Reconnecting; Be Happy; His Love - Now Think On This messages by Steve Martin, Love For His People, Inc.

Jan. 28, 2019 (Early in the morning.) Charlotte, North Carolina USA Greetings family, friends, and believers. The Holy Spirit is moving in the earth. Just look around as the shaking is occurring. The Lord God is doing it! It is He Who sits on His throne orchestrating His perfect plan and purpose in these end of days. No one or nothing will stop Him from accomplishing His perfect outworking. We are a privileged people who get to see it happening and be a part of it. Coming together and reconnecting is certainly near the top of God the Father's heart list. And thus my message Reconnections. It is happening. was written. Feel like you have been wandering for several years? Maybe still are, and getting tired of it? He is gathering together the Jews in Israel, and the Body of Christ in the nations. Both at this same time. At first glance, these look separate and apart from one another, but are they? I don't think so. Be Happy! was written in response to all the self-seeking, self-love that has consumed the nations. New York State's recent murder permission act is an eye-opener for many. I dare you to read it. No, I double-dare you! And finally (unless you are really spiritual and want to read my fourth one written in the last two weeks also) there is Power of Your Love. Is there anything that keeps coming back in your life, which seems to be a constant battle, though you fight as hard as you might? There is an answer to that. Check this one out. And as I said above, if you are really spiritual, and can spend another two minutes reading another message before it is time to go on your way, I offer Ugly Toads. But that may be a little too much for you. Or not. Go ahead. Read it. We all need encouragement as we look around and see the darkness creeping over the nations. But the Light of the World is our hope. He is the Lifter of our heads and the Redeemer to all who call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks today that you know Him, and He knows you. Be blessed with ahava (love) and shalom (peace), Steve Martin Founder/President P.S. I pray you have a good week. As for me, I am looking forward to our ministry's board meeting Feb. 9, 2019. With 17 now on it, it almost seems like it will be instant church! (We gather from several churches and seek unity.) Please pray for us, as we put our hearts together in seeking our Lord Jesus. And hey! We support Messianic Jews and congregations in Jerusalem, Tiberias and more in Israel. Please consider a contribution today for this ongoing, monthly support this ministry gives to them. Put LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE on your ministry giving list! (USA tax receipts are mailed out within the week of receiving each gift in our home office.) Click here for easy, online donations or address for checks: Love For His People contribution. Todah rabah (Thank you very much in Hebrew.) Now Think On This Reconnections. They are happening. In these last days (which I firmly believe we are in) the Lord Himself is bringing back His people from all over the world, those who have been living outside of Israel, the Diaspora, to their promised land. It is known as aliyah. Jews are returning to that which is rightfully theirs. Our ministry, Love For His People, is a strong supporter of this movement, this regathering. The Bible is clear about how the Almighty God fulfills His purposes and plans. If you want to know what He is doing in the Church, the Body of Christ, then watch what He is doing in and for Israel. As He brings His people back together there, to serve and fulfill His end-time prophetic words, so too He is bringing back His broken body, those who also have been scattered, the Church here on earth. He is reconnecting these that have been separated over these many, many years. The Lord is the main Reconnector. From the first century, when the scattering occurred in 70 A.D. from Jerusalem, Israel, through our time we are now living in, nothing anymore will keep His broken body from coming back together. Watching the Jews return to Israel is an awesome scene. Knowing many there that have already is even better.    So too it is so with believing Gentiles. I see it happening. I see the Lord, as if conducting a very large symphony, orchestrating the move of this person and that person, from all nations of the world, being joined back to the Life Source, bringing about His end of days plans that were long ago prophesied. Continue to read the full message: Reconnections. They are Happening.  Be Happy “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:25-27, NKJV) Early on in my Christian walk, during my high school days, in fact, I learned that if the world is going one way, then those who call upon the Name of the Lord, believers, are best to go the other. Follow the crowd and you got lost. Choose the opposite walk, and the best reward came. There always seems to be a fad. Dress this way. Talk that way. Be cool, be noticed, be the one that the opposite sex loves to be around. And in order to get to that point, concentrate on yourself, your advancement, your body above all. For, after all, you are the most important, right? Doesn’t God want you to be happy? Aren’t you meant to seek the good, especially for yourself? Is it not true that if you are to be happy, then you must seek after becoming the best, the brightest, the most sought after in terms of popularity and all that is good in the world? Is this not the purpose of our being in existence? To be happy? To be “me” in all my glory? And where has our society gone these days? Many are into the “self-help” concept, whether they know it or not. If you carefully look around, what is the utmost focus of almost everything coming at you? “It is all about you.” “Do this for you.” “Achieve that for yourself.” “Get the most out of life. You deserve it.” Me, me, me. (Continue reading: Be Happy) Time for more? Power of Your Love And don't forget this one: Ugly Toads Adventures in Courage - Strength for the Journey by Steve Martin "Everyone likes an adventure. Travel the world. See the sites. Live the dream. Steve Martin's "Now Think On This" messages provide you with inspiration to walk the journey that God intends for you to have. Enjoy the short chapters as you receive encouragement for your life-long adventures." The Lord impressed upon me that He is a God of adventures, and delights in sharing them with us. He does not consider the Christian walk to be one of boredom. It takes courage to step out in faith, to do that which is not obvious in the natural but would be very obvious if we saw with spiritual eyes. Our faith must be expressed by doing without knowing the results while trusting that He does, and will provide for us to complete our assignments. Our God calls us to walk in the adventures He has. We must keep looking to and relying on Him to direct, provide, and encourage on the way. It does take courage to walk in adventures. He gives us the strength to complete the long journey we travel. Steve Martin Founder Love For His People, Inc. You can get it in paperback or Kindle. Amazon Paperback $8.95 Kindle $2.99 Love For His People, Inc. P.O. Box 414 Pineville, NC 28134 USA loveforhispeople@gmail.com Love For His People  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌ Visit our website Donate ‌

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The Holocaust Remains a Wake-Up Call for the Church - Charles Gardner ISRAEL TODAY

The Holocaust Remains a Wake-Up Call for the Church

Sunday, January 27, 2019 |  Charles Gardner ISRAEL TODAY

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Anti-Semitism

Nearly three-quarters of a century has passed since the Red Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 1945, a date now marked by the annual Holocaust Memorial Day here in Britain and elsewhere.

It is held with the intention of ensuring that it never happens again. But alas, anti-Semitism is back to haunt us, proving the point often made that we never learn from history.

In the UK, we face the dreadful possibility of having a Prime Minister with strong anti-Israel sympathies if the party currently holding onto power by the skin of its teeth does not get its act together.

In the US, they have witnessed the ghastly spectre of a congresswoman who took “swearing in” quite literally as she launched a profanity-laced tirade against President Trump on taking office.

Democrat Rashida Tlaib and Representative Ilhan Omar are the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, with the latter having already expressed her opposition to Israel.

Anti-Semitism has also been cited among issues affecting the Women’s March movement in America. In fact, it is on the rise worldwide, with left and right forming an unholy alliance against God’s chosen people.

On the other hand, there is increasing support for Israel from unexpected quarters. Take Brazil, for instance. Its new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has boldly declared his intention of following the US lead in moving his embassy to Jerusalem. And Wilson Witzel actually requested the sound of a shofar to accompany his inauguration as a Brazilian state governor, so strong is his support for the Jewish state.

So what does this mean? Nations, communities and individuals are lining up for battle (whether knowingly or not) in anticipation, no doubt, of the day of judgment when the sheep are separated from the goats (see Ezekiel 34.17, Matthew 25.31-46, Joel 3.2) on the basis of how they treated the Jewish people.

In the midst of all this, the silence from most leaders of the Christian church has been deafening – just as it was in Germany and elsewhere during the Shoah. I guess this is largely because of the dangerous and heretical Replacement Theology that has certainly swept through much of the British church.

We should be witnessing stirring calls from our pulpits to stand with the Jews, but somehow they don’t see the connection. That’s because they have been disconnected from the roots of their faith, and have forgotten that we worship the God of Israel, who has sent his Son as Messiah, first for the Jews and also for the Gentiles.

We owe them everything – the Law, the Prophets, the Patriarchs, the entire Bible (Luke being the only Gentile author) and most of all Jesus, who will soon return as the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Rev 5.5).

That the Jewish state is once more under severe threat was illustrated by the surface-to-surface missile fired into Israel by Syrian-based Iranian forces on Sunday. Fortunately, it was successfully intercepted.

Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the late evangelist Billy Graham, is currently suffering severe side-effects from cancer treatment which she believes could be a message for Israel.

Recalling that God had some of his prophets live out the message he gave them, she wonders if her current life and death battle relates to the Jewish nation, reborn just a week before she came into the world.

“The warning I feel deep within is that Israel is in danger of a surprise attack in this, her 70th year,” she writes, urging them to return to the Lord (Joel 2.12-14) and us Gentiles to pray for the peace of Jerusalem “and for the whole House of Israel”.

If we truly love Jesus, we will love the Jews – as many of our Arab friends testify on finding peace and reconciliation at the cross. Wake up, church!

PHOTO: Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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