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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Apprehended & Renewed – by Steve Martin, Love For His People ministry

 

Apprehended & Renewed – by Steve Martin, Love For His People ministry

April 23, 2022 Charlotte, NC USA

Apprehended & Renewed

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26, NASU

Returning from Jerusalem had not happened in quite some time for me. As you all know, one must go and come back for there to be a “returning”. And that hadn’t happened in two and a half years, since October 2019, because governments around the world chose to shut down everything in sight, when a deliberate and planned pandemic struck, believing they were in ultimate control of all things.

I certainly am glad that our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, is the One Who sits on the highest throne. He always has the final say. In time, all will bow their knee to Him alone.

“And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.” Revelation 5:13, NASU

When Israel finally permitted non-vaccinated individuals to enter the nation, with a proclamation in March 2022, it took less than 3 days for me to book my next flight. The Lord had called me to support Israel and the Messianic Jews, and I was not about to let Satan and his henchmen keep me any longer from fulfilling that call.

Back in 2002, when I was being ordained as a Minister of the Gospel through Cornerstone Church (Pastor Mark DeVito, apostolic authority Ron Hill, and the five elders) in the little town of Pineville, North Carolina, which I call the “Bethlehem of Charlotte”, the Lord spoke deep into my soul, setting me apart for His plan and purposes. At the same time during that ordination, He also used the prophetic voice of Terry Kelson, renamed Ahava Hadassah of the Aliyah Return Center in Tiberias, Israel once she made aliyah from the USA to Israel, to speak forth a word over me. (She rejoices in heaven now!)

“You have been called as a scepter for Zion,” she said from among the small group of gathered believers.

That eternal word was deeply planted into my spirit. Since that time the Lord God of Israel has enabled me to walk it out. I am an ambassador for Israel.

Eight years after that special day our ministry named Love For His People was birthed, and both my good wife Laurie (aged 50 at the time) and I (aged 55 way back then) have given ourselves to further pursue what is the full understanding of His call on our lives, being one together for His plans and purposes. These 12 years since then have been one of slow growth, but the foundation is strong, built on the Solid Rock.

Our ministry logo was created by our son Ben Martin. 2015

But, when I couldn’t get to Israel for those two years, my faith, hope, and love wavered. I was being held back from doing that which I had been apprehended to do. The enemy of our souls wanted to keep me from walking out God’s purposes given for me. In fact, I know that was what the evil one had intended.

Those of you who have walked for the Lord for any number of years know what I am talking about. These are battles we must go through, to further prepare us for what the Lord has redeemed us for. Remember the simple but true word, “No pain. No gain.”

The apostle Peter describes it very well in his Epistle to us.

“Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. Keep your guard up. You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It’s the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith. The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ — eternal and glorious plans they are! — will have you put together and on your feet for good. He gets the last word; yes, he does.” 1 Peter 5:8-11, THE MESSAGE

The appointed time for the return to Jerusalem finally came. David Peterman joined me. While in the Land, we completed the tasks the Lord had given to us – to encourage, further connect, and build up His Messianic body and other Jews yet to believe on His Son Yeshua. No big meetings. No grand entrances. Just one on one with those who He has joined us.

Upon my return to my home, for a week or more I felt I had drunk 4-5 cups of cappuccino every morning. (And I am not a coffee drinker due to stomach issues.) Energy that I had lost over that previous period had been restored. New life. New hope. New vision for the things of the Lord.

The power of the Holy Spirit, much like that given at Pentecost (Shavuot) had come upon and within me once again.

I know now, with the attestation of Laurie who lives with me day by day, that this basically happens every time the Lord gets me to Israel and back. Walking in His calling in faith and obedience will do that. He is the One Who gives us the grace and strength to accomplish His strategies.

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:12-14, NKJV

You too have been apprehended to do His good works. You too have been given a call that only you can walk out. It is vital that whatever it takes for you to be in proper alignment with Him – your job, home location, church membership, or synagogue congregation – that you get and stay connected so that you can allow Him to speak and direct your life.

Walk out the “mission from God”, just as the Blues Brothers did, to accomplish your God-given role in the Body of Christ. We all need you and me to do that. Our God will make a way for you to succeed in it.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve & Laurie Martin, Love For His People founders

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Message #67 – in the year of our Lord 04.23.2022 – Apprehended” – Saturday, 3:00 am in Charlotte, NC USA

Steve Martin

STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (45 years in October 2022!), through the ministry of Love For His People we founded in 2010, give love and support for our friends in Israel and in other nations with friendship, humanitarian aid, and social media support, along with Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel. Steve has also authored and published 33 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.

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Saturday, July 1, 2017

I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Now Think On This
Steve Martin

“Adonai will fulfill his purpose for me. Your grace, Adonai, continues forever. Don’t abandon the work of your hands!” (Psalms 138:8, Complete Jewish Bible)

So why is the average Joe, a typical representative of people in America, and other nations I would think, unhappy, unfulfilled, and always trying to put something in ourselves that won’t bring satisfaction.

You know, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (lyrics below, but please read after you have read my message) brought to us rather honestly in 1965 by the English rock band The Rolling Stones with lead singer Mick Jagger. (I know you have heard and listened to it. Don’t pretend you haven’t!)



One line is sung, “When I'm drivin' in my car, and the man come on the radio, he's tellin' me more and more about some useless information, supposed to fire my imagination.”  

How true is that even today with all the fake news out there! And yet we keep listening. Why?

Because we are trying to fill up something that wasn’t meant to be filled in this way.

So why are people unsatisfied? Why is there always a void in their heart, which they try to fill in natural and unnatural ways, with drugs to kill the resulting pain; alcohol to release away the inhibitions so one can be “free at last”; mindless TV shows that suck away our evening hours (and throughout the day), and unfaithful, out-of-marriage sex to cancel the craving?

Because man, created in the Lord’s image, runs from Him, the only One Who can give us what we want, and need.

We run as far as we can from the very One Who fulfills us. Believing He is a bad God, a mean God, out to destroy us, we end up destroying ourselves. We have bought into the complete lie of the devil, Satan himself. He is the father of Lies, to keep us from the Father of Love.

We seek our own ways, our own selfies, our cultured ideas of what it is all about, and we end up with nothing to last past the next day, week, or month. Then after looking back, we fully realize we have wasted all those years, the time that was given to us by our Creator, the Lord Jesus Himself, by having done our own thing. Just like everyone else.

But our Faithful Lord will not leave us in hopeless despair, in ruined lives, as desperately seeking housewives or renegade males. He has a big heart, and wants to share it with the hurting, the lost, the abandoned kids, and parents too. He alone has the truth, and the power, to do this.

Here is the truth He had written eons ago. Don’t skip or skim over it because it is Scripture. (I know we do at times.)

Read it. Believe it. It is for you. Right here. Right now.

From the Bible, the only solid ground and truth left that there is to stand on these days...

"This is God's Word on the subject: "As soon as Babylon's (or yours – I added that, yours, to let you know this is for you now) seventy years are up and not a day before, I'll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out — plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen. When you come looking for me, you'll find me.

Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed.” God's Decree.

“I'll turn things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you — God's Decree — "bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.” (Jeremiah 29:10-14, THE MESSAGE).

What hope! What love! What a God we have, Who can bring you the satisfaction, the fulfillment in your heart, the desire to “be somebody” that you have so longed to be.

This same portion of Scripture, given to the Jews and being prophetically fulfilled in our lifetime in Israel, is also for those Gentiles (non-Jews) who will also call upon the Living God of Israel.

Even old believers, who have been searching for so long, can be refreshed, renewed and refired for the work He has yet for you to accomplish.



So what do you do now?

Call upon the name of the Lord, seek His face with all your heart that you have, and let His Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh (Hebrew) guide your steps to the next step. Right now is a good time.

Trust me. He is faithful. He will do it. And you will be glad you finally let Him take control of your life. 

You still have one to live.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People, Inc.


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Now Think On This - In the Year of our Lord 7.01.17 - #297 – “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.” – Saturday, 7:30 am 


(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
·         "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (US)
·         "The Spider and the Fly" (UK)
Released
·         6 June 1965 (US)
·         20 August 1965 (UK)
Format
Recorded
12 May 1965
RCA, Hollywood, California
·         Rock[1]
·         hard rock[2]
Length
3:45
·         London 45 LON 9766 (US and Canada)
·         Decca F.12220 (UK)
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"The Last Time"
(1965)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
(1965)
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"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Richards' three-note guitar riff‍—‌intended to be replaced by horns‍—‌opens and drives the song. The lyrics refer to sexual frustration and commercialism.
The song was first released as a single in the United States in June 1965 and was also featured on the American version of the Rolling Stones' fourth studio album, Out of Our Heads, released that July. "Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive.[3] It later became the Rolling Stones' fourth number one in the United Kingdom.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in the second spot on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006.

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm drivin' in my car, and the man come on the radio
He's tellin' me more and more about some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey
That's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm watchin' my tv and a man comes on and tell me
How white my shirts can be
But, he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me

I can't get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey
That's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get girl reaction
'Cause I…