"You are valued." New from Steve Martin, Love For His People

 

Aug. 13, 2025 Greetings to you once again. Yes, we are counting down the days until we are "leaving on the jet plane". (John Denver sang that to his wife Annie back in the day.) At the advice of trusted friends, you will notice a change in this communication. Knowing your "time is short", I have cut out and shortened this so that you don't get bogged down, and do take the time to read what I sense the Holy Spirit gives me for each message. But I will always include a photo from Israel, to draw your heart closer to the one God, the Father, which He has for His people, the Jews. This is my daily prayer for many. My new message is entitled, "Valued in His Eyes". Yes, you are! Be blessed in your blessing others. Ahava and Shalom, Steve Martin Love For His People Ministry P.S. A shout out to my "Advisory Board", who gave good advice on communications with all of you, as they regularly respond to my emails. Laurie, Josh, Ben, Mary, Lisa - I treasure your knowledge and wisdom. Todah rabah! ("Thank you very much" in Hebrew.)

Israel Photo of the Week: Despite the recent negative global press coverage against the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), we wholeheartedly declare our support for them, a stance we've maintained for over 20 years. (Israel IDF camp in the Golan. Steve Martin with soldiers May 2005, on the Christian Friends of Israel - USA tour, Hannele Pardain, USA Director.)

Valued in His Eyes   “As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and You place me in Your presence forever.” Psalm 41:12, NASB   It used to be that a penny was worth something. In fact, I remember when, as a little kid, even as old as 10, my dad would bend down to pick up a penny off the sidewalk that had fallen from another.   “To some people, this isn’t worth the effort. But to me it is”, he would say. He knew what it was like to be poor, and made sure his family never was. Mom said he would tell her, “I work two jobs, 60 hours a week, so my family and I will never be poor again.” Louis Martin gave his all for his family. (I'll see you in heaven, Dad.)   As of 2025, each penny costs $.03 to make. So, the government is planning on doing away with it. I guess it is a good thing, then, that I took my pennies to the coin machine at Food Lion to cash them in last week. No one will pick them up off the street again. There will not be any.   Being thankful that the Lord continually shows His love and how He values us is so important to our self-esteem. Without His ongoing affirmation, approval, and encouragement towards us, the lies of the world would beat us down to the point that we give up, turn back, or simply quit.   We are valued in His eyes. He created us. He wants us to be with Him, in His family, now and forevermore.   He proved it then, and He proves it now as we spend time with Him.   "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20, NASB (emphasis mine) We are worth more than a penny. We are worth the life the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) freely gives us as we abide with Him in our daily walk. Keep on walking with Him as your guide.    Ahava and Shalom,   Steve Martin   P.S. With our upcoming volunteering in Jerusalem, Israel, with Christian Friends of Israel for three months, Oct. 15, 2025 – Jan. 12, 2026, Laurie and I want to stay in touch with you. Read all about it: Steve & Laurie - Time Coming for Jerusalem Volunteers.   We welcome your prayers and support as we together bless Israel and His people in their Land.   Contributions are welcome online by clicking here on our webpage.  DONATE HERE.   Are you new to these messages, or has another shared them with you? Sign up to receive it directly in your email InBox. Click on the nice, "full of brewed coffee mug" with the Love For His People logo on it, found on each side column of the Love For His People webpage. You will be glad you did! Click here: Sign Up for Steve Martin's Messages Please request to have your name added to our Signal group “Love for His People” for daily updates. Especially when we are in Jerusalem. Email Steve here: Love For His People   Love For His People Ministry 12120 Woodside Falls Rd. Pineville, North Carolina, USA   Message #11 in my new series (2025): “Valued in His Eyes" - Aug. 8, 2025

My newest book was published on Aug. 1, 2025. "Come and Go - Hear the Word of the Lord" Steve Martin When the Lord calls each of us to “come, follow Me”, He does so because He has a great plan and purpose for each of our lives. He knows what our desires are, but most importantly, He is the one who puts those desires in our hearts. As you seek Him, He will lead you to places you have never dreamed of, giving you missions you had never thought possible, and will direct your steps to complete the total picture He has for you, as you take your place in His Body among the peoples of the nations. Each must hear the word to “Come”, and then listen to the word of the Lord to “Go.” May that be in your heart also, from the Father Who gives us the desires of our hearts. Buy now on Amazon, Paperback $8.99, Kindle $1.99 We certainly are grateful for your support, which we will use for our volunteer months in Jerusalem. Contributions are welcome online by clicking here: DONATE HERE ON OUR WEBSITE

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THE SAME VALUE - GOD WILL USE WHOEVER HE WANTS

It is important to know that people have the same value. In the world people sometimes are treated like they do not the same value. It can be in different ways. Sometimes rich are not treated the same as poor and old sometimes are looked down at. Sometimes younger are treated like they have more value then elderly people. 

Sometimes in congregations there can be wrong thinking. People can be looked down at. In James 2:1 is written, “My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him ”You sit here in a good place” and say to the poor man “you stand there” or sit here at my footstool, have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?” 

In Acts 3:6 is written that Paul also on one occasion did not have money. He said “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

In Gal 3:28 is written ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.” Here it is written that it does not matter what background you have. You have the same value. We read that Jews and Greeks have the same value. All people have the same value and  God wants us to stand together as one people.

It is also written in this Scripture that men and women have the same value. It is important in Scripture here that women have the same value as men. In the world women can be looked down at and also in congregations, but this is not how God looks at women and He wants women to be well treated and respected. God can use women. He used Esther so the Jewish people were rescued and He can also use women today. God needs both men and women to stand together in his Kingdom. 

God also uses people without education. We read in  I Cor 1:26 “For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.”

In 1 Cor 13:1 it is written: ”Though I speak the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become  as a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned but have not love, it profits me nothing.” We read here that love is more important than for instance knowledge.

We have not been given gifts to “shine” ourselves, but to bless others with and to honor God.

In Luke 2:9 the angels came to shepherds, even as some had looked down at them in the society when Jesus was born. God did not look down at them. The first disciples whom Jesus called were fishermen.

In Luke 10 we read Jesus' parable that a man was robbed and hurt by thieves. He also was emotional wounded. He had nothing left. In the parable the priest did not help but left him there. Then a Samaritan came and he had compassion and helped the man who was robbed. The Samaritans were people who were looked down in their society, but it was this person who showed compassion. 

In some congregations the leadership does not have love for people. We must not judge anybody, but God wants leaders to have a shepherd's heart. There are such leaders, but not all leaders have learned to know the Father's, our heavenly Daddy, heart of love and compassion.

For God, all people have the same value. He will use whoever He wants in the last days. He will use ill and the unemployed, for instance, as some would look down at, but God chooses. God did not choose David because of his height but because of his heart. God does not think as people think. He is more interested in the heart than clothes and cares more about the inside then the outside. The parcel is not more important then what is inside of it.   

 We need love among Christians. Jesus says in John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, then to lay down ones life for his friends.” In Acts 2:46 the Christians had fellowship and broke bread from house to house. I think God wants to restore more real friendship in the new prophetic time. In 1 Cor 12 it is written that we need each other with different gifts.

 We have been given gifts to bless others with and to honor God with. Gifts are also shown in friendship. Fellowship is not a building but living stones creating a temple.

The greatest is love, as we read in 1 Cor 13, and God is love. It is important to learn to know God as a loving God and to show love to each other. This will show the world that God is love. 

In John 17:21 Jesus prayed that we may all my be one, even as your Father is in Me and I in you, that you also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.”

We need to seek this God of love together. Jesus showed the greatest love, as He suffered so much for us by His free will because He loved us so much. He showed what love is. In His eyes we are precious. Yeshua/Jesus was willing to give everything for us.

This is the value we have for Him. In John 3:16 we  read, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Eva Haglund