Love For His People

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

No fooling. - Love For His People newsletter, Steve Martin

April 1, 2020 Charlotte, North Carolina USA

Greetings to Love For His People ministry friends and supporters.

A pastor from India asked me this morning on Whats App (if you communicate with anyone outside of the USA, most likely this is the best way...), "Pastor, how do you relate this world's situation through a Biblical perspective?"

My reply, no fooling...

Here is a short list I believe in regards to this:

1. We are in the last days. These are birth pangs of what is to go. The time clock started when Israel became a nation in 1948. ”When the fig tree buds...” in Matthews 24:32-35.

2. Christians need to be lights of faith and not as others walking in fear.

3. As I wrote in my ”A Time to Pause and Rest” message this morning, we need to obey the Lord and have one day to rest each week. Nations have not done this so He is shutting all down so they do and perhaps look to Him.

Also, I believe we as believers will go through the Tribulation. Then when the Lord comes back we will join Him in the air. The word ”rapture” is not even in the Bible. It is a made-up word from the late 1800s.”

We are no fools, even on April 1. We can and must have the mind of Christ in what we say and do, if we are going to have an effect in our cities, states, nations and the world.

I so appreciate Mike Lindell saying what he said on the White House lawn this week. Check here: Mike Lindell speaks at the White House Read what he says and then even support him, as the news media lashes out, and buy a MyPillow. I bought 3 more. And I don't get a commission off this!

The world is looking for answers. They are fearful of dying. We have the words of life, as given to us by Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach. "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." John 14:6, NASB

I hope you will take the 3-4 minutes to read A Time to Pause and Rest. You probably need some right about now!

And here is one from "out of the blue" - pun intended. Unless the planes cease flying, we are still going to Israel May 13-22. I like that Blues Brothers quote, "We are on a mission from God." So are you.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin, Founder/President Love For His People ministry

P.S. Extra time on your hand and tired of what the TV offers? Enjoy watching the Ahava Adventures short videos from Israel last October! Watch here: "Walk With Me" - Israel Ahava Adventures!

Love For His People ministry, established in April, 2010 by Steve and Laurie Martin, seek to bring life and encouragement through support for our Messianic friends in Israel and other nations, along with inspirational messages, 27 books published, and words of encouragement as the doors are opened by our Lord Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach.

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“Stress Test” – Now Think On This by Steve Martin

“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.” Isaiah 26:3-4, NKJV

Have you found yourself stressed out a bit lately? Have you snapped at your spouse? (Yes, I have.) Quick lash out at your boss? Lose job or laid off?

Do you find yourself being somewhat on edge, unnerved, having apprehension in regard to that which is around you or which may come your way, real or imagined?

Do you “jump out of your seat” at the slightest unexpected noise near you? Jittery? Fearful of saying or doing the wrong thing?

Sensing some claustrophobia as many of us in the nations are in a “shutdown”, closed-in”, or under a “stay at home” edict from the government? Then read this: Stress Test

We have no plans at this time to cancel or postpone this event. If you support Israel, and the Jews, you need to come to this gathering. Get informed. Info here. Register now. (required for entry). Aliyah For His People event July 10-11, 2020

The Road We Travel - Challenges We Overcome as Believers in the Lord

by Steve Martin

Now that many of us are being "shut in" our homes, get this great book and travel outside your door as you read along! An adventure!

Challenging times? Of course! Didn't our Lord Jesus say we would have "perilous times" in these last days? "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come..." 2 Timothy 3:1, NKJV

We are living in those times. Pandemics, tumultuous financial conditions, earthquakes, droughts...with fear proving faith is little to be found, even among professing Christians.I encourage you with these 20 messages of hope, faith, and love.

As you read, know that we will stand strong, because we are keeping our eyes on the One Who created us. Because He has been Faithful, is Faithful, and will continue to be Faithful, our faith in Jim can stand strong against the tests of times. And there will be tests along the road.Don't be caught unexpected. Prepare your heart and spirit to know the truth, walk in faith, and be the light in this world that you and I have been called to be.

Ahava and shalom!

Steve Martin, Founder/President Love For His People ministry

Paperback ($8.95) and Kindle ($1.95): The Road We Travel

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“A Time to Pause and Rest” – Now Think On This by Steve Martin

April 1, 2020

April 1, 2020 Love For His People ministry in Charlotte, NC USA

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Daniel 12:4, NKJV

Over the decades I have learned a few things. One of them is that when you see the world’s culture go one way, you can bet (that is just a saying, so don’t get excited here) the Lord’s way is usually found to be going in the opposite direction.

Consider the word from Daniel given above, where it is written, “many shall run to and fro…” Has it not been, until recently due to government shutdowns, a most common occurrence in most societies these days? Running around, as the old saying goes, “With your head cut off”?

Have you ever been around someone that was going so fast that if you didn’t step out of their way you would have been literally run over?

Growing up I still to this day recall my Grandma Martin yelling at me from our front porch, to stop, when I about 10, as I started mowing our Cedar Falls, Iowa yard on one particular Sunday afternoon. Today we wouldn’t even give it a second thought to not do housework, shop, or anything else the other busy six days we fill our time with didn’t allow to happen.

But she was right, and we are wrong when we labor on what has been lost as a day of rest, given to us to enjoy.

Consider why the Lord Himself, the Creator of the Universe, had recorded in the very beginning, when life on earth began as we know it, “Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them. On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce.” Genesis 2:1-3, Complete Jewish Bible

If God Himself rested, and He knew it to be a good thing, should not we, as He did?

When we look at Scripture, the foundation of all that we should be standing on and building our life on, we find that there was given a time, each week, to rest from our work, to put down the tools of our trade – the hammers, the pens, the mobile phone, the shopping – and to just rest.

One of the main causes today of so much illness is simply because people have left the commands of the Lord, one of which is “for six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the Lord;” Exodus 35:2, NASU

You say, in your highly enlightened mind, that this doesn’t apply anymore today, that the Lord’s commands are not for us, but only for Jews, religious people, or those who still live in the “dark ages” and are not as brilliant now as we are?

Have you considered that the current forced shutdown imposed by many local and national governments may actually be of the Lord’s doing, causing us to slow down, stop, and consider His ways in the way we have been living?

Do you know that when those given as our example, the Jews in the Bible, the same Bible Christians are to be basing their lives on, didn’t follow the instruction of the Lord, that He forced them to rest, to have a “Sabbath” or more properly said, a “Shabbat” time?

Is it not pride in ourselves that we keep on running around, thinking we are accomplishing all this good through the abundance of activity we have and do 24/7, when in fact in the Lord’s eyes it may amount to nothing?

Is not selfish ambition, demonstrated through our constant push to achieve more, listed among the other evil works of the flesh?

“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21, NKJV

I believe the Lord has given many of us this “time out” to actually take the time to pause and rest; to consider what we have been doing all this time that has gone by already in our life. Has it been for us and our self-seeking purposes, or has it been for His plans and purposes to be fulfilled through the gifts and talents He has given to each of us, in order to do His thing, and not ours?

Are we working for Him, or have we been working for ourselves?

Take the time to reconsider what you have been doing, while you have been given this time. I believe it is He who has been the One giving it to you. Acknowledge Him in this fact.

So where have you been going? Is it time to re-consider, and seek Him to know? I think so.

Give it a rest. You will be happy, and healthier, when you do.

Now think on this.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin, Founder/President Love For His People, Inc.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Walk With Me, Steve Martin – Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street – as the people walk by…

March 25, 2020 Ahava Adventures, Ben Yehuda Street, Israel, Jerusalem, Walk with me

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Walk With Me, Steve Martin – Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street – as the people walk by… Ben Yehuda, a very popular shopping area in Jerusalem, was a good place to watch people from local and foreign homes.

Video filmed on Nov. 10, 2013 by Steve Martin – to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.

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