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“A large house and young people in their 30s attending a Bible study” – A dream was given to Ben Martin
Ben Martin
Sept. 23, 2022 Love For His People Ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
“A large house and young people in their 30s attending a Bible study” – A dream was given to Ben Martin
As I (Steve Martin) sat in the “Martin Museum” (garage) around 6:00 am on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, I heard Ben in the kitchen. I said, “Good morning, Ben” so he could hear me.
He stuck his head in the door and said, “I didn’t know if you were praying or sleeping and didn’t want to disturb you.” (I was reading the Bible where Yeshua (Jesus) in Matthew 18 was speaking to the disciples about the Sadducees and the Pharisees, and to be aware of their leaven. He was also telling them how He was preparing to go to Jerusalem, knowing He was going to be crucified.)
He said he had a dream, which he also said he had not had a good dream in a long time.
He saw us in a big house, two stories tall, and many young people in their 30’s were in it, listening to me teach from the Bible. One said to the effect, “It is good to hear your Dad teach. We like it.”
There were about 30 people and they slept on the floor and all about.
The large house was also connected to a tree house, where they could go back and forth.
End of dream.
I asked him later to write it down so he would remember what the Lord was telling him.
Special Note: May this indeed happen as the Lord Jesus (Yeshua) moves on the hearts of the next generation to hear the Lord and give their hearts to Him!
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 34 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.
Author Lee Grady believes the best day of his life was when he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. At 18 years old, Lee didn't even know what a "charismatic" was, but he encountered one in his Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher. June Leverette experienced the power of the Spirit in her own life and led Lee closer to receiving the baptism for himself.
Turning to John 7, "she said, 'There's more. There's something more. There's more than just salvation,'" Lee said in a podcast celebrating the recent release of his new book, Set My Heart on Fire: Ignite Your Confidence, Boldness, and Passion for God. "I didn't know that. I thought Jesus was it. I thought you just tried real hard to be a good Christian for the rest of your life until you die. I didn't know there was something that could spring up inside of you and refresh you and become like a river that would flow out to other people."
At Thursday evening's gathering at the Charisma Media offices in Lake Mary, Florida, Lee shared his testimony of Spirit baptism from the mid-'70s, when the charismatic movement was going strong and Steve Strang started Charisma magazine, and what He believes the Holy Spirit is up to now, citing many examples from his own ministry.
That special day in 1976 was the defining point of Lee's life, which later led him to the editorial helm of Charisma for more than a decade and on to found a global ministry, The Mordecai Project, which recently relocated to LaGrange, Georgia.
"I love the Holy Spirit," Lee said. "That's why I ended up here at Charisma magazine so many years ago and worked here for so many years because that life-transforming moment completely changed me."
Lee is motivated to see that transformation for others in the body of Christ, especially young people who are in crisis, and he believes a supernatural move of God is coming.
"The Holy Spirit told me that this is going to happen and it's going to happen among young people," he said.
In the '70s, Watergate was all over the news, but God birthed the charismatic movement regardless of what was happening in the secular world. Today, our recent presidential election has spurred protests across the country, but it won't deter what God wants to do in His people.
"This is the biggest thing that I think He's going to do because personally I don't think anybody in the White House is going to be able to save us, but I think what is going to save us is another revival," Lee said. "It is fuel for another move of God."
Lee also knows that God created all races and ethnic groups, and He loves all people. No race or ethnicity will be left out of a move of God.
"I believe that God's heart is also for every ethnic group in this country to get blasted by the Holy Spirit," Lee said.
"What I live for today is to see another move of the Holy Spirit," Lee said. "And I really do believe we're on the edge of it."
Lee wrote Set My Heart on Fire simply so that young people can understand all that is available to them from the Holy Spirit and don't get stuck like he did as an 18-year-old in a traditional church.
"I really don't want people to approach the Holy Spirit like He's so complicated, and you have to figure Him out like a puzzle," Lee said. "I think that there is a simplicity to that truth."
Lee wants to dispel any confusion about the Holy Spirit and His work in believers today.
"Any age group can read this book, whether they're a new believer or whether they're a mature Christian, they're going to get a lot out of it," he said. "There (are) a lot of mature Christians whose hearts have gotten kind of cold, and they really are hungering for God to awaken something new and turn up the heat, so to speak. But I spend a lot of my time with young Christians, and I disciple a lot of young people, and I find that they really just don't have the resource that can help them get to first base in this."
The publisher, Charisma House, took the unusual step of placing a label on the book warning readers that the book could have "severe consequences for you and the people around you," encouraging Christians to "count the cost first before reading."
Lee knows all about that cost, as God sent him to 30 countries after he prayed a dangerous "send me" prayer in 1999. He has also included "dangerous" prayers of surrender at the end of every chapter in the book.
Visit the Charisma House Facebook page (facebook.com/charismahouse/) to view an interview with Lee on his new book and to see the book launch event.
3 Reasons Why you should read Life in the Spirit. 1) Get to know the Holy Spirit. 2) Learn to enter God's presence 3) Hear God's voice clearly! Go deeper!
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WASHINGTON -- Despite threats Washington officials might yank the March for Life's permit because of a dire storm threat, the march went on Friday.
Its participants refused to let a record-breaking blizzard bearing down on the nation's capitol stop them from their mission. Like in the 42 years before, they came determined to bear witness that multitudes of Americans hate abortion.
Starting on the National Mall, they've been marching on the Supreme Court to protest ever since it legalized abortion January 22, 1973. This year's theme: "Pro-Life and Pro-Woman Go Hand-in-Hand."
"I'm so thrilled with the theme of this year's march," Maureen Ferguson, senior policy advisor for The Catholic Association, told CBN News.
"It's so wild-timed because the pro-abortion side, of course, loves to use this as a political football and bandy around terms like 'the war on women.' But we know there's a war on women in the womb," she said. "Half of those babies aborted are little girls."
Catholic Association Senior Fellow Ashley Maguire explained the earliest American feminists were pro-life.
"Starting with the suffragettes who were fighting against slavery and then fought for their own rights to vote - they were very pro-life," Maguire said. "And so the idea that women are by nature pro-choice is completely false."
"And we know that abortion sadly leaves a woman wounded, sometimes physically; emotionally scarred with a hole in her heart for the rest of her life," Ferguson added.
"A woman's capacity to be a mother is empowering and it's a beautiful gift that's a part of who she is as a person," Jeanne Mancini, who leads the March for Life, said.
Subverted author Sue Ellen Browder was once a pro-choice feminist working at Cosmopolitan. That is no longer the case.
"To be pro-woman is to be pro-life, and of course that's true," she told CBN News before speaking at the March for Life rally. "You know, women want to have babies. Babies bring us joy, happiness, wonder."
Lauren Handy, with the group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, counsels women heading into abortion clinics. She gets angry at those who accuse her of waging a war on those women.
"I think they use inflammatory language and scare tactics when we try to meet the needs of both the child and the mother, because we know abortion hurts the mother, the father and the child," she said.
Monica Miller, with Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, rejects that the right to this procedure is a key component of women's liberation.
"The sadness and the tragedy of that skewed, perverted point of view - that we actually would have to kill someone, end the life of someone else in order to be free - that's not a freedom," she explained.
"It looks easier and more fun not to have babies sometimes," Browder added. "But in the long run, especially when you get to be my age, and you see the women that did have children and how happy they are and how blessed they are with grandchildren and all that - whereas the old ladies in the nursing home, because they thought they were all free and alone, they're still alone."
"Abortion impacts women negatively, both psychologically and physiologically," Mancini insisted. "In fact we're hearing this week from a new Marist poll that the large majority of Americans believe that abortion hurts women, that it's not good for women, by a 35 percent margin."
Kristan Hawkins told CBN News how her group Students for Life of America constantly looks for ways to minister to young women considering this life-altering decision.
"We're always making sure that we're appealing to her and talking to her about how she's a victim, too," Hawkins shared. "And how the abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, is directly targeting her."
Planned Parenthood has become a major target of the marchers since it is by far the largest abortion-provider in the country. It ends the lives of more than 300,000 unborn babies every year.
“In the
west, people will respect the name of the Lord; in the east, they will glorify Him.
For He will come like a raging flood tide driven by the breath of the Lord.” Isaiah
59:19, New Living Translation
“‘Hear
the shouts, hear the triumph songs in the camp of the saved?" The hand of
God has turned the tide! The hand of God
is raised in victory! The hand of God has turned the tide!" Psalm 118:15-16 THE MESSAGE
I can sense it in my
spirit. The tide is turning. The Lord God of Israel has said, “Enough is enough”,
and He is turning the tide in the heavenly realm, and thus in the earth.
For decades the wicked
have risen up, proclaiming their agenda, pushing their immoral acts, pressing
down on the godly standards of the Judeo/Christian foundation. They have
removed the stones of the righteous, replacing them with heretical lies and
godless ways.
In my spirit I can hear
the Lord say, “Now it is MY time. It is MY time to raise up the standard and
show Myself strong. It is MY time to let the earth know that the King of kings
and the Lord of lords is in full control. It is not the heathen. It is not the oppressor.
It is not the tormentors who think they rule. MY Kingdom will be established,
even as I have spoken in My Word, and recorded by My prophets, centuries ago.
It will be My Word that
will set the course of the nations. Even as man and the rulers of the nations
think that they are moving mountains, they are but hills in My sight, and they
themselves will be moved.
I am raising up a
generation of young people who will look to their fathers and mothers for godly
direction, for wisdom in how to advance, for righteous counsel in what they are
being called to do. It is I, the Living God of Israel, Who will establish My purposes,
My plans.
Those who have laughed at
My people and at My words will not stand. They will see the right hand of God
move, and remove, and build up the righteous foundations again.
The tide is turning. Because
I am the Creator of the oceans and the mountains, and because they serve Me, I
will use them in the natural as a forerunner of what I am doing in the
spiritual."
Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People. Inc.
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Another School Shooting: America Reaps What It Has Sown
R. Loren Sandford
I cannot remain silent. Call me legalistic for calling out sin. Call me harsh for pointing out the destruction that comes from it. But I’m not proclaiming God’s active judgment or pronouncing any kind of condemnation. I’m talking about the inevitable reaping of what we have sown as a culture, and I grieve for the resulting tragedies I see unfolding in so many lives every day.
Once more we have seen a school shooting, and once more it has happened in the Denver metro, my city, this time at Arapahoe High School, not far from Columbine High School, where another and more devastating shooting happened in 1999. It wasn’t long ago that a shooter opened up in a theater in my city and destroyed dozens of lives. My heart is broken. My chest aches, and my eyes are wet with tears for the trauma these students have experienced, for the injured ones and for the shooter himself, so emotionally disturbed and in so much pain that he not only had to harm others but took his own life. This is destiny and promise stolen and destroyed by the enemy of our soul.
Why? These things never happened a generation ago, when, whether or not we really lived it, our nation at least acknowledged God and our families for the most part remained whole. I want to scream, “America! Wake up!” I have unhappily prophesied in writing that we are witnessing the catastrophic collapse of a once-great culture and our children are paying the price. I warned in my annual prophetic word just a few weeks ago of the rising tide of hatred around us that will surface in many arenas of life. This shooting is a manifestation of that hatred which inevitably results when a nation forgets its rightful Lawgiver and turns from His principles that were given to ensure the well-being of all God’s creation.
This generation of young people is lost! Our self-centeredness as a culture has led to the breakup of our families and the abandonment of our children. We’ve failed to pass them stability. We’ve not imparted a faith in God and His absolute laws and principles, substituting instead a mushy postmodernism that eliminates the concept of a higher power who created us and who rules over us with love, wisdom and holy intent. When God’s morality is abandoned, love is lost and lives are destroyed.
Unless you listen—really listen—to the young, you cannot know how much destruction has been visited upon them or the depth to which it goes. We, as an older generation, must bear the responsibility for this. Guns are not the cause. We are the cause, and our sin is the root. Our broken covenants have left us naked and vulnerable to the ravages of the one who hates us.
New laws will accomplish nothing in the long run. The violence and destruction will simply leave the campus to find another location where young people gather. Put security guards at the doors of our schools and workplaces and the violence will simply move to the street and even the homes. Nothing short of a strong move of national repentance can turn this around, but in convincing us that we’re all victims and not sinners, that law and morality are relative to the feelings of the individual, our enemy has effectively eliminated repentance from the conceptual realm for those who have not been reached for Jesus, and even from the hearts of many who call themselves Christian.
Can we who really understand plumb now the depths of the cross and the blood and the selflessness of our Lord imparted into us? Can we recover the joy and beauty of repentance as an essential and ongoing element of the Christian life? Can we finally conform to the image of the Son (Rom. 8:29) and begin to shine as lights in a dark place, as we have been called and destined to do?
Lord, forgive us. We have fallen so far.
R. Loren Sandfordis the founder and senior pastor of New Song Church and Ministries in Denver, Colo. He is a songwriter, recording artist and worship leader, as well as the author of several books, including Understanding Prophetic People, The Prophetic Church and his latest, Visions of the Coming Days: What to Look For and How to Prepare, which are available with other resources at the church's website.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field.
A man found it, hid it again, then in great joy went and sold
everything he owned, and bought that field.”
Matt 13:44 Complete Jewish Bible
Dear
family of friends,
As the
verse above says, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden. Hidden from
whom? Hidden for what purpose? What does it have to say about you?
The
Lord had the apostle Matthew, or emissary as the CJB version would say, add
these spoken words of Yeshua (Jesus) as a parable telling of the value of
finding the Kingdom of Heaven, and then selling all to obtain it. So it must be
possible to obtain the Kingdom of Heaven for ourselves. But it will cost dearly
of ourselves to have it. It will cost everything we have.
How
many of us are willing to sell all – our current life, our job situation, our
hopes and dreams – to get all that the Lord has for us? There used to be a time
when that seemed common. Sell all you had, join the Jesus People or the charismatic
movement, and live in the commune. I know I did in the late 1970’s.
You
don’t hear too much of this generation wanting to become missionaries and “go
to Africa”, or young ones leaving home to give their heart and soul to what
Jesus has called them to do. There are the summer short-term mission trips, the
Saturday youth group team outing to help needy church members, but rarely anymore
do I hear of young people, college age young adults in church wanting to serve
the Lord lifetime on the mission field, or join YWAM (Youth With A Mission.)
Or
maybe I just am not seeing it, and the Lord is preparing a group of young
people, future leaders, who are now “hidden” from my view, and many others.
I have
hope in my heart that there are right now being prepared these who are going to
give their all to serve His purposes. It seems like every generation has some.
Maybe
you are in your late teens or early twenties; maybe you are “thirtysomething”,
and longing for the Lord to move in your life. You want Him to respond to that
stirring He put in your heart when you were ten, or 15. I promise you, He will.
I am living proof of it.
It may
take 10 or 20 years to happen, but His promises are true. While you may seem
hidden, unnoticed, cast aside and somewhat useless in your own eyes and others,
I tend to think that is because you are the Kingdom of Heaven material that He
has sought for. When the Lord goes out in His field, looking for buried
treasure that He already knows is there, He will already have paid the price,
as He did on the cross, and take you as His own. The hidden treasure in the
field this time is you.
Don’t
grow weary in your current situation, struggling without hope and vision. Know
that His plan for you is good. Hang in there, and you will see Him open doors
that no man can shut. You will step out and walk in your calling. The world
needs you, and He will be the one to complete His purposes for you.
Be
encouraged young one.
Ahava (lovein Hebrew) to my family of
friends,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
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