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“But those who hopein the Lordwill renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles ; they will run and not grow weary, they will walkand not be faint .”
Isaiah 40:31(NIV)
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Sept. 2, 2025
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
Isaiah40:31 (NIV)
“The world needs your story. They need to see what God can do through someone who has faced real challenges and kept believing, kept trusting, kept walking forward.
You are being prepared to leave a legacy that will outlive you.
U.S. President Barack Obama listens as he participates in his last news conference of the year at the White House in Washington. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Obama and Israel From 2008 to 2016: A Story of Betrayal and Reversal
In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a stirring speech to AIPAC, making strong commitments to the Jewish people and Israel. In December, 2016, President Obama's secretary of state, John Kerry, delivered an important policy speech that directly contradicted some of candidate Obama's words. The contrast is striking, unnerving and downright hypocritical.
To be fair, there is some consistency between the speeches, as both advocate a two-state solution among other parallels. And on a certain level, President Obama has kept some of the commitments he made to Israel, including massive defense contracts and military aid. And it is true that, until last week, Obama had not allowed the U.N. Security Council to pass any anti-Israel resolutions.
Still, reading Obama's 2008 speech in light of the last eight years is a real shocker. Consider the following.
In 2008, candidate Obama pledged, "As president, I will work to help Israel achieve the goal of two states, a Jewish state of Israel and a Palestinian state, living side by side in peace and security. And I won't wait until the waning days of my presidency. I will take an active role and make a personal commitment to do all I can to advance the cause of peace from the start of my administration."
Ironically, he has done the opposite, not only failing to move the peace process forward but rather, in "the waning days of [his] presidency," taking aggressive steps to undermine the peace process and to betray Israel. (It's even possible that before the transfer of power, he will lash out at Israel once more.)
In 2008, Obama declared that, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."
This week, John Kerry declared a peace agreement would "provide an agreed resolution for Jerusalem as the internationally recognized capital of the two states, and protect and assure freedom of access to the holy sites consistent with the established status quo."
He added, "Most acknowledge that Jerusalem should not be divided again like it was in 1967, and we believe that." But, he continued, "At the same time, there is broad recognition that there will be no peace agreement without reconciling the basic aspirations of both sides to have capitals there."
Well, here's a note from Jerusalem to our secretary of state and president: You cannot have it both ways. Either Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel, or it is the divided capital of Israel and Palestine. And if Jerusalem is to be the undivided capital of Israel, Mr. Kerry has no reason to protest strongly the relocation of our embassy to Jerusalem, which he did this week as well.
Joel Pollack also points out that "through the Obama administration's acceptance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 last Friday," America now "regards the Israel presence in East Jerusalem as 'settlements' that are in 'flagrant violation of international law.'" This means that, "Effectively, the Obama administration has allowed the Palestinians to claim East Jerusalem as their own, with the option of negotiating that claim away. The starting point of negotiations is now a division of Jerusalem 'like it was in 1967.'"
Getting back to 2008, while pledging to work diplomatically with Iran rather than militarily against Iran, candidate Obama was very clear about the danger Iran presented, stating, "There is no greater threat to Israel—or to the peace and stability of the region—than Iran."
He continued:
The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat.
I doubt anyone listening to his speech in 2008 would have imagined he would end up striking such a disastrous deal with Iran, one that not only rewarded the Iranians with billions of dollars, some of which would be used to fund terrorism—Kerry himself admitted to this explicitly—but one which also gave them a clear path to nuclear development in the coming years. Is this not the height of betrayal?
But there's more. In 2008, then-Senator Obama said:
I have long understood Israel's quest for peace and need for security. But never more so than during my travels there two years ago. Flying in an [Israeli Defense Forces] helicopter, I saw a narrow and beautiful strip of land nestled against the Mediterranean. On the ground, I met a family who saw their house destroyed by a Katyusha rocket. I spoke to Israeli troops who faced daily threats as they maintained security near the blue line. I talked to people who wanted nothing more simple, or elusive, than a secure future for their children.
Yet in 2011, President Obama briefly suggested Israel return to its totally indefensible pre-1967 borders, which would reduce this "narrow and beautiful strip of land" to as few as nine miles wide, thereby committing national suicide. And in 2015, it was reported that "President Barack Obama is considering agreeing to a United Nations Security Council resolution 'embodying the principles of a two-state solution that would be based on the pre-1967 lines between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip and mutually agreed swaps,' a senior administration official has told The New York Times."
Will something like this be the last element in the president's parting shots against Israel?
Making things even worse is the very strong evidence that the Obama administration worked directly with Palestinian leadership to craft and advance the recent U.N. Security Council resolution, despite the administration's denials. Evidence includes: 1. Discussion months in advance by political pundits that this was one of the options being discussed by the administration (how did they know this?), 2. Prime Minister Netanyahu stating unequivocally that America was behind the resolution, which he would hardly do without "rather ironclad information" and 3. An Egyptian paper releasing transcripts of a purported meeting between Kerry and Palestinian officials from early December, planning out the strategy.
This is just part of what makes President Obama's final actions so shameful and why Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was right to say Obama has "demonized Israel little by little."
So much for the man who said in 2008 that he spoke "as a true friend of Israel," explaining, "And I know that when I visit with AIPAC, I am among friends. Good friends. Friends who share my strong commitment to make sure that the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable today, tomorrow and forever."
As the old saying goes, with friends like these, who needs enemies?
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Susie
didn’t know what love was. Growing up in a family of five, with dad having left
them all when she was three, provided nothing but rejection and hearts without hope.
She didn’t have the fancy clothes and trending shoes that others wore. The kids
in school would tease her because of her freckles and curly hair. She just didn’t
fit in.
Her mom
tried the best she could to put food on the table. Working a double shift at
Rudy’s a few miles away, serving Columbian coffee to the early risers in the
morning and the local draft beer to office personnel after hours, left little
time to give Susie a desperately needed hug, nor a spoken, simple, “I love you.”
So Susie’s heart longed for someone, or something, to fill that growing void.
By the
time she turned 17, Susie had already tried what others had. With nothing to
keep her pointed in the right direction, that midnight hour with Mark left her
with a life within, but no other about. He too followed the way of the world and
took the next train to Chicago, leaving her standing to face the day alone. The
woman at the PP told her she had the right to subtract the “tissue that will
pull your life down”, but something, she didn’t know from where, told Susie not
to proceed. Maybe that other voice she now remembered was right. Life had
begun, and this one would be different.
Love hadn’t
been what Susie wanted it to be. She had dreamed dreams like every other precious
princess had, hoping this too would fill the void, or that experience would
ease the longing. "Someday her prince would come" would play in her head.
Her pained heart still beat though, while longing to have
someone tell her it would just be OK. If she had to go it alone, well, she
would go it alone. Somehow she and the other beating heart would make it.
I could continue
writing and say that this common story ended quite well. I could tell you that
Susie found the love she had been looking for; that a righteous prince had come
and provided for her and her child with everything good. But that didn’t
happen.
You see,
the Lord had tried to share His love with Susie through another, one who too
had gone through the same story. He had appointed that person to speak life
into her heart, and give her the hug she needed, to help her find the way. But they
didn’t; instead seeking their own comfort and pleasure rather than sharing His
love with others. And so Susie and her child were no more.
The moral
of the story you ask?
“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have
not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless
they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who
preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" (Romans
10:14-15, NKJV)
You who
are reading this now have been given the love that Susie and others need to
know. You have been blessed with the gifts from the One Who loves, to share in
your world. You have the hug to give, the words to speak, the knowledge and experience
you have known, because He first loved you. His love is in your life.
Please go
and share what you have. The world needs to know what love you have talked
about.
Now think
on this,
Steve
Martin
Founder
Love For
His People. Inc.
P.S. The above story about Susie is a story, but it is far too often a reality.
Love
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of the Father in the nations.
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Now
Think On This #190 “What Love Are You Taking About” by Steve Martin
Date:
In the year of our Lord 2015 (10.17.15) Saturday at 6:37 am in Charlotte, NC
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“But those who hope
in the Lord 
will renew their strength 
. 
like eagles 
and not grow weary, they will walk
and not be faint 
.”
needs your story. They need to see 
what God
can do through someone who has faced real challenges 
and kept believing, kept trusting, kept walking forward 
.
that will outlive you. 
.
