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Thursday, August 22, 2013
"I Am The Divine Globalist," says the Lord, "and I Am Lifting the Veil of Deceit" by Karla Shrake (August 22, 2013)
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Reality of Muslims' Treatment of Christians
Editor's Note: I received this e-mail on Aug. 20, 2013 from a prominently Muslim country in the Middle East. I will not share the name of the person nor the country for their protection, as I promised. Please notice that I did not edit it, but posted it exactly as it was written.
Please read and may the Lord God give you discernment in all things, and a heart for our brothers and sisters of the Christian faith. We stand with them as best we can.
Steve Martin
Love For His People
Founder/President
"I listen and saw this many times - Pakistani Muslims did very bad with Pakistani Christians. In Kasur (place of Pakistan) they snatch the scarfs of christian women Helpless women were without of their all garments The cruel Muslims did sex with these ladies But Pakistani Chief Justice Iftkhar Chaudary did not take any little actions against this shameless scene.
Otherwise chief justice takes actions against Christians. but Muslims add false cases . chief justice is against Christians. Many people are in Pakistani jails but they are innocent . They are in jails in the false cases of Muslims. Muslims brunt Quran ( book of Muslims and they say Christians did this . After this drama they beat the Christians and sometimes they kill them at the scene.
Please read and may the Lord God give you discernment in all things, and a heart for our brothers and sisters of the Christian faith. We stand with them as best we can.
Steve Martin
Love For His People
Founder/President
"I listen and saw this many times - Pakistani Muslims did very bad with Pakistani Christians. In Kasur (place of Pakistan) they snatch the scarfs of christian women Helpless women were without of their all garments The cruel Muslims did sex with these ladies But Pakistani Chief Justice Iftkhar Chaudary did not take any little actions against this shameless scene.
Otherwise chief justice takes actions against Christians. but Muslims add false cases . chief justice is against Christians. Many people are in Pakistani jails but they are innocent . They are in jails in the false cases of Muslims. Muslims brunt Quran ( book of Muslims and they say Christians did this . After this drama they beat the Christians and sometimes they kill them at the scene.
They also burnt many Christian areas in Pakistan Like Joseph colony , Kasur, Shanti Nagar . They also killed many innocent children, young boy , young girls, women , men and old persons. They did beat the old man Because He was eating something in Ramzan ( Muslims are in fast in this month.) But he was hungry.
They also Show they are Pskistani Christians . They go in rich christian countries Take advantages on there but also spread Islam in these countries . They learnt English language because they say English people can not under stand our language but they under stand English. That's why we learnt English .and spread Islam in English.
They say to Christian ladies do marriage with us if they deny They did sex with them in negative way They did wrong with these women I can't explain more about this terror. They say to christian people accept Islam If they deny they kill them.
They don't give good jobs to christian people on here If some one on good post It is God's grace on him or her. My neighbor went in Mayo Hospital ( Pakistani hospital) for job . Clerk said to him only sweeper's job for you . He said but I am educated . Clerk said to him. So what did happen. Your elders did the sweeper's job . your other brother and sisters doing this work and you will also do this. Not good job for you.
But many Muslims on good posts in Christian countries. Many Christian ladies ( American)and other ladies of Christians countries did marriages with Muslims but on here they did bad with our ladies They did play with the body of our ladies.
Please don't give place to Muslims in their countries Where the passion of Christ in Christians of Rich Christian countries ? Please do prayers for Pakistani Christians
Many children are orphans Many young women are widows Many old men and old women lost their children. In Pakistan. Muslims are doing this with them. If someone accepts the teaching of Christ they also kill him or here If any Muslim did help of any Christian . They also kill him or her. Please take place to Christians in heats and in prayers. God bless all Christian countries and all Christians."
Note: The following artwork was added by Editor.
A Land Flowing With Milk, Honey and Natural Gas - ISRAEL TODAY
A Land Flowing With Milk, Honey and Natural Gas
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | Yossi Aloni, Israel Today
With mounting instability in Egypt, supplier of 40 percent of Israel's natural gas, the recent Israeli discoveries of massive gas fields came just in time, and many here see the new found wealth of natural resources of miracle from God.
Others caution that "energy resources, no matter how great, can never be a substitute for our Creator."
The full story appears in the August 2013 issue of Israel Today
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India and Israel: Two Great Democracies that Should Deepen their Strategic Ties
Editor's Note: We have helped a 75 year old Indian pastor from Hyderabad get his visa to come join us in Israel Nov. 3-11 on our annual Ahava Adventures trip. It will be his first trip!
In Feb. of 2010, as part of our work on staff at Vision for Israel, we went to his village of Murchela, east of Hyderabad in southeast India, and held a conference for 70 pastors he works with. The theme was "How To Bless Israel."
I taught several times during the three day conference. One night they held a "Feast of Tabernacles", complete with marching around the building, shofars blowing, and an ark of the covenant carried on poles.
It was a memorable time, as they love the Lord Yeshua and bless the people of Israel!
Steve Martin
India and Israel: Two Great Democracies that Should Deepen their Strategic Ties
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | Noah Beck
At first glance, Hindu-majority India, with approximately 1.2 billion people and an entire subcontinent, would seem to have little in common with Jewish-majority Israel, which has only about eight million people living on territory that's just roughly 15 times the size of India's capital city. While full diplomatic relations were established between Jerusalem and New Delhi only in 1992, the two countries actually have much in common.
Both countries are homelands for ancient peoples who gained their independence from the British in the 1940s. Both states have gone on to create vibrant, multicultural democracies that have experienced dynamic, technology-driven economic growth. India and Israel each also has a large Muslim minority population, and each faces an ongoing terrorism threat from foreign and domestic Islamic extremists; indeed, both Israelis and Indians were targeted and killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Even more serious, India and Israel each faces ballistic missile threats from at least one close, hostile Muslim state. India already faces the nuclear threat posed by Pakistan, and Israel may soon confront the same threat from Iran, if Iranian nukes aren't stopped.
There is also a blossoming military and commercial relationship between India and Israel. Israel is India’s second largest arms supplier after Russia, and Israeli-Indian military cooperation extends to technology upgrades, joint research, intelligence cooperation, and even space (in 2008, India launched a 300-kilogram Israeli satellite into orbit). Israel has upgraded India's Soviet-era armor and aircraft and provided India with sea-to-sea missiles, radar and other surveillance systems, border monitoring equipment, night vision devices, and other military support. Bilateral trade reached US $6 billion last year and negotiations began this year for a free trade agreement.
Israel-India cooperation in agriculture and water technology is growing both through government-sponsored initiatives and private business deals. Last year, Israeli and Indian government institutions jointly launched an online network that provides real-time communications between Indian farmers and Israeli agricultural technology experts, and Israel is in the process of setting up 28 agricultural training centers throughout India. Israeli Professor Yoram Oren has been studying the potential use of nano-filtration to filter out harmful textile dyes from India's polluted Noyyal River. Last June, a delegation of 16 high-ranking Indian officials from the water authorities of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Goa and Haryana traveled to Israel to visit wastewater treatment plants and meet with some of Israel’s leading environmentalists and agronomists to learn about the desert country's newest green technologies.
Tata Industries, the multi-billion-dollar Indian company, recently invested $5 million to kick-start the Technology Innovation Momentum Fund at Tel Aviv University’s Ramot technology transfer company. Tata Industries hopes to capitalize on future Israeli innovation, like the algorithm for error correction in flash memory (which is one of the patents filed by Ramot and now inside billions of dollars worth of SanDisk products).
These are but a few examples of the remarkable cooperation between India and Israel. Such a synergistic relationship is unsurprising, given the historically harmonious relations between the peoples of Israel and India.
Judaism was one of the first foreign religions to come to India: the Cochin Jews arrived about 2,500 years ago and settled in the city of Kerala, where they flourished as traders. In addition to the few thousand Jews who live in major Indian cities like Mumbai, there are also some larger Indian communities, like the 8,000 "Bnai Menashe" (from the northeastern Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur) who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. While Jews have always been a minuscule religious minority in India, they have historically encountered very little antisemitism. In Israel, about 1% of the Jewish population has Indian ancestry.
In addition to the many historic and economic reasons for India and Israel to strengthen their ties, there are also strong geopolitical motivators. Israel's tiny land mass (about 21,000 square kilometers) makes the Jewish state particularly vulnerable and compels it to make strategic use of seaborne offensive and defensive military capabilities. A vital component of those capabilities is Israel's submarine force, which requires friendly waters in which to deploy and maintain such a force -- something that the Indian Navy can provide with its dominance of South Asian waters.
With the ongoing security threats posed by India's nuclear-armed rival, Pakistan, the Kashmir conflict (which recently claimed five Indian soldiers), and potential conflict with the other Asian heavyweight (China), India needs the kind of military edge that Israel can help it to obtain. Insofar as India provides an Asian counterweight to Chinese dominance, a powerful India bolstered by Israeli technological expertise is also in the interest of smaller Asian countries and the United States.
One area where India could deepen its alliance with both Israel and the U.S. is on the issue of Iranian nukes. India, the second largest importer of Iranian crude oil after China, won its third 180-day waiver from U.S. sanctions last June after reducing its oil purchases from Iran. But in 2012, Iran and India agreed to trade in rupees for shipments of oil, rice, sugar and soybeans, to circumvent U.S. financial sanctions on Iranian oil shipments. And Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals is now reportedly receiving a cargo of Iranian crude, after a 4-month hiatus, with Hindostan Petroleum also restarting imports soon. Iran may also become the top buyer of soybean meal from India for a second straight year, as Iran turns to Asia's biggest exporter to replace imports disrupted by Western sanctions.
While India has its own commercial interests, India also has a strong interest in a peaceful resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue. India's economic and diplomatic clout can help to pressure Iran into a compromise that prevents a catastrophic Middle East war. Such a regional conflagration could spread beyond the Middle East and, in any case, would send India's energy costs skyrocketing, disrupt global trade, and dangerously destabilize India's geopolitical backyard.
India's history of religious tolerance stands in stark contrast to that of Iran's. Indeed, one of India's religious minorities, the Zoroastrians, have been fleeing persecution in the territory that is today Iran (Persia) for about 1,200 years. Since Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has been regarded as one of the world's worst offenders against freedom of religion. Iran's vicious human rights abuses and undemocratic political system are also well known. Would India want such a country to have nuclear weapons? Isn't Pakistan enough?
As a responsible member of the nuclear club, a fellow democracy, and one of the greatest rising world powers, India should approach the Iranian nuclear issue as an opportunity to demonstrate how growing Indian clout can promote global security and curb extremist, undemocratic regimes like the Islamic Republic. By deepening India's ties with other innovative and economically advanced democracies like the United States and Israel, India can better secure its own interests and position itself for continued growth and leadership in a more stable world.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, a war novel about Iranian nukes and an Israeli submarine with an Indian Jew on board.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Ahava Love Letter - "Little Orphan Chuckie - All Creatures Great & Small - Loved by the Creator" (Steve Martin)
"He gives food to every creature.
His love endures forever." Psalm 136:25
His love endures forever." Psalm 136:25
Dear family of friends,
I found Little Orphan Chuckie in a church park in uptown Charlotte on my lunch hour. I had gone there to eat my bagged eatables from our supper before. At first I thought he was dead, since there seemed to be no life left in him, as he lay on the ground.
Once I had finished my lunch, and having read another chapter out of Morris Ruddick's great book, "The Heart of a King", I had to make a decision. I didn't want to leave this young one out there by himself (no mama or nest anywhere in sight), so I put him in my plastic container that had held my goulash leftovers. I first laid some Monkey Grass that I pulled out of the ground, and added my napkin to help keep him warm.
When I had gotten back to the office I added more soft napkin paper I had in my desk drawer.
After work it was suggested by my daughter that I try and see if PetSmart, the local dog, cat and more pet store, would care for him. They said no, and suggested I call a wild animal control office.
I did call one listed in the county, whom I thought could help, but he said he only removed unwanted squirrels from homes - not take them in. So I took Little Orphan Chuckie home with me. He was still sound asleep. I made up a nice cardboard bed, with paper towels and such, until the next step was determined the following day.
And yes, I had been careful not to have Zoe Girl Martin, our miniature Dachshund, know we had company. She likes to sleep herself anyway.
When I checked on him later that night Little Orphan Chuckie seemed to be doing OK. I would try again to find him the proper care he needed. I hoped he would hang on until then.
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In the morning I brought Chuckie with me to work, knowing that he needed food and water, but not knowing how to give it to him. He wouldn't suck on the sponge I had tried the night before. If only his mama had been around, but maybe she had been killed by a car or something. I didn't know.
During my lunchtime I checked on him where I had kept him in my car, in the cool parking deck. He was still sleeping in the small box lined with the toilet tissue. I felt his own warmness as I held him in my warm hand. I was thankful for the Lord giving him continued life.
After I got off work at 4 pm, I took Little Orphan Chuckie first to the Humane Society, a few miles down the road. They said they only took in dogs and cats, but gave me a map to the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Animal Care and Control Center, near the Charlotte airport. So I headed there.
On the way I held Chuckie in my hand, to keep him warm. His heart was barely moving, but at least it still was. I spoke life into him, asking the Lord Jesus to keep him alive so someone could really care for him. I prayed; I breathed onto him; I spoke the Lord's Name into his being - believing for his ongoing life.
Once I got to the care center, the lady at the counter had a young girl take Chuckie from my hand, and then they would contact a rehabilatator. I asked if he would live, and she said they would try as best they could.
My heart was a bit heavy as I left. I know this was just a little baby squirrel, maybe just a few days or week old if that, but my attachment to him was more than a guy my age, at 58, would normally have. Maybe it was just the Lord showing me that His heart is for all His Creation - those unborn, those living a hurtful life, or many having grown old and then being all alone in those aged years.
Maybe He was showing me that my having a heart for this little one would continue to enlarge my heart for His full purposes for all creation. I am grateful for that.
Maybe He had something bigger in mind, and this was just a step in that direction that I needed to take. I didn't want to miss His direction. You know, many missed the little baby born in Bethlehem 2000 years ago, because they were expecting more of a grand entry from the long-awaited Messiah.
On the way home, the Christian song of MercyMe, "I Can Only Imagine" came on the radio. The Light 106.9 FM radio announcer in Asheville, NC said his grandfather had just passed. He choked up. I couldn't hold it much either.
And then, as is so common with the Lord, out of His abundant love, there was a beautiful cloud formation in the sky. That spoke a lot to me.
After all is said and done, the amazing love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, shines down upon all of us. He shares new creative life with us daily - in the small things and in the large. We just have to have our eyes, and heart, open to see them.
Be blessed in sharing your love today with someone. Be blessed in knowing of His love for you.
Ahava (love in Hebrew) to my family of friends,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
This little incident was just an entry way into something bigger the Lord had planned. I will share that in my next Ahava Love Letter (#71). Just as a hint: Oskar.
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Ahava Love Letter #70 “Little Orphan Chuckie" ©2013 Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord 2013 (08/22/13 Thursday at 7:555 am in Charlotte, NC)
All previous editions of Ahava Love Letter can be found on this Blog:
Here are the last few:
Demons & Fire Trucks (#69)
I Like Mike (#68)
Disappointed with Small Beginnings? (#67)
Rise Again (#66)
The Cities (#65)
How can You Mend A Broken Heart (#64)
Anxious (#63)
Hidden (#62)
Get Back in the Boat (#61)
Need Money? (#60)
Rejected? (#59)
In Your Building – Guard Against Distractions (#58)
Connections (#57)
Your Name (#56)
Lost, But Not Forgotten Friends (#55)
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