Antioch International Church & Christians For Messiah Ministries to buy Heritage Barn & Studio (Fort Mill, SC)

Love For His People Editor's Note: On Feb. 17, 2014, Peter Wyns and Jesse Enns, pastors of Antioch International Church, took the board members of the church and Peter's ministry, Christians For Messiah Ministries, through these facilities in Fort Mill, SC. My wife Laurie and I have been members of Peter's ministry since its beginning in 2004.

Last week it was publicly announced that they are purchasing the property, along with The Studio, class rooms (formerly Heritage School and later Crown Christian Academy where my kids graduated from - Josh and Ben), and 16 acres. 

Having been PTL Lifetime Partners in 1985, with our three membership, and seeing the "former glory" of these grounds, we are excited to witness and share in the Lord's ongoing restoration of the property, for His purposes and will in the nations.

Blessings follow!

Steve & Laurie Martin

Founders

Love For His People, Inc.

THE BARN at Heritage (formerly PTL/Heritage USA)

More later!

Steve Martin

These Feet Are Made For Walking - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

These Feet Are Made For Walking

by Steve Martin

“Deut 11:25

“No one will be able to withstand you; Adonai your God will place the fear and dread of you on all the land you step on, as he told you.” (Deut. 11:25 CJB)

The Lord gives us prophetic signs. I believe that, and so I look for them. Even as Jesus Himself spoke of signs, and gave us plenty, and the prophets of old were given signs to reveal a portion of the Lord’s purposes and will, so we too can expect to receive them. Do you believe that?

Over the years the Lord has spoken words to me about my feet. Beginning in 2002, He began speaking prophecy about how my feet would take me to many lands - walking on dirt, clay, sand and paths. At the time, as we usually tend to do, I thought it was a strange word, but it was one I would remember. 

Sitting behind an office desk 40+ hours a week doing accounting and administration work, I was ready for my feet to do some walking. In boots, sandals, or just plain tennis shoes! He had given me a promise that my feet would go!

In May 4, 2007 several of us were gathered at the Vision for Israel & The Joseph Storehouse (Barry & Batya Segal) office in Charlotte, NC where I was the USA Director (2005-2010).

One of prophetically gifted men present to minister to the 24 people gathered was Chas Haynes from Columbia, SC. After others had a time of receiving encouraging word, it was my turn. I was ready. Here is one message shared and it came through Chas.

“I keep seeing “new ministry, new ministry, new ministry”. It keeps coming to me over and over. I believe that the Lord is shortly, if He’s not already started, shortly going to be moving you into some new areas of ministry. Of course obviously you are very gifted administratively, but I see you being used in that way, with that anointing, but in different areas than you have ever been in before. 

I see you going into brand new situations. I see you going into some things that, frankly, you are uncomfortably with, because it kind of takes you out of your box or out of your comfort zone, or whatever.

I see you resisting somewhat, in saying, “I don’t know about this. I don’t know if I can see me doing this.” But I see you stepping out and the Lord beginning to bless.

I see you standing like, before, a marshy area, a quagmire. The footing, just obviously to the vision, looks unstable and unsolid. Not something you could walk on. But I see you pondering for a while, and then stepping out, into the mud and the muck, and where your foot hits is all of a sudden solid ground. And then you take another step, and it is solid ground.

Everywhere your foot hits, even though it doesn’t look solid and doesn’t look stable, as soon as your foot touches, it is solid and it is stable. And I see you walking out in the middle of this marshy area and all around you it looks unstable and looks impossible to walk on, but I see you standing in the middle of it.”

Ok, well that was a strange word was my immediate thought. But I will give it time, Lord, to develop. And so it was.

When I left Vision For Israel in June, 2010, it was because the Lord had told me in November, 2009, that it was now time to start a new work. A heart’s desire and a long held dream was going to come into being. The name was to be Love For His People. So in obedience, I gave my notice to Barry Segal a few days later, that I would be leaving June 30, 2010. This would give him and the board members time to decide what they wanted to do in replacing me at the helm.

Talk about “brand new situations, unstable, looks impossible, mud and muck”! But if we don’t step out in faith, how will we ever get to where we are created to go? It is, and will continue to be, always a walk of faith and trust in our Creator. It even gets a bit more challenging as we proceed up the mountainous path He has prepared for us. If we choose to walk in obedience and trust.

Beginning with that word first received in 2002, these feet of mine have been to Israel 11 times, the UK, Germany, France, China, Hong Kong, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, and even Chicago! All for the purpose of doing the work He first put in my heart as a six year old boy 1^st grader in Gilbertville, Iowa, to take His love to the nations. The nuns were an inspiration to be a servant for Jesus.

When I go, I like to take photos of my feet. It helps reaffirm to me the prophetic fulfillment of His word. And it shows to others that His Word is true, as we take His loving Gospel to the nations.

So if you happen to see a picture of my feet, either on a street, a beach, or even in a plane, don’t think I am being too weird. Just excited to be doing the good Lord’s work, and being His feet on this planet.

Now think on this, for your sake,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc.

P.S. Following are a few photos I took of my feet. Yes, these feet (sometimes they will have boots on) are made for walking. Even Nancy Sinatra said so!

The starting point – my prayer chair at home.

Tel Aviv – Mediterranean beach Oct. 2010

Even in the Shepherd’s field – south Jerusalem 2010

This is the Heritage rock I picked up in 08.03.04 

at the former Heritage USA/PTL grounds in 

Fort Mill, SC. It was a promise to made, made 

by the Lord in 1985 when I first walked on that 

ground, about the Lord giving us the land where 

our feet shall trod. It is true.

Special Note: See my accompanying photos of  Antioch International Church and Christians For Messiah Ministries looking at the Heritage Barn, Studio and schoolrooms on Feb. 17, 2014. I have been a board member of CFM since Peter Wyns began his ministry in 2005.

Love For His People, Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit USA humanitarian organization started in 2010 to share the love of the Father in the nations.

If these letters minister to you, please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless known families in Israel, whom we consistently help through our humanitarian ministry. Your tax deductible contributions receive a receipt for each donation. Fed. ID #27-1633858.

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Now Think On This #125   “These Feet Are Made For Walking”   Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2014 (03.02.14) Sunday at 8:00 am in Charlotte, NC).

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Bob Jones - Coming Great Awakening, Inspired Teachers & Needed Networking

Bob Jones - 2011

Bob Jones shares on the coming Great Awakening, inspired teachers, heresy in the Church, and the need for Church and People Networking to hold the harvest coming. Antioch International Church Feb. 16, 2011 Fort Milll, SC. (Video recording by Steve Martin)

The Latter Rain: Holy Spirit's Release – A Vision by Victoria Boyson

Victoria Boyson

The Latter Rain: 

Holy Spirit's Release – A Vision

Friends, Heaven has been just blowing my mind recently, and I'm going to share it with you!

I invite you to wrap your arms around the Holy Spirit and embrace Him as your friend – that's what He desires. It's His plan to fill you with Himself! He desires you to know Him as a friend, because He wants to take you on an incredible, mind-blowing journey to transform you to carry His new wine, so He can show you off as a light to the lost. 

He wants to make the world thirsty for Him, so He points to you and declares: "Try My wine!" (see John 2:9).

I've never really liked using the word dispensation, which is really just the dispensing or outpouring of the Spirit of God on mankind. When I was a girl in Bible college, there were groups of students who loved to impress people with big sounding words, so whenever I use that word it takes me back to that time. It's a silly thing, I realize, but I was talking to the Lord about it, and He told me that Holy Spirit likes to use the term "latter rain" instead of dispensation. Not that He has a problem with the word like I do, it is just His preference.

The latter rain is historically known as the belief that latter-day or end-time Believers will have a greater release/outpouring of God's Holy Spirit on the earth. 

This belief is based on the Scripture from Haggai 2:6-9:

"This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the Lord Almighty. 

'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the Lord Almighty. 'The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the Lord Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the Lord Almighty."(See also Joel 2:23; 2 Corinthians 3:9.)

Vision of the Holy Spirit of God

In the midst of this conversation with the Lord about the Holy Spirit, I suddenly experienced a vision of the Holy Spirit!

I saw Him filled with incredible, enrapturous, joyful expectation for what He was about to release on Earth. He started to prance around in a fun, graceful manner and, with His arms outstretched, He would literally shower people with Himself. 

He was so happy and free, because He could finally pour Himself on mankind like He had always wanted to. 

And I heard Him joyously singing as He did, "The latter rain, the latter rain, the latter rain!"

Holy Spirit was so happy and relieved to finally be releasing His latter rain on the earth, because He has endured much alongside of us through the centuries. Of course, He's simply overjoyed to have finally come to the time in man's history when He can unleash everything He's been anticipating.

For literally thousands of years, Holy Spirit has lived in our world with us and yet been ignored by most of mankind. He's been talked about and discussed as if He's something to get instead of a real individual. He's been known to only a few as the friend and true companion that He is, but that is about to change!

In the past, the Church has used words like dispensation as classroom technical terms; and it's true, we are entering a new dispensation. Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is!" (Matthew 11:11). The early Church received a greater dispensation at Pentecost than John the Baptist had, and now, simply because of the time in history we are entering, we will receive even more.

But the latter rain means much more to the Holy Spirit than that!

Our Powerful Friend

Holy Spirit is a gift to us, sent by Jesus from the Father (see John 15:26), and He is devoted to us. He's been dwelling with humanity for thousands of years, and He loves us! He sees our pain and our struggles, our joy and successes, and He is invested in us. He wants so much for us to really experience Him like it was intended that we would – not just what He does, but Who He is.

That's why He's so excited! He will get to shower you with the power necessary for you to become the Kingdom Bride that Jesus' prophesied you would become. 

He will finally be able to zap our unbelief, destroy strongholds with His powerful truth, and raise up the Bride that Christ is anticipating.

He walked with Christ as He worked heavenly miracles on earth, and now He will get to manifest the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven (see Matthew 6:10). He will finally get to show us that Christ's prophecy about His Bride is true – we will do greater works than Jesus did Himself (see John 14:12)! We will liberate those held in darkness! For – He has seen them and hungers for us to rescue them.

For centuries, Holy Spirit has been so limited, not because He wasn't powerful, but because we were limited in our experience/knowledge of Him. With the new release of the LATTER RAIN, He will finally get to act on our behalf!

Holy Spirit is thrilled, because He's always seen the future of the Church – He sees you as the"glorious Church without a spot or wrinkle" (Ephesians 5:27). His eyes are fixed on you, and He sees your end from your beginning – the potential of God in us! We are the HOPE of Heaven (see Colossians 1:27), and He's expectant! He sees much more than we do the age we have entered into and the Father's intended harvest. 

Literally, we will experience the colliding of two realms at His appointed hour.

As a prophetic proclamation of the latter rain, Jesus filled jars with water, turning natural water into supernatural wine, and told the servants to take it to the master of ceremony at the wedding of Cana (see John 2:7). 

Jesus wanted to show that His power would not disappoint the expectations of man – He would exceed them!

Jesus said, "Greater works than these shall [you] do." He said this not because He was anticipating the power the anti-Christ would have, but because He saw the power of Holy Spirit unleashed on the earth like never before. He was literally thinking of you, dear one, and anticipating how the Holy Spirit would work through you!

Your Father enjoys destroying our earthly misconceptions of who He is and what He's capable of. He knows that by changing your mind about who He is, He will change our thinking of who we are. 

There's no telling what box He'll break out of next! He's got to do it because He's excited about what's coming next in you – "The latter rain, the latter rain, the latter rain!"

Heaven's Expected Harvest

There are over seven billion people on the earth at this time; our population is growing at exponential rates. It took mankind 5,800 years to even reach one billion people, but the second billion was reached in only 123 years (1927), and in 1970 there were half the people on the earth (roughly 4 billion) as there is now. Our population continues to increase at an alarming rate.

Some people view this as a negative thing, even frightening, but God does not! No! Each birth brings Him astronomical joy! Each soul born on earth is an incredible victory to Him! He's been waiting for this time on earth, because like never before there is a harvest mounting and increasing and Heaven is anticipating the miraculous plunder it will gain.

And as the enemy's gains are reversed to populate the Kingdom of God, we will hear the thunderous joy of our "great cloud of witnesses"(Hebrews 12:1) waiting in expectation with their Father. 

Can you just imagine what an outpouring we will experience in the decades ahead of us?

Revivalist Evan Roberts could not even imagine when He asked God for 100,000 souls in 1904 that in the future that number would be considered a small amount. No, in his time in history, that was incredibly significant. 

But it is conceivable that in our day and age we could see (and will see) literally billions of people come to know Jesus the Christ!

You Are Invited!

Holy Spirit is releasing His latter rain with a purpose in mind. It is to transform the Church into a giant Holy-Spirit-filled net ready to catch the harvest He's releasing to us. 

Many churches are beginning to experience a greater, more purposeful vision, indeed, a divine design growing inside them. Truly, even the most immature baby Christians will be transformed by Holy Spirit into a powerful net, equipped to catch and hold the harvest! He is making us fishers of men (see Matthew 4:19)! (Photo via Webb Institute)

I literally saw in the spirit a great net being mended together. It was a net made of people – the Church. At first, the net was in pieces, and then slowly the Holy Spirit filled in the places where there were gaps and holes with Himself, binding and strengthening as it was teeming with an immeasurable harvest of fish – the lost! The catch was so plentiful, it was simply overwhelming.

Since moving to Texas, we've heard from some of the people in our area how hurricane Katrina (2005) affected the community here. The inflow of people into the community who had been left homeless by the hurricane was a great burden on the community and took a toll on them. However, years prior to the hurricane, the Lord had released wonderful ministries into the area to absorb some of the effects of such a large and needy increase of its population. Before they even knew they had a need, God had prepared for it!

Before Noah even knew of the impending flood he would have to endure (see Genesis 6:13-18), God had already prepared the plans for His provision. God had already anticipated Noah's need and saved him with His plans for a great ark

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Friends, before you even have a need, your Father is working to provide for it!

The latter rain is here to help you and equip the Church for the influx of humanity suddenly storming our doors pleading for help! The latter rain will indeed give us the power to live like the LATTER REIGNing Bride of Christ!

Holy Spirit is transforming us into Christ's reigning Bride, empowered with His heart and mind, joy and strength – capable of extending His heart and hands to an immeasurably needy world!

Embrace Holy Spirit and learn of Him. He was sent here for you – to train you, equip you, comfort, and help you. But, the greatest gift He is to you is your constant friend. He's the most powerful friend you can have!

Saints, this word is an invitation to receive Holy Spirit and to view Him in a different light than what you may have previously experienced. Say "Yes!" to Him and accept Him as your friend and watch Him display His incredible manifestation of power in your life.

He wants to fill you with the latter-days wine like the jars at Cana. He will make you a container for His wine, so He can tell the world, "Try My wine! Drink your fill and experience the goodness of the Father Who loves you!"

Truly, He has saved the best wine for last (see John 2:10)! Pray this with me: 

Dearest Father, I choose You. I choose Your destiny for my life. I want all that You have for me. I want the Holy Spirit to be my friend and companion and use my life to display Your glory and Heaven's power. Change my thinking of Who You are and who I am, because I do not want to limit You. I don't want to allow my carnality to usurp Your glory. I give You permission to release Holy Spirit's latter rain in me.

Take me, Lord, I am Yours! In Jesus' name

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My prayer for you: Father, I pray that You would reveal Your precious Holy Spirit to Your child in a way that empowers and equips them with blessing and favor from Your hand as You delight in them. Father, let them experience His friendship! Use them for Your divine purposes and build Your Kingdom in them. Release Your will into them with the explosive power of Heaven!

In Jesus' name, I declare that you were created for God's eternal plans and purposes and you will not deviate from them!

Victoria Boyson
Speaking Life Ministries

Email: victoria@boyson.org
Website: victoriaboyson.com

Victoria Boyson met Jesus at the age of seven. At thirteen, she started ministering using music as a platform to tell others about Jesus. She and her husband, Steve, ministered as pastors in the mid-west, but in 1999, the Lord told them to move to work for Francis Frangipane, who was extremely influential in their development as Christians and as ministers.

Victoria is a powerful prophetic voice to this generation and co-founder of Speaking Life Ministries. Based out of the Houston, Texas area, she is called to awaken and prepare the Bride of Christ for the end-time harvest and compel His Church to embrace a passionate relationship with their Heavenly Father. 

She is the author of The Birth of Your Destiny and His Passionate Pursuit.

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March 1, 2014 Victoria Boyson: The Latter Rain: Holy Spirit's Release – A Vision From the desk of Steve Shultz: This is a powerful vision Victoria Boyson had of the Holy Spirit. She also heard Him say, "The latter rain, the latter rain, the latter rain!" WE are living in some of the most exciting times in History and Heaven IS cheering us on. Enjoy this word! Steve Shultz To receive daily, encouraging prophetic emails from The Elijah List to your inbox CLICK HERE. *** Note from Steve Shultz: Your support for the Elijah List helps to pay the cost to deliver daily Words from the Lord to you for FREE. You help us by simply purchasing your prophetic and other Christian resources from a selection of over 6,000 products directly from us at: elijahshopper.com. We appreciate our dear readers and we thank you for supporting your Elijah List staff! Blessings, Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher The Elijah List & Breaking Christian News  http://www.elijahlist.com http://www.breakingchristiannews.com To subscribe to The Elijah List go to:http://elijahlist.com/subscribe

Israeli Army Celebrates Diversity - Israel Today

Israeli Army Celebrates Diversity

Sunday, March 02, 2014 |  Israel Today Staff  

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The IDF may be the army of the Jewish state, but that doesn’t mean it’s comprised solely of Jewish men and women. Many from among Israel’s minorities choose willingly to join the IDF and take part in the defense of this nation that has provided them with civil rights and freedoms unprecedented throughout the rest of the Middle East.

To celebrate this fact, the IDF last week marked its annual diversity week, “a celebration of the differences that unite Israeli soldiers,” according to the army’s official blog.

In fact, diversity for the IDF is not a simple concept, and has several different meanings. As the national homeland and haven for all Jews worldwide, Israel is home to Jewish immigrants coming from hundreds of different nations and cultures, all of whom must be meshed together into a unified and effective fighting force.

On top of that, Israel is home to various non-Jewish minorities, including Arab Muslims, Druze, Circassians, Armenians, and Aramean Christians. Excluding the Druze, these minorities are not required to serve in the IDF, but each year hundreds volunteer, anyway.

To accommodate soldiers from numerous different backgrounds, the IDF makes clear that while it is the army of the Jewish state, it is an army that is not only for Jewish people.

For instance, during their swearing in ceremony, IDF recruits can choose to pledge their loyalty upon either the Tanakh (Old Testament), the New Testament or the Koran. Soldiers of different religious backgrounds are also given different and appropriate holiday vacation days.

Diversity for the IDF also applies to gender. In the Israeli army, 92 percent of all available positions, including many combat roles, are open to female recruits.

During IDF Diversity Week last year (2013), the official IDF magazine BeMahane published a story on two Arab Muslim brothers from the Galilee who decided to break local societal norms and join the Israeli army.

Their account and reasons for serving their country are worth a read. Click here to do so.

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