'ev Nevo of Israel Media Ministries! - 7-9:30 pm at Raintree Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane, Charlotte, NC

Come join us! 

Shalom,

Cathy Hargett

Highway To Zion

Cathy Hargett, Founder

Highway To Zion

Charlotte, NC

For Additional Info or to RSVP

highwaytozion@aol.com

www.highwaytozion.org

(Fine tuning and most photos added by Steve Martin, Love For His People)

Will You Turn Away Family, Friends And Neighbors At Your Door When America’s Day Of Disaster Arrives? - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

Will You Turn Away Family, Friends And Neighbors At Your Door When America’s Day Of Disaster Arrives? Posted: 19 Apr 2017   Michael Snyder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG How will you handle all of the people that will show up at your door when a major crisis strikes because they haven’t been making any preparations of their own?  Earlier today somebody asked me about this on Facebook, and I thought that it was a very good question, because thousands of my readers will be faced with this precise dilemma at some point.   When America’s day of disaster arrives, it is inevitable that most of us that are prepping will have family, friends and neighbors showing up at our door asking for help.  When that happens, what will you do? There are some people out there that are very honest about the fact that they do not plan to share what they have stored up with anyone, and that even close family members will be greeted with a shotgun if they show up unannounced. Personally, I could never do that.  My wife and I have always had the philosophy that we need to work extra hard to prepare because there will be people that need to depend on us when times get really hard.  And turning away those that are in desperate need would go against everything that we stand for.  After all, I am even writing a book that is all about the true meaning of love, and so it would be quite hypocritical of me to turn away those that I care about when they need me the most. And even if I wanted to be cold-hearted, my wife would never let me get away with it.  She has such a soft heart that she literally can’t bear to even see a bug die.  We often have spiders invade our place, and when she sees one she gently captures it and sets it free outside.  I tell her that they will just breed and come back in even bigger numbers, but that doesn’t seem to matter to her.  So needless to say we are going to have to find a non-violent way to deal with our spider problem. But I certainly understand the frustrations of those that have been trying to warn family and friends about what is coming for years and they never seem to listen. And it is true that resources are limited.  For the vast majority of us, there is only so much money and energy that we can put into prepping, and so why should those that have refused to listen to the warnings and prepare in advance be able to benefit from all of our hard work? Unfortunately, life is not always fair.  And we also need to realize that there is a tremendous amount of deception going on out there these days.  Some of the deceptions that are currently circulating are very strong, and it can be very easy to be sucked into them.  So we need to have compassion for those that have been led into confusion. Look, there are literally thousands of watchmen all across this country that have never wavered from warning America about what is coming even for a moment.  That is because they are standing on the truth and not on wishful thinking that is the product of overactive imaginations. The ingredients for the “perfect storm” that so many watchmen have been warning about for ages are starting to come together right before our eyes.  We are closer to World War III than we have been in decades, our politicians are openly admitting that our relations with Russia are at “an all-time low”, the federal government is 20 trillion dollars in debt, our nation is on the verge of being torn apart by strife and civil unrest, the financial markets are primed for a crash of epic proportions, there are mass die-offs of animals all over the globe, and natural disasters are happening with frightening regularity as the crust of our planet rattles and shakes. But we are somehow supposed to believe that “everything is going to be wonderful” even though we continue to kill babies on an industrial scale, just about every form of sexual immorality that you can possibly imagine is exploding all around us, our “entertainment” industry is an open sewer, and we lead the world in both legal and illegal drug use. I’ve got dozens more facts that I could quote regarding our moral decay, but I think that you get the point. If we actually changed our behavior, I could understand why it would make sense for America to be blessed. But we haven’t changed our behavior, and there are no signs that this is going to happen any time soon. As humans, we have the freedom to choose, but those choices inevitably have consequences. The same thing is true for our nation as a whole.  We have made a whole bunch of exceedingly bad choices, and those choices are going to result in some incredibly painful consequences. So you can do whatever you want, but my wife and I are going to continue to get prepared.  America is headed for a date with disaster, and those that are suggesting otherwise are not being honest with you.

Israel & Our Friends - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Israel & Our Friends

Now Think On This

Steve Martin

“He has said, “It is not enough that you are merely my servant to raise up the tribes of Ya‘akov

and restore the offspring of Isra’el. I will also make you a light to the nations, so my salvation can spread to the ends of the earth.” (Isaiah 49:6, Complete Jewish Bible)

In a few days Laurie and I will embark on another overseas trip to spend time with our friends in Israel. This will be my 12^th journey to the Land. For Laurie, her third. As part of the ministry of Love For His People, founded by us in 2010, we seek to show further tangible support for those we lift up in our prayers, with our voice, and with ongoing monthly financial blessing. We spend time with families similar to yours and ours, demonstrating our solid commitment to stand strong with them.

It is a spiritual connection, supernatural in design, bestowed by the Lord Himself. As Derek Prince once said, “You don’t choose Jerusalem; Jerusalem chooses you.” In other words, the Lord God of Israel is the One who speaks His words, choosing ones to stand in the spiritual battle realm, supporting those He has called as His chosen ones. And as a debt we owe to the Jewish people, we take our stand alongside them.

Over the centuries the Jews have been the faithful ones to receive and write down His Scriptures, carefully and dutifully passing them to the next generations, as His Holy Spirit spoke the anointed words through the Jewish prophets. And at the proper time, in fulfillment of the prophecies, the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus), came as promised for the good of the nations. If it had not been for their diligence, endurance and commitment through those centuries of destruction, murder and banishment throughout the nations, believers would not have the roots of our faith today.

In the last 100 years and more, the Lord has been regathering the Jews from all over the world to this land promised to them, given in covenant specifically to them since the days of Abraham and Moses. To be a light to the nations, demonstrating the eternal love of God the Father, together with His Only Son, they are fulfilling that prophetic word. Because of His protection and faithfulness to them, this will ever be their home.

“'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.' (Jeremiah 31:10, NKJV)

“Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.” (Psalm 33:8-12, NASU)

We delight to uphold the Lord’s plans for His people. We count it a joy to be a part of His purposes for Israel in these last days. We continue to give ourselves to strengthen, encourage and freely give to those who have stood for Him.

To the believers in Yeshua, we give thanks for their commitment to His Name. For those who are yet to know the Messiah, we say that your time will come, and we will be there for you.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People, Inc.

P.S. I would be most grateful if you'd share this encouraging word with your family and friends. They might need it. You can easily use the social media icons below. Thanks! Steve

We are blessed when the ministry receives gifts to support the families that we do, primarily in Israel, India, Pakistan and the hurting ones here in the USA. You also can share out of the abundance you have been given.

Love For His People, Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit USA humanitarian organization started in 2010 to share the love of the Father in the nations.

If these messages minister to you, please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless families we know in Israel, whom we consistently help through our humanitarian ministry. Your tax deductible contributions receive a receipt for each donation. Fed. ID #27-1633858.

Click here for safe ONLINE GIFT GIVING THROUGH OUR WEBSITE using major credit cards: Love For His People. If you don't have a PayPal account you can also use your credit card or bank account (where available). 

Contribution checks can be sent to: 

Love For His People, Inc.  P.O. Box414   Pineville, NC 28134

Todah rabah! (Hebrew – Thank you very much.)

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Now Think On This - In the New Year of our Lord 04.23.16 - #256 –“Israel & Our Friends” – Saturday at 8:00 am

All previous editions of Now Think On This can be found on this Blog, and on the website: Now Think On This

Again, I would be most grateful if you'd share this encouraging word with your family and friends. You can easily use the social media icons below. Thanks! Steve

Burdens Lifted - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Burdens Lifted

- Now Think On This

by Steve Martin

"In fact, God wants to help you out of your troubles. He wants to take away your burdens that are crushing you. He wants to load your table with plenty of food.” Job 36:16

In 2010 I made my first trip to India. I say my first because I expect the Lord to take me back there soon again. The people of Hyderabad, Kamman and Muerchela touched my heart, as the Lord Yeshua had taken me there to touch theirs with His love for His people.

Traveling down the road with my good friend John Ebenezer, a pastor on the never-ending go, I was amazed at the load people would carry on their heads and back. They slowly walked along the side of the road, heading to their daily destination as they had done so many times before. From my vantage point the weight they carried seemed overbearing on their frail bodies.  It was a heavy burden to carry, and I wondered how they could do it day after day.

In the southeastern India big city of Hyderabad, having well over sixteen million inhabitants, we had stopped at a local store to get some provision for the evening meeting. Out front of the intended destination, wearing a sarai, a full colorful dress, a woman was carrying sand bags to the one man mixing cement for the construction job they had. I was able to capture a few shots with my Canon camera, as I watched in amazement as she quietly worked in the hot sun. What a picture it was, both in the natural and the spiritual. What a burden she had.

Carrying a heavy load is mentioned several times in the Word of God. The Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, inspired the writers to share of the day to day efforts put forth by people, to simply get daily bread. We can read of the daily routine – getting up in the morning early hours, sweating through the day in the hot sun, and going back home to rest as best one can for the next day. And then only to do it all over again. As it is today for many in the nations’ populations.

The burdens we tend to carry weigh us down, in spirit, soul and body. The conflicts we experience in relationships; the stress we have in constantly carrying concern for getting the bills paid, raising the kids, or the sickness that drags on, drains our emotions and saps the life out of us. And then we go through it again the next day.

This reality in life deeply effects both our natural and spiritual state. Sometimes it can be so overwhelming that we want to be as Job’s wife spoke to him in Job 2:9-10, “Why do you still hold on to your integrity? Curse God, and die!” But he answered her, “You’re talking like a low-class woman! Are we to receive the good at God’s hands but reject the bad?” CJB

As I observe people around me on the job, stress levels at a peak, or those walking the streets, while constantly on the go, I find myself drawing near to the Lord, pressing in to experience more of His care, for them and myself. Resting in His peace, finding the shalom He has given, and trusting in the promise to cover us in His grace, puts my heart at ease. Just knowing He understands and provides for everything we need lifts the heavy burden we often feel we have to carry alone.

Having that peace in our heart, that our burdens don’t have to rest squarely on our shoulders, but on His, gives you and I the break we need. As we seek Him, in order to know of His love, to do His will, and walk in His grace and provision, we experience the sense of contentment and assurance He alone provides. He is there to carry us along, and the burdens we have.

We are not called to bear it alone. Jesus, Yeshua, has made a way for us to keep our eyes fixed on Him, and to rest in His Almighty love. As we turn to Him, giving Him once again the concerns that want to load us down, we can find that His load is light.

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.  "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30 NASU

You don’t have to carry that heavy daily load by yourself. He has made a way, and we are to walk in it. Call upon Him today.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People. Inc.

Love For His People, Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit USA humanitarian organization started in 2010 to share the love of the Father in the nations.

If these messages minister to you, please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless families we know in Israel, whom we consistently help through our humanitarian ministry. Your tax deductible contributions receive a receipt for each donation. Fed. ID #27-1633858.

Go here for safe ONLINE GIFT GIVING THROUGH OUR WEBSITE using major credit cards: Love For His People If you don't have a PayPal account you can also use your credit card or bank account (where available). 

Contribution checks can be sent to: 

Love For His People, Inc.  P.O. Box414   Pineville, NC 28134

Todah rabah! (Hebrew – Thank you very much.)

Please share Now Think On This with your friends.

Email: loveforhispeople@gmail.com  

martinlighthouse@gmail.com

Facebook pages: Steve Martin and  Love For His People  

Twitter: martinlighthous, LovingHisPeople 

Blogs: Love For His People,   Now Think On This

Full website: Love For His People

YouTube: Love For His People Inc.

Now Think On This #148 “Burdens Lifted” by Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2014 (05.07.14) Wednesday at 5:00 am in Charlotte, NC.

All previous editions of Now Think On This can be found on this Blog, and on our newest website: Now Think On This

Leadership Through Love - Chapter 2 "Use the Tools, Not the Staff" by Steve Martin

The following are a few paragraphs taken from Chapter 2.

Use the

Tools, Not the Staff

The Lord Jesus Himself gave us valuable lessons, while He led His band of men and women on earthly team, which has proven itself to be most applicable in my leading of business and ministry staffs. These very effective truths in administrating were spoken by Him, when He said to His small band, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39)

These were two of my key attitudes I took early on in my management positions, as I learned how to be a “manager of the people”, as one other executive team member put it, during one of my years with Derek Prince Ministries (1987-1990 and 2001-2005).

Not wanting to be one who “lords it over others”, demanding my own way and using the “staff rather the tools”, I took the posture of treating the staff who served with me as I desired my boss to treat me - honoring them as I wanted to be recognized and honored, and uplifting them as I often needed, but rarely received, in some cases. As I sought to encourage each one in my care, even as a pastor does his flock, I found that the love grew between them and I. When those bonds were established, staff readily would give beyond the call of duty and pay, as they knew my heart was not just for the job to be done, but for them in helping me get it done.

Not only did we labor together for the cause of the Lord in the ministry, with me as the recognized leader and their boss, but we became friends for the long haul. I still treasure and continue to keep relationships with those who were in the same office setting with me, or on the church volunteer teams, as fellow servants. Taking a heart position of being their servant, and not one seeking to be served, created and maintained unique, precious, and long term relationships. 

Steve Martin

Author

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Israel Basks in French Embrace - Israel Today

Israel Basks in French Embrace

Monday, November 18, 2013 |  Ryan Jones, Israel Today  

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A week after reportedly helping to scuttle a deal that would have left Iran able to build nuclear weapons, French President Francois Hollande visited Israel this week as local analysts hailed a return to the days when France was the Jewish state's closest ally.

One of Hollande's first public remarks after landing at Ben Gurion Airport was that he would "do everything possible to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon."

"France will not make concessions on nuclear proliferation," Hollande said just minutes after disembarking his plane. "France will maintain all its measures and sanctions until we are certain that Iran has renounced nuclear weapons."

Contrasting US Secretary of State John Kerry's recent instruction to Congress to ignore Israel's concerns over Iran's nuclear program, Hollande stated that his government takes very seriously Jerusalem's reservations over a nuclear deal that would leave the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities intact.

Switching to Hebrew, the French leader declared, "I will always remains a friend of Israel."

In meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres on Sunday, Hollande also pressed Israel to further facilitate the Middle East peace process, but he also insisted that in order for negotiations to advance, the Palestinians, too, must make gestures of goodwill.

Israel's daily newspapers welcomed what they called the "French Embrace." Many Israelis remember well the 1960s, when, beset on all sides by enemies determined to annihilate her, Israel found only one world power ready to sell her the weapons she desperately needed: France.

While comparisons with those heady days of warm Israeli-French relations are a nice distraction, some, like Yediot Ahronot columnist Shimon Sheifer caution that "what many see as a renewed 'honey moon' could end up bringing disappointment."

Fellow columnist Alex Fishman seemed to agree that the display of affinity between Israel and France "could be compared to an innocent attempt to arouse the jealousy of [Israel's] legal husband in Washington."

However, Fishman noted that there is also more to it than than. "This is about cold [mutual] interests," he explained, noting that both Israel and France have an opportunity to get what they want and need by "exploiting the continuing weakness of the US in the Middle East."

While Hollande's flowery rhetoric might in the end be little more than a political tactic, with their traditional best friends in Washington being so standoff-ish of late, Israelis are happy for a friendly smile and a supportive tone regardless.

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YEAH FRANCE! 

Steve Martin

Love For His People